The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-09-09
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India has greater acreage of wheat
than the United States.
A Fort Worth concern has begun
shipping 200 frozen beef carcasses : day
to England.
Senator Berry, of Arkansas, the sue
cessor of Attorney General Garland, has
fondness for chocolate caramels.
A tunnel $500 feet in length is being
cut through the hill at Bridgeport,
Conn, for the new water-works system.
Cat-tails stained red, blue, purple,
and other colors are being sold by the
Boston small boy as specimens of rural
ingenuity.
The Curtis house. aged $50 years, was
torn down recently at West Roxbury,
Mass, to make room for modern i'm
provements.
MIR. Junius Hebron, aged 90 years,
is a citizen of Cuthbert, Ga. He is quite
active for his age, worns FOR his living,
and has seldom called upon his rela-
tives, who are rich, for aid.
DR.. j. S. H Fogg, of Boston, has a
complete set of the autographs of the
signers of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, having paid $50 for one sigma
ture cut from the fly-leaf of a book.
A new industry has sprung up in
Maine. 1t is the shipping of BURROUGHS
for pillows. Thus far y tons have been
sent from Sebec alone to parties in Bos-
ton. The quality of the boughs is the
very finest.
At recent wedding at Waterloo,
Me-, the bride and bridegroom were
respectively "a and 76 years of age. The
ceremony was witnessed by some nine
hundred people, representing all the
surrounding towns.
The publishers say that the publica-
ton of work in cheap form lessons
very little the sale of a better edition.
AT first authors were averse to the ex-
pertinent, but the result was both sur
prising and gratifying.
Miss Clevelands novel furnishes this
admirable addition to the number of
mixed metaphors: He felt the magnet
ism of his conjectural passion at his
side, and many wavelets of emotion
played upon him as they walked"
A countrywoman went into a store at
Sparta, Ga, one day last week, when
the merchant smiled benignly upon her
and inquired if he could sell her any
goods. "Oh, no." she replied, Il just
thought I'd come in and monkey around
a little until John 'ud weigh his hogs
Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the
New York World, is credited with the
possession of 100000 in registered r.
percent bonds, and his income for the
current year is estimated at $500, 900,
indicating the possession of property to
the amount of S7,500,OOO Twenty
years ago he was a penniless boy in st.
Louis.
Louisiana sportsmen have hitherto
been careful not to shoot the white
cranes which abound in ST. Landry,
but now large numbers of these beauti-
full birds are being killed solely for
their feathers, which are used on the
wearing apparel of women. There
should be an Audubon society in Louis
lana.
There are several towns in Montana
without single unmarried woman, and
the local papers tell piteous tales of the
rich and eligible bachelors who are
travelling about from town to town look
ing for a wife In some parts of the
territory, it is said, commission of
from SO to $50 is freely offered for a
good article in wives
An Eastern composer has written a
serenade entitled Wake Not, but Hear
Me, Love-" which is described IS being
very sweet and full of pathetic tender
ness. 1t occurs to one, however, that
''love" would have hard time endeav-
oring to hear her Alonzo if she did not
wake up. 1t would seem that even a
composer might have sense enough to
know that.
Balloons for war purposes are among
the latest novelties, and promise TO be
of great utility in many ways. When a
domestic breeze begins to blow the man
can step into the back yard turn off the
combination lock on the balloon and
soar away out of the storm center. As
a means of retreat in times of danger
the war balloon beats the cellar, or the
| roof OF the house, out of sight
When the patent granolithic sidewalk
pavement is first put down it is very
sticky, but it hardens quickly. This is
why a young couple of Bridgeport who
stood on a fresh slab of the composition
while bidding each other good night
had to be dug out with a pickax. Their
shoes were ruined, but they were very
grateful to the night Waterman who
released them, and who promised not to
| tell
The somewhat harsh provision of
English law which gives almost every
| thing to the eldest son is curiously illus
trated by the case of the Earl of Dur
| nam, who is now in this country, and
| his brother. The two are twins, but one
| vas born two minutes earlier than the
other The one is called the eldest son
and inherits a princely income. His
| twin-brother has an income about one
tenth as large.
John O'Malley, of Dallas County,
Iowa, is 112 years old. and is still vigor-
Gus, with mental faculties all bright.
He remembers distinctly the Irish re-
volution of 1898, when the French land
ed an army on the coast of Ireland at
Calala to aid the Irish in their struggle
against their English oppressors. Mr..
O'Malley worked at the same forge in
Ireland sixty years, and left 1t nearly as
vigorous as when he began.
Maj. d. MacRay, who points with
pride to himself as leading physician
of Portland, Me-, announces that he has
| located the Capt. Kidd treasure, and
proposes shortly to unearth 100000
of it. The value of his discovery is
somewhat damaged, however, by the
! fact, as he asserts, that whenever he be-
ging to dig for it the treasure is surrep-
titlously shifted by the malign influence
of the spirit of the defunct pirate.
NJ. Paul de Cassagnac. the most
belligerent editor of Pays, was recently
accused of having been struck with a
broomstick. He replied in his own
journal: Il may. with disdain, serve
as a target, as happened to me the other
day, to men who aim at me from dis
lance with revolyers; but should kill
as | would dog the man who came to
ict,- !, . h.,