The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-08-02
GLEANINGS.

thirds as sweet as tnaL maue lTOu'
cane.
The Kansas City Journal says that
within five terms, covering 10 months,
ST. Louis courts have granted 1000 di-
vorces.
Tucson means adobe. The Papago
Indians gave the city that name from
the clayey soil about it, used for build
ing.
Montana is so infested by bears that
the authorities pay S24 for each scalp
taken. Montana has $4,000 inhabi~
tantS.
When travelling on railroad it is
said that lying with the head toward
the engine will sometimes remove head
ache.
Mr.. Beecher tried an incubator and
got twenty chickens from 500 eggs. He
is ashamed to venture into the poultry
yard again.
The genius who made "blood' or
anges by injecting aniline into them
with sharp-pointed syringe, has been
detected and the game spoiled.
Lord Randolph Churchill purposes
showing that the Khedive of Egypt was
the real author of the massacre at Alex
andria.
There is great deal of rottenness in
Massachusetts outside of Tewsbury if,
as stated, there are 10000 divorce cases
in the courts of that State.
A Portuguese physician reports that he
i nac of
simply rubbing garlic into the wound
and giving the patient decoction Of
garlic to drink for several days.
The coming servants will not be for
eigners, but American Indian girls from
government schools. Thus will the In
dams once more rule the land they once
possessed.
If tears of sympathy were selling at
q million dollars drop we wouldn't
give two cents for all that will be shed
in behalf of McGeoch and his fellows.
-Nncennes (Ind.) Sun.
The age of Irish bulls has not passed.
A Mr.. Dineen introduced Mr.. Healy,
member of Parliament, to Random
audience recently as lone of the living
martyrs of Ireland
A New York colored man has brought
a suit for damages-$250 is the sum
mentioned-for 8 ounces of blood remov-
ed from his arm for TRANSMISSION pur-
poses.
Hot Springs, Ark, with all its we'll
ing springs, complains of the quality of
the water furnished by the water COM
pany. In taste and smell, it is tainted
and unhealthy.
The fishermen at Cogsville, Oregon,
have raised fund sufficient to employ
men during the next two months to
shoot sea lions. They are said to pre-
vent the salmon from running up the
rivers.
The Baltimore american says: cit has
been proved that a Jersey COW can give
twenty-five and one-quarter pounds of
butter per week. The question isn't
whether she can, but will she? That's
what we want to know.
The first apple tree raised on the Pa
cific coast, from seed sent out on a
Hudson Bay Company's ship to Vancou-
yer in 1926, is said to be still standing
on the Government reserve near Van
couver.
The reason why the bitterness of Mat
thew Arnold's tongue, when speaking of
America, has recently turned to sweet
ness, may be found in the fact that he
is coming here to lecture and rake in q
few American dollars.
Up to 1876 the standard capacity of
freight was 10000 pounds. In 1877 a
few were built to carry $4,000, and
since 1879 the standard cars, both of the
East and West, have been built to carry
10000 pounds.
The water of the holy well at Mecca
has been found, on analysis, to contain
579 grains of solid matter to the gallon,
and Is seven times worse than the sew
erage OF London. This explains the
prevalence OF cholera among pilgrims.
While cleaning q Baptist meeting
house in Bucks County, Pennsylvania,
recently, the sexton found in the loft
about two bushels of shells of hickory
nuts which the squirrels had deposited
there last fall for winter use.
A Brooklyn Heights girl, disguised as
a maid-servant, washed the sidewalk of
her father residence with the hose for
the sake of getting chance to turn the
water on dude who insisted upon max
ing love to her.
President Eliot of Harvard, mailed a
circular to the parents and guardians of
all the undergraduates inquiring wheth-
er they had daily morning prayers in
their own households He received 741
replies, and five men out of every seven
said they did not.
Many OF the great English lawyers
have been very uncultivated men. This
was pre-eminently the case with Sir
William Toilet, the most brilliant advo-
cate of the century. He knew nothing
but law, to which he gave almost all
his time when student at Cambridge.
1t is said that certain gray-haired
old beggar in New York is a lady who
was once engaged to be married to JUS
tce Salmon Z. Chase, and who became
insane years ago, after the engagement
was broken. Her name, it is ascertain
ed, is Lucy E. Malcolm, who was once a
very beautiful woman.
Hubert 0. Thompson, New York's
Commissioner of Public Works and
most active politician, is the son of
Cephas G. Thompson, the well known
artist; his brother Jerome is also an
artist; his mother was a near relative
of Anna Cora Mowatt Richie, and he
himself gained name as a portrait
painter before he became a politician.
A pleasant little story comes from
Georgia. A young man of Macon, while
camping out with party of friends,
was heard to exclaim in his sleep: For
heavens sake, stand aside! that picture
will kill you" 1t was afterward ascer-
tanned that his sweetheart, at about the
same time narrowly escaped being kill
ed by falling picture under which she
was standing at her home.
Mr.. Page Mccarthy, who figures as
the second of Editor Berne in the last
lamentable dueling tiasco. is the gen
tleman who killed young Mordecai, of
in a duel just after the war.
About year ago he challenged Con-
gresham Riddleberger, but Mr.. r.
backed down. Mccarthy is warm
hearted, genial fellow, and the last per-
son who would be suspected of duelistic