The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-01-11
Manitoruoe pilot.
THURSDAY, JANUARY IL, 1882.
GLEANIEGS.

been Herbert Spencer's chief food while
in the United States.
The King of Spain isreported to have
relieved his mothers heavy embar.ass-
ments only on condition that she will not
return to Paris.
Gov. Blackburn, of Kentucky, has thus
far, it is said, pardoned every man con-
victed in that state for carrying conceal
ed weapons.
Building operations in St. Augustine,
Fla, are unaccountably active, nearly
everyone being engaged in putting up
new houses or altering old ones.
The new Bey of Tunis is described
ga short-legged, obese, little man, near
sighted and deaf" who, when he de-
sires to review the troops on horseback,
must be lifted into the saddle.
A foreigner on German line, whose
hat had been blown off, pulled the string
and stopped the train. On reaching
Konigsberg he was sent to jail in default
of SO.
In Naples are dug annually 365 buri-
al pits, one for each day in the year.
Daily the pauper dead are gathered by
the city authorities and thrown into the
pit opened for the days use.
The London Lancet SAYS that people
who sneeze often are the healthiest.-
A sneeze sets the blood circulating, and
throws of cold which is trying to
settle.
Two years ago Wesson, Miss, was a
pine forest. 1t now has $500 inhabi-
tants. cotton-mill which employs one
thousand hands, and several smaller
factories.
The London Diapers journal says
that there is scarcely a better market for
lace, rich silks, ETC., than Greece; but
some economical Athenian ladies have
now formed a league to wear woolens
instead of silks.
While blowing near Montgomery,
Ala, a negro unearthed pot contain
ing several hundred dollars in gold
Such occurrences are calculated to en-
courage the habit of industry in the col
ored race
The Texas and Pacific machine-shops
at Marshall, Tex, contain q working
force of about six hundred men-the
largest it is said, of any similar institu-
ton in the south. The monthly payroll
is nearly 100000.
Ostriches are worth 81, 400 each, and
there is a duty Of 20 per cent. on their
feathers. A man from Buenos Ayres
has just brought twenty-five of the birds
to this country and will establish farm
in the south.
A Charlottesville, Va, printer has ac-
complished the feat of putting 2, ASP leg
ible words on postal-card with lead
pencil, reserving in the center of the
card q circle the size of gold dollar,
in which is inscribed the Lords prayer.
The recent fashion among surgeons
of employing kangaroo tendons for liga-
lures is said to be giving way to the
superior excellence of the sciatic nerve
of the calf which is now used for that
purpose.
A little girl of Glendale, Mo-. has re-
ceived pass good for life on the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad. Seeing two
trains approaching each other on a
curve, she stopped one by frantically
waving her apron, thus averting dis
aster.
To many Americans the magic word
imported coming from salesman s
mouth is sufficient to cause them to
choose the foreign article in preference
to en- American article of equal merit
which could be obtained for two-thirds
the price.
a Hartford clergyman, the Rev. M.
ID. Buell., has been preaching against the
evils of cigarette smoking. He took for
his text the passage, Behold how great
a matter little fire kindleth," and, to
illustrate his discourse, exhibited and
disSected mammoth cigarette.
A work on the diseases of elephants is
being written. Their more prominent
affections are stated to be meningitis,
apopleXy, vomiting, collie, enteritis,
h9maturia, tetanus or lockjaw, pneu-
monia, anthrax, and foot and mouth
disease
1t is rather worthy of note that Lon
don paper appiauds the plain speaking
of American critics about Mrs Langtry
and complains ofEnglish timidity in deal
ing with the subject. 1t is confession
of snobbery on the part Of the English
press that ought to be good for some
body's soul.
Ten days were spent in a San Fran
cisco court in obtaining jury to try
two Cinnamon indicted for murderous
assault. In addition to the regular pan
ell 500 jurors were summoned. Two
hundred were examined before the 18th
man was selected. The difficulty was
to obtain men who would believe Chi
naman under oath.
A Boston man was so pleased with a
pair OF boots that "eXactly suitedn him
that he gave the maker an order for
enough boots, shoes, slippers, overshoes,
rubbers, etc., to last him through the
remainder of his natural life. The order
embraced 256 pair of coverings for the
feet, and was guaranteed by deposit
of 800 in cash.
ProctorKnott is said to be one of the
most conyivial spirits in Kentucky, and
is described as a ford, portly Southern
man, with stubble, gray mustache, a
hat pushed knowingly over his left eye,
with comical look, mingled with such
shrewdness as tells the poorestreader of
character that he is born wit
A Partisan physician declares the fol-
lowing certain cure for smallpox and
scarlet fever: ulphate of zinc, one
grain; foxglove (digitalis), one grain;
half teaspoenful of sugar. Mix with
two tablespoonful of water. Take a
spoonful every hour. He declares the
remedy unfailing. Its very simplicity
has caused it to be overlooked.
The English public is beginning to
learn something about this country A
recent number of the London Times
contains a quarter of column of fine
type devoted to facts and figures indi-
eating the extent of the Mississippi Riv-
er and its tributaries. But it places
Pittsburg on branch of the Mississip-
ri in Philadelphia.
Troubled BY Jake Martins Mouth.
We heard some ladies talking at the
breakfast table at the BODY House. One
was complaining of headache. One
suggested morphine. Another sug-
gested bromide. No" she replied,
II cant take bromide or morphine