The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-08-17
WHOLE NO. 1850.
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tions will come to this country to OBJ
serve the transit of Venus next Decem-
| ber
A New York doctor says there is an
unusual amount of ozone ir the atmos-
phere this year, but that's no excuse for
a man to steal fellows umbrella.
1t is now announced that no elephant
ever lived to be more than loo years old,
but yet they have lots of fun while they
do hang on.
There is danger of corner in sar-
dimes, as the fish have disappeared from
the coast of Brittany, in France, as well
as from the coast of Maine.
Three thousand tons of sand are an
nually dug from Neversink mountain,
near Reading, Pa, for use in the found
ries of that place.
The mayor of London has to pay dear
for the honor. One who gets through
on 500, 900 over and above salary is do
ing well.
The project for establishing a grand
camp-meeting ground at Tallulah, Ga,
like that at Chautauqua, is being push
ed by Atlanta capitalists.
Some of the seaside fans this year are
large enough to cover one side of
girls face in case she bushes. Arrange
ments have been made to report blush
by telegraph if one occurs anywhere.
The fool goeth out in a sail-boat when
he doesn't know boom from break
er; but the wise man picks up pebbles
on the shore and iirts with the girl in
the pink dress,
You may have read dear little para
graph two years ago about Bob Inger-
soil making 100000 in silver mine.
You can now have another to the effect
that he never made dollar, but was
swindled out of $4,000.
That men do not, in this world. al
ways find their proper calling is shown
in the autopsy on the body Of Lead
vile gambler, His brain weighed six
ty-two and half ounces. What a bank
cashier he would have made!
1t is estimated that the South has this
season paid to the North $55, 900, 900 for
wheat, $4,000, 900 for corn, S72, 600, 600
for meats, and about $25,000, GOO for
hay, butter, cheese, oats, apples, pota-
toes, etc.
Squire Mayes, of West Alexander.
Pa., has held his Office of justice of the
peace since 1862, and in the interval he
has married over two thousand couples.
AS no license is required in Penpsylvan-
la, all the runaway couples from the
adjoining States flock to him, so that
his house is a sort of Gretna Green.
Female diamond exhibitors are now
TO be seen in considerable numbers at
Long Branch and Saratoga, and the
precious stones are more than ever re-
markable. for size and brilliancy.
"Adoiph, tole you how dat vas. Dia-
monds, my tear poy. ish peter as real
estates,"
Very fine glass has been manufacture
earambeesn G rram sndf Fla he" dscoT1eereert TeetS took
this sand north several weeks ago and
had it tested in glass factory in New
Jersey, where the manufacturers were
highly pleased with the quality of the
sand and the glass.
Ada Deyo, niece and adopted daugh-
ter of John H. Deyo, of Gardner, Ulster
county. N Y, the white girl who mar
ried the negro, John Wesley Sampson,
something over year ago, is now an
inmate of the Sullivan county poor
house. Miss Deyo is handsome young
lady, and her father is rich,
A Darwinian primitive man, who is to
be seen in cage at the Cincinnati Zoo
logical Gardens, demonstrated his kim
ship to humanity by abstraoting watch
from lady bystander's pocket. He
opened the case, gazed thoughtfully at
the dial as if trying to determine th-.
hour OF the day, and then meth, -,,a;callv
laid the instrument aw- and began his
e,Se.nhs A'- The next advance of
'' .noakey family will be to acquire
the art of building fire. That accom-
plshed, the origin of the human race
viii have been determined beyond cavn.
Lillian Russell, the Patience who has
turned the heads of half the young and
old Newly orkers by her beauty, is a
married woman, who owes her success
to her husband. But her own head is
turned by her successes and the atten-
tions of the gilded youth. So she is
seeking divorce from her husband, an
honest, hard-working, and thorough
orchestra leader.
The papers are publishing biographi-
cal sketches of the Mr.. Raymond who
married Annie Louise Cary. This is
giving the gentleman more attention
than he deserves. What Mr.. Raymond
wants to do is to skin around and try to
do something that will entitle him to go
down in history as somebody else than
Mr.. Annie Louise Cary.
The saddest commentary yet made
upon the character of school literature
of the present day is attributed to War
den Croker. He is represented as say
ing that Guiteau's poem beginning with
Il am going to the Lordy, am so
glad" was plagiarized from child's
primer given to the assassin by some
misguided persons who visited him in
Jail last March.
The market value of New York re-
porters is shown in an item lately pub
lished in one of the leading dailies of
that city to the effect that a dollar was
thrust into the hand of one of its report
ers by the superintendent of street
railway company whom the reporter
was interviewing about an accident on
the road. Either street railway super
intendents are generous or New York
newspaper talent is costly.
A physician is responsible for the
statement that large majority of nat
ural deaths, especially in the cases of
children, occur ION the turn of day." as
the ruralists say, /. e., from IL to 8
o'clock, either day or night, and that
there is no explainable reason for this.
1t is one of the mysteries attending
death. OF 100 persons dying by natur-
al causes, eighty die within the named
hours.
A New York importer of ivory of
much experience says that he has never
seen two tusks from one elephant. The
reason for this, he says, is that the ma
tive African who hunts the ponderous
mammal has habit of presenting to
his chief one tusk from each elephant
he captures. The chief stores his stock
until favorable selling time arrives, by