The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-01-08
GLEANENGS.

adelphia that have beeni in practice over
so years.
Bismarck wants to have established
more direct passenger communication
| between Berlin and London.
There are $40 hunting packs in En-
gland, comprising 10000 hounds.
Their annual cost is S1,750,0OO.
Englishmen eat brown bread with
their oysters, while Americans only eat
lemon juice and pepper on them.
The Brewer gold mine in North Car
DINA has yielded more than 81 900, 900,
| and the Dora Mine 81, 100, 900 and up
ward.
By paying his daughter 800 a year
to run his kitchen, Lord Coleridge
saved enough money to make the trip
to America.
John Swinton says the saddest sound
| heard in New York is the hammering
of the tough beef-steak set on boarding
house tables.
A Chinese doctor at Victoria, B. c.,
is reported to have made some remark
able cures in cases where white phys
!cians have failed.
Hundreds of people are said to be
actually starving in the North of En-
gland, with many thousand more hun
CRY and destitute
The hot water cure has become q
craze. A New York druggist claims
he has 1000 disciples now swallowing
tumblerfuls before breakfast.
Miss M. f. Braddon, the most prolif-
ic OF English story writer's, in private life
is Mrs. Maxwell, and owns up to have
reached the mature age of tifty-six.
The total number of hogs slaughter
ed annually in the United States is esti-
mated at 10000, 900, the average dress
ed weight being Us pounds each.
Pearl-rimmed eyeglasses of violet
color are now used extensively by fash
ionables of both sexes in New York.
The originator was a Vassar school
girl.
Bacon at 10 cents pound, says the
Fort Worth Gazette, is greater barrier
to the advancement and growth of
Texas than either short crops or lack of
water.
Eating a small piece of soap at stated
intervals is recommended by a Berlin
physician as better remedy for dys-
pepsla and sour stomach than soda,
magnesia or lime water.
The best cabinet Rhine wine of the
vintage of 1868 is reserved especially
Tor the imperial table at Berlin. 1t is
worth $3.50 bottle. 1t is made
from grapes picked one by one out of
the Rhlneish vineyards on account of
their perfection.
Many towns on the Pacific coast
forbid Indians to come within their
limits after nightfall-not because
the noble red man is dangerous, but be-
cause he is thief and sneak, and his
wife, who accompanies him, more upon
his order and for his profit.
General Berdan, of sharp-shooting
fame, to whose daughter Mr. +. Mar
ion Crawford has just been married,
was sometime ago offered field mar
shalship by the Sultan, but he declined
it, saying he could never wear any 9TH
err than the American uniform.
Dom Pedro, when recently starting
on a pleasure trip on small steam
yacht down the Bahai ell Todos Santes.
from Rio de Janeiro, fell overheard,
and was hauled out of the briny bv
naval engineer officer and an army Off
| Ger. Both were made Barons.
Recent vital statistics show that I'M
| der the age of fifteen there are more
| boys than girls, but after the fifteenth
| year there are more women than men,
| and between the ages of ninety and
one hundred the proportion is three to
two in favor of women.
A literary man asked friend who
was personally familiar with the home
life of the Lyttons whether he thought
Lord Lytton ever did really bite his
| wife. The reply was: That / cannot
ly week with her l should have done
So"
Washington is the paradise of smok-
ers. A drummer says: There are
more cigars and tobacco used there
than any other place in this country of
its size" This is explained by the fact
that a great many of the Government
employees have nothing to do but sit
around, smoke and talk of politics.
A Bostonian writes: Il cured N.Y.
self of an annoying habit of stammer-
ing by inhaling deep breath between
every few words, and by never allow
ing myself to speak unless the lungs
were fully inflated. A little careful at
tention soon made the practice habit,
and now | never stammer unless much
excited"
After much experimenting DR.. Rich
ardson has found satisfactory means
of causing painless death, and has intro
duced it into the Home for Lost Dogs
in London. The animals to be killed
are placed in chamber charged with
a mixture of carbolic oxide and chloro-
form vapor, when they TRANQUILITY fall
asleep and wake no more.
President-elect Cleveland is a fine
| dancer and will, it is said "trip the
| light fantastic toe at his inaugural
| ball. He will be the first President
since Lincoln who would or could 90
| through the merry, may figures of the
cotillion or reel. General Jackson and
wife danced at ball, given in their
honor, to the tune of "'Possum up
Gum Tree. "-Augusta Chronicle.
Oscar Wilde suggests that for the flu
ture ladies should leave off stays entire
ly and adopt the Eastern garb, notably
as regards the combinations and slip
| pers. Like other geniuses, he is forget
| full of details, and does not say how
| slippers are to be worn on a muddy day
in November. For men he recommends
the period Of the Charleses as being the
| most becoming (not to say the most ex=
pensive) age from which to copy.
Representative j, Randolph Tucker,
| the intimate friend of Garfield, relates
that the latter once asked him if he
| knew where the National motto, e
Pluribus Unum,' came from. Tucker
| admitted that he did not. well" it
PONIES from description in Horace, of
the preparation OF a Roman salad.' and
he turned to it. There, surely enough,
was the list of ingredients, and the re-
mark that the result was sc pluribus
unum."
A REMARKABLE ESCAPE.
Mrs Mary 4 Dsiiey of Tupkhappook