The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-11-15
GLEANINGS.


chum is pug dog.
Kittens heads are to take the place
of birds heads on the coming bonnet.
Mrs. Honey, of Montreal, has hair more
than six feet long.
There is one lawyer for every 700 peo-
pie in the United States.
Over $4,000 Canadians are engaged
in the lumber business.
There are in Iowa Il, 657 more school
boys than schoolgirls.
A Roanoke, N, c., inventor has con-
cocted machine that will make $50
cigarettes minute.
Mrs. Wells, living near Utica, N. Y,
says she never feels better than after a
days blowing in the field.
st. Augustine, Fla, pays 12A cents
barrel for oyster shells with which to
improve her roads.
A Milford, N H., man has Just recov-
cred $50 in gold which he lost in his
well twenty-five years ago.
M. Worth, the Partisan fashion king,
is IS years old, fat, pleasant-looking and
very bald-headed.
Big thing-the corn crop 1t is worth
about 100000, 900, Notwithstanding
the frost partially gave the corn belt
in the ear.
Roosevelt Street, in New York, has
suddenly become famous as the resi-
dence of the only man in the United
States who owns a white monkey.
The wife and daughter of the late
Montgomery Blair are still living at the
Silver Springs (Md.) homestead. The
youngest son is at Princeton College.
James Sullivan, the Mexican railroad
builder, is a short, broad-shouldered,
round-faced man, with a large eye, in
telligent face, and charming converse
tional powers.
There were 100000 bathers in the
public baths of Boston this year, which
was a falling off of about 100000 COM
pared with last year. The falling off is
attributed to the cool weather.
Charley Allen, of Socorro, n. NJ, has
a burro that recently fell over a preci-
pice, rolling 1920 feet head over heels
and escaped with only few Sits in his
hide.
The late Mr., Blythe, the millionaire
of California, never kept any account
books, though his business was large
and complete. One result is that his
six or sexen widows are having a hard
time to find out the value of his estate.
The population of Knoxville, Tenn,
according to a census just completed, is
81, 392, an increase of 4,231 in twelve
months. The industrial and mercantile
enterprises of the place keep pace with
its rapidly-growing population.
Among the relics destroyed at the
burning of the Pittsburgh Exposition
building was the sword Of General An
thony Wayne, and relics from old Fort
Duquesne. An original portrait of Alex
ander Hamilton was also DESTROYED.
The German language is taught in
nearly all the white public schools of
St. Louis. The entire number of pupils
who are now studying German is over
10000 or more than half of the whole
number of pupils in all the schools OF
ST. Louis.
England has 1910 square miles
of colonies and possessions beyond the
seas, in extent twice as large as all
Europe, with 210, 200, 600 inhabitants, of
which 200, 000,0 600 are in India, 5.0OO,-
600 in Canada, 100000 in Australia
and / 900, 600 at the Cape.
In the public schools of New Haven,
Conn.,, new course of study called
newspaper geography" has been adopt
ed. This consists of requiring the stu
dent to trace out, on his map places re-
ferred to in news reports of the daily
papers.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has decid-
ed that a divorced wife can testify
against her former husband concerning
facts which occurred during marriage:
provided such knowledge was not ac-
quired by her in conjugal confidence
nor by reason of the marital relations.
Henry Dennis, of Grayson County,
Texas, boasts that he never took dose
OF medicine in his life, never bought a
bushel of corn or a pound of meat; new
er was in court; never owned watch;
never owned or carried pistol, and
never called his wife by name.
William Escott, of London, neglected
his business In order to write and speak
In opposition TO the theory of vacciua-
ton He lost his property, and then
his wife and children, who had never
been vaccinated, took the smallpox and
died. Mr.. Escott very properly went
out and hanged himself.
Incited by Buffalo Bills exhibitions,
Willie Cramp, of Reading Pa. prac-
tised with the laSso. The lasso caught an
empty car of a passing coal train, and
as the rope was wound around his body
he was dragged until, fortunately, the
rope caught at a switch and was brok-
en-.
Irrigation destroys young fish, as has
been proved by III c. Raveret-Watel.
The young fry penetrate suddenly into
the channels, and die when the current
is quickly shut Off