The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-11-01
GLEANINGS.

be gayer and more dissipated than ever
the coming winter. The session of
Congress is the long one.
In St Louis justice court the crowd
of spectators became indignant, and
pounded the justice, jury and witnesses
numerically.
The King of Siam beats New York
brokers in trade dollar speculation. He
is buying them at 80 in Singapore, and
making each dollar in two Siamese ticals,
| which pass at 60 cents each.
The Weather Service Bureau of JAPAN
receives reports from twenty-five well
| distributed stations, but, warned by the
awful example at Washington, does not
| yet attempt to make forecasts.
The Fargo Cd. - argus protests
| that that place is an electric lighted CITY
of IL, 900 people, with twenty-eight ho-
| tells, and that it must not flippantly be
| called village.
Governor Butler says they used to
| speak better English in Massachusetts,
years ago than anywhere else on the
globe, and the habit continued until it
was "debauched by the newspapers"
Dr. Dio Lewis having advised that
Americans should retire at 9 and rise az
8, the Hartford Post accuses him of
keeping Americans up till 10 to listen to
him lecture.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, editor and
novelist, is daughter of President
Mapes, the celebrated writer on horti-
culture. She formerly lived in Newark,
but is now resident of New York
Mrs. A. B. Churchill, of Montgomery.
Ala, has the original copy of the Con-
stitution of the Confederate States. the
first communication ever addressed to
the Congress by President Davis and
the first bond for $50 issued by the Con-
federacy.
A Denver wife grew very sick and the
doctors said she must die. Her young
and pretty nurse told the patient that
she had been elected to succeed her in her
husbands affections. The sick woman
was so angry that she got well. She
and her husband still live together. but
never speak as they pass by
At an entertainment held recently in
London, it is said that the Princess of
Wales wore the plainest dress of any of
the ladies present. She displayed ex-
cellent good sense. 1t doesn't look well
for wife to be sloshing around in fine
clothes. with her husband So. 600, 600 in
debt.-RocheSter Post-E4preSs.
AT a reception rendered General Sher-
man In San francisco he said in his
bluff way that when he first knew the
city 1t was the most forbidding, God
forsaken place between Cape Horn and
the North Pole, and that he would not
have given % cents for the whole place,
or for the inhabitants either.
An Oxfordshire (England) baronet
has left his estate to his confidential
valet, who has lived in his service from
boyhood. The baronet, hot-tempered
man, in early life struck and killed
servant. The valet, then page boy,
was the only yerson that saw the deed
done. He testified strongly in his mas
ter's favor, and remained in his service
until his death.
The latest addition to the geological
| collection of the Jardin d 'Acclimatation
of Paris is ''an entire tribe of Kalmucks
from the Caspian, consisting of nine
men, eight women, four children, eigh-
teen camels, fifteen mares and ten
sheep" The composition of the tribe
is somewhat miscellaneous, but it is
noticeable that it differs from MANY
other tribes in containing no donkeys.
Louisiana boys take young mocking
birds just before they can fly and sell
them to New Orleans Creoles for 10 or
Is cents apiece. The Creoles sell them
to German or Italian retail dealers for
so cents, and the dealers, mainly ped
dlers, receive 50 and 81 for them in the
North. The peddlers say that rich peo-
pie do not buy birds; they prefer dogs.
Sir Thomas Wade, after residence
/ of upward of twenty years in Peking,
believes its population to be less than
half million and French physician,
who has made systematic observations,
estimates it at 400, ,000 Yet the geog-
raphy books give it at 100000. At
| the junction of the Han River with the
YangtsZe are two cities, Han-yang-fu
| and Wu-chang-fu, and an enormous per-
| petual fair, Hankow. The population
of these has been set down at 3, 600, 900,
| but from visit to the spot Sir L. Ward
| estimates it at about half q million.
Ezekiel Smith, of Maine, was arrested
and taken before magistrate, charged
| with having beaten his wife and pulled
out a handful of her hair the preceding
night The hair was exhibited. The
accused claimed that the charge against
him was malicious exaggeration of a
little family rumpus. ''Why, | never
| pulled all that hair out of her head at
| once. yer honor" he exclaimed. .'She
| must have been saving it up from diff
| ferent times when we've had little
trouble-at least for a month past 1t
| took five or six scrimmages to gather
| that much hair"
| In the water of Salt Lake a batber
can lie on the surface of the water with
out any exertion whatever, or by passing
| a towel under his knees and holding the
two ends, he can remain ip any depth
OF water kneeling, with the head and
shoulders out of the water, or by shift
ing 1t under the sole of tie feet he can
sit on the water. The one exertion, in
fact, is to keep ones balance; none
whatever is required to keep afloat.
| The only danger, therefore, arises from
choking by accidentally swallowing
| some of the water. for the strength of
the brine is so intense that the muscles
of the throat are conVulsed, and strap o.
ulation ensues. All the same, I have
myself dived several times in Salt Lake
and have survived.
Canada thistles may be ea1sily got rid
of by the following simrie treatment:
First tramp the plar.t to the ground,
brulsing 1t as mucn as possible. then
put Immediately over the roots a hand
ful OF common salt. At the end of ten
days repeat the dose to Kill the young
sprouts, This generally kills. OF
course, this method may not be the best
to use on large farm, but for the yard.
| garden, or orchard it is about as easy
| and effective as any other.
| WANT OF FAITH.-H Emil Fischel or
F. @. Buerstatte the druggists do not
succeed it is not for the want of faith.
| They have such faith in DIR. Bosanko's q
| Cough and Lung Syrup as q remedy for