The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-12-21
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1882.
GLEANINGS.

The London Grdphtc announces the
birth Of ''three young children
Long-haired men are generally weak
and fanatieal, and men of scant hair
are the philosophers and soldiers and
statesmen of the world.
Ouida has just declared that it seems
to her most English novels are written
either for school children or police SER
geants.
The first newspaper that appeared in
France is said to have the date 1894. A
book-worm recently discovered stray
copy in a library in Nantes.
The latest telephone story is that
young lady in Nashville bowed twice
when introduced by telephone to
young man in a distant part of town.
Euclid avenue, a short street in
Cleveland, is only thirty-nine feet wide
for several blocks, and as double car
tracks are to be laid in it, it is to be
widened six feet.
Children are born deaf and remain so
several days. After that their parents
and attendants wish that their children
were born dumb also, or that they
themselves had staid deaf when they
were born.
In the fifty years from 1880 to 1880
the amount of money invested in cot
ton manufactures in the United States
increased from $40,000,000 to $685.
100000, and the bales consumed from
1874, $50 to 100000.
The old-fashioned sshuckin's" are
again in vogue in the corn-felds of
Georgia, much to the delight of the col
ored population and the amusement of
the white trash who have not seen such
work festivals since "befo' de wah."
An English firm has turned its atten-
ton to the manufacture of steel barrels
and casks, and is said to have met with
so much success that wooden articles of
that description are liable to soon be
thing of the past.
The latest sweet thing in kid gloves
is rather startling. The gloves extend
up the arm, over the shoulders and but
ton behind. Gloves of this kind come
high, but those who wear them can
probably do without some of the costly
clothing heretofore worn.
A wealthy New York lady presented
her pastor with surplice edged and
frilled and trimmed all over with ex-
pensive lace. and now she is mad be-
cause he won't wear it. He says it
looks too much like a portion of a we'd
ding trousseau.
Emily Faithful has quit bringing SER
want girls to this country. She found
that few of them retained their situa-
tons over three months, some fell into
evil ways, and all soon became too In
dependent to thank her for her philan-
thropy.
A Boston genius has invented a
stone-cutting machine that was shown
capable of performing in twenty-five
minutes what small army of men
same time. The invention will, it is
thought, work n complete revolution in
the granite-cutting trade.
A woman at Morristown, Mimi, went
to saloon where her erring husband
bought his whisky, and, with an AK, de-
molished the entire contents of the
place A revolver in the hands of the
proprietor did not deter her in the
least.
A highwayman at Reading, Pa,
made q mistake -hcn he demanded
money or life from passer-by who had
three large mastiffs in the wagon beside
him. The highway was searched soon
after the occurrence, but no trace of the
robber could be found.
The Rev. Thomas Guard, highly es-
teemed Methodist pastor of Baltimore,
wrote to one of two sisters who had
gone to California. He meant to add
dress the younger, but made mistake
in the name, and so sent the letter to
the older. After considerable cores
pondence he made an offer of marriage,
and was aceepted-by the wrong wo-
man. He got released, but was never
successful in the other quarter.
A citizen of Denison, Texas, has pre-
pared dictionary of the Indian vocab-
ulary and promises to soon convince
the world that the language of the red
man is derived from the Hebrew He
also claims TO be able to substantiate
his claim by reference to the Hebrew
bible
New York City has school 25O
years old, the Dutch Church School. 1t
was founded in 1858, and has been kept
up continually ever since. The present
school house was erected in 1860, and
the Dutch architecture was perpetuated
in its building. 1t is claimed to be the
Oldest educational establishment in the
country.
A New York picture dealer says that
agTeat many people buy photographs
OF Oscar Wilde, and then DESTROYS the
compliment by adding: ''But most of
the purchasers obtain the picture just
TO have a good laugh" This is the
first recorded compliment of persons
who in any way patronize Monsieur
Too-too.
just before his assassination General
Garfield sent a message to Mr.. William
Black in regard to his story, Macleod
of Ds~e," regretting that the novelist
had made it end so tragically. There
is tragedy enough in the world" he
said, little thinking that in a few weeks
he himself was to contribute still more.
Charles E. Slayhack, brother of the
dead Colonel Slaybsck, of ST. Louis, is
saiG to have acknowledged that it was
impossible for him to harbor any feel
ings of revenge against Colonel Cock
SIul- anu Iiltl Tue uedu ilssH OWN nasty
conduct was the cause of the late misfor-
tune.
Fashionable Newport is amused over
the discontinue of brainless young
Croesus, who presented to one Of the
society bellies a rare and royal pair Of
well. in common parlance, ''garters."
They were so handsome with their Jew
els and precious metals that the young
lady refused to return them when she
refused an offer of her admirers hand.
w. I. Silk. the English fish culturist,
has taken 700 American black bass TO
England. He will stock White Water
dak Eysr the TO tine late MaTqns
around London. He hopes that Amer
lean black bass will soon be as plentiful
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