The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-04-19
GLEANINGs.

A Seventeen-year-old boy named Al
den, of Gaines, Mich, has been sent TO
the reform school for ninety days for
cutting off a few curls from the head of
little Miss Foster, aged thirteen.
The government of India causes n
sanitary primer to be used in the schools.
One hundred thousand copies of the
publication have been circulated in
fourteen different yernaculars.
Intemperance among women is in
creasing in Great Britain. Some years
since it was five Incorporate women to
ten men; but later statistics make it
stand seven women to ten men.
An image of the human head has been
found los feet below the surface. in a
coal mine in Dallas County, Iowa. 1t
is regarded as the work of prehistoric
man.
A story comes from Canton, China,
of woman who, to punish female
slave who had stolen some food, cut a
slice from the girls thigh and made her
cook and eat it.
a New York doctor says the best cure
he knows of for cold is the old-fash-
ioned sweat. Take ten grains Of quinine,
a hot mustard foot-bath and stiff glass
of toddy-or, rather, l should say, a hot
lemonade.
A boy sixteen years of age has peti-
toned New York court to appoint for
him guardian who may institute in his
name a suit for divorce from a girl
whom he was forced, by threats and un-
due influence to marry against his will.
The crafty merchant of New Orleans.
when dunned for payment of an indebt-
edness, usually lets fall few words
about $50 much time spent in nursing
my friend who has the small pox.H
From that instant he sees no more of the
collector for weeks.
Maine alone made and sold 90 600
600 sticks of gum last year. and at least
seven-eighths of it YVES ohewed by wo-
men. The Detroit Free Press saws that
cotton rag with little peppermint
essence on it tastes better, lasts longer
and is far cheaper.
Oyster parks are rapidly increasing in
France. There are now over 40. 900 of
them, with an average size of half an
acre. Oysters sell at 5 or 6 cents a
dozen, and retail in Paris and Lyons at
20 to 40 cents, thus leaving handsome
margin for profit.
pardon was recently granted 10 a
convict in South Carolina Penitentiary.
When the document was forwarded to
the institution it was found that, six
months previous, the prisoner had been
released by power higher than the
chief executive of that State. The man
was dead.
The prize awarded to the best spelIer
at a 'bee" in Michigan was copy of
Milton. To the poorest orthographist
was given hickory ax-helve. 1t is to
be presumed that the latter article was
selected SO that 1.-The boys could truth
fully say that the winner had captured
helve prize.
A Georgia court has decided that a
man has no right TO take off his coat
and sit in his shirt-sleeves in railway
car. The drummer who did so and re-
fused either to 90 into the smokin@-car
or put OH his coat again, and was put off
in consequence at the first station, has
lost the suit which he brought for dam
ages.
A Georgia paper states that the ne
groes are anxious to return to a state of
slavery. 1t bases its assertion upon the
complaint OF an aged darkey, who says
that he was happy as n slave, because
he was then allowed to go to his wife's
house onl y once week, whereas, "now,
boss, | live with my wife, and one or
t'other of Us is allus qualling."
A species of spider has been discov-
cred Oh the African coast, the long, firm
web OF which resembles yellow silk, and
Is said to be very nearly as good as the
product of silkworms. The matter has
been investigated by the Lyons silk
merchants with favorable results, and
there seems to be nothing to prevent ac-
cLmating the insect in France.
( girl thirteen years of age is captain
OF a.band Of Los Angeles, Cal, hood
lums, whose exploits have made them
the terror of "a certain section of the city.
They are not only thieves, but burglars,
as they recently cut pane of glass from
a jewelry show window and distracted
large quantity of valuables. The girl
plans all the movements of the gang.
An English woman whose husband
had beaten her, torn off her clothes,
thrown her down. reviled her, wiped his
shoes on her mantle, sat up all night to
burn her clothes up, cut off one of her
eyebrows and shaved one side of her
head, was told by the Judge that her
suit for divorce was premature, and that
she must wait until her husband should
put her in danger of serious ''iniury in
life and limb
A New Hampshire lumber merchant
OF 40 years experience says that in the
year in which the Boston, Concord and
Montreal Railroad was opened wood
was worth 81 cord more at the sta
tons along its line than il is to-day,
and he says further that in his opinion
wood grows faster than it is used for
fuel in his State. But when the road
was opened not much coh was burned
in the State.
4 woman of one of the interior towns
of Pennsylvania has introduced start
ling innovation into the time-honored
custom of giving birthday parties She
insisted that each guest, instead of pur-
chasing a present at random, should
contribute 80 cents, and that she should
thus be left free to buy such presents
as she might want. Every minister's
wife in Pennsylvania viii rise up and
call her blessed.
There js a dark red line on the mat
ting of the House of Commons ruled
about a pace from tie benches. It's
origin is almost contemporaneous with
the establishment of Parliament 1t
was for the purpose OF preventing mem
bers from drawing their swords On each
other. The old use of tho line is, of
course, abrogated. but it is still consid-
cred out of order for any member in
debate to oFerstep it six inches.
The average yield of wheat in all
parts OF the Union is put at thirteen
bushels per acre, which is two bushels
over the census average of ten years
ago. Still, as the cost of growing wheat
has increased in equal proportion by the
necessity of using phosphate, it is doubt
ful whether any increased profit is made
on the greater average yield. Now,
however, all the profit is gained by .ae
few who manure thoroughly. and grow