The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-06-29
GLEANINGs.

The Lick house property. San Fran
cisco, is now valued at 81, 100000.
ANY woman found on the streets on
Conyers, Ca, after o'clock at night
without an escort, will be arrested.
The Domestic Cabinet has decided to
abolish postage on all newspapers mail
ed to regular subscribers in Canada.
A landlord expects per cent. more
rent where the street is called an ave-
nue..
A bee flying into the open mouth of
a Colorado man stung him in the throat.
The swelling choked him to death.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, of Boston, is
said to have learned Greek after she
was so years old.
The United States Fish Commission
has shipped over 4,000,0 600 young shad
and herring for the rivers of Virginia,
South Carolina and Texas.
The production of domestic wool has
increased 400 per cent. since the year
1860, the total production in the year
1880 having been 232.00O,000 pounds.
The Syracuse Herald asserts that
frogs, toads, and rats are among the in
gradients which help to make the wa
ter in that city palatable.
The new German test for petroleum
is equivalent to lis degrees burning
test. Refined petroleum for the Ger
man market has hitherto been tested at
110 degrees burning point.
The seaside sanitarium at Eldert's
grove, Rockaway, L. l., has begun its
work OF caring for poor sick women and
children, of the metropolis, free of
charge.
Rev. John Jasper, the distinguished
upholder of the theory that ''de sun do
move" thinks that his scientific critics
would better remove the ''mokes" from
their own eyes before trying to elbow
the beans out of his H."
A Chesapeake fisherman, while fish
ing in the North East river with his gill
net, caught 7S4 shad in one drift, and
but for timely assistance the boat would
have sunk by the great number of fish
taken.
A member of the Sacramento (CaL)
board of education has succeeded in eff
fectino-the passage of q resolution to
pay $50 to the young lady graduade
who appears at the high school COM
mencement exercises in the least expen-
sive dress.
1t is said that the city of Boston has
received proposition from private par
ties guaranteeing the expenses of a
noiseless pavement on Devonshire ST.,
if the city government will rescind the
order to pave the street with granite
blocks. .
An expert examination of the New
ark On. j., aqueduct board of finances
shows that in forty years, though vast
sums were handled. not cent went
wrong. In fact the accounts show that
the board somehow has 1922 more
than is called for.
1t is now fashionable for ladies to be
square-shouldered. Of course very few
ladies are squars<shouldered now-a-
days, but the art of the dressmaker here
shows up to good advantage. All
dressmaker needs is something that can
walk; the rest may be artificial
The private coachmen of New York
are about to organize for mutual pro-
lection, and to devise way of securing
wages when due. 1t appears that the
most stylish people are generally back
ward in settling little bills. They think
servants can wait.
Hobart college, Geneva, n. Y, at the
beginning of this year, had 1868, 900 in
vested, and its expenses were more than
paid by its receipts last year, by 81, 400.
An effort viii be made to erect an
alumni hall to cost $4,000, where the
library containing $4,000 volumes can
be placed.
Strange freakso OF vandalism were per-
formed IN Harrisburg, Pa, few nights
since by some mischievous soamps.
They consisted of removing and carry
ing away the plates from all the water
and gas stops on the pavements along
several streets, chipping wooden door
steps with knives and piling loose bricks
in the cutters,