The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-07-01
BREVITIES.

The use of drums in the French army
is to cease.
The solid South has 13S of the 1863
Electoral votes.
The first constitution Of New York was
adopted in 1777.
1t is James Abraham Garfield and
Chester Absalom Arthur
At the end of May, the popustion OF
Ireland was 5,363, $50.
Georgia has one patch containing three
and half million watermelons.
England has nearly 90 900 gypsies, and
most of them cannot read or write.
Jupiter is now a brilliant morning STAR
One of its satellites has reappeared.
Iron Mountain, No., is- all that its
name implies, being seven-tenths pure
iron.
Steam and horse railroads in this
country require 10O,OO0 men to labor on
Sunday.
There has been a great increase of late
years in wheat cultivation in British In
dia.
The value OF the pearls taken in the
Persian Gulf in 1879 is estimated at ST.
50O,O
During the present century it is esti-
mated that the Christian Church has
douhled IFS communicates
During the past year thirty divers in
the pearl fishery of the Persian Gulf lost
their lives, most of them by sharks.
A project is under consideration for
training native explorers in Western
Africa and turning them to account in
the interior.
When the Gar proposes to visit a
theatre or concert the fact is made known,
and the ladies are obliged to appear in
white dresses.
4 mullato woman in the Philadelphia
House of Correction is said to be gradu-
ally turning white. She says the change
began six years ago.
Twelve thousand eight hundred and
sixV-nine emigrants from Germany went
to the United States during the first
quarter of the current year.
Seventeen hundred boys from thirteen
to eighteen years of age are employed on
three large railways in the southwest and
southeast of T,nndon
The result Of the great English Derby
race was cabled from London to New
York In just twenty-five seconds. Toler-
ably quick work even for lightning.
Boston dry goods stores are said to be
frequented by focks of gad- school
girls who price everything, buy nothing,
and make nuisances of themselves.
Silly women who think that Senator
Conkling is quite too dreadfully nice
for anything will be surprised to learn
that his name is not Roscoe at all, but
Samuel. He was named after an uncle
but at the age of ten found the name of
Roscoe in a novel, and has been since
called by it.
A passenger train Oh the Pennsylvania
Railroad few days since made the jour
ney from Philadelphia to Jersey City, a
distance of ninety-two miles, in ninety
three minutes.
The Queen of England is becoming
mere and more subject to fatigue at re-
ceotions. She is also getting to be unu-
sRlly whimsical, SO that great trouble is
given to the court officials.
A raid has been made on the five bogus
medical colleges of Philadelphia. The
edtor of the Record set the trap and for
50 dollars he received three diplomas
Arrest was promptly made.
King Ludwig, of Bavaria, has begun
to build SO, 100000 chateau at Herren.
Chemsee. 1t will take fifteen years to
finhl it. Three hundred men are now at
worl upon what, when finished will be a |
mos magnificent structure.
Al eleven year old boy, jacques Inan-
di BY name, is astonishing the French
withhis marvellous faculty of reckoning. !
He ON neither read nor write. His cal |
culaing power appears to rival that of |
Jeddiah Buxton, Henri Mondeux, Col
burr and others of the class.
Aents of English manufacturers have
recetly been buying large quantities of
blac walnut timber in Ohio, Indiana
and Missouri. The trees are cut into |
logs squared, and taken by rail to New
Yorlfor shipme't t.