The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-12-11

tio hS" SiilNi piioN.
A brick in the gable end of an old
tavern at Hancock's Bridge, Salem
County, n, j., bears the initials of ''W.
S. H. The We're placed there by
William and Sarah Hancock, who had
the house built in 1854
Herr Myer. a German statistician,
says that 50 per cent. of the people of
Germany receive less than dollar a
day. he sudden and formidable
growth of Socialism in that country
may thus be understood in measure.
The Progres Medical describes two
new Oriental poisons, which are said to
be innOcuous when taken into the
stomach, but have the remarkable
quality of Immediately arresting the
action of the heart when introduced
into the blood
The discovery of silver mine dis
trict sixty miles by thirty on the bor-
ders of New South Wales and South
Australia, is the excitement in those
parts. In one instance a mass of two
tons yielded 10000 ounces. A similar
discovery is also announced in another
part of New South Wales.
Among a lot of modern proverbs
sent to London newspaper were
these: Its a poor musician who can't
blow his own trumpet" 1.-The want Of
money is the root of all evil. " '.If you'd
know mans character follow him
home" ''Only whisper scandal and
its echo is heard by all
The King-Pau is the pane of the Off
cial Chinese paper 1t was started in
the year oil as semi-occasional
journal Then for some centuries it
was weekly, and at the beginning of
the present century it became a daily.
1t publishes three editions, and has six
editors, with circulation of 14,O00
Princess Krapotkine is, if possible, a
more ardent socialist than her hus-
band. My father she says, ''was a
rich gold-mine proprietor, and | am a
princess. Look at that man there
(pointing to a wretched street-sweeper)
| wonder he does not come and cut
my throat. What right have | to be
living in luxury while he is working in
the cold and dirt, and living probably
in some wretched garnet OF cellar, with
not enough to eat?"
The knitting craze has succeeded
that of the cra2y-quilt, and the result
is every day pleasing window visions
of pretty misses engaged in knitting,
some OF whom attire themselves to suit
their work in genuine grandmother
fashion of chints, dresses and white
handkerchiefs folded neatly across
their bosoms. The poor OF the city are
fhn tafI11 rooi,;a,,, Cf has 10,
| portion Of the mittens, stockings, neck
scarfs, and other useful articles made
by these fair aanipulators of the knit
| ting-needles.
In 1aefoe's History of the Plague"
it is stated that the breath of the
| plague~stricken patients was said to
contain minute animal formations,
which, caught on piece Of glass that
was held with that object to the pa
| tlents mouth, and placed beneath a
| strong microscope, could be distinctly
| seen. They presented much more
| varied and infinitely more terrible APP
| pearance than the bacilli of these de-
| generate days. for Defoe says that they
had the shape of ''serpents, monsters,
dragons and devils"
Bismark evidently thinks that it is
as easy to make a horse drink as to
lead him TO the water. He caused a
| law to be passed torbidding the inhab-
| itants of the duchy of SchlesWig- Hol-
stein, recently wrested from Denmark,
from speaking the Danish language.
Even school children are punished
when they speak among themselves in
| their native tongue. and so far has this
law been carried, that a young girls
! birthday festival was broken up and
| the guests arrested and fined because
they sang some old Danish folk songs.
During the Franco-German war Metz
and Paris communicated with the out
side world by carrier-pigeons, and the
German Generals declared them con-
traband of war. They continued how
ever. to be introduced into France from
Belgium, where they are a specially,
pigeon-racing and breeding having long
been national sport, there The Bel
gum societies were never more flour
lshlng than at present, and are very
particular in regard to breeds, the
Antwerp being the faYorite; in some of
theirnurserieS the boxes are mahogany,
with solid silver embellishments. Thir-
ty miles an hour is the average speed
of the Antwerp pigeon, which always
descends at night for shelter and 49,
pose, the carriers flight being
guided by sight alone.
In France, by refinement of judicial
cruelty, the date of execution is not
known until the previous evening,
Notices are then sent to the gov
ernor of the jail, executioner and chap
lain. From the hour of his sentence
the criminal is dead to the world. En-
vironed by guards, he is taken 70 cell
with two beds, one of which is occupied
by monster (prison spy). He is put
into suit OF rough canvas shirt, WOOL
en- trousers and felt shoes. A short
waistcoat Of canvas. opening behind
and secured with leather straps is fixed
over this suit, and the long sleeves are
attached to a cord which passes around
the thighs, so that he cannot lift his
hands above certain height. and is al
most helpless to perform the most or
binary movement His food is taken
with a wooden spoon. A warder and
gendarme keep perpetual watch. He
may sleep or smoke or eat, but no visi-
tors are admitted nor any tidings from
the outer world.
SICK HORSES
are cured the quickest by the Horse
uon., ~