The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-06
GLEANINGS.

University, says that student should
never sleep less than eight hours nor
study directly after meals.
An Exeter On. HI. lady recently re-
ceived letter which was mailed in
Washington, ID. c., four years and nine
months ago.
Billy" said old Commodore Van
derbilt to his son William years ago,
''the men who take their per cent. in
terest will have all the money in time. "
The new caterer (bar-tender) of
the United States senate is Richard
Francis, colored. He is worth $4,000
and can understand a wink mile
away.
A Dubuque man made his corner
grocery an uncomfortable place for the
gentlemen of leisure by hanging out q
sign: "Wanted-One more loafer to
hang around this place.
A man from Boston, who found fault
with the bill of fare in the hotel at
Glendive, M. T., was mobbed by the
people, and had to run thirty miles be-
fore they would let him rest.
Harvard College has the money with
which to buy bronze statue of its
founder, John Harvard, but the authori-
ties cannot decide how the artist shall
clothe the craven image.
Henry Ward Beecher tells reporter:
''Of all the country that | have been
over, if was a young man and wanted
to settle down, l should go out to Ore
gon or Washington Territory.
A debating society down in Maine
has had a protracted discussion over
the question, Resolved, That hunting
for Captain Kidd's buried treasure is a
surer road to wealth than buying lot
terry tickets.
The Pinafore team has been fortunate
in England. Sullivan is now Sir Ar
thur Sullivan, and Gilbert is building q
$250,000 house in London. They
''pooled their issues on the stage, and
each has now had a big dividend.
A distinguished botanist has found
that by simply soaking the stems of
cut flowers in weak solution their
colors can be altered at will without
| the perfume and freshness being de-
stroyed.
| There are at present 100 newspapers
fin the United States, of which the pub
fishers, editors, and chief contributors
are negroes. The oldest of them is the
Elevator, of San Francisco, which has
already attained its eighteenth year.
Thirty Mormon missionaries have
started east from Salt Lake City in a
palace car. They are bound for vari-
Gus countries in Europe to engagein re-
cruiting immigrants for the Mormon
church in Utah and adjacent terri
| tories.
Dynamite has been employed by Herr
| Pradamovic, civil engineer of Pesth, to
drive piles. The downward force of
the explosion of one-and-one-half
pounds he found equal to the weight of
8, $50 pound hammer falling from a
height of ten feet.
An old lady at Biddeford, Me-, fell
very sick and made will, in which
she transferred all her property to her
daughter. Contrary to expectation she
recovered her health, and her daughter
refuses to surrender the property, and
also refuses to support her mother.
Ada Dyas, the actress, called a rail
way conductor in Connecticut who left
her baggage behind IAN insolent pup
| py." He said if she was man he
would drive her into the earth about
four feet. She now claims that he in
suited her and asks the company to dis
miss him.
Spruce gum is scarce in Maine cities,
and one dealer in Augusta has lust
paid $50 for bushel from Northern
New York. The scarcity is in part at
tributed to the fact that the men who
have been accustomed to gather the
gum find it more profitable to act as
guides to sportsmen.
In Alaska everything freezes solid by
the middle of October. The mercury
in winter falls to SO degrees below
zero, and often lower. There are only
about three months in the year that
gold can be washed, from May to Au-
gust There is not so much timber as
IS generally supposed, and it is of poor
quality, a recent prospector reports.
1t is said that one New York produce
firm has paid an average of $50 day
for month at time for kilograms to
Chicago, and the Geographic business
of five firms with their Chicago CORES
pondents costs $4,000 a year. And
yet less than half century ago all the
worlds business was transacted with
out the wire.
Just hundred years ago the first
stage and mail coach in New England,
and probably in this country, began
running between Hartford and Boston.
-Four days were required for through
trip. The fare was about $40. A lit
tie over two years later the proprietors
were at the head of trunk linen ex-
tending from Portsmouth, n. H, to
Savannah, Ga. A uniform rate of fare
was tixed-''three pence per mile, with
liberty to passengers to carry fourteen
pounds weight of baggage"
A man who was convicted of theft
and sentenced to the state prison in
Philadelphi;H the other day, astonished
the judge by making these pointed re-
marks in court: Il worked three years
in your state prison making shoes, and
| know as much about making shoes as
| do about watches. They taught me
to be dishonest. NY principal work
was TO paste leather and pasteboard to-
gether to make thick sole to impose
on the public. The man who had the
contract was Christian, member of
the church, and at the time | called his
attention to the pasteboard business he
was foreman of the grand jury"
Rufus Kinney's bees have become al
together too neighborly, so much so
that there is danger of their driving his
family out of house and home. Last
| year swarm of bees established their
headquarters under the family dwelling
house, but rs they didn't disturb any
body, little effort was made to dislodge
them. This year shows vast increase
in their numbers, and the little workers
are vigorously contesting with the fami-
ly the right to the possession of the
| premises. Cold water, hot water, to-
| bacco, sulphur fumes and many other
! means OF warfare have been resorted
| to in order to dislodge me pestiferous
| enemy, but without avail Millions
have been killed without any percepti-
| BILE decrease in the army, and still the
war goes on. Mr.. Kinney thinks if he
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