The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-02-07

do with its wheat except to eat it.
Mrs Louisa II. Albert, of Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, has entered into partnership
with her husband in the practice of
law. The sign reads albert & Albert,
attorneys at law.
The surprising sunsets of November,
which extended around the world, crea-
ted superstitious fear in India, and
numbers of holy men went about
preaching impending disaster.
The Empress of Japan is said to be a
pretty woman and TO take a great in
terest in the welfare of her sex With
her own money she has founded nor
NAL school for girls.
Rev Joseph Cook declares that there
are mot over five newspapers in the
United States that self-respecting
American would recommend a foreign
visitor to read"
Young girls who are DESTROYS of Sc
curing physical beauty are recommend
ed by physician to eat meat once q
day, pickles once week, and sweet
meats once a year; also to take a cold
bath and a five mile walk every day.
In New York 1906 signs, /, 103 signs
on drop awnings, $50 wooden Indians,
5, 1913 exhibits of goods, 1,101 stands,
531 coal boxes, and 1926 awnings,
were licensed to obstruct the streets
last year.
A pillow boy on n ranch near Santa
Barbara, Cal, plowed over forgotten
well. Both of the horses fell in and
were killed, and the boy would have
followed them only he was caught on
the plowhandles and thrown clear
across the hole unhurt.
The set of sapphires owned by the
wife of Mr.. Mackey, of bonanza"
fame, is valued at $500, 900, and COM
prises the diadem, bracelets, ring, ear
rings and necklace, with large pen
dant. The contents of her jewelry
chest are valued at 81, 100000.
A Western paper announces that an
article which it had prepared on the
growth and prosperity of the town was
unavoidably crowded out until the fol-
lowing day, owing to the unexpected
amount OF ''Sheriif Sales" announce
ments.
Elmer Weir, 10 years of age, while
skating at Salem, Mass, broke through
the ice. A Newfoundland dog which
the family had saved from starving
made his way to the edge of the water,
dove after the boy and dragged him to
the land where he was soon resusci-
tated.
The muskrats, wild turkeys and other
animals except the moose deer which
Lord Lorne has taken from Canada to
Inverary, are doing well. For the wild
turkey there is perhaps the best pros
pect. Last century several fiocks were
fourishing in Windsor forest, and du-
ring the reign of George II. Richmond
Park contained over 1000.
Walt Whitman says that real Ameri-
can poetry, as well as any American
literature in a high sense, is something
yet to be. The aims and stress of our
book making, according to his estimate,
are entirely adjusted-like our society
life-to certain fine drawn surface,
imported ways and examples, having
no deep root or hold in our SOIL He
hardly knows a volume that is dis
tinctively American.
There is said to be haunted house
in Silver street, San Francisco, occu-
pied by man named Roberts. He
says the doors are opened by unseen
hands, the lights are suddenly extin-
guished in one of the rooms, picture
frames move on their hangings, there
is loud knocking on the walls, and the
piano plays ''Shall we gather at the
riverP2 in the still hours of the night.
Governor Ireland offers to give a GER
titled check for $40. 900 to any person
who will show that he has failed to
use any constitutional prerogative that
promised to stop fence cutting. Still
the lawlessness is unchecked and land in
Texas west of the ninety-eighth merid-
ian, comprising nearly half the area of
the state, cannot be sold for so per
cent of its value year ago.
An English practitioner gave lady
n mixture of acetic acid to dissolve a
pin she had swallowed, and said it
would do its work in n week. But the
medical authorities have sat down up
on the case, and find that such mix
lures are non-operative. 1t was de-
cided, moreover, that metallic bodies
become quickly and considerably cor
roded by the action of the juices in the
alimentary canal.
An actor always speaks of his parts
as being so many Lengths. A length
is forty-two lines Of written matter, in
GLIDING the cues, which he has to men,
oriZe the same rs his own speeches.
Leading parts, such as the male and fe-
male lead, the comedian and the heavy
man, will average in a modern play
from eighteen 10 twenty lengths. or
about 800 lines. The rapidity with
which some actors can commit this to
memory is wonderful. Instances have
been known where, owing to accident
or sudden sickness on the part of an
other. his substitute has learned part
of $40 lines in three hours.
An ex-conductor tells a Leadville
Chr0nicdl reporter how some porters in
sleeping ears accumulate wealth: "a
Pullman passenger jumps aboard late
at some intermediate station. He is
tired and sleepy, and he wants to go to
bed at once Usually the berths are
made up. why. certainly, says the
porter, tumble right in. just give me
your fare and when the conductor
comes along l viii turn it over to him.
The passenger is delighted with the
courtesy. He pays his Pullman and
car fare-$10 or $50 as it may be-and
retires for the night. Meanwhile the
porter has got number of trip checks,
most likely from the hats of some fell
lows doing in the smoker, and. pres
entity returning, he inserts one under
the hat band of the belated traveller.
The train conductor comes around in
the morning, takes up his checks, and
everybody is happy"
A Boston girl married man because
he struck her fancy, and afterwards
got divorce from him because he
struck her face,