The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-06-28
GLEANINGS.

the Tuileries was coined into medal
and presented to Victor Hugo.
The famous chestnut tree on Mount
Etna measures 210 feet at its base. Its
age is at least 800 years.
The number of persons killed by tor
nadoes in this country in 1881 was 1877;
in 1882. 369, and up to date this year the
number is estimated at $50.
The richest gold mine in the world is
in Transvaal, South Africa. A ton of
ore gives in some cases 1000 Ounces of
metal.
Three factories in the United States
consume nearly 1000. 0o0 eggs year in
ma,>ing a peculiar kind of paper used
by photographers.
''Hey, Rube,' is a slogan of circus
men to call all hands to the rescue when
threatened by mob 1t is only used
when the danger is imminent.
An English correspondent at Gibraltar
telegraphs that slaves are sold publicly
in the streets, few yards from the Eng
fish Legation at Tangier. for from S22
to $40.
The trade of idols is unusually brisk
in Birmingham, England. A thousand
glass gods, which cost 81 cents apiece,
and sell for "a, have just been sent to
Burmah.
In the first three months of this year,
more than 1000 horses were cut up as
beef in Berlin. But no Berliner was
permitted to buy pound of American
pork.
A Mr.. Watson, of Texas, recently
sent from Mexico to New York pair of
Mexican mountain pheasants, a very
rare bird, almost of equal weight with
turkey. They were valued at 800. :
Rev. Robert Court, of Lowell, says:
''It is very characteristic of Boston that
politicians consider ignorance of any
thing whatever something to blush tor,
as # everybody in Boston ought to
know everything that can be known"
Princess Victoria, the second daugh-
ter of the Crown Prince of Germany, is
betrothed to Prince Leopold, the hered-
itary Prince of Anhalt The Princess
is II years old, and the Prince is eleven
years her senior.
As beautiful brunette as is seen in
New York is Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, who
is a native of the upland country near
Washington City. Her husband was
presented to her by John B. Clark, a
family friend.
Keppler, one of the proprietors OF
Puck, who sailed for Europe the other
lay, completely broken down in health,
and his trip is for the sake of much
needed rest. Heis said to be worth over
100000.
Mr.. r. V. Quincy claims that he and
Mr.. Charles H. Mckenzie, both of New
York City, are the only known surviv-
ors in this country of the gallant six hun
dred who made the charge at Balaklava,
October %, 1854.
A canvass of the American trades
show that American apprentices only
predominant in the machine shops and
printing offices. The heightened Ameri-
can boy would rather be ''dude" or a
''masher," than turner, timer or tan
ner.
DR.. Mark Hopkins, in a recent lecture
to the theological students of Princeton
Seminary, is reported to have expressed
his views in regard to evolution very
forcibly, saying that the theory was not
only ''atheistic, but entirely insufficient
to explain in any way the origin of the
human species.
One of the features of Wellesley Col
lege is the attention paid to the physi-
cal culture of the young women who
are pupils. A full y-equipped gymna-
SUM is provided, and under the direc-
ton of competent instructor the pu-
pills are taught the exercises common to
gymnasiums.
fee in Washington, d. c., to pay his bill
had left the memorandum at home, and
the clerk made out another from the
books. 1t amounted to $3.50. The bill
that had been left at his home was for
So. 20. These bills were for the same
house and the same period.
General Lew Wallace writes from Con-
stantinople to a friend in Crawfords-
vile, Ind: Speaking of books, or
rather of writing-good heavens, what
an amazing wealth of material is lying
here, just waiting to be picked up, beg
ging to be used, and to think nobody has
ever touched it except poor old Sir Wal
ter, and he only in his last days of glory"
The story is told of Mrs. Croly (''Jen-
ME June") that she was intrusted by her
mother with her entire Lying. $4,000,
to invest. By the failure of bank the
amount was lost. Mrs. Croly made no
mention of the loss to her mother, but
set to work to replace the sum from her
own earnings, meanwhile regularly pay
ing the interest In several years the
heroic task was completed.
The sobriety of the proposed habili-
ments of the English soldier will be still
further secured by the toning down of
everything bright and metallic about his
accoutrements. The white belt and
haversack and the shining brass buttons
and belt arms will have to undergo a
funeral change. The former will for the
future be of a dingy lumber color, and
the latter will be of bronze instead of
brass. Altogether the British soldier of
the future will in action be more like an
undertaker-which. indeed, in reality
he may be said to be in a commercial
sense--than a warrior bold.
There is reason to apprehend that the
Emperor of the Sandwich Islands, Kala-
kaua l., may soon be an exile from the
land of his fathers. During the present
season a great influx of Chinese has tax
en- place, which, if continued, will soon
cause the race to largely outnumber the
native. Already, 1000 Chinese have
been landed, and five large steamers,
containing in all 6,100 of the almond
eyed Celestials, are on the way, and
have probably ere this time landed their
human freight. The Hawaiian Cabinet
Council have entered protests against
any further exclusively male emigration
from China, but the addition already
made largely increased the comparative
ly small population of the Islands.
Returning home from a dinner party
in St. Petersburg once, Prince Gortscha-
kof missed from the pocket of his over
coat his pocket-book. containing 80, 200
rubles. He at once informed the Chief
OF Police, who assured him that the thief
would quickly be hunted down. Surely
enough, before a week had passed the