The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-02-18
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the Hluule Oh the taDie Is now paSSee.
Asparagus in glass jars is new i'm
ported substitute for the fresh vege-
table.
At the beginning of the present CEN
fury it was considered fast bv respect
able Londoners to have sofas in the par
lor.
Gen. McClellan's property. at Orange,
New Jersey, is to be sold His widow
is in poor health and viii reside in New
York.
When the German crown princess
sold sausages at the recent charity ba-
zaar in Berlin she charged S15 for each
link-ive mouthfuls.
The court stenographer of the Ninth
Judicial District wrote 1,246 words in
Marion n. T., recently in five min
utes, under public test.
Senators Stanford end Evarts own
farms, and agree that there is no great
er pleasure than to lean on the fence
and see the cattle feed.
In Albuquerque. Y. NJ, company is
| organizing to explore the ruins of a. vast
ancient city, where, it is thought $780,
100000 worth OF plumber may be found.
George Francis Trains new work,
''Dives and Lazarus is coming out in
the Tacoma puget Sound) Ledger I'M
der the head of .Vanderbillian Psy-
chos.n
A cruiser that is to steam among the
waves of the sea at the amazing speed
of twenty-five knots an hour is being
built on the Clyde for the Spanish gov
eminent.
In New York some of the young wo-
men of means and leisure are taking
lessons in fencing. an art which Moliere
said consisted in touching and not be-
ing touched"
From tests made by DR.. Fisher, the
German chemist, it appears that in or
binary stoves not more than 90 per cent
of the fuel consumed is utilized in warm
ing the rooms.
A prize obituary poem on Gen. Grant
is entitled ~ Cadrifog Grant" 1t is
in Welsh and the first line consists of
the sonorous sentiment: '.Du lwyth DIR
yr Unol Dalaethian."
Agassiz the elder, as the book by his
widow tells US, used to make his coffee
the day to the soaking of all sorts Of
creatures for skeletons.
Buffalo capitalists are going to build
a railroad down the ledge of rocks past
the whirlpool rapids. One party sug-
gests that an anchored balloon COM
pany be formed Tor the benefit of tour
lists.
1T is noteworthy" says the Paris
Neaos, ''that in his Gottingen days Bis
marck wagered twenty-five bottles of
champagne with an American that
Germany would be united in twenty
years"
The honey crop of San Diego county,
California, for 1885, was: Comb honey,
100000 pounds; extracted, 1884, 800;
total, 2,177,50 pounds. This is equal
to 1883 tons, or over 100 carloads of
honey. AT cents per pound it is worth
S178,000.
A movement is on foot among Ohio
journalists, begun in Perry and Hook
ing counties, to erect a monument over
the grave of j. A. MacGahan, 1.-THE
Gberator of Bulgaria" at New Lexing-
ton, in Perry county, where MacGahan
was born and where his body lies.
There has been a bitter quarrel be-
tween the Emperor of Russia and his
uncle, the Grand Duke Michael; and
the latter left ST. Petersburg in high
dudgeon for his estates in the Caucasus,
having previously resigned all his Off
ces, including the presidency of the
council of state.
Prince Bismarck's idea Of the freedom
of debate during his first period of par
liamentary service may be gathered
from his suggestion that .Halt-a-dozen
drummers should be placed on the min
isterial bench, and that all interpella-
tons should be answered with roll of
their drums"
One of the best collections of birds
| and insects in America was that of
Charles Buettner, a German, at Burling-
ton, Iowa. There were in the collection
10000 rare bugs, flies, worms and the
like The fire fend rolled all these like
SO many dainty morsels under his
tongue of flame, and now Naturalist
Buettner is disconsolate.
The natives of the southern portion OF
Africa-the Zulus, Basutos, Swarzies
and Bechuanas-are among the best
races in Africa. They are exceedingly
bright, have regular and handsome
features and small feet and hands, and
are at all times friendly. They practice
polygamy, buying and selling their
wives like cattle, but, do not allow the
whites to mix with them.
A farmer residing some five miles
north from Etna Kan, tells of a great
natural curiosity. He says there is on
his farm perfect natural bridge. The
width OF the archway through which the
water threads its way is from to u
feet. The cavernous archway is some
800 feet long. About 80 feet from the
lower end of the bridge there gushes
forth clear spring of cool, soft water.
Horace Bradley, the young Georgian
who got the $1,000 commission for
portrait of the late Senator Hill, began
while at school to support himself and
his brothers and sisters on sign-paint-
ing. Having made enough to 90 to
New York, he worked at the Cooper
union, got orders from the Harpers, and
when the Hill portrait was given him
he was able to study painting under
Chase.
Mr.. James Russell Lowell, in consid-
ering the poet Gray at Concord, regard
ed him as the most conscientious of
artists. eff there be any pure well of
English undefiled, it is to be found in
him and in his master. Dryden. They
are still the standard of what may be
called classical English, neither archaic
nor modern, and as far removed from
pedantry as from vulgarity.
William A. Shannon, now private
secretary of the mayor of Newark, N. j.,
was at one time the private secretary of
James Buchanan while he was president
of the United States. He recollected
MIR. Buchanan as a martinez, although
withal very pleasant gentleman, who
used to review his corps of assistants
with one eye closed in manner that
was very severe.