The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-06-01
GLEANINGS

OrinS twenty-five cents q pound. Inc
North river variety can be bought for fif
teen cents.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express line
takes in twentv-seven thousand miles,
over which are scattered ten thousand
agents.
Lizzie Moore, a 17-year-old girl of Ere.
mont, o., has become totally blind from
touching vaccinated arm and then
rubbing her eyes.
Large quantities of cabbages are be-
| ing raised in Florida this season fol
northern shipment They are chiefly
raised in the vicinity of Tallahassee.
P. T. Barnum has purchased abou,
| 500 volumes of new and valuable books
at cost of about $1,000, as present
for the Bridgeport, Conn, library.
The daughter of the late Commodore
| Maury, who assisted in the compilation
of his wellknown geographical series,
is a school teacher in Richmond. Va.
Not long before the death of Dr. Hol-
| land he wrote to a young correspondent,
"a literary life is hard and difficult
one; look well before you choose life
SO full of difficulty
Mrs. Teller, the wife of the secretary,
is tall and slender, with black hair and
the blacklist of black eyes, and is the
possessor of an unusually gentle and at
tractiye manner.
MIR. Arthur little daughter is pref
| ty child, chubby as cherub in an altar
piece, and owning a pair of large brown
eyes that look brightly out from under
fringe of short brown hair.
Nine. de Struve, the wife of the new
Russian minister at Washington, is g
slender and refned-looking woman,
with the fair complexion of the north
and blonde hair just lighted with gray.
A New York dairyman cautions the
makers of butter and cheese against
consigning these articles to irresponsible
parties. He favors cash sales even if
they are made at lower prices.
A native woman in Kauai, Sandwich
islands, has been married twice and has
given birth TO eighteen children, fifteen
of whom are living. One of her daugh-
ters has six children, another three, an
other two, and the last married has
one.
The Chinese have introduced new
variety of radish into California that
obtains remarkable size and still re-
mains tender. Specimens are in the
San Francisco market that are twelve
inches in circumference and weigh two
pounds.
Athens (Ga) Banner: There is man
in town who has two thumbs on one
hand, and his children have no thumb
at all on the right hand. He says as far
back as he can recoliect that his mother
nor any OF the female relatives of his
family had thumb on the right hand.
Tie estimated total l,nnth of all the
is 62,l00 miles. and their money vaiud
is computed at $500. 900, 600. Accord
ing to the estimates of a French statis-
tician, the total length of all the tele-
graph wires st present laid is sufficient
to reach forty-six times around the
world.
A New York street car company now
clean tEer horses By steam. The brush
es turn at the rate of 1000 revolutions q
minute, man on each side of the ami
NAL holding them against the parts to
be brushed. A cloud of dust arises in
the air and in two minutes the horse
looks like a different creature. One
passage of the brush is equal to 400 Dv
the ordinary process. A hundred horses
can be cleaned in or 10 hours.
A ragged New York bootblack look
ing very gloomy, last week. was crying:
''Shine yer boots; shine 'em up for a
cent" He got customer who asked
him why he asked only cent. sBe-
cause I'm hungry" he said. He got
quarter for shining that pair of boots.
''Oh, he caught you, did be-" said q by
stander You're the third man he's
hooked already" And the boy was set
ting his face into a gloomy look to trap
another victim.
A farmer at Greenville, Plumas Co,
Cal, has heifer Il months old, half
blood Devonshire, that is perfectly FORM
ed, has nice little horns, handsome
coat of rich brown hair, and is as merry
as kitten, but is so small that it can
easily be picked mp in ones arms. 1t
has not visibly increased in size for
months past, and from present appear
ances may never be any larger.
4 thrifty young farmer living near
Crittenden. KY, is now 80 years old,
and was first married August %, 1872.
Since that time he has buried two wives
and is now living with the third, having
been widower twenty-one months. He
is now the father of eleven children
eight boys, and three girls. He has two
pair of twin boys, one brace of which
were born recently.
The crown jewels of France, concern
;p1r bn e Il. L.,
been great hesitation, comprise a famous
diamond called the Regens and the jew
els called Mazarine. all of which will be
preserved. The whole value of the crown
diamonds is 100000 francs (*4.400.-
C00). Those which will be sold are worth
about S1,700,000.
Nobody having believed in Sarah
Bernhardt's marriage until confirmatory
news of it was received from England,
the Figaro has risked detailed account.
purely imaginary, of the wedding at
Naples of III. Gambetta and the Italian
countess Raviolini, whose millions had
enabled her to buy up the greater part
| OF the Italian press. Some of the even
ing papers lave been hoaxed by the
Figaro.
One of the largest alligators ever seen
on Flint river was killed few DAYS ago
on Allen plantation. Upon examination
after being killed ii was found that the
alligator had swallowed whole, with the
exception of its feet and legs, small
dog which had been missing for three
days. There were also found in the en-
trails of the alligator large rock, light
wood knot, and several sticks.
Boston Transcript: To show that
Captain Eads' project of raising vessels
of 1000 to 6,000 tons forty-six feet out
of water and putting them on railway
is not a visionary one, the fact is ad-
duced that In the Bombay hydraulic
dock. weights are lifted OF l2.00o tons.
Engineering skill, it is safe to say. can
| lift an=thing. except. perhaps, mort
gage.
| Mr.. AMOS BRADLEY, Rochester, n. I.
I enya. ssAs n sure eure for nervous debil