The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-03-27

mess of about IS. 600, 600 year.
Mrs. Louisa S. Vaught, of Freehold,
n. j., who died recently, left $40, 600
to number of evangelical societies.
A petition has been presented to the
Connecticut Legislature asking for the
passage of a law prohibiting the use
of tobacco in tie public schools.
Deputy United States Marshal Gum
roper. of Springfield, Mo-, undertook
to light q fire with kerosene. 1t didn't
kill him. but he won't do it again.
A disagreeable witness in Black Hills
court got singing blow under the
ear as he left the box. the defendant in
the case performing the suggestion.
Germany is going in heavily for beet
root culture. Ninety new factories
were started last year and nearly as
many are in course of construction.
Thirty-three thousand deaths from
diphtheria occurred in the province of
Kharkof, the southern part of European
Russia, between the years of 1871 and
1882
Beecher's double, the man who goes
to theatres and gets the Brooklyn pas
tor name in the papers, is John Wy
man. Their resemblance is very strik-
ing.
Arthur Peel, son of the late Sir Rob-
ert Peel, will probably be the next
Speaker in the English House of Com
mons. He is 81 years old, and is of
stately presence.
A French scribbler, writing of Queen
Victoria and her late gillie, Brown,
has had the indecency to say that she
takes her second widowhood even har-
der than the first
In the woods of Belmont, N. H., is
living married woman of thirty
years, who wears overalls and chops
wood with her husband, averaging a
cord of wood a day.
1t is said that Gladstone's private
life is wholly above suspicion. His
home at Hawarden Castle is as happy
as any in England. He has no petty
vices and no eccentricities.
A negro in Virginia who has been
tried for abducting white girl cries
that it is mighty hard to sem cul-
urd man to the pen'tenshary cause a
white gal runs arter him.
The Ogallala Cattle Company, of
Omaha, which bought 45, 900 head, has
taken also the Bosler herd of 45, 900 for
1925, 600. The company now has over
100, 900 head and $3,000,000 invested
Mrs Franks, the first woman to land
on Galveston Island, then inhabited
only by sand-crabs, and the mother of
the first white child born there, is still
alive and hale and hearty, though at
an advanced age.
A Des Moines intelligence Office has
| received an order for a cook to go to
Colorado. The person writing says:
There are ten men here to one wom-
an, and a good cook can get large
wages and a husband.
A Utica gentleman relates that he
once asked Theodore Parker, who was
dining with him, a question concer-
ming Wendell Phillips orthodoxy, and
Mr.. Parker replied: Il do not care to
say that he believes or rejects the five
points, but | will say that he practi-
ces one of them-the perseverance of
the saints-which is much better than
q belief in the other four"
AT hunt breakfasts in England the
table has rolls, toast, omelettes, kid
neys, bacon, eggs aud sausages, the
sideboard having game and tongues.
The tea and coffee of the table are
sometimes neglected for the wines and
liquors of the sideboard. Refresh
ments are usually taken out to ladies,
and frequently to gentlemen who do
not care to dismount.
What become of Pettyfog that ulster
live here?" asked visitor of Gilpin
at the store Saturday night. "Oh, he's
located in Western town, practicing
law" ''How does he get alongp Is he
successful Not very. He has never
Won suit yet" .No, that is, not a
whole one. He won hat on Ohio last
fall and pair of boots on New York.
But that's as near a suit as he ever
got"
Not only in Paris, but in Germany,
and in fact throughout Europe, the cry
of the unemployed is rising high. Hol-
land ia much troubled with it at pres
ent. In both Amsterdam and Rotter-
dam there is large amount of labor
eager but unable to get work, and
OilfSu lubO OcSbltutIOU LII
the government has devised some tenn
porary work and in Rotterdam 1000
OF the ''disinherited" have issued a
protest against the subvention of the
opera by the municipality during this
distress.
In the shadow of a tall blue granite
shaft in Oak Hill Cemetery, near Kirk
wood, Mo-, stands a small headstone
OF the same material bearing the in
scription: ''Our Dog Shep." This
memorial is in accordance with the
wishes of George c. Hammond, whose
last will and testament made ample
provision for the dogs comfort in life;'
care and medical attendance in sick
ness, and final repose 1T his masters
feet. Too much rich food cut "Shep"
off untimely, but doctor, shroud,
coffin and q tombstone have all COM
bined to preserve his memory.
Thirty years ago peddler made his
appearance in Pittsburg under the
name of John Foley. He was indus
trious, but seemingly poor. He died
about year ago at the age of eighty.
His estate was found to be worth about
$4,000. and his will developed the
fact that his right name was John
johnson. He left his property to four
children, wherever they could be
found. The search for the heirs was
for long time unavailing. but it has
at length resulted in the discovery of
some of them. Why johnson left Ire
land and how he got his wealth remain
mystery.
A correspondent of the Worcester
Spy, in an account of a conversation he
once had with Wendell Phillips, says:
81 asked him if he had any pleasure in
firhtinr If contest uava hin, any snt;u