The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-03-13
GLEANINGS.

Susie Bates, of Clinton, Me-, twelve
years old, weighs 1S9 pounds.
Hundreds of men, out of work and
money, are begging from door to door
in Portland, Oregon.
A newspaper printed at the little
town of Medora, in Montana, is called
the Bad Land Cor Boy.
The needed expenditures on roads in
the Yellowstone Park this year are es-
timated at $4,000
A pearl weighing nearly two hundred
grains has lately been found on the line
of the Panama canal.
The London Saturday ReUieao says
our tenth census was the best ever made
in any country.
Hiram Radcliff, q recluse who died
recently at Kingston, n. T., left per-
sonal property worth $3.50, 900, includ-
ing half-barrel of pennies.
A citizen of GAINESVILLE, Ca, now
worth $4,000, never wore a pair of
shoes until after he was twenty-one
years of age.
The Arizona Legislature offers So for
every Apache scalp brought in, and it
is asserted that ga Connecticut genius
in that section of the country invented
and made a scalp which very nearly
passed muster"
Frances Hodgson Burnett is still an
der thirty. She is full of life, likes So
ciety, and is vivacious and interest
ing talker. She is of medium height,
has dark auburn hair, broad fore
head, and pleasant blue eyes.
The Duchess of Edinburg is consider
ed the talker in the English royal fam
lily. She is said to be very strong will
ed, the only person who dares to OPP
pose Victoria, or even say Il won't"
to her, and to care nothing for popu-
larity.
A Vermont physician who found
neighbor in the road too drunk to walk
and invited him to crawl into his sleigh
was astonished by the query: Say,
Doctor, my family physician is DR..
-; do you think your carrying me
home will make any difference?"
The London Daily Neaos says of the
late Wendell Phillips that he ''was an
orator of imprisoned movement, which
stirred the public mind to its profoud-
est depths, and Americans have reason
to be glad that such men have been
among them. ;"
A paintaer mde a contract to fresco
the interior of a church in Michigan.
The design was left to his own taste,
which proved unsound, for he covered
the walls with NEUROLOGICAL and IDOL
atrous pictures. The trustees not only
v.of,, l., l,,+ j Il i Z
he remove his work.
Manners impress as they indicate
real power. Nature forever puts pre-
MUM on reality. What is done for
effect is seen to be done for effect; what
is done for love is felt to be done for
| love. A man inspires affection and
honor because he is not lying in wait
for these.
Four cents piece was the price
promised a sewing-girl in Brooklyn for
making eight dozen shirts, and then
she had to bring suit to get the money,
her employer alleging that the sewing
was detective Judgment for the full
amount and So costs was rendered in
her favor.
A man in Concord, n. H., advertised
| for boy to learn the shoe business,
| and received twenty-seven answers,
the ages of the applicants ranging from
Is years to 81. He says ne believes in
advertising, but he wishes some of the
New Hampshire boys were not quite SO
old.
A vender of q nostrum in Baltimore
| takes position on a street corner.
rolls up his shirt sleeves, disclosing
very muscular arms, and exercises
with heavy dumb-bell. A crowd is
| quickly attracted, and to them he sells
a medicine which, he declares, will
make anybody as strong as he is.
A San Francisco man estimates the
| property of the three bonanza men of
that city as follows: Flood, 500, 00C,-
! 600; Mackey, $50, 900, 900; Fair, $40,-
| 100000. Probably, if there should be
a sudden necessity for an honest liquid
alton, these amounts would shrink into
million or two each.
Wages are steadily increasing in
Mexico. In the capital common labor
receives S1.25 a day. Mechanics get
from $l,75 to 1926. Along the rail-
road lines the prices are about 81 a
| day for unskilled laborers and $3.50 to
| 81 for mechanics. The laborers from
the rural districts are coming into the
railroad districts in large numbers.
A convict who escaped from the
Louisiana state prison, walked hard all
night, and by daylight was forty miles
away. Fearing detection by means of
| his striped garb he went boldly into q
| negro farmhouse, told the owner that
| he was a circus performer disabled by
| rheumatism, and offered to swap the
| costume for any old suit of ordinary
| clothes. The bargain was made, and
| the runaway continued his flight in
| safety.
A married couple persisted in the
! City of Columbus disaster, leaving no
| children, but considerable property.
As it is impossible to say surely which
| one died first the title to the estate will
have to be determined by inference.
| The courts have held in cases of ship
wreck that the woman being the weaker
| the law warrants the conclusion that
| she dies first, and, therefore, the hus-
| bands heirs are entitled to the prop
| erty.
News of ship railway connecting
| the Mediterranean and Red Seas comes
from Athens. 1t is designed to start
/ at Ell Arish and end at Akaba, and
would pass through perfectly fiat
country. An American name is con-
nected with the enterprise, and one of
the English correspondents calmly re-
| ports that, in the event of the success
of the present negotiations, the gentle
man having them in charge, lis likely
to be rewarded by the American gov
eminent with high diplomatic post at
Constantinople."
A few days ago a gentleman who
was about leaving Constantinople for
London with manuscript copy of the
Koran 500 years old, which had been
in the possession of his family for a
hundred years, was despoiled of his
treasure by q custom official, the latter
with many devout explanations, seiz-
ing it as state property. Nor has the
/ gentleman been able tn reeover the