The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-10-26
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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 26, 1882.
GLEAEINGs.

Constant Agony is the somewhat dole
full name of Frenchman at Plattsburg,
N. Y.
Some one, not an editor, has made
the novel discovery that the cat is no.
where mentioned in the Bible.
A wealthy New York lady has paid
$3.50 for an oil portrait of her pet poo
die.
A Hartford woman gave birth to q
child which weighed twenty-five pounds.
The child died.
A Boston girl attracted multitude
by having her shoes blacFed, just like q
man in front of the Revere House.
1t is proposed to honor the memory of
Roger Williams by naming after linn
the principal streets in the several towns
and cities ir. Rhode Island.
The genuine Nautch girls of
western show have been identified as
dancers from London, where they are
known as the Vivian sisters.
1t is stated that three thousand de-
posters in Connecticut savings banks
have not made inquiries about their
money in twenty years past.
1t is estimated that there are about
$4,000, 900, 900 feet of lumber in the nine
states comprising the southern pine
belt.
The census for Victoria for 1881
shows total population of 1862, 364, of
whom II, 1913 were Cinnamon, and but
$50 aborigines.
According to the assessment roll of
California, there has been deprecia-
ton of values in that state the past year
of S26, LII, 698.
Seventeen years old, twice married,
once widow, and now deserted by her
second husband is the startling history
of a girl who recently attempted suicide
at Kansas City.
A boy in Taunton, IA years old, was
sent poll-tax bill, and, feeling that the
assessors had made man of him, de-
cided to act like one, and proudly paid
it.
Mrs. Tansy has two hundred-acre
ranch near Compton, Cal; which is un-
der her own management. 1t is sup
piled with several flowing artesian
wells.
A machine for counting sheep has
been invented and put in operation in
California. 1t is placed in an opening
of fence, and registers every sheep
that passes it.
Some interesting ruins covering quite
large piece of ground and somewhat
similar to the famous ones of Palenque
were recently discovered by Sr. Isidro
Bulnes in the state of Chlapas, Mexico,
near place called "Aua Escondida."
A curious petrifcation recently ex-
hibited at Salt Lake City consisted of
bunch of wheat heads upon which a
cricket had fastened himself All had
been turned to stone in the short space
Of six months by the action of soda
spring.
1t is said that John Bright has given
up all idea of coming to this country,
Notwithstanding his great admiration
for it. The old lady who thought it
possible that he mi ht bring his ''dis-
ease' with him will therefore breathe
easier.
A waiter in Paris restaurant was q
clever juggler. and his feats of tossing
plates gained him extra fees from the
amused guests. Stimulated to fresh en-.
deavors, he acquired trick of seeming
to swallow fork; but at this he was
not expert, and spoon nine and one
half inches long slipped down his throat
in dread reality. A dangerous and diff.
ficult surgical operation was all that
saved his life.
The Benton family, of Scarburgh,
Cal, have turned their farm into a sep
arate kingdom. The nine members
passed formal declaration of independ.
ence a few months ago, and crowned
the husband and father as king. They
hoisted new flag over the house, an
nounced that there hundred acres, were
no longer part of the United States,
and refused to pay taxes. They are to
have war on their hands, for the sher.
itf intends to make an invasion.
Mysterious music in the air at 2
O'Clock one morning at Madison, Ga,
started the awakened residents and led
them to believe that Gabriel was taking
his resurrection reveille. The sound
was beautiful and plaintive, resembled
the sighings of an eolian harp and con-
tinued for two hours. 1t is still a mys-
terry.
The largest chestnut tree in Lancas-
ter county, Pennsylvania stands within
few hundred yards of the Mannheim
borough line on the public road leading
to Sporting mill. Its circumference is
twenty-three feet six inches, one foot
above the ground. The tree was meas
ured forty-tive years ago, when its cir
conference was twenty-one feet four in
ches.
A curious thing about corn is the ORR
gin Of the red and speckled ears, when
nothing but white kernels are planted.
Another popularity is the mathematical
regularity of even numbers of rows of
kernels upon cob. An odd number of
rows is a thing more rare.than the four
leafed clover. What objection has ma
ture to old numbersp
A New Orleans man has invented q
device for opening iron shutters from
the outside in case of fire. Briefly, it is
an iron handle which, being pulled, ex-
plodeS cartridge on the inside of the
shutter and at the same time draws the
bolt. The cartridge is designed to pre-
vent its being used by burglars.
The Cleveland City Council appoint
ed committee to induce the trustees of
the Garfield monument fund to consent
to the erection of the monument in the
centre of the city rather than in Lake
View Cemetery, and one of the trustees
has said that he sees no way by which
| the $4,000 subscribed can be used for
the erection of the memorial at any
point other than Lake View.
| A singular fact has been ascertained
by mutual insurance company that in
Ohio, which is the largest consumer of
lager beer and malt liquors, the deaths
are annually over sixteen to 1000 in
habitants, while in Ontario, where