The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-10-15
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Both the sons of the Gar are slight,
gentle-looking boys, resembling their
mother.
German biologists estimate that The
Dead Sea will be mass of solid salt a
thousand years hence.
A bill in the Georgia Legislature
proposes a tax of 500 for every base
ball game played in the state.
One of the English railroad COM
panies has supplied all its employees
with red neck handkerchiefs,t the wear
irg of which is compulsory.
San Francisco fishermen say the seals
and sea lions in the harbor must 90.
They consume A, 900 tons of fish year
enough to supply the whole city.
A national movement is being sue
cessfully carried out in the Colony of
Victoria to erect a memorial statue in
Melbourne to the late Gen. Gordon.
The popularity of Southern Califor-
MIA as sanitarium is such that there
are over 200 cottages, worth from
5000 TO 81, 500 piece, in course of
construction in Los Angeles and SUI
burbs.
In front of Yankton, d. T., where
| the channel of the river ran twenty
feet deep five years ago, there are now
| 100 acres Of land six to eight feet above
| low water mark. The river is shifting
! to the Nebraska side.
An Essex, VT, man recently paid a
debt, it is said, of $4,000 with the hard
| cash-all in silver-he had boarded up.
| The box weighed $50 pounds, and the
| man to whom it was paid stays awake
nights watching his treasure.
Since New Years Day $50 inventions
have been filed in the Patent Office rel
alive to roller skates. Boxwood, of
which the wheels are generally made,
has doubled in price. Contracts for
10000 tons of steel for the skates have
been given out.
When Bismarck made the acquaint-
! ance of his present doctor he was sick
and peevishly declined to answer ques-
tions. "As you like said the doctor;
''send for veterinary surgeon, as such
practitioners treat their patients with
out asking any questions" The Chan
cellor was captured.
William Henry Hurlbert writes from
| London that Mr.. Forster once said of
the late Lord Houghton: "Foibles or
no foibles, this is to be said of him by
me, that of all the men | have ever
known he is the one man to whom |
would go at once, not only were l in
trouble, but were l in disgrace"
Five bits of Robert Lees lead cut
round holes through the hide of 1.-The
Drummer boy of the Potomac" Dem
| c. % al l., Il
Sullivan, now in Washington, says
that he was but one week more than
ten years old when he enlisted, and he
claims, therefore, to be considered as
among the youngest of the Union SOL
diers.
1.-The gold and scarlet of the SUM- is
riValed in the cupolas of ST. Peters
Cathedral, just finished at Moscow.
There are five of the cupolas, and no
less than 900 pounds of gold were used
in OVERLAPPING them. The doors of the
temple cost $4,000, and upon the
marble floors were expended $780,
600. Ten thousand worshippers can
be comfortable if their souls let them
within this 81, 500 900 temple.
An old resident of Jasper. Tenn, has
left a large property in trust to be used
for suppressing the habit prevalent
among men of eating with their knives.
He had also felt the disadvantage aris-
ing from his own early lack of training
in such matters, and had fairly become
monomaniac on the subject, stopping
or calling attention to those whom he
noticed INDUCING in the use of the
knife in lieu of fork.
lc E.
tune on Cora Pearl, is a son of the
founder of favorite cheap Paris restau-
rants, and is now settled down, pros
porous, and happily married. He long
since recovered from his passion for
Cora, whose present deplorable state
has furnished the occasion for so many
sympathetic articles in the Paris press.
She became years ago hideous wreck,
and has now fallen into utter poverty.
In the ancient graves in Tennessee
are found human skulls that are some
inches larger than any modern human
head. Within the last forty years there
has been a very marked diminutiou in
the size of heads in Philadelphia. Old
and experienced hatters in this city
and New York, says the Ledger, will
corroborate this statement. Somebody
writes to an exchange to ask: us there
similar change taking place else
where, and what will be the result?'
Why is it that the watch springs are
breakingP sin my experience of thir-
ty-three years." writes workman in
the tinishing-room of a factory, Il
have never known of so large per cent
of broken springs at this time of year.
| always have noticed that there was a
large increase in the breaking of main
springs in watches in the fall, but there
are more accidents of the kind now
than ever. Why is it?' No less than
5000 mainsprings in watches were
broken during recent storm in New
York.
At Gastein. when the Emperor and
Empress of Austria took leave of Kali
ser Wilhelm, the latter wished to ac-
company them some distance from the
Badeschloss. They begged him to
spare himself that fatigue. But he in
sisted on going. Then Franz Josef,
with dignitied pleasantly, said;
'When you are wearing my uniform
you should obey my orders" Where
upon Kaiser Wilhelm, who was in the
dress of an Austrian Colonel, drew
himself up, gravely saluted, and re-
piled: ~ must, of course, obey your
Majesty's commands
A man died at Montrouge, in France,
after strong reverse of fortune. He
was known in the humble society
among which he ended his days as LIE
Pere Fallais, but under the Empire,
less than twenty years, he lived in
great luxury. He was the contractor
who undertook the work for opening
the Boulevard st. Michael, in which
millions passed through his hands.
He afterward became utterly ruined in
unfortunate speculations, and lived for
time on the charity of an old beggar-
woman whom he had promised to re-
munerate when he came into a fort
une he expected, but as the fortune