The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-04-17
GLEANINGS.
Over 100000 cocoa nuts are In
New York warehouses.

Over 100000 cocoa nuts are In
New York warehouses.
Dr. Mary Walker is writing book
on the condition of her sex.
Schenectady. one of the Oldest
American cities, has no severe.
A Lawrence, Kan, negro ate five
dozen eggs, pound of bacon and
loaf of rye bread, on wager.
Henry Willard is reported to have re-
vived his fortune somewhat out of
land speculation in Portland, Me.
a cat in store at Lincoln, ILL.,, re-
Gently ate two-year-old alligator that
was one of the pets of the establish
ment.
Huntington, Croker, Pierce and
Flood, the Califorria syndicate, have
bought 100000 acres of Mexican coal
lands.
Another woman has been tattooed in
Cincinnati for a circus. There are five
tattooed persons now in the United
States.
An indignant wife in Athens, Ca,
marched her husband home late at
night recently at the end of shotgun
The husband has now reformed.
The man who fired the first gun in
the battle of Gettysburg lives in Nal
vern, Iowa. His name is Dick Gidley.
He is a carpenter by trade, and is well
to do
The New London whaler Lizzie SIM
mons has killed whale at Cumber-
land inlet that yielded 16S barrels of
oil and 1900 pounds of whalebone, the
largest ever captured.
Bad times during the past two years
have told upon the consumption of wine
in England, which is now upward of s.
600, 600 gallons equal to roughly, &c.
600 pipes) less than it was in 1873, ten
years ago. {.
1t has been discovered in Scotland
that some of the school teachers have
introduced castor oil as means of dis
cipline, refractory urchins being re-
quired to take 4 dose of that kind in
stead of a flogging.
A Denver oleomargarine establish
ment manufactures a ton and half
per day and uses 250. gallons of fresh
milk every twenty-four hours. just
what constitutes the remainder of the
5000 pounds is not stated
Fifteen years ago, in Philadelphia,
daughter of General Desha was divorc-
ed at p. m. and married again at p.
m. to George Coolidge, to whom she
gave $50, 1000 She is now suing for di-
vorce from him because the money is
gone.
British Burmah, according to re-
cent census. covers as great an area as
England, Scotland and Wales Its
population, little more than that of
London, includes 246 239 more men
than women. Still it shows signs of
unprecedented growth.
The Irish population of the earth is
as follows: At home 10000 in
England, 100000 in Scotland, g.
600, 600; in Canada. 1000, 900; in Aus
tralia, 1000, 900; in America, 12,500,-
600; elsewhere, 5,000,00 A total in
round numbers of 80, 500,000
Colorado now, years old as State,
counts settled population of 100000,
and taxable valuation of S110, 600, 600,
representing an actual property value
of 5000, 600, 900. 1t is traversed by
nearly 5000 miles of railroad, four
trunk lines connecting Denver, the
capital city, with the East.
There is no sadder sight than
family of growing boys and girls, or
grown-up young men and women, ac-
cepting coldly and carelessly every
form of sacrifice and favor from loving
parents, who are wearing out their
lives in their service, and reaping only
ingratitude and Indifference III return.
The sources of our supply of lumber
in Canada and in Michigan are disap-
pearing quite as rapidly as in Ohio or
New York, and long before the trees
that we plant now have grown to a size
for use, the prices they will then bring
viii prove it to have been good in
restment from the beginning.
Franklin B. Houqh.
TWENTY-FIVE young men of Boyerford,
Carbon County, Pa, have formed q CO.
operative society to provide themselves
with gold watches. They pay $1.00
weekly into the treasury for a year,
ard every two weeks one of them draws
a watch by lot. A Mauch Chunk Jew
eler has contracted TO furnish them
with twenty-five watches at $50 each.
A young son of a Connecticut preach
er recently joined band of juvenile
cut-throats, called the ''Watchful Nut
meggers." He was introduced by his
guide as ''Jackass," and the password
at the threshold of the lodge-room was
''Can he eat bloody oatsp' He was
treated so roughly during the initiation
that he disclosed the secrets to his par
ents.
A Chinese jossmaker in San Fran
cisco came down on the price of life
sized deity to reporter from twenty
fl dolla to sixee dolla.' He explained
that a joss was no better than that
much wood and paper until after
priest had consecrated it and placed a
speck of red paint on each of its eyes,
This is supposed to give it the power of
seeing not only all the past but through
the future to the end OF time
The absence of all surgical attend
ants in the field does not add to the sat
isfaction of service in the Chinese
plain this brutality is not so much
callous Indifference to human life as
superstition. akin to that of ''the pc
culiar people," who refuse all medical
advice to their children. The man who
gets a bad wound is regarded as one
whom the gods mean to die. For
ike cause the Chinese are reluctant to
rescue the drowning.
John Coyne, of Denver, has ordered
a gold-mounted collar for his dog.
One night not long since Coyne's house
took fire, and being light affair, was
being rapidly swallowed up. Being
heavy sleeper, he did not hear the
cracking flames, and would soon have
been cremated had not his dog burst
his kennel open. rushed into his mas