The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-01-09
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The undertaken is thrifty man always.
He gets his living where another man
dies.
The entire annual product of steel rails
in this country is estimated at 100000
tons.
''She is a great singer, though" ven
tured little dandy who had not heard
Marina.
An extremely polite man passing hen
that was laying, said: "Don't rise,
madam"
The Pennsylvania oil production has
averaged 100000 barrels per month SO
far this year.
Christopher Columbus discovered a
continent, but never enjoyed the felicity
of cheating at croquet.
Fifteen acres Of land near Brooksville,
s., 900 worth Of tobacco.
Since the Improvements Of machinery,
100000 men now do as much as 5000,
900 men did in former times.
The slightest excess of expenditures
over income is poverty, and the slightest
excess Of income over expenses is wealth.
That family is the best who obtain not
unjustly, keep not unfaithfully, and
spend in way that produces no repent
ance.
If you wish to compliment an English
girl i'll modern ballroom slang, you must
call her "filly," and praise her groom
ing"
Ladies, don't keep business man
waiting when he asks an ill-important
question. He may have another engage
ment.
A sign posted up in Wisconsin saw
mill reads: ''The saws are running-no
use to touch them to convince your
selves"
A seven-year Cincinnati boy, on
whose bread his mother would not put
butter, went off to the river and drowned
himself.
Athens, Ga, has 5000 inhabitants,
eleven churches, twenty lawyers, nine
doctors, two railroads, three male and
two female schools.
There are many things that are thorns
to our hopes until we have obtained
them, and envenomed arrows to our
hearts when we have.
An Iowa paper gives thrilling ac-
count of the effort of young man to
take home widow and three swarms of
bees at the same time in wagon.
They buried him darby at dead of night,
And without any ponp or pageant;
As they shoveled him in, they said "All right,
He was only sewing machine agent"
Distinguish between idleness, ignor-
ance, want of attention and malice;
words sometimes slip from the tongues
which the heart neither Matched nor har-
bored.
At recent Sheriff's sale in Lebanon,
Pa collins went at dollar apiece. AT
this rate, for few dollars, man might
have laid in enough collins to last him a
lifetime.
When you hear a lot of women at a wa
tcring place hotel slandering another, you
may be sure she has better wardrobe
than they, and that she is minding her
own business.
The great Chicago Tabernacle, where
Moody preached and Sankey sung, will
hereafter be devoted exclusively to man.
mon. Five stores, five stories high are to
mark the spot.
William Lloyd Garrison celebrated the
sixtieth anniversary Of his apprenticeship
in the Newburyport Herald office few
days ago by putting in typo one of his
own poems from memory
The Commissioner of Agriculture has
ordered from Japan a large number of
bamboo shoots, which he intends to plant
in this country. He will also import silk
worm eggs from Japan
Female artists are invading the domain
of art in France in formidable numbers.
In 1874 there were 2S6 female exhibitors
at the Salon; there were 312 in 1915, 446
in 1876, GAS in 1877, and 862 in 1878.
The official statistics of immigration
for the last thirty years show that Germany
and Ireland have furnished us more than
100000 immigrants each, but that Ger
| many is upward Of 100000 ahead OF Ire
| land.
The first oil we'll was bored in 1859.
| There are now 10000 and the amount of
capital invested II $100,000,000. Petro-
| leum stands number four on our export
list cotton, flour and provisions only tax
ing precedence in value.
Eben w. Reyes, of Denver made his
| wife the legal owner of all his property,
so that it might be out of the reach of his
creditors The wife separated from him
after quarrel, and refused to surrender
a dollar. He committed suicide.
Lowell, Mass, boasts an increase of
S16,000,000, or more than sixty per cent,
in her valuation during the past ten years.
A considerable portion Of the gain is in
! mills and factories, which will in turn
add more to the valuation.
Two men go to farm houses in Illinois,
| pretend to be gatherers of statistics for
the Agricultural Department, stay all
night, insist in paying for their entertain
ment and depart with good change for
bad twenty-dollar bill.
The lumbermen of the Chippewa, Wis,
and Black rivers expend, in 1878, nearly
S250,000 in improving their streams for
numbering purposes, much largeramount
than was ever laid out in any one year
Tor like purposes in the West.
Cotton mills are becoming numerous in
| 1ndia, more particularly in Bombay, and
| II seems probable that with improved
machinery, cheap labor, and the saving
OF freight, they Will be able to compete
successfully with English goods.
4 man and a woman went into the
Office of a Vermont justice, took an oath
in this form: what we say to each other
shall he the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the TRUTH" and departed,
presumably to do the talking truthfully.
4 man and woman went into the
office of Vermont justice, took an oath
| in this form: what we say to each other
shall be the truth the whole truth, and
nothing but the TRUTH" and departed,
presumably to do the talking truthfuliy.
Anything new with you to day2" in
quired man of his friend who was suf-
fering from Inflammation of the lungs.
Il should think So" replied the sufferer.
"What is it," said the first speaker
pneumonia answered the victim.