The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-11-16
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER le, 1882.
MISCELLANEOUS.

There is rich young man at New
port who does not belong to the Casino,
who doesn't. play polo, who never was
on roller-skates, never owned yacht,
and never drove four-in-hand. He
must have made his money himself.
The Rev. B. F. Kames, formerly .
circuit preacher of Washington county,
Iowa, went to Arizona and bought 80
acres of land. A silver mine has been
discovered on it that pays $3.50 to $500
per ton. He is now estimated to be
worth all the way from 5000, 900 to
$4,000, 900.
"What do you think, Mr. Spangler?"
asked the lovely Miss Hansumphase:
''that horrid Mr.. Drown says my dress
skirt is too long for ballroom. What
do you say?" Replied Spangler: Long?
Why, my dear girl. it's only about two
feet-and such little feetr' added the
dulcet fiatterer. No wonder the girls
say Spangler is such a nice man.
1t is said that Bartholds' statue OF
Liberty Fighting the World is Sc large
that twenty people can stand on the big
toe of the bronze girl. Well, if she
makes as much fuss about it as one girl
did at the Opera House one night when
one small man stood on her toe, the
twenty will wish they had stood on 3
pat hand. (This is probably unintelli-
gible to a hundred or SO of our readers,
who have never played draw poker, but
the other ninety-nine thousand nine
hundred will know what pat hand is
-Peck's Sun.
This was the shrewd dodge of west
ern one-legged man who went on
crutches: Hopping along on a Lead
vile street, he suddenly caught one of
his clutches in hole. He fell, he rose,
he sued the city and recovered 5000
damages. He did likewise in Kansas
City, and recovered $500; in Terre Haute
$500, and in st. Louis $500.
The annual production of Canada
malt is about 66,00O,0O0 pounds. OF
this nearly 23.00O,OOO pounds are ex-
ported to the United States. The inn
ports almost wholly confined to British
Columbia, barely exceed $50, pounds.
In Toronto alone there are 100000
gallons of beer brewed, while the capt.
tai employed amounts to 100000.
Part of the tusk of a mammoth UNI
earthed in Box Elder is on exhibition in
Miles City, Montana. 1t is said the en-
tire tusk was about twenty feetin length.
On Powder river, sixty miles from Miles
City, 1t Is reported, whole skeleton of
mammoth has been brought to light,
and party of scientists are organizing
to visit the spot to secure it.
The Chronicle estimates the number
of Chinese in SanFrancisco at thirty
thousand. A large number of surplus
Mongolians are reported to be looking
for work, the organized effort on the
part of the whites to stop the purchase
of Chinese-made goods having had the
effect to throw many of them out of en-
ployment.
The publishers of a German novel
scored hit recently in the line of ad-
vertising. They had inserted in most of
the papers notice stating thata certain
nobleman of means, anxious to obtain a
wife, wanted one who resembled the
description of the heroine in the novel
named. Of course every manageable
woman who saw this announcement
bought the novel to see how much she
resembled the imaginary beauty.
Concerning the death of his wife, Fred
erick Douglass recently wrote to friend
in the west: 1.-The main pillar in nv
house has fallen. Four and forty years
have passed since our union. Life can
not hold much for me, now that she has
gone. Still | feel that the lesson taught
by this death, as by all such, is silence,
resignation, humility and hope. We
are all strangers and sojourners.
American vines are not, after all, proof
against attacks of phylloxera. On the
Island of Monte Cristo, where the Italian
government established depot for the
growth of American seeds and trans
planting and accumulation of American
vines, seven hundred vines out of the
first years shoots were found to be IA
tally affected with phylloxera.
On the farm of Judge Bronson, of
Seymour, Allegany county, New York,
is natural curiosity. A maple tree one
foot in diameter grows out of solid
rock, three feet from the ground and
out of this tree about foot from the
base of the tree is cedar limb about
two inches in diameter, which is as flour
ishing as any of the branches of the pa
rent tree.
The eye of steer, when prominent,
bright and clear, with mild and gentle
expression, is an indication of health,
with quiet disposition and good feed
ing quality. If the eye is dull and sunk
en- the capillary circulation will be de-
fective, and the functions of nutrition
imperfectly performed, and there will
not only be deficiency in the ability to
fatteu, but a lack of strength and con-
stitutional vigor. A restless and wild
expression of the eye indicates pre-
dominance of nervous action and I'M
quiet disposition that is not compatible
with good feeding quality.
"Old Bach" who writes to the New
York San, gives reason why he is not
married, which is reason. 81 am"
he says, ''35, an old bachelor, they say;
and have been wanting a wife these ten
years. Some of my friends suggest that
| want to marry rich, and am too pecu-
liar. Now do not object to riches if
other things are all right. But. honor
bright, if | were to find a woman who
would bring nobler thoughts, make me
better man. think less of gossip about
her neighbors, and more about her own
home affairs, q woman well educated
and not helpless. l should like to marry
her, even if she did not own copper
A Laborious Escape
Nine months of hard and ingenious