The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-05-03
GLEANINGS.

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speaks Spanish, French and English
with equal fiuency and ease.
Russians drink their tea from glass
! cups. They love TO see as well as to
| feel the amber liquid.
A Boston firm recently shipped lot
of base balls to the students of Roberts
College at ConStantinople.
The Cincinnati Gazette has had to paw
| 50 on libel suit for $4,000. 1t is this
sort OF thing that keeps newspapers
| poor.
The Sultan says he has got tired OF
purchasing goods of Europeans. They
are dishonest. He is going to try his
luck among the Yankees.
West Point cadet begins with
the same pay which a Prussian cap
tam receives after twenty years of SER
! vice.
Gortschakoff, who was q great lin
| guist, once said, in reply to remark
relative to his power to keep State Sc
crets, that he knew how to hold his
tongue in six languages.
A Seventeen year old boy named al
| den, of Gaines, Mich, has been sent TO
the reform school for ninety days for
| cutting off few curlS from the head of
little Miss Foster, aged thirteen.
1t is estimated that Florida's ciga,
product this year will be about double
that of 1862. In that year, 1852, ,875
cigars were manufactured, upon which
tax was paid of 3251, 1925
Russia, Norway and Austria have each
third of their surface forest; Sweden.
Hungary and Germany fourth: Italy
and Switzerland fifth; France and
Belgium sixth.
The Swedish Government has granted
a sum of $500 for this year to an entom-
ologist, whose duty it will be to advise
farmers as to the best means of DESTROY
ing injurious insects.
At a recent execution in Japan it took
thirteen strokes of the sword to decapi-
tate the criminal. The edge of the in
strument had been purposely dulled, in
order to make the death agony as great
as possible.
Mechanics who desire to produce a
deep brilliant black upon iron and steel
may try the following recipe: Apply
with fine hair brush mixture of tnr-
pentine and sulphur which had been
boiled together
Louise Michel, the French female
Communist, has heavy, massive brow,
dark eyes, over which arch thick black
brows, long, masculine nose, beneath
which is a very large, somewhat repul-
sive mouth, and short, but very promi-
nent and angular chin. 1t is not an at
tractive countenance.
Wendell Phillips wife has been an in
valid for over thirty years, and during
all this time the great orator has been
untlrlng in his attention to her mo
one but you can know what it has been
tC care for her." was remarked to him
recently. ''Ah! No one but me knows
how good she is,' was his heartsome
answer.
A powerful scandal concerning the
late Prince Gortschakoff is that he left
mistress professionally named Lima
Braun, but who is no other than Jim
Fisk's old pet, Josie Mansfield. Lima,
or Josie, whoever she is, has begun suit
against the Princes heirs for $4,000
marks year, which, she claims, the
Prince promised her.
Mrs. Caleb Woods, of Cambridgeport.
has given $50, 900 to the Stearns Chapel
Society of that city for new church
building on condition that it be called
the Woods Memorial, in memory of her
deceased husband. She at one time of
fered the city $50, 900 for a hospital on
the same condition, and she has made
many donations to private and public
charities and enterprises
About 5000 men are now employed
bnD Ar
work done has been temporary, but dig
glng upon the canal has now fairly com
menced, as has dredging on the Atlantic
end. The company is now expending
about $500, 900 monthly on this Isthmus,
and about as much more for machinery
and supplies.
In relation to wide tires for wagon
wheels, Mr.. Whitcomb, of Battle Creek,
Mich, diseourses thus: .'If we con.
struct and nicely grade a road to-day,
and then put on an engine of destruc-
ton, it would be no more destructive
than the fact of our practice The mar
row tires of our wagons cut UP and de-
stroy roads as fast as they can be made,
while slight covering of gravel will
become compact by the passing of a
wide tire
A letter from Chill says: Sometimes
you would see not unattractive Indian
woman with child tied to a board and
carried on her back. They say prop
eriy-trained Indian baby in Chill never
howls; the reason is that at its first at
tempt the mother suppresses the out-
burst by taking the nose between her
forefinger and thumb and holding her
palm over its mouth They cannot cry
without bursting, and soon learn that
discretion IS the better part of valor''
An advertiser in the Vienna Neue
Fret Presse announced his want of ga
man without encumbrance, of middle
age, willing TO travel; must be mis-
anthrope, with bitter experiences of the
wickedness OF mankind; pay and posi-
ton good; everything found" A vast
number of misanthropes responded, so
many, in fact, that the advertiser had to
hire secretary to deal with them.
Probably the largest mass of rock
that has ever been transported. not ex-
cepting even the block in the Egyptian
Pyramids, was that from which was cut
the pedestal of the statue of Peter the
Great, in St. Petersburg 1t was block
of granite weighing 100000 pounds.
or about 1,500 tons, and was found iso-
lated on marshy ground, about four
miles from the Neva It's shape was
that of an irregular prism, about "a feet
high, A feet long, and 80 feet broad in
its LARGEST dimensions
CATARRH causes throat and lung diff
euties. The positive remedy for Ca
tarrh, Hay Fever. and Cold in head is
Elys' Cream Balm, Price 80 cents.
Apply into nostrils with little finger.
/ HAVE been troubled with Catarrh for
fifteen years. Elys' Cream Balm has
opened my nostrils and reduced the
inflammation. My eyes are improving,
SO that | can stand strong light, which /
have not been able to do for wears.
NATHANIEL FEGLEY, with E. F. Monfz.
Merchant, Wiikesbarre Pa.