The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-05-22
GLEANINGS.

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900.
A twice-convicted felon has been
chosen Speaker of the Queensland Par
lament.
A minstrel company has been formed
from the more intellectual students of
yarmouth.
In the carpet works at Yonkers, N
T., about 5000 hands, more than half
of them girls, are employed.
La Scala, the great theater in Milan,
is now lighted by electricity. Two
thousand Edison lights are used.
In shape and color Eugene Boudous'
head resembles exactly that of q calf
He is making show of himself in
Paris.
A sign board marked ''six miles to
Montgomery, Ala.," was found in the
mountains after the tornado, 250 miles
from Montgomery.
A japanese traveller says that certain
classes of murder are punishable with
the death of the murderer, all his fam
lily and his schoolmaster.
The editor of a comic journal in
Madrid gets eight years for poking fun
at the King. This is putting the joke
on the other fellow with a vengeance.
An Alabama Judge has decided that
man who puts his satchel on seat
in the car reserves the seat-unless the
man who removes it is bigger than
he is.
Ihe Second District of Gibson coun-
tr Tann hos fhran hot
siXty-three children, twenty-five apiece.
One of them has seventy-tive grand
children.
The women of Siam have petitioned
the King to forbid men pledging their
wives to meet gambling debts The
cause of woman goes marching on, the
world round.
The Marshal of Rockland, Me-, and
his three heaviest policeman have an
aggregate weight of S8S pounds. One
of the officers wears a No. IL shoe and
another No. 13.
For Russian the Gar is poor lin
guist: he speaks only three languages
French, German, and Russian. Near
ly every educated Russian speaks at
least five languages fluently.
The latest use devised for paper is
the making of carpets. A Connecticut
man is reported to have taken out pat
ents for processes by which beautifp,
and substantial carpets can be mso, q of
paper at very low prices.
A correspondent writ,s to q naner in
Palatka' Fla, that alligator steak" in
taste much resembles black bass, is a
ilttle os'or and a slight degree stronger,
sot vat if placed upon the table as
p1sn but few could detect it.
1t is said that places can be found in
New York where what are called gen.
uine oil paintings, 8 feet by q. are
painted in twenty minutes. They find
ready sale, and are made exclusively
for the American market.
Auatin Keen has inst served out ten
years in the New Jersey State Prison.
When he had been in five years he sent
for a girl whom he wronged and mar
ried her in prison. She and her child
lived there until he was released.
Statistics show that in Denmark,
whose male population succeeds in
drinking annually fourteen gallons of
spirits per capita, drunkenness has to
do with 81 per cent of the serious and
67 per cent of the petty crimes COM
mitted.
The attempt in Georgia to preserve
Liberty Hall'' as a permanent men,
orial of its owner, the late Alexander
II. Stephens, is failure, and the prop
erty is likely to go to a citizen of Craw-
fordville, who proposes to make it his
private residence.
A Bible printed in the Russian Ian
guage was found in Castle Garden the
other day, in which was slip bearing
number of strange devices, such as
knives, pistols, cows head, and a
biood-red cross and heart The owner
is supposed to be Socialist priest.
Chinese John" became such q fire.
quent traveller between New York and
Havana that he aroused suspicion, and
his baggage, barrel of sweet pota-
toes, was examined. 1t was found to
contain among the potatoes thirty
packages of tobacco and 500 bundles
of cigarettes.
A racy story is told of an old lady
who refused to be comforted by her
pastors assurance that when he left
she would have better pastor as his
successor. INA, na," she said, II
have seen fourteen changes in the min
listers since | attended the kirk, and
every ane has been waur than anither."
A Paris correspondent. referring to
the death of Gov. Stanford's son at
Florence, is led to remark: ''Alas! why
will loving parents take their children
int +a1
lands of Southern Europe and the
East? The risk is SO fearful and the
advantage to be gained is at best SO
small.
+. (. Herdman, government geolog-
ist, engaged on survey of Western
Australia, saw wounded snake which
had been attacked by black ants bite
itself twice in the side, from the effects
of which it soon died. He believes it
to have been clear case of deliberate
suicide in order to escape the pain and
suffering it was compelled to bear.
The western part of Texas is filling
up with those who settled in other sec
tions of the state before the days Of
railroads. Now things are entirely too
lively for them, and they have gone
out where the sound of the locomotive
is not heard. Some of them declare
they will return to Kentucky if they
| are crowded out by another railroad.
While some workmen a few weeks
ago were making excavations in ground
formerly attached to the Manor
heuse at Chelsea, which Henry VIII.
built for his daughter, the Princess
Elizabeth, they came upon subter
ranean passage leading toward Ken
sington. About thirty feet of it is in
good preservation, being still well
arched.
A resident of Macon, Ga, has pur-
chased from a local confectioner for
SIP the right to eat as much candy as
he wishes in one month. He has
gained five and half pounds in weight
in the first week. and processes to be
ready to bet 500 to $500 that he can
eat two and half pounds of candy on
the twentieth day. The confectioner