The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-04-12
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The Rochester Erpress calls for a new
coin, value 6 c.nts, for the convenience
of newspaper men sued for libel.
The prospects of a large orange crop
this year in Florida is very fiatterin9.
Judging from the profusion of bloom.
An immense amount of railroad
buildings is said to be in progress in
South America.
The Paris Academy of Medicine offers
reward of $1,000 for real cure fo,
diphtleria.
1t Is predicted that the emigration
from Great Britain to the United States
will be greater this year than ever be-
fore.
1t Is mean boy. who will catch
lot OF sparrows, paint them blue, and
then set them free in order to fool peo-
pie into thinking that Spring has come.
/. W. Pond used to be worth 81, ,OOO..
600 and own car-shops at Worcester.
He is now working in those shops at 81
per day.
compositor who has travelled all
over the United States thinks that the
bad manuscript of ministers has in
creased the number of patients in luna
tic asylums.
correspondent of the New England
Farmer says that where the land is new
and rich in mineral elements there need
be no fear of black knot in plum and
cherry trees.
The editor OF Sacramento paper was
such bad penman and so annoyed the
compositors with his microscopic hand
that the entire force of the composing
room joined in an elegant drunk
when he left for new field of labor.
There is to be a pension list at last.
Under a resolution by Senator Beck the
Census Bureau will prepare list of the
pensioners in the United States. 1t is
stated that this list will occupy eight
volumes, of over 800 pages.
Fulton county, Pennsylvania, has no
railroads, no county bridges, no aims
house, no distilleries, and no county
debt. The people ought to move out in
to the world. They do not know how
much fun they are missing.
There is negro boy in Macon, Ga,
with legs like whipstocks. He has
'snaky-looking eyes and darts ont his
tongue like viper. He lies on his
stomach, wiggles his legs and has spots
on his back
DR.. Blockwood, in paper on minor
dyspepsia, read before the Philadelphia
Medical Society, states that a good deal
of the malaria so fashionable with the
fraternity and the laity is only one of
the forms of indigestion.
The tunnel under the English Channel
has been finished to mile and quar-
ter from the French shore, and the
engineers say they can advance 132 feet
day. AT this rate the tunnel could be
completed to Dover in a year and half.
A Columbus paper says the model OF
the Garfield statue which Ohio is to have
made by a Cincinnati worker for the
national gallery represents the President
as bow-legged, sway-backed and stoop-
shouldered, and doubts whether the
state will accept it.
During 1882 the murders committed
in the United States averaged two a
day, while the executions averaged only
two week. There were in the year
PIP murders and ffty-three executions
in the south. New York state had 131
murders and only four executions.
A suburban plumber, when called on
to stop leak in a pipe, puts q dried
apple in the hole. 1t swells in twenty
four hours, and then there is another
burst. A rival is then, of course, called
in, and they divide the bill of expenses
between them.
A tiendish colored woman of Wash
ington arose from the bed in which she
mad been only few hours before de-
livered of child, and calmly held her
offspring over bed of Goals until life
was extinct, and the babe was so char
red as TO be almost unrecognizable as
human being.
One of the substantial farmers of
Sparta, Ga, when he was married,
twelve years ago, had to borrow money
to pay for his marriage license, and,
not having a decent suit of clothes, the
young woman whom he was to marry.
tore the wool from sheepskins, spun,
wove and made him suit of clothes.
A man in Denver has recently had an
experience which, in all probability, he
will never again undergo. He, with the
corpse of a dead friend leaning against
him as he sat in the same seat with him
drove eighteen miles, from Plum Greek
Bluffs TO Denver, the nearest point
where an undertaken could be found.
A new style of begging has been intro
dUced by Pittsburg woman, who goes
from restaurant to restaurant and from
saloon to saloon, trying to sell her child
for 81. The persons to whom she APP
peals naturally think her in great dis
tress and give her money, but refuse to
take the child.
Ex-Secretary Eyarts turns his delicate,
thin-soled boots out when be walks: he
holds his hand against his thin overcoat
rs if he would aid the buttons in hold
ing it together; his hat rests on the back
of his head, but not as far as Charles
O'Conor's famous hat; and he walks as
spryly as man of %.
In return for the autographs which
Senator Tabor so industriouslv collect
ed, the thirty-days' senator gave to each
of his colleagues 3 unique present. This
was an after-wedding card, bound with
heavy band of Colorado silver, and
costing $3.50 each.
Mr. Edward Atkinson, illustrating the
advantage of machinery, says it would
require sixteen million persons, using
the spinning-wheel and hand-loom os
less than century ago, to make the
cotton cloth used by our people, which
IS now manufactured by one hundred
and sixty thousand
Michael Loeman, the Australian
millionaire, who. it was said, had left a
fortune to little Tommy Loeman, cash
boy at Jordon, Marsh & Co.'S Boston
establishment, and his sister. has writ
ten letter to friends in Boston, in
which he says that the published sketch
of his career and of his intentions is
misleading and untrue.
The prevailing terror in Brit .sn India
Is not policemen nor commC nists. Mrs.
Lydia Pinkham's Likeness. nor 1O-cent
elevated 1ares, nor yet Wiggins, but
snakes: In 1881 SHAKES are reported to
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