The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-01-24

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wouldn't sell for a dollar, and threw it
away.
| The new Mayor of Baltimore seems
to bear no ill-will to the Britishers. He
has ordered the lions that adorn Cal
vert street to be re-tailed at cost of
$75. An unknown hater of Great Britain
twisted them off recently. fd
An old colored man in Cincinnati
has made himself rich in curious way.
Whenever man bought building lot
the darky would buy strip of ground
next door and begin to build cabin.
The rich man would buy the darky's
/ land for ten prices.
''On Wall street." writes a New
York correspondent, could is an OBJ
ject of alteration and admiration; Van
derbilt is looked upon as a lucky dog
and good fellow; Sage as a miser;
Keene as a typical gambler and Willard
as sharp man.
There are thirty eight large volcanoes
in Java, some of which are more than
10000 feet high. 1t is popularity of
the volcanoes of that region that they
seldom eject lava, but enormous mass
es of mud; drivers of mud" as they
have been called, flow from them.
Kansas bids fair to become an active
competitor of the South in the raising
of cotton. Quite quantity of this
staple was raised the past season in the
southern counties of the state, and the
cotton gins at Oswego and Indepen-
dence have plenty of material on which
| to work. @ Ee-ns
1t is curious and important fact
that pieces of wire cable of the Fair
mount suspension bridge, recently TAX
en- down at Philadelphia, after being
| in use some forty years, were found to
be fully equal in tenacity, elasticity,
and ductility to the best wire of that
size now in the market.
OF the seventy-six United States
Senators twenty-one are accompanied
by their wives, seventeen have each
wife and daughter, one has a daughter
and one mother-in-law. Of the $50
representatives and delegates ninety
five are accompanied by their wives,
tifty-three have each a wife and daugh-
ter, and nine have only their daugh-
/ tiers.
Garland, the learned Senator from
Arkansas is a teetotaler. He says: 81
was passing by the cemetery near my
home one day, and | saw the graves of
a dozen brilliant men who began life
with me, every one of them fastened
to his end by whisky. | made up my
mind that had drunk my share, and
stopped.
1t is promised that the ice palace to
be built in Montreal for the carnival
this winter shall be larger and loftier
than that built last season, but some of
the Canadians are protesting against
the whole business, saying that it will
tend to represent Canada to possible
European immigrants as a fearfully
frozen region.
Leo Kill is almost constantly en-
bellishing the Vatican in some way,
and superintends all work in person.
Recently he had some frescoing done.
and he clambered up to the top of the
tall scaffold to inspect the work at close
quarters. Finding it not up to the
standard, he ordered work stopped and
all that had been done effaced.
Of the six largest sugar producing
countries of Europe Germany this year
carries off the palm, with 800, 900 tons,
or 80 per cent. of the whole Next
come Austria with 475,0 tons, France
with 425, 600, Russia with $50, 600, Bel
GUM with $4,000, and Holland with
$4,000. Germany has not only the
greatest number of refineries, 357 out
of 1,204, but the largest also.
The printing of the new English die
tionary, which is in preparation in Lon
don, has proceeded to the end of the
article alternate" and at that point
there are over 5000 entries, as COM
pared with under 5000 in Webster
The statisticians connected with the
project have calculated that the work
will contain nearly 200, 600 entries, and
the quotations will reach more than a
million in number.
The library of Harvard College con-
tains the first two drafts of Longfel-
lows Excelsior. The first is written
on the back of note addressed to
Longfellow by Charles Sumner, and is
endorsed Sept. %, 1S41, $50 o'clock,
morning. Now in bed" The second
shows variations and erasures. For
instance, the line "a youth who bore
mid snow and ice" was written four
times before decided upon-'.A youth
who bore in snow and ice" "a youth
who bore pearl of price, and "A
youth who bore above all price" The
inception of the line "a tear stood in
his bright blue eye'' was "a tear stood
in his pale blue eye"
German newspapers are finding
something to console themselves with
in the statistics of emigration from
the Empire. They reason, in fact, that
Germany, in the matter of population, is
better Oft than most other European
states. Taking the figure of popula-
ton at 100000, Norway within the last
five years, sent away the highest num-
Der of emigrants-viz, 963, Sweden
came next with 6l5, Great Britain next
with 5S7, and then came Denmark, SIT;
Portugal, 200; Switzerland, 252; Ger
many Seventh in the list,) 25l; Italy,
14S; Austria, 40, and France 10.
In Bavaria it is illegal to criticize
even in a friendly spirit, the actions of
the King. Soon after the termination
of the France-GermaE war story was
told of meeting in the streets of
Munich between the King of Bavaria
and wounded soldier, during which
the King, finding that he was not rec
ognized, expressed his surprise ..How
should / know your Majesty said the
| soldier in explanation. You never 90
to the army, and ! never 60 to the
play" To the publication of this an
ecdote may probably be attributed the
| determination taken by the King not to
! tolerate remarks of any kind on his
private movements.