The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-09-13
GLEANINGs.

InaL STATE mas spent rol,O2f no tOT IL
public schools in the last ten years.
According to the Boston Herald's sta
tistician, that city has n population o.
$50, 600, with 240 dentists, who have T..
200. 900 teeth, or an average of $4,000
to look after.
A lady travels for furniture estab.
lishment in New York and makes Z
good income Her husband was in the
employ of Che same concern, and upon
his death she solicited the situation and
gotit.
A Boston woman has hired orators
for series of lectures to boys and girls,
in the old South Church, having fol
their object nothing else than to ''excite
in the minds of the young the proper
love of freedom, of their country and
their city"
The wood pavement is to be given up
in London. 1t has not only failed to
realize the promised advantages, but
has led, according to Professor Tyn.
dali report, to serious affections of the
eyes and lungs.
Of 400 white shoemakers in San Fran
cisco nearly one-third are Germans.
Very few are English or native Ameri
cans. Germans are said to like the
craft, because the princes of the Father
land, who have to learn some trade,
prefer to serve apprenticeship either al
shoemaking of book-binding.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has
decided, in reviewing the proceedings
in murder case, that the mere fact Of
a man having read newspaper accounts
of crime, and having an opinion
therefrom, but one which could be re-
moved by the evidence, does not neces
sarilly render him incompetent to serve
on juries.
1t is to be observed as a feature of the
census that the number of people whose
ages are represented by even tens is
greatly in excess of the number repre-.
sented as of other ages. The number
who are of ages that are multiples Of
five is also large by comparison, and
there are more people whose ages APP.
pear as even numbers than odd.
Kate Field says: ''The way women
travel with miserable little bulldogs
fills me with amazement. Men don't
ano when | think of the pamperine
these creatures get, and what nuisance
they are to travellers, and how the same
amount of care bestowed upon children
would result in untold benefit to man.
kind, l become cynical. The affection
upon poodles would, if properly dis
tributed, supply poor orphans with
homes"
When John S. Barry was Governor Of
the State of Michigan there was about
an acre of ground around the capitol
building upon which the grass had been
allowed to 60 to seed every year. Gov.
Barry took great pains to have the
grass cut at the proper time, and wher
properly cured he sold the hay and put
the money in the State Treasury. There
was only half dollar in the State
Treasury when Barry took the chair
and it was bogus coin.
Captain Ericsson is widower and
childless. He is now Just 80 years Of
age, and, if there is anything in appear.
ance, he looks good for 80 more. Hi:
children, if one may so call them, are
his inventions, and this last child, the
Destroyer, is to be put to the severes
tests at once. Its father believes thai
ten of his offspring in the bay would
protect the whole of New York from the
largest invading force that could be go
together.
Man, born of woman, is of few dayi
and no teeth. And, indeed, it would b.
money in his pocket sometimes if he
had less of either. AS for his days, hi
wasteth one third of them; and for MS
teeth, he has commissions when he cut
them, and as the last comes through
10, the dentist is twisting the first on,
out, and the last one of that mans jaw
is worse than the first, being full of por
celaln and roof-plate built to holC
blackberry seeds.-R0bert j. Burdette
George o. Herman, of Newport, ha
just finished a wonderful clock, afte
LOO hours labor. The clock has on,
movement which runs nine dials, in
Guiding the time at Newport, New Yorl
st. Petersburg, San Francisco, Boston
Geneva, Mecca, Rome and London
The mechanism is very intricate, anC
the works of each dial can be removed
without disturbing the others. Thu
woodwork is carved to represent tn,
order of the Odd Fellows.
A very pretty little story is being
printed in some of the newspapers, tell
ing that General Jubal Early picked u,
from the field of Manassas tinv blue
eyed girl whose parents had both beer
killed in trying to escape from theil
house during the progress of the fight
and that this ''waif of the battlefield il
now the sole support of General Ear
ley's two aged sisters, who cared fo
her and brought her up. There is not
word of truth in the romantic story
General Early says.
Thirty eight years ago Louis Weber
a native of Wurtemberg, emigrated t.
America and settled as a farmer in Ken
lucky. Lately, having amassed com
potency, he started for his native place
intending to visit his sister, who was tn,
only surviving member of his family
and who had not seen him since he lef
home in his youth. He hoped to civ,
her q joyful surprise, and looked FORWARD
with pleasant anticipation to the reun
ion. On arriving at his native village
he learned that his sister had two dav
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ned him. He was taken sick, and +,
week after his sisters death was laid il
a grave beside hers.
There is woman in San Francisco
according to the Washington Capital
who is creating considerable interest il
aristocratic circles. She is worth sew
eral million dollars in her own name
owns house in Paris, plays billiard.
like master. is crack shot, swim:
and rows like Sandwich Islander, anC
has half dozen aristocratic lovers il
different parts of the world. An Eng
glish Lord became infatuated with hel
while on visit to San Francisco two
years ago. The strangest thing is tha
her husband is well-known citizen
and he is one of the quietest, thriftiest
most influential men on the coast. HI
thinks his wife perfection because sht
wears No. l shoe and is good to III.
poor. Exchange.
The manner in which Barnum frs
introduced ION Thumb was ingenious
The Snowman had = large pocket mad.
in his coat, and at certain hour ever,
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