The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-07-10

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lit is no longer considered necessary
to turn up ones nose at homemade
bonnets and dresses"
Rev. DR.. Deems tells his congrega-
ton to 90 to sleep if they feel sleepy in
church; that both he and Lord will
forgive them, but that they must sleep
quietly.
The byciclers of England number
hundreds of thousands, sustain dozens
of newspapers and 500 manufacturing
firms, and are to have a road from Lon
don to Brighton all to themselves.
According to the London Graphic
there is living in Klyeta, Japan, fam
lily all of whose members have reached
the age of 100 years, and there has
been no exception since the family was
founded, A. D. $50.
Senator Jones, of Florida, is credited
with having the best memory of any
member of the Senate. He seldom
| speaks from notes, but is always pre-
else as to his facts The Senator is
just past fifty, and is over six feet tall.
A grocer in Laurens County, Mass,
owns a half bushel measure that was
used before and after the revolutionary
war. The Boston Globe says that of
course it is valuable to him now only
as curiosity for it holds full half
bushel.
Six wholesale stores under the Brook
Ign bridge are in operation. The stores
are each two stories high, seyenty-tive
feet deep, and twenty-one feet wide.
The average rent is nearly $4,000 q
year. Other arches will be fitted up
and ready for occupancy within year.
Man is harvester. He begins life
at the cradle; learns to handle the
fork; often has rakish ways and sows
wild oats; thresheS his way through
the world, and when he arrives ut the
sere and yellow leaf, time m0ws him
down and his remains are planted on
the hillside.
Five children went home from cir
Gus in Dakota recently impressed by
the feat of descending an incline on q
globe. Finding smooth log lying at
the top of q steep hill, they took their
places on it in a row and set it rolling.
They were all thrown off ami run over,
three being killed.
Car couplers on the New England
Road have been supplied with coupling
sticks to guide the links in coupling
cars. The employees are notified that
any of them who are injured while
coupling cars without the aid Of q
stick will not receive any assistance
from the company.
General Nathaniel p Banks, ex-Gov-
ernor and eX-Speaker, now nearly 20
years of age, is living with his family
on his pleasant estate in Waltham,
Mass, and taking an active part In
town and social affairs. 1t is said to be
likely, as the town is about to adopt
city charter, that he will be its first
Mayor.
As an example of the new Industries
that are springing up in North Caro-
lima, there is at Newbern q manufac-
ture of plates and dishes of gum wood,
consuming each week $50 sweet-gum
logs, forty-eight inches long. The
capital invested is about $25, 000 The
capacity of the factory is about so, 900
plates per day.
While Emperor William was at din
ner recently, one of the women assist
ants was seen watching him through a
glass door. When the dishes were re-
moved she slipped into her pocket a
piece of bread which he had been eat
ing, saying to companion: II am 60
ing to preserve that, for l saw our dear
Emperor eat from it!'
1t is stated that John Porter, an en-.
gineer on the Michigan Central Road,
has been offered SAT, 600 for his patent
on an attachment TO steam cylinder
which condenSes the waste from the
steam cock on starting the engine,
thereby averting that Kissing noise
which is so disagreeable to the ear and
such terror to horses.
Those skeptics who have doubted
the usefulness of the mosquito need
doubt no longer. The Berrien, Ga,
NeaOS says that the life of r. @. Hous-
ton was saved by mosquitoes drawing
the poison of rattlesnake bite from
his leg while his companions left him
in a swamp to procure medical assist
ance.
Ex-Governor Prescott, of New Hamp-
shire. has secured 40 portraits of dis
tinguished men for the State House.
yarmouth College, his alma mater. and
Exeter Academy, where he received his
earlier education. Among these at
Exeter are portraits of Daniel Webster.
Edward Everett, Lewis Cass, Jared
Sparks and George Bancroft.
A recent edition of the New Orleans
P:cdg1tI9e was printed on paper made
of bagasse, the refuse of sugar cane
after the juice is squeezed out. and the
event has created quite a stir among
the paper manufacturers. The sugar
planters of Louisiana, who have burned
this hitherto worthless stuff TO get rid
Of it. now see possibility of making
money out of it, and some of the more
enthusiastic of them think it will be
nearly as profitable as the sugar crop.
ALL IN THE LINE OF NATURE.
There is nothing in the lire of magic
or mystery about that wonderful and pop
ularuedicine, ParBer's Tonic. It is sim
ply the best and most scientific combina-
ton possible of the essential principles
OF those vegetable curatives which act