The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-01-16
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man who suDdueS his wife by threat
ening to leave her and 90 10 the poor
house.
A correspondent Of a Paris journal in,
forms his readers that thieves and murder
ers are often elected to the American Con,
gress.
Some clothing was stolen recently from
the office of the New London Telegram.
The editor must have been taking bath
at that time.
The fertile soil and genial climate o.
the United States induced 80,610 Canadi-
ans TO emigrate during the year ending
June 80, 1878.
An Irishman recently expressed his adj
miration for a lady by the following re-
mark: II vusht l was in prison for the
stating OF ye."
The sea about the Ellis Group of the
South Sea Islands is literally covered with
pumice stone At Vaitupu it lay two feet
thick upon the reef.
The late King of Belgium said of Loui.
Napoleon, when Emperor: Nothing ap
parently can affect him injuriously if he
will only keep quiet"
A company of mulattoes is giving light
operas and burlesques in the West, anG
the performances in Chicago are praised
by the newspaper critics.
Focardi's statuette, - You Dirty Boy. u
at the Paris Exhibition, has been bought
for 81, 800 by A. and f. Pears, the trans
parent soap manufacturers.
Girls will be girls, says the Reading
Eagle. 0, no; that's a mistake. If the
girls wishes are consulted they'll all be
married women some day.
1t was so dry in some parts of Japan
last month that one of the Governors knelt
"a whole hour in prayer" for rain-and
yet failed to break the drought.
Edison has taken out $50 patents, bu
only 20 are considered by him to be OF
much importance. The rest were obtain
ed to give added security to them
An Omaha deacon remarked the Other
day" 1t is a singular disDensation OF
Providence that whenever our river il
muddy, our milk and beer are also mud
dy."
The man who declaims against the rail.
roads and says they have ruined the coun
try and ought to be wiped out, makes the
biggest kind of fuss if the train is ter
minutes late.
Lady Caroline Norton left $500 in heI
will to 'the good cause Of woman sui
frage." Mrs. George Cakes, another
English woman, lately contributed 50,
800 to the same cause.
A dreamy writer says it would he curl
Gus to follow pound Of silk from its
spinning until it becomes a lady's dress
No doubt; but most men prefer to follow
it after it becomes a dress.
"Why does dog chew a bone after i
is devoid OF meat?1 an inQuisitive ex
change asks. That's easy to answer; of
ten heard Of Bread in the bone" and it:
the bread the dog is after.
The editor of religious paper, which
had one months prccarious existence IN
Chicago, says that it is a good city for a
religious paper, provided Satan has three
pages and the other is mixed.
A laborer on a railroad near Holyoke
Mass, stole $500 from his boss's pocket
and spent nearly the whole Of it for cloth
ing and iewelry, the wearing of which
ratsUu ulc INST Suspicion OF ms ;5"iie.
"And what do you think of Switzer-
land9" asked lady Of a young American
belle who had just made the tour "Pret-
ty place; but it struck me there We're toe
many lakes and too few young men,"
An active volcano has put in an appear
ance in Humboldt county, Cal. and IS
throwing up stones and fire. This Is IN
harmony with the periodical earthquake
shocks experienced on the Pacific coast.
There is probably not woman in al
this broad, sunny land Of >urs who doesn'
think that the carving fork was made fol
the express purpose of pulling corks on
Of bluing bottles and lifting stovc-lids.
An orator who was much in demand II
political campaigns, being asked by al
admirer the secret Of his success, replied
'When have facts | give 'em facts; bu
when haven't yell and saw the air"
At Hartlepool, England, man gave
| himself up to be returned to his regiment
and punished for his desertion. This il
the only way in which he can identify
| himself as the heir to fortune Of e35, 200
! The man who invented French heelec
| shoes did it to avenge an injury once done
| him bv handsome woman. She jlltec
him. and since that time the fellows
hatred of the fair sex has known nt
| bounds.
The play that Mrs. Pomeroy has bee,
| presenting as new American druna, un
! der the title of Adirondacks,' has bee
| identified as a translation of an old Frenc
piece, the Pyrenees being the scene in tn
original.
\ country girl, on being asked if she
knew what fashionable reception was
| replied: 1T is gathering of the sexes
where women gossip with women on tht
latest fashion, and with men on the lates
scandal"
4 Canada cheese factory turned out &
cheese weighing 1000 pounds. 1t il
said to be 6 feet 10 inches in diameter, Of
! q feet in circumference, and required
| 80 tons of milk to make it, the produce OF
| 1000 cows.
The following verdict was recent.
| handed in by the foreman OF coroner;
| Jury in England I'VE are OF y PlnioI
| that the decest met her death from Vic
lent intirmation in the Arm produces
| from Unoan Caws."
4 Norristown young lady has illustrated
the eternal fitness OF things by knitting {
handsome silk specie holder for carryin:
silver dollars, and presenting ii to Ger
tain young man who has not had dolla
| of his own in three months.
4 boy of 10 and girl Of eloped fror
Brookline, Mass, and went to Boston
where they soon got lost in the crooke
streets. Their expectation was to get MAJ
ried and live in fine house somewhere
The reality was a spanking.
1t must not be supposed that G. Wash
.ngton Childs, A. NJ, is idle all this while
Here is one of his recent productions:
0;rbeloved one or earth that grew so fair.
Alas, WAS called away;
called forth 10 an early doom,
Aud with her brother in heaven 10 bison.
Inc Invauue 1tusSe announces pial
for the reorganization of the Russian al