The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-06
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A tailor in Albany testifes that in the
/ hip pockets of three-fifths of his Gus
| toners he finds hard, cold shooting.
| irons.
EN-Attorney General Brewster has
acquired larger law practice in Phila-
delphia than he had before he accepted
Office.
In Michigan there is new factory
for new purpose-to make a substitute
for whalebone out of the quilts of geese
and turkeys.
W. X. Vanderbilt's new private car,
"The Wanderer," cost $4,000. The
outside color is olive-green. Eleven
persons may live in it.
Lieutenant Governor Ames, of Massa-
chusetts, gives $4,000 year to the town
| OF EaSton, in that state, to be used in
setting out shade trees.
Smashing some $4,000 worth of
lamps, the managers of the elevated
railroads in New York are about to fit
out the cars with electric burners.
The O'Connell family of Beresford, d.
T., has had nine additions in the last
five years. One set of triplets and two
sets of twins helped in the addition.
The Prince of Wales. restricted bv
his physician to a lean mutton chop
and stale bread for dinner is said to be
a very melancholy dyspeptic, indeed.
A gentleman who saw a meteor re-
Gently in Surrey, England, described it
as being apparently so near him that
he thought he could hit it with a stone.
1t is recalled by Forest and Stream
| that the first effective law for the pro-
lection of insectiverous birds was pre-
pared by Henry William Herbert. The
original draft is still in existence
The military telegraph wire from
Fort Sully to Fort Yates, ID. T., has Just
been taken down and sold to farmers
| for use as fence wire-which is merely
a new form of beating swords into
plowshares.
BY the will of the late Eliza Ricarby,
a rich woman of New Orleans, two
| thirds of her estate goes to a Mrs. Jen-
ME Morrison on condition that she shall
take care of Bobo, little dog owned by
the dead woman.
Signor Bombcci supposes the detona-
| ton OF meteors to be that of an explosive
gas formed during the surface heating
of the mass in the atmosphere, and ac-
cumulating chiefly in the vacuous space
! left behind the mass in its very swift
flight.
John G. Whittier, in a recent letter TO
his friend for more than half century,
Edwin Thompson, said: ''The long,
hard winter has left me very poorly in
health. L am glad to see tia. thy pen
is still busy, As for myself, dread to
touch pen and paper. "
Arthur T. Hadley stated that no less
than $4,000 persons were injured an
nually in the United States from the
single duty of coupling cars. This
estimate is made from statistics OF
surgical aid given to such cases.
&c. o. d. which has become mcor.
| porated into mercantile phraseology,
was invented in Boston quarter of a
century aso by Henry Damon, who sold
many boots and shoes subject to pay.
ment upon delivery. The express
order, collection on delivery" was
then thus abbreviated.
Street children at Hoboken, n. j.,
have their own method of making
money. They buy a bunch of ten ferry
! tickets for % cepts and retail them al
3 cents each, thus realizing one-hal1
cent profit on each ticket One bright
little fellow said that one day he solo
400 tickets, thus making 81. The
average days sales, however, are 100.
A patent for the safe distribution O.
natural gas throughout the variou:
mains has just been granted to Pitts
burger. 1t covers the process of mixing
air with gas in such proportions that
while the danger Of explosion is taker
away, all the heating qualities still re
main. The patent is expected to revo
| lutionize the use of natural gas.
st. Augustine, Fla, is to have the
largest hotel in the South, 600x400 feet
and costing S4,OOO,OOO. It will be bull;
in strictly Moorish architecture, OF
coquina ground and mixed with cement
and will be ready for next winters bust,
ness. A garden and fountains viii
occupy its interior court and an orange
grove is to be planted on one part q
the roof.
In addition to Lieutenant Greely's
narrative of his expedition in the arctic
regions, he has written an official re
port with maps and illustrations, which
is to be published as a public document
at cost of S12,367. An additional
edition of 4, 800 copies will also probably
be printed at cost of SS,S77. Twelve
hundred and fifty of these will be dis
tributed by Senators, $500 by Repre-
sentatives, and 750 by the signal service
The American weeping willow seem;
to have had romantic story. The frs
scion was sent from Smyrna in a bo,
of figs to Alexander Pope. Genera
Clifton brought shoot from Pope's tret
to America, in the time of the revolu
ton, which, passing into the hands o
John Parke Custis, was planted on hi
estate in Virginia, thus becoming th'
protector of the weeping willow in thi
country.
Gen. Preston said to an interviewer
'Once when Sir Garnet Wolseley aske(
me at dinner party at Montreal if tn,
South could not have held out longer
replied, AS mere matter OF physica
endurance, yes; but do you know, sir
that, in the four years of war through
which we passed, the South alone, will
its few millions of people, lost more mel
in battle than England did in all it
wars from William the Conqueror t.
Queen Victorian"
Christian Glauser of Reading, Pa.
is one of the few dealers, if not the onl,
dealer, in dogs meat in this country
He keeps it on hand to sell to person
who think it may be good for thei
health, and also fries out the fat ant
sells it as cure for colds, rheumatism
and troubles of the chest. He says tina
the meat of fat dog has a rich, delicat
flavor that everybody relishes who taste
it, and there is no finer-looking mea
than dressed dog.
Mrs. O'Flaherty and her Celestial op
ponent in the laundry business entere,
into considerable of fracas, at tn,
, conclusion of which the Chinamar