The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-11-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

deal of very unsatisfactory counting.
"A Io-year-ola glri, nvlng near Houma,
La, has light brown beard two inches
long.
The reproaches of enemies should
quicken US to duty, and not keep u
Homit
The population of Harlem, one OF
New York's suburbs, has doubled in the
last five years.
An English real estate company are
negotiating for forty thousand acres OF
land in Arkansas.
In Paris the sleeves of evening gowns
are looped up with two rosettes or pom
Pons" on each shoulder.
There are go, 329, 527 feet of drain tile
in Illinois, about half of which were laid
during the past two years.
An exchange asks, what is Petro-
leum?' 1t is very easy method of get
ting rid OF fre-kindling servants.
Charles Read. hair is SO sparse at the
top OF his head that very few men would
like to put themselves in his place. -.
Why ought wicked people to go car
rage driving often? Because it fire.
quently admonishes them to "keep to
the right"
mrs. namsDornam was asked II sne
liked yachting. and she replied that she
preferred terra-cotta. She probably
meant terra-hrma.
81 like your new hat very much" he
said; ''it's chic; there's sort of .aban-
dom There isn't any sort of q
band on it, she said, pointing, tits a
real ostrich feather"
DR.. r. G. Alexander. writing in an
English medical paper, says that neu-.
ralgia is disease arising from debility;
that it is increased by disease, mental
or bodily, but is relieved by food, and
sometimes by stimulants. Pure air,
night and day, and perfect cleanliness
are advised.
ga little fellow, from four to five
years old, having perforated the knee of
his trousers, was intensely delighted
with patch his grandmamma had APP
piled. He would sit and gaze upon it
in state of remarkable admiration;
and in one of these moods suddenly ex-
claimed: sGrandma must put one on
t'other knee, and two behind, like Eddy
Smiths -
The Egyptian flea is larger than the
American grasshopper, and when one
gets at work on dog, just about the
small Of the back, the canine will reach
and haul himself round in circle till
he gets that flea, if he has to wear the
hide all off his hind legs and break his
spine to do it.
When Haverly was in London it was
arranged that when he was going too
far in his patriotic anecdotes he should
be nudged under the table. The result
was that he said: s.In our country jay
Gould has a conservatory three-guarters
of mile long, three hundred feet high,
and (what are you kicking me for?) two
feet WIDE"
mine tailors do not make a man,"
and, it Sc ems, never did. The original
word was "taler," meaning the tally Or
tale of strokes upon the bells tolling for
the dead. One stroke was for an in
FAINT; three for girl; nine for a man."
So passers-by would say: mine talers
make man, which, considering that
it was the unmaking of the man, was
curious thing to say.
Some interesting relics were exhibit
ed at the bi-centennial celebration of
Bucks County, Penn. Among them
were the original bill of sale of Eastern
Pennsylvania by the Six Nations to
William Penn; a powder-horn present.
ed by Uncas, the last of the Delawares,
to Black Hawk. in 1887; a rejecting
telescope that was once the property of
the Inflated Blennerhassett; some an
cient stage-coaches, and, of course,
some blue and white china more than q
century old.
Oscar Wilde, while riding in New
York horse car the other night, had a
poetic reverie rudely interrupted. He
was enjoying cigar meanwhile, when
the unasthetic conductor approached
and, in a gruf voice, said: ''You must
git outside if you want to smoke" Os-
car SCOT" and then relapsed into a
reverie, during which he cogitated how
he would bring heincident into his new
book on America.
The chronicler of current events is
seldom called upon to record the sui
cidal death of person who has passed
the three score years and ten vouch-
safed to mankind. The case of Mrs.
Margaret Matheson, of Omaha, wo-
man seventy-one years of age, is an ex-
ceptional one. A husbands death two
years ago is thought to have been the
cause of the sad affair.
California has virtually abolished
capital punishment without intending to
do so. A law was passed few years
ago which enables jurors, in returning
verdicts of murder in the first degree,
to stipulate, if they wish, that the PEN
atty shall be Imprisonment for life. The
juries that find verdicts of guilty" in
murder trials invariably recommend
Imprisonment for life as the punish
ment.
Mary Cooper was so terribly fright
ened by drunkard, who had fit OF
delirium tremens in her presence, in
Philadelphia, that she became dumb.
During two weeks she was unable to
speak word, her vocal organs being
paralyzed, and she had begun to learn
the mutes' alphabet, believing that she
would never recover, when her speech
returned as suddenly as it had Left her.
The home for destitute children and
infirm women which Trenor w. Park is
about to establish at North Bennington,
Vt, and endow with 100000 viii oc-
cupy the estate once owned by a rich
merchant of New York, and still called
the Hunt place" It comprises about
200 acres. and is beautifully diversified
with brooks, groves and meadows
Plans and specifications viii soon be
drawn for three large buildings in diff
ferent parts of the estate.
At a meeting of clergymen not long
since reverend gentleman by the name
of Loss. of dimensions somewhat ex-
tended. laterally and altitudinally, pre-
sented himself. Says one of the breth-
rem to him, when you left your peo-
pie you were great Loss.,' Yes"
said another, .swhen he dies he will be
no Loss" NAY" said a third, she
viii be dead Loss
ssMa - said q youth. as he came skin