The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-01-22
GLEANTNGS.

ing investment all over the country.
Stanley, the explorer, has received
ninety-five resolutions of thanks and
$50 complimentary dinners, and is not
lead yet.
There is not a single lawyer among
The 1000 convicts in the Virginia Peni-
tertiary. Virginia lawyers seldom get
'ound out.
The highest priced clock in America
S owned by Wall street broker in
New York. 1t cost $34, 600, and was
made in that city.
Pneumatic tubes, through which are
transmitted letters, papers and tele-
grams, have just been introduced be-
tween all the sub-postoffices and the
main Office in Paris.
Brunettes are said to be preferred to
blondes as Treasury clerks at Washing
on. They are steadier at their desks,
and less liable to Mysteries when the
Chief Clerk speaks sharply.
Mrs Langtry is said to have the most
beautiful shoulders and back of any
woman on the stage. The Jersey Lily
ias photographs taken of her shapely
pack as it is seen upon the stage, and
is beauty is marvellous.
London, with its 100000 inhabit-
ants, does twice as much telegraphing
as Paris and three times as much as
New York. 1t has 10000 miles of I'M
1erground conductors and not a tele-
graph pole in the street.
A close observer says that nothing
eXasperates a woman who has been
shading her eyes from the gaslight with
der hand all the evening so much as to
ind that after ali she had left her best
diamond ring on the washstand.
There is on exhibition in a window
On School street, Boston, squash
which girts 7x61 feet and weighs 166
pounds. 1t was grown in Nova Scotia,
and the owner of it last year raised
one that turned the scales at 292
pounds.
Writing from Lynn, Mass, a CORE
'pondent reminds the Scientific Anaeri-
;G11 that, as an instance of a remarka-
ole flight of an exploded boiler, about
:wo years ago boiler exploded in that
city, and the flying portion, describing
circle high in the air, landed 900 feet
from where it started.
.'Are you consumptive? Stay at
nome, make your will, be happy and
comfortable and try and live as long as
you can. Study up the climate of Flor
ida and keep away if you have been
expectorating blood" This is the ad-.
vice given by DR.. Bushrod w. Jones',
in SANITARY Gleanings.
A doctor claims to have discovered
way to prevent the ravages of phyllox-
era, from which the grape-growing dis
tricts of France have been suffering so
seriously of late years. Experiments
with the use of arsenic have proved
successful, and the doctor is making
still others upon larger scale. Much
public interest is felt in the expert
ments, and their result is awaited with
Eager hope.
NJ. Urueta, in recent paper about
snakes, relates that in Colombia their
chief destroyers are two species of birds
the calabrero and gaucabo- and the
cats and hogs The latter are suppos-
ed to be protected from the sting on
account of their adipose tissue. Cats
10 not die. The writer saw a cat eat
the heads and tails OF two large ones;
It's wounded places liberated, but soon
healed.
"a remarkable tenor voice." says the
Baltimore american, attracted much
attention from those who attended the
Plenary Council services at the cathe-
1ral. 1t belongs to Father O'Keefe. of
the Church Of the Immaculate Concep-
ton, of Philadelphia. He is not only a
fine vocalist, but he is a theoretical
musician. The range of his high notes
extends to G flat, which he takes easily
and not only holds at length, but exc
cuted an impromptu cadenza of deli
cate trills, touching again this high
uote.'
A few days since, as workmen were
removing old ice from ODER & Co. s ice
house, in Dresden, Me-, says a CORE
spondent of the Boston Journal, they
found large frog between two blocks
OF ice that were frozen together solid
and had been in the house two years.
A number of heavy blows were requir-
ed to separate the blocks, when, on be-
ing released, his fro.ship stretched
himself a few times to get limbered up
and then hoped away as lively as ev-
er apparently none the worse for his
frigid imprisonment.
A prominent lawyer of this city was
during the Presidential election a pro-
nounced Independent. At the Repub-
licaD caucus in his ward a few even
ings since objections were made to his
taking part in the proceedings on ac-
count of his departure from the regular
ticket. Upon returning home he re-
marked to his family that he was dis
carded because he was a "mugwump."
His attentive little daughter heard the
conversation, and the next day said to
several callers assembled in the parlor,
Papa was turned out of a meeting
last night because he was chipmunkr'
Boston Budget.
An old broken-down gambler of Paris
may be seen daily promenading in the
'habbieSt attire, with a magnificent
white camellia in his button hole.
Some years ago he won a great deal
Of money, and determined to make
sure that he should always be supplied
with his favorite flower. He therefore
paid large sum in cash to his florist,
who agreed to supply him with white
camellia every day for the rest of his
life. And now the decayed old sport
struts up and down the boulevard with
camellia worth more than the coat
which it adorns,
Rev. DR.. Paxton observes that Scotch
''are the only people who ever success
fully solved the problem on this little
planet of how to combine punch and
piety." That Is pretty well put. Their
punch, like their piety, is strong and
genuine This remark recalls the re-
proachful commentary of the Canadian
Episcopal Bishop OF Scotch birth upon
his treatment of the table of certain
rector in Buffalo. They were all good
people and most kind, | am sure; but
do you know, my DEAR said the old
gentleman, ''they gave me water to
drink at table and upon going to bed,
as if | had been horse
A Scotchman, who at an early period
of his career came to London, and, as
ic ,,rovarbia llv tho case with foll IF