The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-15
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Algeria and srectroscopic observations
indicate an atmosphere on the planet.
There are now only two Chinese
children in New York; two have recent
ly died.
The Prince of Wales has at Sandring-
ham los short-horn cows and twenty
nine short-hern bulls, which are kept in
two distinct herds.
The general agent of the Prison Asso-
citation of New York states that the
rlost prolific source of crime among
young men and boys is the game of pool
for drinks.
The blade of the sword of the gigantic
statue of ''Germania,n to be placed at
Niederwald, near the Rhine, weighs q
ton. The total amount of metal in the
statue is forty-five tons.
The French are shrewd business
people, yet, strange to say, do not be-
Eeve in newspaper advertising Even
the papers of largest circulation have
very few advertisements.
Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby crisply SAYS:
1.-The man who uses his pulpit to gain
applause and provoke mirth is merely
Snowman, and unworthy of his posi-
ton"
1t is notable that many adopted child
rem never adopt as parents those who
have befriended them. People in middle
age, and when old, are more thoughtful
and generous than the young.
Colonel King, of Governor Cleveland's
staff, thinks that not more that IL 900
New York National Guardsmen could
be mustered promptly in an emergency,
although the entire force in the state is
1882 men.
Attorney General Brewster is pro-
nounced epicure, and gives very choice
little dinners to chosen few He has
quite gastronomic library and also q
large collection of menus representing
notable banquets.
Every year an increasing number of
Congressman find that their election
does not entitle them to recognition in
that circle of society whichis constantly
becoming '.less Congressional and
more aristocraticn in Washington.
Since the Milwaukee fire patents for
nineteen new life-saving inventions for
use at hotel fires have been applied for
at Washington. Most of them are
novel, many ingenious, and few, pos
sibly, will prove useful.
Human skeletons are now imported
into this country from abroad Ii stands
to reason that they are pauperized COM
petltors against our home made prod
ucts. But no one has proposed to have
ther1 placed on the duty list of the new
tariff bill.
The latest wrinkle of fashionable ar
chitecture is sitting-room exclusively
for the daughters of the family. 1t is
thought to foster a love for domestic
life, and furnishes retreat where soli-
tude can be found for study, music and
painting.
The plant of the Standard Oil
Company, says Mr.. John G.. Welch, is
now newspapers, pipelines, storage
tanks, oil country, and Western refin-
cries, trunk pipelines, oil-cars, refined
oil depots. seaboard refner.es, capital
lied at over 500, 100000.
A believer in the Mosaic account re-
ferring to the theory that men are only
developed monkeys, saws: ''If the doc
trine OF evolution is true, why was it not
as easily to evolve man as a monkey,
at the start, and a much more practical
and economical way of reaching the
same result?"
A new invention has just been patent
ed in Germany to still further interfere
with the burglars labors. In the neigh
borhood of safe an apparatus is placed
which, on being touched, Immediately
starts an electric light, and at the same
ala
which the burglar photograph is taken
while an alarm is sounded.
Mrs. Mcdonald broke her legs so
badly while alone in her house at Min
eral Point, Wis, that she could not
make her way out. She lay helpless
for whole day, and had prospect of
starving when q neighbor's dog strayed
IN. She caught him, tied note to his
tail, and sent him home. He brough,
assistance.
The stock Of ivory in London is esti-
mated at about forty tons in dealers
private warehouses, whereas formerly
they usually held about 100 tons. One.
fourth of all imported into England goes
to the Sheffield cutters. No really sat
lsfactory substitute for ivory has been
found, and millions await the discovere1
OF one. The existing substitutes won't
take the needed polish.
The Haverhill Gazette tells a good
story at the expense of the President OF
Tufts College. This learned divine was
recently made happy father, and the
following morning at prayer in the
chapel he introduced this rather ambio-
uous sentence: "And we thank thee.
o Lord, for the succor thou hast given
us, which caused general smile to
creep over the face of the class.
There are four ladies now living in
Cincinnati, each of whom has locks of
hair cut from the head of the Prince of
Wales, while ne was VISITING that city in
1853. There was great deal of anxi-
ETY. TO obtain relics of this Prince. and
the enterprising barber who shaved the
royal head netted some $40 over and
above the $40 he was paid by the Prince.
The practice among many German
peasants OF making their property over
to their children is having most dia-
bolical effect. In order to escape the
care of their parents and to secure the
property all to themselves, children en-
gage in the most unnatural crime of
parrlclde. 1t has so Increased of late
that the Governors of some of the
districts in Germany have issued adj
dresses advising the peasants to retain
their property till they are through with
it.
MIR. and Mrs. Lake fell into intemper-
ate habits in Providence, lost their
social position, and sank so low as TO be-
frequently arrested for drunkenness.
The man at length conquered his appe-
tite, and lived soberly for. several
months. The woman determined to do
likewise, but one night she declared she
could stand total abstinence no LONGER.
and started off for spree, regardless Of
her husbands protest Next morning
she was found frozen to death in the
road, with an empty bottle in her grip.
Two brothers in Georgia were mar
red on the same day, have each six