The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-07-20
GLEANINGs.

a henIucky girl WAS STRUCK Dy IiSgHl-
ming and killed while dressing for her
wedding.
The New York Observer is inclined
to think that the church-bell nuisance
should be prohibited by law.
A West Hoboken man has fallen upon
the most effective way of reducing re-
| fractory wife to submission. He burns
her face with red hot poker.
Piano keys, door-knobs and varie-
| ty of knick-knacks are made in Ger
many of sawdust and glue pressed into
| shape.
Bricks from the late residence OF
Wendell Phillips, in Essex street, Bos-
| ton, are in great demand among relic
hunters of that city.
A robin has built her nest close by
| circular saw in a mill in Fitehburg,
Mass, and has laid four eggs undis-
| MAYED by the buZzing of the saw and
the whir of the machinery.
Nine. Materna is said to be liberal
giver, and is immensely popular with
| the chambermaids wherever she stops.
Not so with Gerster. whom they consid-
er perfectly despisable."
Humboldt told Sir John Bowring that
all the dahlias in Europe were the de-
scendants of a few seeds he had gath
| cred in Mexico and sent in a letter to
Lady Holland.
A Dubuque man who found a wallet
containing $500 in cash, refused to give
:. his wife IS to buy hat, and she peach
ed on him and made him restore the
whole sum to the loser.
A new kind of English glass is made
by taking it before it is fairly melted
and while it is full of bubbles, and shap-
ing it while it is half liquid, half solid.
1t is not peculiarly fragile, and appears
| Venetian.
Detroit is all .'torn up'' over the dis
| covery that the collections of drop let
tiers in the boxes around the High School
Block indicate that the young lady pu-
pills are engaged in desperate clandestine
correspondence.
Mr. II. NJ. Stanley, the discoverer of
Livingstone, is now in command OF the
Belgian West African expedition. He
has again surmounted the Congo Falls
and reached Stanley Pool, where he is
building a Belgian station.
The Amalgated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers shows that this body
has $4,000 members in the United States,
and that its actions govern the affairs
of over 100000 people engaged in the
various iron industries
Strikes are not. as rule, successful.
The statistics reported by the Bureau of
| Labor of Massachusetts show that, out
of 159 strikes, only Is were entirely sue
cessful; 100 were unsuccessful; is were
| compromised, and We're declared to be
| partly successful.
Jane Swisshelm, having mauled Abra-
ham to her vindictive heart content is
now engaged in pulling down the Pres
byterian Church. There will not be
much left of this universe when Jane
concludes to take rest.-CO urier-J0ur-
nal.
In reply to question from Postmas-
ter Hunt, of Rochester, Treasurer Gill
fillan has written that United States
coins, affected by natural abrasion only
and not mutilated in any way, must be
received by the Government officers at
their face value.
a new departure has been made in
the attire of ballroom walters in Lon
don. An association has been started,
all the members of which adopt neat
livery of black with gilt buttons, and
knee brooches with silk stockings. Dress
ed thus the walters viii not he mistak On
for honored guests.
Guntersville, Ala, is the most fortu-
nate town in America. 1t is absolutely
without any local government. 1t had
been managed by Mayor, Aldermen and
Marshal, but there was so little to steal
that they lost interest in the city affairs
and finally ceased paying any attention
to city matters altogether. Oh happy
Guntersyille, how art thou blessed.
A cool Philadelphia bigamist got his
wife to dress him to 90 and marry an
other woman.
A use has at last been found for the
Canada thistle A shepherd in South
Australia declares that they furnish
more and better food for sheep during a
protracted drouth than any plant that
grows. The flower buds are eaten by
lambs in preference to any kind of
grass.
During her recent visit to Barcelona,
| osil otiIIdiu SuOiuittCti utI llCiilt W
the examination of local phrenologist
of repute. The man of science, after a
long and careful scrutiny, declared that
the conformation of the great actress
head was rather that of a mans than of
a woman's.
The home for working girls in Lon
don, called Garfield House, at the form
al opening of which Minister Lowell pre-
sided, contains thirty-nine bedrooms, a
dining-room, a sitting-room and IL
brary, and each occupant will pay for
her accommodation from 65 cents to 81
a week.
A house painter of Morgan City, La,
fell from a church steeple, slid down the
roof, bounced off the caves, crashed
through scaffold and fell ker-thump
on the ground. Despite dislocated
shoulder, two broken ribs and score of
cuts and bruises, he rose to his feet,
gazed heavenward and exclaimed, ..Well,
I'll be DID,
A shrewd lawyer of Baltimore en-
ploys a lovely girl to do his jury pack
ing. Her bewitching glances, smiles,
and, finally, her fascinating company,
quite caught young juryman, and he
| swung the jury to her side IN a contest
Cd viii case. Now the other side are
bowling for a new trial for the reasons
given:
Blood has often been seen on the face
of the moon, but it remained for John
q. Jackson, an astronomer of forty
years standing, in Hockessin, Del, to
discover cloud 100 miles long and for
ty miles broad just over the westerly
edge of the mare cuSium. He advises
astronomers to examine the same spot
about two days after the next new
moon,
The four paintings recently stolen
from the palace of the King of the Bel
gians, at Brussels, were cut out of the
frames. No trace that remained prom
ised 70 lead to the finding of the rob-
bers. The stolen pictures were these:
ia Dispute au Cabaret by Madou;
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