The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-06-26
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1906 last year off an acre OF tube roses.
Mrs. Plunkett, of Boston. has written
q book urging women to become
plumbers.
Professional courtesy is nice thing
to see. A Pittsburg poet speaks OF
lone Dante"
The stone of which the Arc de
Triomphe in Paris is composed is fast
crumbling away.
Minnesota has no less than 1000
lakes, which take up over 200, 900
acres of territory.
More than 90 per cent of the adult
male population of New Mexico can
neither read or write.
A Washington correspondent claims
that much of the cold tea drank at the
Capitol is the gift of the whisky men.
Foggy London, an English maya
zine fears, will, in few years, become
ga grimy Chicago or stufy New
York.
In some parts of Africa brides on
their wedding day have their front
teeth extracted and their finger nails
cut very close.
A Northern Texas editor complains
that the number of marriages is ridi-
culously small when compared with
the time squandered in buggy riding.
A story is told of lawyer in Athens,
Georgia, who was employed to defend
in suit against narrow gauge rail-
! road, and who took the road as his fee.
Pittsburg, Pa, has 1880 manufact-
uring establishments. with an aggre-
gate capital of s1O6, 900, 900, employing
| nearly $4,000 persons. The annual
product is valued at $146, 600, 900.
The first church erected on American
soil is still used as a place of divine
worship. 1t is situated just outside of
| the City of Mexico. and was built by
Cortez during his second visit to that
coast.
Having lost her singing voice Aimee
will next season come to America TO
act in dramas when can't speak,"
she lately said. 'Tll go into panto-
mime. There's nothing like adapting
ones self to circumstances.
The stream of German emigration is
again rising, the total number of those
who left the Fatherland for America in
the first quarter of this year having
been 20, 1872, as compared with %, POI
in the same period of 1883.
Pine trees in some portions of North
| Carolina are dying in large numbers,
it is supposed from injuries inflicted by
| the "bore worm," or ''sawyers," which
| PLAYED havoc with the pines in that
state about thirty years ago. Their
| ravages are not confined to the old
trees, the young ones dying just as
| rapidly and numerously.
Paul Morphy, of New Orleans, once
SO celebrated as a chess-player, is only
| forty-fve years old, but is mental
wreck. He goes up and down the
streets of New Orleans, always neatly
| and stylishly dressed, muttering inco-
| herently to himself His insanity re-
| suits from the loss of lawsuit.
Mrs. Colonel Fred Grant says she
/ has lived on army rations once and can
do so again and will. This is nobly
| said by very brave little one, but we
| wish her cause were better one. Col
Fred Grant might take pattern after
| his wife with excellent results, and he
| certainly ought not to give up in de-
spair with such a help-mate.
| UlAC lSa1 CS SO1u
| with the personal property of the late
Mrs. Smith. the housekeeper of
Thaddeus Stevens, was a gold snuff
box. bearing the following Inscription:
ITO the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, from
| Colorado Territory. When old Thad
| takes snuff Colorado will sneeze. This
box is made of Pixies Peak gold"
The latest craze among collectors is
that of saving breakfast rolls of ladies
| of note, actresses, and for that matter
also of distinguished men. from which
rolls bite has previously been taken
| and the remnant of which is then
| ticketed by the collector in this wise:
This roll was bitten into by Miss So
and-So on June u, 1884, while taking
| her coffee
| don't like American novels myself.
| | know they are the fashion, and that
they are remarkably clever; but their
| realism is meagre and crudei They
are al ways giving provincial peoples
| first impressions of things, like the
| ecstacies of man whose diet has hith-
erto been hasty-pudding, but is all at
| once initiated into the refinements of
| the comfortable dinner well-to-do peo-
| pie having been eating for centuries.
| The writers take the tone of men of the
world, but all the time they are naiUe
as school-boys. They are afraid of
strong emotions, and accept mere
symbols in place of the realities of
itc.-From q Midsummer Madness.
Mrs. Grundy would be at home in
the Grand Canyon of the Colorado,
which is considered the greatest whis-
pering gallery in the world. For wears
this chaSm has been a matter of sur
prise to prospectors and miners, on ac-
count OF its wonderful transmission of
sound, and it has only been since the
advent of the railroad that any definite
Idea has been entertained of the great
| distance it travels within its walls. A
train OF cars crossing the bridge at the
Needles can be plainly heard on quiz
ct day at Cottonwood Island, a distance
of eighty-four miles. The fife and
drum at Fort Mojave is distinctly heard
at Bulls Head, distance of eighty
four miles. The report of the sunrise
gun at Fort Mojave can be heard at Ell
dorado Canyon, a distance of ninety
six miles. 1t is the greatest whisper
ing gallery in the world
Old Fort Washington, on the Po-
tomac River. is garrisoned bv one
soldier, Sergeant r. F. Joyce, of the
ordnance department The Sergeant
has his family with him, and lives in
the old UNCOVERED house, surrounded
with broad verandas, that was at one
time occupied by the commanding
officer of the fort Fort Washington is
one of the Oldest defenses in the United
States. The work of constructing it
was commenced in 1903 from the plans
prepared by one of General Lafayet
engineer staff officers, under the per-
sonal supervision of General Washing
ton. The structure was not completed
until after the war of 1912, and even
after that date many, improvements
were made. After the completion of
the fort it was regarded as one of the
strongest and most impregnable de-
lenses in the world. General Lafay
cite visited the spot during his second
visit to this country. After tour of