The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-10-19

The south will make seven million
gallons of cotton-seed oil this year.
Edgar Allan Poe's house in Rich
mond, Va, is to be used for hotel.
A lot of mountain trout have been
placed in the Vermillion river at Hast
ings.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor gives more
money to the poor than any lady in the
country.
Bootblacks are licensed at jackson,
Tenn, and assigned to stands through
out the city.
There are about 220, 900 telephones in
use in the country, and the number is
increasing at the rate of over 500 a
month.
The most astonishing thing about the
disappearance of man from Cleveland
is that he had paid in advance his board
for full week.
Mrs. Garfield has no intention OF
abandoning the Mentor homestead, her
removal to Cleveland being but tenn
porary, to continue while her younger
children are at school there.
A factory for the manufacture of i'm
ltdtiOn CCdickllI 10 W Ut cSJdDIiSuGtl dt
Holyoke, Mass, by men from Bradford,
England 1t is stated that 100000
will be invested, and that one hundred
men will be employed in the business.
During the past year several thousand
acres of foot-hill land around Union, in
eastern Oregon, has been fenced for
pasturage. Those who have tried it
pronounce a hill pasture as good for
winter stock as a stock of hay.
John Most, who was sent to prison by
a London jury sixteen months ago for
publishing seditious matter in his news
paper, the Freiheat, will pay visit to
this country upon his release, and will
speak in the principal cities.
A North Carolina Clergyman has been
living for the past eleven years on a
salary of So per week, but now an
nounces that he must have raise of ST.
or ten shillings, or be compelled to ac-
cept call to do cooper work.
M. Saint-Paul has offered the French
Academy of Medicine a sum of 25, 900
francs to found a prize for the diseove-
rL of cure for diphtheria. The COM
petition is open to all the world, and
not confined to the medical profession.
When / hear it said of man whose
body is being conveyed to its last rest
ing-place that she had not an enemy in
the world" | feel like attaching this
epitaph to his tomb: Here lies buried
flint that never struck firep'-Henru
Ward Beecher.
The devious ingenuity of deviltrv has
been illustrated in New Orleans, where
some petty counterfeiters have been
making bogus saloon drink checks to
such an extent that several of the rum
shops are threatened with financial
ruin.
1t has been found that lime Juice of
itself will not produce scurvy at sea, and
that too much reliance is placed upon
it to the neglect of other food Lime
juice, however, in connection with fresh
or preserved meat and vegetables, may
prevent scurvy.
Probably the largest and best paid
army in the world is that composed by
the railroad employees in this country,
they numbering about 100000, with
100000 at work on railroad construc-
ton, or 100000 in all. This is about
one-eighth of the working force of the
country. reckoning only adult males.
Senator Lamar is alleged to have ex-
pressed willingness to pass the re-
mainder of his days as professor in
the university of Georgia. He could
have the chancellorship if he desired it,
but prefers the less responsible position,
which, in all probability viii be ten
dered him.
A Buffalo gentleman waiting for :.
train at Aylmer, Ont, saw woman
slip upon something and nearly fall.
He hurried to assist her and helped her
to rise, and as he did so she dropped a
valise which proved to be his own.
which he had left il the depot few
minutes before, and which she was at
tempting to steal.