The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-01-04
GLEANTNGS.

iuctio of wool after the first year.
William Schroeder drank ten whisky
cocktails in five minutes to win wager
at Denver, and his life was only saved
by the use of a stomach pump and gall
vanic battery
A New York pastor who is given to
bursts of figurative eloquence says that
this country is bounded on the north
by an iceberg and on the south by
banana"
A solicitor in England has obtained q
verdict of $4,000 against a town as
compensation for personal injury caused
by drinking impure water supplied by
the corporation.
"a kiss from my mother made me q
painter" said Benjamin West, after he
had won fame and hung his pictures in
royal academies. When she looked at
his first boyish sketch she praised it.
A school girl of Skowhegan, Me-, who
was whipped for not telling what case
followed transitive verb or preposi-
ton, brought suit against her prosecutor
and was awarded $500 damages.
Horseshoes made of three thicknesses
of green rawhide compressed in steel
mold are used to some extent in Eng
land. They weigh about quarter as
much as an iron shoe, and are said to
wear longer.
At the time of his death, which hap
pened last month in California, Daniel
Murphy was the largest land owner in
the world. He owned 100000 acres in
Nevada and 100000 acres in the State
of Durango, Mexico.
There are in San Francisco four pala-
tial houses worth together more than
S3,000,000. Their owners, Ex-Governor
Stanford, Charles Crocker, Mrs. Mark
Hopkins and Eir. Cotton, represent
about $1S0,000,000. The magnificent
structures stand unoccupied about ten
months of each year.
Mrs. Banning, of Dunlapville, Ind,
ran away from her home and husband
and left behind her note saying: Hire
girl and stay with pa this winter and
always, if you can. | left some Canton
flannel. Get some one TO make the girls
some underwear. Don't think / went
away with any one, as ] went alone.
Don't let aunt live with you"
If Mrs Langtrv is to set us some fash
ions. simplicity bids fair to be charac-
teristic. But if simplicity is to prevail
in her toilets, perhaps she will not be
generally followed, for we have not all
her very good reason for it. But there
are as many pretty women who dress
more than they need as there are plain
women who must dress to be attractive.
Probably the smallest and Youngest
sea lion in captivity is the one now in the
geological garden i'll Philadelphia, Pa.
He is only 8 weeks old. When about 4
weeks Old, he appeared one morning
with a glossy coat of grease. kUp -
that time his. coat of nair was rather
tough and non-repellant, and not at All
calculated to shed water. The mother
is teaching him to swim.
In Homer Brolson's garden, in Wa
terbury, Conn, was buried the arm he
lost last August, He complained that
the arm felt tired and cramped, but he
experienced instant relief when. with
out his knowledge, the arm was ex-
humed and reinterred in a different
position. Three times the severed limb
has been moved to give relief to the suf.
ferer, and each time successfully.
The following from the Denver Ts,
6on'e is entitled to the entire bakerr and
all its contents: Bill Nuckells. = nros-
pector, fell down prospec. shaft fort,
ieet deep, right into a. nest of black
snakes. Most men would have died of
fright, but Nuckells was not that sort of
a man. He tied several of the snakes
and started them up the side of
the shaft, tying on fresh snake as fast
as the rest went up. Pretty soon the
head OF the snakes got over the edge
and started down hill. Nuckells kent
tying on fresh reptiles until he had used
up couple of hundred-every snake
there was in the shaft. BY this time the
crowd of snakes on the outside was
strong enough to pull him out of the
shaft, and he soon reached Mad ranch.
safe and sound.
A negro at Louisville could not be
placed under the influence of ether a,od
an@sthetics when physicians desired to
perform surgical operation uron him.
and so one of the doctors T,,esmerized
him and kept him under nesmeric in
fiuence for two hours, or runtil the opera
ton was over. When the patient was
aroused he stated that he had all the
time been conscious of what was going
on. but had felt no pain.
English authorities state that YOUTH
ful damsel makes use of polarblue pa
per, with lily thereon inscribed. for
eplstoiary purposes. Engaged people
adopt orange flowers as a fitting en-
blem for their writing paper from the
moment of betrothal to that of mar
riage. Sporting characters are natural
ly lavish of horse-shoes and jockey
caps, even where billetdoux are con-
cerned. A successful menage proclaims
its happiness to the world by choosing
two partridges contentedly sitting side
by side on the tuft of greensward, as
the description OF tne family note paper.
At Warstewstein, near Casselin, Ger
many, is library which is said to con
tain q curious collection of books. AT
the first glance one would take these
books to be mere logs of wood, but in
vestigation shows that each volume is
really a complete history of the trees
which it represents. The,5ack is the
bark, in which a small place is cut to
write the scientific and common names
as a title. One side shows the tree
trunk in its natural state and the other
is vanished or polished. Inside are
shown the leaves, fruit. fiber and the in
sect and other parasites which prey up
on it, and full description of its pro-
ducts. ETC., is added.
Salt lagoons are met with in several
places in Apacha county, Arizona, the
principal one being near the line of
New Mexico. About one million pounds
are taken yearly from this lake, and
with proper facilities it could be made
to produce an almost unlimited supply.
The salG is precipitated to the bottom
of the lake, wagons are driven into shall
low water, and the crystals, shoveledin.
Thus the supply for cattle-raisers in
Apache and portions Of Yavapsi is OBJ
tanned, in addition to the large quanti-
ties required for the working of silver
ores.
Ex-President Woolsey is reported as
having said: "When l was President Of
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