The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-08
GLEANINGs.

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ciety.
For alternating from her her husbands 5
affections a New York woman has sued
her father-in-law for $4,000.
The Protestant Episcopal service has
been translated into Italian, and services
are held in two churches in Rome.
A darkey who died in Louisville was
found to have a heart .wei~ninr two
pounds. The abnormal development of
| that organ was the cause of his death.
The Birmingham Medical RevSea0 rec
ommends for chilblains equal parts of
dilute nitric acid and peppermint water,
to be applied daily at first and then
twice day.
A girl employed as a spinner in n
Lowell mill has taken the first prize
offered by the Boston Musical Society
Tor the best criticism of vocal and in
strumental music.
The increase in the use of the electric
light is indicated by the fact that forty
nine electric light companies, with $751;
$4,000 OF capital, We're organized in
England last year.
A woman recently arrested in Cincin-
natl for drunkenness proved that sls
was the wife of a California millionaire,
whom she had deserted years ago, be-
fore he became wealthy.
AS Georgia man says he can raise
$4,000 pounds of watermelons to rae
acre, the inference is that he has taken
the Herodic precaution to kill all the
boys within ten miles of his plant
Colorado is becoming civilized. A
man at Colorado Springs was not
lynched for the commission of a horri
bic crime, but was ''sent to iail in de-
fault of bail, = just as though he were in
the United States.
A son of Nine. Lovson, the wife of
Pere Hyacinthe, is employed in one of
the bureaus of the Treasury Department
He is fine linguist and draughtsman,
and is quite favorite in certain circles
in Washington.
An ltinerant comic opera company
was fined $50 and costs at Dallas. Tex,
for performing Patience one Sunday
night. 1t is not clear whetherthe offense
was in the presentation of the opera or
the desecration of the Sabbath.
The respectable youth who applauded
by Kissing a song in the New Orleans
Academy of Music was sentenced bv the
recorder to pay fine of So or be i'm
prisoned ten days. He paid the fine
and was released
Mrs. De Points, of New Orleans. offers
to sell to the United States the original
draft of the rebel constitution for $50
600. 1t isn't worth as much as the draft
OF the original compact of The Forty
nd fbat l,N't H.,
coo.
The late Prince Karl, of Prussia, is
said to have smoked from eighteen to
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the age of SO years, is warning which
all anti-tobacconists will welcome as an
argument
The census report, a little work of
fifteen thousand pages, will probably be
issued in July. The extravagant zeal
of its authors in collecting a vast mass
of useless information will probably be
forgiven by persons who find that a,
single copy is winters supply of fuel.
Faint-heartedness would never have
won the Vicksburg fair lady who re-
fused her suitor four times but yielded
when he fell on his knees before her in
parlor in the presence of a dancing
company and for the fifth time urged
his suit. She accepted him on the spot,
and appointed day for the wedding.
She was asked what she thought of
one of her Geighbors of the name of
Jones, and with knowing look replied:
''Why, | don't like to say anything
about my neighbors, but as to Mr. Jones,
sometimes | think, and then again |
don't know, but after all, | rather guess
he'll turn out to be a good deal such
sort OF man as | take him to be-"
While attending a spiritual seance in
Philadelphia, q few days ago. a lady re-
ceived a communication from the al
legged spirit of her husband, directing
her to dig up a certain portion of her
cellar, where she would find lot of
gold. She followed the instructions,
but instead of finding money, opened
the mouth of an old well and fell into it.
and was nearly suffocated.
DR.. Siemens, President of the British
Association, said in a recent letter on
''Waste:" '.The burning of raw coal for
domestic purposes is very wasteful.
Coal should be reduced to eas and coke:
gas can be burned more economically
waste products resulting from the manu-
facture of coal gas are of more money
value than the coal originally used"
A most surprising story is ted by a
Southern man. He says the.c he set a
spring trap to catch SON., troublesome
rats; that one rat poke,.d his nose in and
was caught; that tie sharp edges of the
trap tore the IN of his nose loose, and
liis ratshlp '.Tiggled himself or forced
plhseH out of his hide, leaving it liz the
tre,p, bearing bloody evidence OF the
I terrible effort made to get out of it.
1t has come at last. A Virginiaa
claims that on removing cake of ice
that had been for several years in the
bottom of his ice house he found it per-
forated with cells which were occupied
by long worms of a whitish colot
Others in the same vicinity report simi-
lar experience, 1t will no lonoer be
considered safe to use ice until IT has
been thoroughly cooked, so rs to effect
ually kill these parasites.
A. j. Gale, an English architect Wis
tied this country last summer, and in q
paper ON our buildings said that the
most surprising thing to him was the
wonderful completeness of American
houses and the elaborateness of their
construction. He found American clients
willing to pay for any comfort that could
be procured. He expected to find our
work inferior; he returned to say Eng
lish work was.
A Pittsburg hotel clerk says that every
traveller is nervous since the Milwaukee,
fire, and wants room on the first or
second floor. That, he adds, is the in
variable result of such catastropbe
and it lasts for several weeks; but Grad
ually anxiety dies out, and before lone.
people take rooms on the upper foors
without complaint, and often eanrratu-
late themselves on the better air and
wider prospect thus obtained.
A well was recer.;siiy dug at McGregor,
lex. and at daoth IS t,,,o,,+ro;erh+