The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-05-01

| England society flowers constitute the
only gifts" allowable in the ''cotil-
| lion," and that costly favors are de-
nounced as vulgar show"
A Stockton, Cal, couple who have
been married thirty eight years, during
which time they have lived together in
| apparent peace and harmony, are now
in the courts seeking to be divorced.
While digging grave in the town
| of Plymouth, Mass, for the remains of
Miss Judson, sister of the famous mis-
sionary, the workmen came upon the
foundation of the Pilgrim watch-tower
| erected in 1913
King Humble of Italy seldom par
takes of food at the family table. He
suffers much from dyspepsia, and has
the little that he eats-and he eats only
to live-especially prepared and served
in his private room.
The mind cure is considered super
| ior to the hot water cure in Boston, the
| latter not being intellectual enough.
| Patients are instructed to think, and
| real hard, too, that their pains are
gone, and they are.
The $50 Buddhists of Paris want a
temple and are considering the pro-
| priety of sending solicitors out among
| the Christian churches to collect funds
| for the purpose of building one and
equipping it with deities.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley will occupy
the old Greeley homestead at Chappa-
qua during the coming season. She is
| still lovely young woman, exceed
| ingly retired, and has, it is said, re-
| fused many ambitious suitors for her
hand.
Colonel G. S. Perkins, of Norwich,
| Conn, Treasurer of the Norwich and
| Worcester railroad, is now in his Goth
year, and yet enjoys excellent health.
| In recent interview he said: II have
buried six family physicians and still
| live"
1t is stated on good authority that
| cats die off rapidly in India during
| epidemics of cholera. They exhibit
the same symptoms that humans do.
No other animal is know to be subject
to this disease, the hog and chicken
cholera being different.
A New York letter gives this graft
| flying bit OF fashion news: Women
no longer paint and powder to excess,
A man may walk from one end of
Fifth avenue to the other without see
| ING q single face that is artificially illu-
minated. The reign of artificial color
| is over"
In Berlin, a police edict has been
| published, warning the people against
eating raw pork. 1t points out that
perfect cooking destroys trichina. This
may seriously interfere with the tradi-
tional German luxury of raw ham and
| rye bread sandwiches, as the can only
| be safely eaten in America.
A towel folded several times and
| dipped in hot water and quickly wrung,
and then applied over the seat of the
| pain in toothache or neuralgia will gen.
orally afford prompt relief. Headaches
| almost always yield to the simultan-
eous application of hot water to the
| feet and back of the neck
A new and formidable fighting ship
| has been built in England for the Gov
eminent of Brazil. She is named the
Riachuelo. and is steel-armored tur-
ret ship, 305 feet long, having dis
| placement of 5. 700 tons. She has fifty
eight water-tigAt compartments and
| belt of steel-armor Ii inches in thick
ness.
Metaire the most fashionable GENE
| terry in New Orleans, was race course
few years ago. 1t then belonged to
an aristocratic club, which blackballed
the president of a lottery company
when he made application for member
ship. By way of revenge he bought
the grounds and gave them to the city
for cemetery.
The estate of Mr. Jones Griner, who
died some time ago in San Felipe, n.
NJ, about seventy miles up the Rio
Grande from Eagle Pass, comprised
| over 0.000 head of sheep, with con-
| siderable herd of cattle, and a number
of horses. Mr.. Griner fifteen years
ago started out in the world with a
capital not exceeding $1,000.
The great drainage system for the
recovery of the Florida swamps now
covers tract 200 miles long and 80
miles broad. Nearly 100000 acres,
halt of which goes to the syndicate
and half to the State, are wholly re-
claimed. Land that one year ago was
two feet under water is now four feet
above, and is being planted with sugar
cane.
Rev. George w. James, of Reno,
New, can recite the whole of Southey's
Cataract of Lodore," forward and
| backward. give the number of any line
| quoted, or recite it by alternate lines.
1t is regarded as the most difficult
poem in the English language to COM
NIT to memory or recite, but he claims
to have mastered it in less than two
| hours.
Children in the Brooklyn public
| schools addicted to eating rock and rye
| drops suffered from bad breath. A
chemical analysis of these drops or
dered by the School Superintendent
disclosed the fact that it was the pres
ence of dangerous quantity of fusil
oil in the drops that made the children
sick He is taking steps to have the
sole of the poisonous stuff prohibited.
New Jersey bird killers receive only 25
to 40 cents per dozen for the murdered
little innocents that millions use as
trimmings FIR bonnets.
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