The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-11-30
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decree of the superior court determin-
ing the ownership of eight hogs
The Vicksburg, Miss, papers COM
plain that. with a population of from
$1,000 to $4,000, they can count upon
but one mail per week.
North Idahoans, in mass-meeting
at Lewiston, pledged themselves to urge
the annexation of that region to Wash
ington territory.
Alligator farms have been started in
various parts of Florida The animals
are raised for their hides, for which
there is always a good demand and big
prices.
1t is calculated that five active men
can secure $4,000 signatures to a petit
ton to the Legislature in two weeks
time, and it doesn't matter the least bit
what the subject of the petition is.
The Russians are noted card players,
and the manufacture of cards being a
state monopoly one is able TO form some
idea of the extent to which the passion
is INDUCED from the fact just officially
noted that last year the state manufac-
turers turned out I, 100000 packs.
A human brute in Evansville, Ind,
kicked his wife until she was insensible
and then deliberately whitfield the flesh
off her fingers. Had he not been re-
moved to an adjoining county his neck
would have paid dearly for his amuse-
ment
4 wicked and perverse Indiana news
paper says: Three young ladies at
Three Rivers, Mich, attempted to stand
on their heads for wager last week.
This was certainly the most brilliant
display by hose company made in
Michigan this year"
Charles Reade writes so dramatically
and without explanatory description,
says recent English criticism, that
the average cold-minded Briton does
not appreciate him as the American
does, who has imagination, and who
supplies stage scenery to the dialogue.
The steeple of Grace Church, which
has been the most prominent landmark
in Broadway for many decade, has
been taken down. The square tower
that remains looks all the better for the
loss of the cheap and senseless steeple.
but lovers of New York streets will be
likely to miss and perhaps regret it.
Rufus Hatch makes more and more
progress as journalist, and is on hand
every week to the Hour. The financial
articles signed by him and published in
that paper are reproduced in other pa
pers, and people Will say that he pays
for the reproduction at so much per
line. In Uncle Rufus George Francis
Train has dangerous ink-throwing,
quill-manipulating rival.
The census shows that of the whole
number of farms, the largest proportion
occupied by actual owners is in New
England, ninety-one per cent. The
next largest is eighty-two per cent, in
the Pacific States; in the West it is
seventy-nine per cent; in the middle
West and the middle group it is seven
weight per cent; and in the South il
is sixty per cent.
4 fountain in a public square of San
Francisco needed painting. An artist
agreed to do it for nothing, provided he
could take as much time as he pleased
for the job and erect q fence to protect
him from idle curiosity while at work.
The contract was made on those terms.
But it seems that the painter has sold
the surface of the fence to advertisers,
and nobody knows how long he will be
painting the fountain.
In piece of woods near Charlton,
! Saratoga county, n. Y, there has been
discovered Il hidden place where it is
believed robbers have been secreted. a
large barn door had been erected and
, covered with brush so as to make a
snug refuge during inclement weather.
| Il is believed that the masked burglars
who took $500, 900 from Supervisor Gil,
christ occupied this den.
In England railway carriage paint
ed inside with phosphorescent paint is
being run as an experiment. Although
one-half Of the available space of the
carriage is painted, the phosphorescent
light is quite sufficient to enable the
! passengers to distinguish small objects
when passing through the tunnel; and,
moreover, the light is powerful enough
| to enable a person to read the indica-
ton of an ordinary watch.
The size and weight of the human
| brain are absolutely greater than in any
animals except the elephant and the
| larger whales. The brain of the ele-
plant is said to weigh from eight to ten
| pounds, and that of large finner
whale between FIVE and six pounds
Relatively to the bulk and weight of
| the body, the brain of man is exceeded
in size only in some small birds and
| mammals.
Alonzo Follett, the note shaver, who
| made such highly respectable failure
the other day, and who, when he as
cended the commercial flue, carried
others with him-for misery loves COM
| pany-has not forsaken his accustomed
haunts and does not look depressed.
| His friends say he will soon be all right
again. but the same pleasant prediction
is not made for the creditors who are
| indulging in an old-fashioned tourna-
ment of tongues, and saying more Bit
ter things than old maids at Boston
tea party.
| A fire. says Nature, caused by an
electric wire, at the Paris Opera House,
has caused quite a sensation in the
scientific world, although it has been
successfully kept from the knowledge
of the public. Another fatal accident
from a similar cause occurred lately in
Paris. Two young people wishing to
| introduce themselves into the Tuileries
Gardens without paying the entrance
fee to fair came in contact with the
wire conducting the electricity of a
Brush machine to the lamps, and were
killed instantly.
There has Teen discovered near Leb.
anon, Ohio, a sycamore log upon which
were cut the letters w. S. and (. S. and
the date 171S. Since the first settle.
ment of that part of the country was
made in 1873, the people are at q loss
to know who did the carving. The
question of the correctness of the date
does not seem to have entered at all in
to discussion.
| TWENTY FOUR HOURS TO LIVE
From John Kuhn, Lafayette, Ind
who announces that he Is now in ''perfec
health" we have the following: ION
year ago was, to all appearance, in tn
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