The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-02-15
GLEANINGS.

1t is said that Cincinnati has twenty
eight widows worth over $40, 900 each,
but whether $4,000 is temptation to
marry Cincinnati widow is another
thing.
An English railway company adver-
tises as missing" seven first-class, two
composite, eight second-class and elev-
en- third-class carriages, four passen-
gers luggage vans and horse box.
Real estate rules very high in the
city of Mexico. A building on Cince de
Mayo street that was sold q few months
since for $4,000 has just fetched SS5,-
000. 1t will be used for permanent
bazaar of French manufactures.
A Portland, Ore, man has new mo-
tor, based upon nothing-that is, lpon
vacuum. Another genius of that cicy
has discovered perpetual motion. Mad
house circulars thankfully received by
alarmed friends.
A German who has been Lutheran
and been sprinkled in his infancy, was
asked, when he wished to join the Bap-
tist church, if he had not been baptized.
His answer was. ''Vell, now, shust a
leedle."
The notable thing about Charles
Pease, who died at Somers, Conn, was
that for years he had taken with daily
exactitnde three drinks of whisky, three
cups of strong tea, and a goodly pill of
opium.
Two inmates of the Jail at Portland.
Oregon, built fire in the hands of
sleeping fellow-prisoner They will
think about it occasionally while serving
the additional sentence imposed for
their amusement.
A Philadelphia bell ringer, who hes
spent forty-tive years in the business,
says that, in what is called s'change
ringing" it takes eight men twenty
eight hours to complete the peal, and
that full change ringing is seldom at
tempted.
A Nevada man who has been very
deaf for years, was recently severely
burned about the face and neck and af-
terward found that he could hear per-
fectly well. He attributes his cure to
the shock, but it is too violent q remedy
to be generally accepted
For forty-fve years Philadelphian
has struggled through the world bear
ing the name of Nathan Ruzanows-
kowski, but has sought and obrained
relief at last, court granting his pc
tition to change his name to Nathan
Rosenau.
A preacher in Tennessee tried to es-
tablish a church in which there should
be no members who used tobacco and
no beverage bat water, and his only
congregation was an old woman who
chewed slippery-elm and believed in
catnip tea Tor measles.
A convict at the Nevada Penitentiary
says he was sent to prison for being dis
honest, and yet he is compelled every
day to cut out pieces of pasteboard,
which are put between the soles of
cheap shoes made there and palmed off
on the innocent public as leather.
They tell in San Francisco of very
wealthy woman who is remarkably
strict in the discipline of her servants.
She defends herself by saying that she
was q servant until five years ago, and,
therefore, knows all about both sides of
the subject.
Mr.. w. w. Story, the sculptor, has
been commissioned to supply a statue
of Chief Justice Marshall. He is to
have $4,000 wherewith, and two years.
time wherein to complete the work.
When finished it will be given place
to the east of the Capitol building at
Washington.
A London organ-grinder recently
played before the house of an irascible
old gentleman, who furiously and with
wild gesticulations, ordered him to
''move on" The organ-grinder stolid-
ly ground on, and was arrested for dis
turbance. Al the trial the Judge asked
him why he did not leave when request
ed. mo spik Inglese, was the reply.
''Well,n said the Judge, sbut you must
have understood his gestures, his mo-
tons" Il tinkee he coma to dance,"
WAS the rejoinder.
Mrs. Ringenary, Locust Gap, North
cumberland county, Pa, for time as
sisted her husband in drilling and blast
ing in coal mine, and seeing more
money in it, equipped herself with
horse and truck and now supplies con-
sumers with coal. She is besides a
good performer on the violin.
Yorkey Pete, the famous st. Louis
bootblack, who founded boys home
in that city and was for years regarded
as model leader of the wielders of the
brush. has gone wrong. While on
trip further west he boarded railroad
train at Truckee, Cal, robbed the pas
sengers of & sleeping car, and has been
sent to prison for two years.
The PreSse Medical Beige declares that
although undescribed by alienists, dis
ease exists which has committed great
rayages, especially in Germany. 1t is
a mania for new medicines" leading
to the indiscriminate employment of
them in diseases of the most opposite
character.
The question, How long is it necessa-
ry to keep children away from school
after an infectious disease? was an
swered some time since by the Acade-
my of Medicine, Paris. With scarlet
fever. diphtheria, measles and small
poX, isolation is to be maintained for
forty days. Chicken-pox and mumps
lose their contagious power after twen-
ty-five days
The arrest Of an elegantly dressed,
graceful and handsome woman in Phil
adelphia led to the discovery that she
had a pair of dummy hands, which
were thrust into her nuff Her own
hands were busy appropriating dia-
mond jewelry and anything else she de-
sired to steal.
An old topper was locked in a police
cell at Dallas, Tex. In the night he
yelled for help, declaring that monkey
was in the room. A policeman thought
he had the delirium tremens, and as
sured him that he saw nothing. After
that he became more frantic, and in the
morning was found dead. The monkey
was no delgsion, however, but had got
into the cell after escaping from its
owner, an incarcerated organ-grinder.
Not long ago German traveller was
eating piece of bologna sausage in
railway train, using his knife The
train suddenly stopped, just as the edge
of the knife was against his mouth, and
the mans cheek was badly cut The
man sued the company for damages,