The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-09-14
WHOLE NO. 1854.
GLEANTNGS.

No clergyman is eligible to seat in
the British House of Commons.
The Dallas Times rejcices over the
fact that the penny is to be added to the
| currency in use in Texas.
The government building in Utica, n
Y. is now practically completed, at a
total cost of about 425,000.
Deer Lodge City, Montana, will re-
main the terminal point of the Utah
| and Northern for some months.
Windmills are coming into general
use in Paradise valley, Nevada for
pumping water for irrigating purposes.
Harper's Ferry is the dullest, sleep
lest and most dilapidated place on
| Gods foot-stool.
One result of the large crops already
noticed is that the lucky farmer feels
his oats and is happy.
The merchants of Dubuque, Iowa,
claims that theirs is the strongest city
| financially in the Union.
There are seven thousand five hun
dred men employed in manufacturing
and mining in and near Birmingham,
| Ala.
The shipments of peaches by express
| from North Carolina to the northern
markets have been greatly in excess
this season above those of any previous
years.
During the reign of Ismail Pasha he
| involved himself and Egypt in debt
| amounting to 1882, 223, 700. Once he
| paid $150,000 for two beautiful Ciroas-
sian girls for his harem,
An Indiana man gave his horse pint
of whisky to send him along in the race.
The effect was so hilarious that the ami
NAL tried to step over the grand stand,
and in the effort broke two legs.
Some of the California fruit-growers
are not pleased with the Chinese immi-
| grafton bill, and say it will be impossi-
BILE to raise fruit at profit in that state
without Chinese labor.
Excellent crop prospects are reported
in the New England states, although the
season is backward. A large amount of
hay will be secured, and an immense APP
| pie crop is expected.
The largest belt ever made from a
single width of hide is said to have Just
been made at Hartford, Conn, for a
New York Touring 1t is forty
eight inches wide, seventy-six feet long,
and weighs one thousand pounds.
The driver of farm wagon near Sum
bury, Pa, finding the railroad crossing
obstructed by cars undertook to play
brakeman and cut the train, instead of
which his arm was literally burst from
the shoulder to the elbow.
The Net0s, of Fort Jones, CAL, saws
that the Umatilla Indians are becom-
ing more self-reliant every year. They
have two thousand acres of land under
cultivation, g flour and saw-mill. thresh-
ers, reapers, and other agricultural i'm
.plements.
The men on a north-bound gravel
train on the Texas Central at Waco ex-
hibited the other day petrifed leg of
pit south of the city. 1t seemed to be
one of the bones of the lower hind leg,
and measured six feet in length, and
was half the size of mans body.
A large and peculiarly shaped calcu-
lus was removed from the bladder of a
man Is years of age, at the Swinburne
dispensary in Albany, n, Y, few DAYS
since. The stone weighed nearly two
ounces, and measured one and three
quarters by one and one-half inches. Its
form was that of an oblate spheroid.
A man at Monterey, Cal, the other
day observed a squirrel cleaning out his
burrow, and, while Watching, noticed
him drag out something resembling a
piece of money. Picking it up, it was
found to be coin of the time of Char
les Ill, king of Spain and of the In
dies, and bore date of 1882.
A novelty in the shape of q strawber-
ry bed is to be seen at Westfield. 1t is
hogshead filed with loan and stones
and from its sides are growing, from
holes bored through the wood into the
loam, over one hundred thrifty straw
berry plants, bearing a profusion of
large, luscious fruit.
Waddingham' immense cattle ranch,
seventy miles or so due east of Las We
gas, N. M, known as the Montoya
grant, has been sold 1t is twenty-nine
miles wide and thirty-fve miles long
The sale was made to wealthy Eng
lish syndicate, which planks down ST.
100000 for the property and all that
goes with the ranch.
Near Kingston. N. c., a negro boy, 6
years old, shot his sister, aged wears.
in house, dragged the body into a
field, and hid it in the rows of cotton.
He said the child began to cry, and to
hush it he snapped a gun at her, as he
had been in the habit of doing. The
gun went off, and the charge nearly
blew off the child's head.
A curiosity in the fruit line is on ex-
| hibition at Tampa, Fla. 1t consists of
five distinct, fully matured pineapples
on one stem, touching each other at the
sides, and spread out in the shape of a
fan, and around the top of the fan, like
handsome fringe, are nineteen crown
lets, which will each make distinct
plant.
Portions of the old elm which stood
on Boston Common have been placed
as relics in Independence Hall, Philadel-
phia. They were presented by the
Board of Alderman of Boston, and con-
sist of large section of the tree and
polished veneer of the wood, upon
which is photographed picture of the
tree as it stood before its fall.
Asparagus to obtain the highest price
ia the New York market must be
bleached like celery. To make it white
the earth is thrown over the beds early
In the spring, and the stalks are cut
with long knife. It is known as
''white-grass.' and sells for twice as
much as that which grows in the sun
and is called ''green-grass.
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