The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-08-24
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Mrs. Thomas Hicks-Lord is travelling
with an English party in Switzerland.
The salvation army OF Europe has .
yearly income of %, 500 for the carry
ing out OF its work.
When they want tc be little utter
in Key West they hare turtls-egg socials
and cook 'enl in FIVE styles.
Charley Ross. the missing Philadel-
phia boy, was abducted July /, 1874.
1t alive. be is now II years old.
Nearly 1000 Russian refugees have
arrived in New York since the Jewish
exodus began.
Gail Hamilton has gone to her old
home at Hamilton. Mass, where she is
known and dreaded as Miss Dodge.
A German scientist finds that the true
color of perfectly distilled pure water is
fine, deep blue green.
John Mccullough is spending part of
the summer at the Hot Springs, Arkan-
sas.
Iowa tramps carry files with them,
and when they want to take to the fields
pop! goes the wire forces.
1t is said that Tom Thumb has be-
come terribly unsteady for such a little
fellow. He can lose at poker Just like
q man six feet high.
An anvil weighing $4,000 pounds has
just been cast In Pottstown, Pa--said
to be the largest casting ever made in
the town.
Two miners were discharged from the
Mexican mine, Nevada, who had brought
up $50 worth of ore in their dinner
buckets.
Three defaulting bank cashiers are
just now waiting sentence. A year or
two ago we should have been COMPEL
ed to say waiting pardon.
1t is estimated that every year there
are from 1920 to 1000 railroad employ
es killed and from 5000 to 10000 in
jured in this country.
Paul Boyton, who has swum more
than $4,000 miles in his india-rubber
suit, has saved seventy-two persons
from drowning in this country.
In the middle of June, the snow lay
thick at Baltimore, Scotland, and the
cold was intense. Snow also fell in
Fifeshire and in Norfolk, England.
1t is said that the United States reg
ular army now has, for the first time,
uniform which looks well, fits well and
permits the wearer some little comfort.
The Coroner at Leadville gets 50 for
every inquest he holds, and his annual
income is larger than that of the Presi-
dent of the United States.
The London Queen has decided that
it is objectionable for young women,
whether married or single, to walk out
in the public street alone.
Angora goats are being reared at Mill
Greek, on the Humboldt, near Battle
Mountain, Nevada, for their wool and
hides, and for supplying the stock-raisers
If in Wyoming and elsewhere.
There are several men in the Mis-
souri, State Prison whom the Governor
fatty refuses to pardon, and folks say
it is because he doesn't like to leave the
place tenantless.
Helen Campbell says that no kitchen
is completely equipped without two ia
bles and rolling-pin-one table for the
rough work and the other for general
convenience.
1t is beautiful thought to keep ones
grave strewn with fresh flowers, and it
is SO much more convenient to do this
than it is to make the world pleasant
for him while in life.
There were 127 persons tried for
homicide, in its different degrees, in
Ohio. during the year ending June 80.
No executions occurred during that
period,
The extent of the manufacture Of
oleomargarine will doubtless surprise
the ordinary reader, and perhaps alarm
the average house-keeper. Upwards Of
S., 200, 900 worth was made in 1880 by
four establishments in New York city
alone.
Over 1925, 900 has been wasted on the
Kelley motor, and yet it has not moved
out of its tracks. A man who pays
thirty cents for coffee-mil can't be
swindled.
Two Indiana farmers quarreled
about wrench, and went to law. The
costs of court and counsel fees have
reached 81, 700, both litigants have mort
gagged their property to raise the mon
ey, and the case is continued.
The peculiar aroma from the fields of
growing wheat is particularly recon-
mened by physicians as cure for hay
fever. To live in the vicinity Of large
corn fields will also bring about similar
results.
The total quantity of champagne ex-
ported from the champagne districts for
the year ending April, 1882, amounted
to IL, Gel 1866 bottles. and stock in cash
and bottles equaled about 100. 1922, 500.
The average quantity exported during
the past ten years is 1S,79O,33S bottles.
The New York Times says that "one-
half Of the marital infelicity in the world
is due to the wife's inability to compre-
bend her husbands little wants or to a
stubborn and malignant temper which
leads her deliberately to oppose the
qualification of his wishes"
Rrof. Gamgee has succeeded in VEN
tilating and cooling the composing
rooms of the New Orleans Times Demo
crat by an apparatus which he calls a
circlair Itmaintains air in constant cir
Gle. drawing it into inclosed spaces, dis
charging it and purifying OF cooling It
at will.
The costliest coffin in this country
are cheap affairs when contrasted with
some to be found abroad, In the tomb
ia the Cathedral at Milan the body of
Cardinal Borromeo Is enclosed in a crys-
tai casket, magnificent with gold and
silver trimmings, set with precious
stones, at a cost of $500, 900.
In digging foundation for q new
store near the Richmond and Danville
depot, in Hichfnond, W., the rails of a
narrow-gauge road were discovered SIX
or seven feet below the surface. It Il
supposed to have been used in loading
and unloading hogsheads of tobacco,
but no one remembers the existence of
such road.
May Written, q daughter Of the owns
or Of Cedar grove, Q summer resort IN
Hartford county, Maryland, eloped not
long since with Moses Garrett, man
employed on the place. The foolish
girl was only Is years old, while Gar.
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