The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-04-03
GLEANINGS.

At the Salem, Mass, Normal School
the ladies are instructed IN carpenter
work.
Many of the new ladies' hats for
spring have a tiny stuffed cap on top
the latest thing in millinery.
Five men have disappeared from Bay
City, Mich, in the last three years, and
nothing has been heard from any of
them.
Jefferson Davis has erected q fine
monument over the grave of Mrs. Dor
sey, the New Orleans lady who willed
him fortune.
During the last year Mrs. Horace
Turner, of South Adams, Mich, has
broken one of her legs twice and made
600 yards of cotton.
The Niagara Suspension Bridge ia
2.260 feet long, that of Kief. Russia, is
2,562 feet, and that between New York
and brooklyn $3.50 feet
do not think it would be wrong for
me to say that the religion of the Uni
ted States is the worsLiping of the
golden calf.-Mgr CapeI.
Vandals have much mutilated the
soldiers monument on Boston Com
mon, and a loud demand is made for a
close fence to protect it from further
injury.
1t has been figured out that there is
enough railroad travel in this country
to give every man, woman, and child
in the United States ride of ia miles
each year.
The New York Hour says: 1.-The nov
elites for next season here will be MIR.
| Barnum's elephant, which is sacred but
not white, and Sara Bernhardt, who is
| white but not sacred.
The Man, a curious New York publ
| cation, demands that all women, on ar
irving at the age of twenty-one, be per-
mitted to use the prefix Mrs. to their
| names, whether married or not.
The proposed Constitution for the
State of Montana provides that the
Governor shall be paid So, 600 per year,
the Secretary of State 81, 200, and the
other executive officers $4,000 each.
Nearly 50,000 gallons fewer of sher-
~ and claret were imported by En-
gland last year than the year before.
| But the figures for port show total of
65, 7SS pipes, which is the largest on
| record.
Francis Parkman, the historian, says
that two-thirds of the few hundred
women who want the ballot in Massa-
chusetts have standing quarrel with
the Almighty for not making them
| men.
Twenty deaf mutes in Norwich,
| Conn, are members of a Congregation
al Church, and they have formed a
Bible class under the charge of teach
er familiar with their method of con-
versation.
The counterfeit presentiment'' Of
| General Hancock is to be found in the
Philadelphia Rogues' Gallery, the pho
| tograph being that of John Clark, the
shoplifter. The likeness to Hancock
is startling.
Fifty cartridges Gagged in q Charles
| ton, S. c., restaurant window are q
constant nuisance to hunting dogs, who
stop and ''point" the birds, and bump
the window glass when they try to
FLUSH" them.
Mr.. Dimitry, of the New York Mail
and Express, has captured the $500
prize offered by Swinton's Story Teller
for the best story. The author is the
son of the late Professor DimitrY, of
New Orleans, long one of the most
| prominent educators of the South.
The man whose ''heart is in the right
| place" has been frequently heard from.
! But Philadelphia has man, Major ii
| the United States army, whose heart is
on the right side. 1t is the second case
of the kind known to medical men.
According to japanese custom, age
is counted from the first day of the
| January succeeding birth. At that
date q child is one year old, whether
born the previous January, at mid
summer, or on the 31st of December.
Eighty-three per cent of the popula-
| ton of the United States is composed
of white natives and the immigrants
| from Germany and Great Britain, leav-
ing per cent from other countries
and Is per cent for those of African de-
scent.
L. Q. c. Lamar is said by his Miss
issippi friends to be one of the few poor
men in the United States Senate. Of
late years most of his salary has gone
to pay old debts, obligations of ma
ture that only man of scrupulous in
tegrity would think of paying.
In Henry James recent article on
Iurgenietf the personal pronoun, first
| person, singular, occurs seventy times
on the first four pages. The average
is certainl y no lower throughout the en-
tire paper, the writer using Il" fifteen
times on the last page, always in allu-
sion to himself.
England's wealthiest heiress now is
Miss Hamilton, a lady of about 40 She
has some $780, 600 year, and fine res
| licences in Scotland. The great heir
esses are not prolific. Lady Holmes
dale, the last CORVALLIS, died childless
last year. Lady Lindsay, who inherit
ed Lord Overstone's millions, is also
childless, and Lady B. Coutts has not
yet become mother.
Missouri is making rapid progress in
wealth and industrial matters. The
statistics for last year have just been
made public, from which it appears
that the taxable property in the state
was $3.50, 25O, AS, an increase of So
9S3, III over the valuation of 1882, and
S54, 52S, 600 over that of 1881. The
state taxes collected last year amount
ed to $780, 7S.
No bureau of the Government ex-
ceeds in Importance the United States
Patent Office. From the start it has
been self-sustaining, and now has an
unexpended balance to its credit of
about So 100000. This money is the
result of fees paid by inventors to Sc
cure the patents which protect their in
vention. The business of the Patent
Office has increased with each year of
its existence.
There has been started in Berlin n
"share company for the removal of
trichin@ from pork" Apatent is being
applied for to exploit recently invent
ed process to that effect, consisting of
picking pork by means of a highly
heated brine in which muriatic acid
forms large ingredient. which pro-
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