The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-01-03
GLEANINGS.

/ Niles L billy LfClttt. dgtu o., mas
been postmistress of West Foxborough,
Mass, for 25 years
William Lobe, ST. Louis, is whiting
| a duplicate Strasburg clock with $780,
600 pieces.
Sixtv-four of Ill New Jersey school
teachers say in reports that whipping
is indispensable.
More than $4,000 homesteads have
been entered in Florida during the last
two years.
Newborn, Tenn, has law that i'm
poses fine of not less than $25 or more
than $50 on any person who goes into
a saloon on Sunday.
This was the very concise verdict of
coroner's jury in Idaho: 1--WE find
that the deceased came to his death by
calling Tom Watlings liar
The ebony tree grows to be Is feet
in circumference. The outer wood is
pure white, the heart only being per
fectly black.
In game OF foot ball at Annapolis
a muscular cadet kicked the ball fifty
yards. His friends are willing to lack
him against any opera singer in the
country.
A Saratoga, New York, n1an is quite
certain that he has invented a wholly
successful electric motor for railways.
By some odd chance his name is
Daft.
Samuel Jones, of Philadelphia, has
had his old father arrested for en-
bezzlement. He sent him out with
little money to buy fruit and he failed
to return.
The first railway in Spain was laid
in 1S4S. 1t was but fifteen and half
miles long. The system has not grown
very rapidly, however, and now only
covers 5000 miles.
Texas farmers have sold this year
$50, 900, 900 worth of cotton, $53, 900, 900
worth of cattle, $7,000,O0O worth of
wool and mutton, and 81, 900, 900 worth
of horses and hides.
DIR. Bliss has over 1000 letters re-
ceived " him during the eighty DAYS
he had charge of the wounded Garfield,
all of them bringing suggestions, and
some of them bearing threats of vio-
lence.
1t is standing joke in Italy that
Salvini carries about with him the
Kings pardon, to be used in case his
realism on the stage should carry him
to the point of an actual smothering of
some Desdemona.
At stations on Russian railroads
there is a grievance book, in which the
traveller can inscribe his wrongs in any
language, and which is periodically
read by the authorities. Whether
results follow the perusal is not stated.
On July there were IL, $50, 900 cat
tie in France and 100000 in Great
Britain; there were 2,750,O00 pigs in
France and 100000 in Great Britain;
there were 500, 900 sheep in France and
$4,000, 600 in England.
An old lady in Portland, Me-, who
was acquainted with Ralph Waldo EN-
erson, and knew him well in later life,
says he was so indolent that she was
not at all surprised when he gave up
preaching and went to live in Concord
simply to think.
A pair of Queen Elizabeths gloves
She had a hand like brakeman. The
thumb of the glove is five inches long
and the palm measures three and a
half inches across. No wonder the
kingdom trembled when she brought it
down.
Hanlan, the oarsman, says that he
owes his success in great part to hay
ing hit upon winning stroke, for it is
there he shows his superiority. 1t is
thing which cannot be governed by
mathematical calculation, though, but
is more the result of an accident or in
born knack.
A tribe of Indians having tails from
six to eight inches in length is said to
have been discovered in Paraguay.
Should this announcement prove true,
the Journal Of Science protests in adj
vance against their being paraded as
''the missing link" since the anthro-
poid apes have no tails.
Surgeons probed Intellectually for the
bullet that entered the hip of George
II. Fredericks, of Fort Wayne, in the
battle of Okolona, Miss, twenty-one
years ago. The other day he felt a
sharp pain just above the right knee
joint. He worked the flesh with his
finger and out came the ball.
An inventor in Brussels claims to
have contrived perpetual clock. 1t
was started in that city about one year
ago, and up to recent date is said to
have been running perfectly. An up
draught is obtained in a tube or shaft
by exposing it to the sun. This draught
turns fan which winds up the weight
of the clock.
For the first time since the invention
of printing, German book has reach
ed its 1,000th edition, each of them
numbering 5000 copies, thus making
in all 100000 copies. 1t is a primer
by Haester, published by G. d. Bae-
decker, of Essen, which first appeared
In 1858, and reached it's Tooth edition
in 1868.
In England there is more land living
idle in sporting grounds, game re-
serves and landlords parks than the
whole kingdom of Belgium, which sup
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