The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-06-15
GLEANINGS

PIttsburgh and vicinity has twenty
five glass factories.
The Connellsville, Pa, coke region
covers an area of about forty miles
wide
Murfreesboro, Tenn, ships cedar
sawdust to Chicago to make crackle glass
with.
The people of Easton, Pa, have near
ly enough money subscribed to build
and fit up silk mill.
Craig Co.. Virginia, has good slate
quarry, and is developing promising
lead mine.
Artesiap wells are to be bored at ev-
cry water station along the line of the
Georgia Central railroad
During the last fiscal year 1S,074tons
of mahogany were exported from the
state of Tabasco, Mexico.
A strong competition has arisen
among the railroads for the cattle-car-
rying trade Of the Shenandoah valley.
A bunch of bananas, oyer three feet
long, showing $50 specimens of that
delicious fruit, has been raised in Key
West.
A manned brakeman sues the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad for $4,000
damages for the loss of finger which
has involved the loss of a hand.
John Wanamaker' new residence at
Cheltenham, Montgomery county, Pa,
is the largest private residence in the
state, except Ogontz, Jay Cookies old
home.
Fine specimens of bituminous coal
have recently been obtained at Point
Loina, near San Diego, Cal, and it is
believed that valuable deposits exist
there.
Convicts from New Mexico are kept
close and cared for in the Kansas State
penitentiary at the rate OF twenty cents
day per man.
A lawyer in Bangor, Me-, has brought
suit for $4,000 damages against the pub
fishers of history of Penobscot county,
which reported him as dead, and gave
him a complimentary obituary sketch.
Rosa Bonheur's latest picture is en-
titled 1.-The Lion at Home" 1t is sup
posed to represent Stephen w. Dorsey
braced up in front of the Gilsey house
bar in New York city.
The Spanish minister to Washington
will spend the summer with his family
at Saratoga, but will not mingle in so
ciety there, Madame Barca being in
mourning for the death of her mother.
Sara-the matchless Sara Bias the
consolation of knowing that her d ANA
Ia is one of the sharpest men in Paris,
and the theatrical managers can no
longer take the lions share of her
houses" as they used to do.
Philip Speyer, an old man of 65 years,
cloth-cutter, died lately in New York
from erysipelas resulting from the bite
of cat, the animal having bitten him
ON the thumb when he attempted to take
1icT up Ill MS aiinS.
According to official statistics Yucca
tan exported during the first months
of this year 11,671, 973 pounds of hene-
quen, which, placed aboard the vessels
at cents per pound represents value
of $5S3, 1866.
The ranchmen in Russian River val
lev, California, have discovered that the
white owls are destroying thousands of
gophers, the proof of which is in the
skulls and bones found in owls nests
broken from trees felled for wood.
Mrs. M. NJ. Symmes, of New Orleans,
has met with more than ordinary sue
cess at silk culture: Silk cocoons find
ready sale at s. per pound. The lady
finds the leaves of the white mulberry
the best food for the silk-worms.
Penn Yam, n. Y, is likely soon to be-
come the scene of active boring opera
tions for oil. A company of Pennsyl-
vania gentlemen who have had large and
successful experience in developing oil
territory are expected to engage in the
matter.
t,,-ii. Bnford finds it dull being around
races without taking part in them, and
wants to leave Louisville and 90 back
to his farm. His new creed, mingling
religion with horse racing, has not
found favor among good people gener-
ally.
Count Won Moltke, the great field
marshal of Germany, represents small
borough in the reichstag, and is so con-
scientious in his attention TO his duties
as deputy that he never misses sit
ting without a reason of the most urgent
nature.
They have way, "down in Ole vir-
ginny," of selling tramps to the highest
bidder, under a yagrancy law, and then
putting them at work on 8 railroad By
all means let every state pass avagrancy
Law and sell the grand army of tramps
to railroad and other contractors.
En, 1la
caused by the discovery of q seam in the
rocks near Fultonville, Montgomery
county, n. T., said to contain valuable
minerals. The seam is twelve feet
wide, and on either side of it is solid
lime rock. The mineral has every ap-
pearance of containing lead, silver, and
gold.
AT the close of the war two women at
Pentield. Ga, began farming with al
old blind horse. Now they own good
plantation. well stocked, and have eigh-
teen or twenty bales of cotton on hand.
One attended to the farm while the other
managed the household affairs.
Observation-Disclosures your digestion
tone the stomach for utilizing and as
similating every atom of food you take;
the body needs it for strength and vigor.
Zopesa cleanses the entire system, stim-
ulates the liver, keeps you regular, and
able to eat ten-penny nails. Letters and
postal cards come in daily, telling of
cures and help from Zopesn, from Brazil.
Positive proof of the health and vigor it
gives il 10 cent sample. For sale by
Robinson il Hinrichs. Ii
4 GEORGIA editor who has roamed about
his State good deal gathering varied
experience says: ''Gold is found in thirt,
six counties in this State, silver in tnrse
copper in thirteen, iron in iorty-thrse
diamonds in twenty ak, and whiskey ir
all of them; and she last gets away with
all the rest"
A VExED CLERaYMAN.-Even the pat
fence OF Job would become exhausted
were he preacher and endeavoring te
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