The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-02-01
GLEANINGS.


asked this winter to forbid the sale of
tobacco to minors.
A German has invented an electrical
threshing machine which makes 1,4o0
revolutions each minute, and also lights
up its entire vicinity.
A boy under arrest in Wheeling,
West Va, on the charge of incendia-
rism, curiously enough bears the name
of Hotfire.
All the alleys in Gunnison City are to
be named after heathen gods, and
when the gods give out the goddesses
will come in for share of the honor.
1t is estimated that more than 500
bricks have been carried away as relics
from the ruins of the Centennial build
ings in Philadelphia.
The female Secretary of the Mime
apolis Society for the p. of c. to A. was
recently arrested for assaulting and bat
tering twelye-year-old girl whom she
saw boxing disobedient dogs ears.
That immensity of head is not ALWAYS
indicative of vastness of brain is proved
by the fact that st. Louis policeman
has head so large that he must have
all his hats made to order.
A plaintiff in a suit in London
court, to prove his ability as sculptor,
executed bust in the room adjoining
the court, and offered that bust, togeth-
er with the original, in evidence. He
established his reputation.
Pearl fishing is pursued by about l.
600 divers on the coast of Lower Cali
fornia. The pearl oysters are found
from one to six miles from shore, in
water from one to twenty fathoms deep.
The yearly product is about S5O0,OO0
A church in Bavaria. accommodate
ing LOCO people, has been almost en-
tirely built of papier mache, which can
be supplied at cost little above that of
plaster. 1t can be made to initiate the
finest marble, as it takes a polish su-
perior to slate.
Miss Yates, who is trying to induce
reforms concerning workmen's food, is
sustained by high authority when she
says that dogs fed on white bread die
at the end of forty days, while they
thrive and flourish on bread made of
whole meal.
Or. Morell Mackenzie, distinguish
ed London physician, prefaced recent
lecture at London medical college by
remarking that he thought the DAYS for
teaching by means of lectures were
passed, except for clinics, now that
books are easily accessible.
Joe Howard, who knows a thing or
two about the New York papers, 'un-
derStands" that the Herald cleared
So50,0 600 in 1882, that the sam has paid
lo per cent each month on its capital of
$500, 900, and that the Times nets $780,
900. Others, he says, have done well,
and some others haven't.
A few days ago James CresweI was
arrested in Texas for murder COM
mitted thirteen years ago. He had in
all those years safely eluded detection.
and had come to think his identity de-
stroyed. A boldness based upon his
belief in human forgetfulness
was the cause of his capture at last.
The general worthlessness of Wash
lngton's police force has forced the cit
liens to seek other means of protection.
AT recent meeting an ex-detective of
the municipal force openly charged that
several patrolmen and detectives were
accustomed to divide plumber with bur-
glars.
The new code of New York makes
an assault upon q policeman q felony,
punishable by Imprisonment for not
less than two nor more than five years
and a fine rot exceeding 81, 900, or both.
1t was disagreeably brought to the no.
tice of prisoner a few days ago after
he had resisted a policeman and torn
his clothing.
The Hungarians employed as labor
ers on the railroads near Elmira, n. Y,
have beautiful custom that they are
thought to have brought with them
from the old country. When they wash,
which, to Judge by their appearance, is
about once per month, they fill their
mouths with water, spit that water into
their hands and rub it over their greasy
faces.
Sir Archibald Alison, the English his
torlan, has just issued his autobio-
graphy. In it he extols the Confeder-
ate Commissioner Mason as singular
ly intelligent and agreeable man. He
devotes pages to Stonewall Jackson,
who, Mason told him, formed his STRAIT
egy from Alison's recreative campaigns
of the Archduke Charles in 1897, and
OF Napoleon in 1914.
Mr.. Millais has recently completed q
new painting, Pomona" which is said
to be one of his most perfect represen-
tatiors of childhood. The subject is o
dainty maiden OF years, with rosy
cheeks and golden hair, in mob-cap,
white dress and blue sash. In her little
wagon she has been wheeling load of
rnddy apples, and has stopped to rest at
the moment chosen by the artist.
Likea realistic drama is the history of
a poor young Brooklyn girl who several
years ago was induced, partlyIby thesua-
sion of n sorceress, to unite herself in
to ayoung man who Represent
ed himself to be the son of ricn and
naughty merchant. Aftertwo wears the
husband was sent to the penitentiary for
pocket-picking, and now the foolish
young girl has been freed by divorce
from her irksome hymeneal bonds.
A family of immigrants redched New
I ork few days since, on their way to
visit the residence of sister, who had
written to them that she was now rich
and living in luxury, and who begged
them to come to America. When the
eager group reached the town to which
hey We're directed twas found that the
sister was patient in the asylum. and
ieluded with the idea that she was
wealthy beyond estimate.
The city of Wheeling, West Virginia.
5 an important centre of furniture max,
ng, and has five or six large factories.
employing great number of workmen.
The business is steadily growing, as the
upply of some of the best walnut and
poplar timber in the Union is large and
rear at hand, the price being conse-
luently very low. A large business j.
lone within radius of 100 miles of the
:ity in cutting logs and shipping them
q Europe.
The rapid growth of new towns ~.
he frontier is Illustrated in the casa nf
colorado City, Texas. Two wears 80 81 ~