The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-10-05
GLEANINGS.

A firSt-claSs American MOTEL Is 10 %
built in the City of Mexico.
Claimants for an unknown boy killed
at Johnstown, Pa, continue TO multi
ply.
The Alabama river has been swollen
for eight months, indicating an unusual
rainfall.
Pearl-hunters are numerous along the
Caney Fork river, Tennessee, just at
this time.
A$15o goat near San Francisco did
damage to farm that made his owner
subject to verdict for $500.
1t is estimated that there are three
thousand industrial establishments In
the republic of Mexico where steam
power is used
Twenty thousand pounds of red fish
have been packed this season by fisher
men on Silver lake, Wallowa valley,
Oregon.
The Free Kirk of Scotland is threat
| ened with schism by movement look
| ing to the introduction of music at pub
lie worship in the conventicle.
A Chicago firm has negotiated for a
thousand acres of land in Madison coup-
ty, Tennessee, for the purpose OF eStab-
fishing strawberry and fruit farm.
The number of fires on Cuba sugar
estates during the past crop was 1873 OF
| which 1877 were accidental, 20 intention
al, and the causes of the rest unknown.
While a 14year-old boy, of Bushkill,
| Orange county, N. Y, was cutting one
[ ped and entered his eye, destroying the
sight.
A stone weighing fifty tons is being
FURNISHED in Vera Cruz, and is to
serve as the cornerstone of the sea-wan
which, among other improvements, is
to be commenced shortly.
A colored baby in Lee county, Geor.
gia, was found the other day with a
large rattlesnake coiled around it. On
being discovered the snake uncoiled it
self and was Immediately killed.
A man in Clark>county, Virginia, re.
Gently killed a chicken, in the craw OF
which were found twenty-four copper
caps or shells used in making cartridges
for small pocket revolver.
What is said to be the longest bar ev.
er manufactured in the country was
rolled at Phenixville, Pa. 1t measured
three-quarters of an inch in diameter,
and was 286 feet long.
A wonderful snow and ice cavern has
been discovered on Mount Tecumseh in
Thornton, N. H., the existence of which
has heretofore been unknown to men
living within two miles of the place.
ct every station on the Russian rail
roads is grievance book, in which the
traveller may inscribe his wrongs in any
language he likes, and which is period
ically read by the authorities.
The largest diamond-cutting house i:
in Amsterdam, employing 400 persons
where the Koh-i-noor was cut The
trade is difficult, and the wages are
from 81 to SIP or even $14 day.
Up in Manitoba there is fierce wal
between the staid and steady Mennon.
ties who believe in hooks and eyes ant
the younger and more worldly portion
of the sect who demand buttons.
| A farmer in Henry county, Kentucky
has eighty stalks of large white corr
that have 265 shoots on them. 1t is the
"Bessarabia corn" of Russia, and viii
make at the rate of forty-two barrel!
per acre.
The Chico (Cal.) Record says that {
party of Good Templars, while out fish
ing in Iron canyon, saw crimson-col
cred snake eight feet long and as thicl
as mans leg, which was catching fish
for his breakfast.
| Fashion rules the candy trade almos
as much as the trade in female apparel
Gum, however, is not subjected to it
caprices. There is as little change il
the form in which it is sold as in tobac
CO.
A letter from White Mountain no
tel speaks of quadrilles where set wa!
made up of seven young ladies and :
solitary young man. Our vacation be
gins forthwith, and our face is turned
toward the north star.