The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-22
GLEANINGs.

ton county, N. c., II years 3D. is feet
inches in height, and still growing,
A Troy debating society has decided
that young man can marry anu live
happily on salary of $40 week. In
tending husbands should take notice.
Yale, Harvard, Williams and AM
herst colleges We're literally remember
ed in the will of the late Henry L. Nor
gan, of New York,
Young and beautiful women are great
ly in excess in Washington this winter.
AT fashionable german recently, there
were four to each dancing gentleman
present.
Alabama is an Indian word signify
ing ''Here we rest" State Treasurer
Vincent looked into the cash book. and
said: ''Tll take what's here, and leave
the rest to the wicked"
A lady in Norwich, Conn.,. ~ years
OF age, has Just begun to take lessons on
the plSnoforte, greatly to her own plea
sure, however it may be with the other
members of her household.
The cities of New London, New Haven,
Middletown, Norwich, and Hartford, in
Connecticut, all received their charters
in 1874, and already there is talk of cell
ebrating their centennials next year.
1t is said that the old Omnibus Com
pany, of London, which runs about $50
vehicles, loses an average of $3.50, 900
year by dishonest conductors. Posi-
tons as conductors are consequently
much sought after.
Rockville, Conn, has three cornet
1r
of twenty members, and has Just intro
duced on al its factories steam whistles
that can be heard distance of three
miles.
The calm before the storm and
''the stiffness of death are the phrases
used by two Nihilist magazines in Ge-
neva to describe the present quiet in
kussia, to which the Cars recent pro-
clamation hopefully alludes.
Only one of class of fifteen GIRLS in A.
Michigan high school could tell any,
thing about the great fires and accidents
reported since the new year began. and
that one was not quite clear on the loca-
ton OF the Newhall House.
The St Louis Post Dispatch invites
some of the American Governors tc, read
Queen Victoria s speech as . model for
brief message. We second the mo-
ton, and suggest that Presidents of the
United States he included in the invita-
ton,
O'iir Hebrew population is rapidly in
creasing. At the South End, Boston
has now nearly an entire ward of these
active and enterprising business men.
And it's somewhat singular when one
comes to think of it, that in the whole
city there isn't single Hebrew pauper
a lawsuit in st. Louis incidentally
furnishes proof that some American
wine is genuine. The defendant is sued
for $4,000 damages, because, as the
employe of vineyard company, he
spoiled 10000 bottles of wine by falling
to take proper care of it from the time
it was mere grape juice until it became
champagne.
A college student, whose fathermakes
him render an itemized account of his
expenses, received an order for him to
''eXplain how the large sum of Incl
dcntals' was spent, and then | can
Judge whether you are having enough
fun for your money, for have been
there, you young scamp" That is the
sort of father the average college boy
likes.
There is in Illinois family named
Hiskey, whose aggregate weight is q
587 pounds. The father weighs 48O
pounds, the mother 306, the oldest
daughter 387. the next 275, the third
260 and the fourth 177 The paterfam-
ilias has two sisters who tip the scales
at 315 and 20 pounds respectively.
Such family carry great weight in
any community.
Connecticut is rapidly advancing in
the cultivation of oysters. About co.
600 acres are now planted, and thirty
steamers and many sailing vessels are
engaged In the trade. 1t will test the
ingenuity of the Nutmeggers to get up
an imitation bivalve that will beat the
original article. Hams anG nutmegs;
may be; but oysters, never.
There are now round dozen of mil
lionaires in the United States Senate
The men are Davis, of Illinois; Gamer
on, of Pennsylvania; Brown, Of Georgia;
Davis, ofWest Virginia.. Hill, of Colora-
do; Hale, of Maine; Fair, of Nevada;
Sawyer, of Wisconsin; Miller, of Cali
fornia; RendlC .on, of Ohio; Camden, of
West Virginia, and Tabor, of Colorado.
Miss Charlotte Adams, the writer of q
bright article on ARTISTS Models in
the February Century, is q young girl
OF twenty-three. She was born in the
United States, but went abroad at an
early age, and having an accomplished
mother enjoyed many social advantages.
At the age of twenty she had written a
book, spoke five languages easily, and
xrTn lint, 81,
Bill Nye has got no more music ir. his
soul than peg-legged Chinamar.. saws
Gene Field in the Denver Tribu,ie.
He tried to sing at the press BANQUET in
Denver a year ago, and the. chandelier
fell down, and the hotel-l.. ..eeper wanted
to charge the boys 81 extra per plate.
As for Major Ward, OF the Leadville
Chronicle, he is the critic who announc-
ed that Emma Abbott was the finest
baritone who had essavel the role of
Othello di Lammermore since the days
of Moecaroni.
Every one has his special tastes. Mr..
Vanderbilt has cultivated love for fast
horses because they give him pleasure
and health. /, too, like Il good horse.
but l do not carry the liking 70 ex-
tremes. find pleasure in other gavs. T
try to enjoy my business. I eniov NV
home and my family the best OF any
thing in the world. l think have my
share ofthe pleasant things in this world.
| receive great many kicks and cuffs,
but they make the sweets the sweeter.-
Jay Gould.
MIR. Bennett, the owner of the New
York Herald, once offered large sum
for Crow Island in Currituck Sound, on
the North Carolina co;lst, but his offer
was refused. Now Mrs. Hatfield. the
proprietor, has sold the island for a25.-
600, but to whom report does not state.
Mrs. Hatfield is the widow of Commo,
dore Vanderbilt's chum, Captain Jnbn
G. Hatfield, who discovered tb~. olana
while peddling Yankee notions with the