The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-02-04
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Clara Morris is said to have died more
times, histrionically, than any American
actress.
Twenty-six Senators keep house in
Washington; the others live in hotels
and boarding houses.
The Sultan of Turkey keeps around
his palace $4,000 of the best troops in
the Ottoman Empire.
A robust farm hand at Orville, Col,
is reported to get along quite well on
about four hours sleep week, and to
go without sleep for ten days and nights
at stretch occasionally.
American eheesemakers are not the
only sufferers from the low price of their
product. In France, Germany, Italy,
and Holland prices range from 20 to 25
per cent lower than they did last year.
General Toomb's '.last words" will
hardly do to put in the list of the last
words of great men. Said the dying
Georgian to his grandson-in-law: LEND
me $780," and that was the final utter
ance of the old man.
The Oregon Legislature has passed a
cyclists must stop riding whenever they
approach within 100 yards of team,
and after dismounting remain standing
until the team has passed.
1t is the fashion to place gold paper
hearts and dried rosebuds wrapped in
magnolia leaves on the tomb of Juliet
at Verona. Juliets tears are sold in
Verona; but they are confectionery, a
sort of Verona brandy ball.
Ouida's love affair with the marquis
of Stufa, who dropped her for younger
and prettier woman, is said to have
made the novelist the laughing stock
of Florence, and to have inspired her
story entitled Friendship"
The Union Pacific Railway Company
now operates 4,499 miles of road, and
either controls or has proprietary inter-
ests in 1905 miles more, total 5,804. In
operating this system, which penetrates
five states and territories, over 10000
men are employed.
Mrs. McGahan, the widow of the no.
ted war-correspondent, resides in New
York with her little boy. She is Rus
sian lady, and her house is furnished in
Russian fashion-one noticeable feature
being picture of Christ in each corner
of every room, with dim light burning
before it.
1t seems that the offense for which Ii
Font Pao, lately Chinese ambassador in
Berlin, was degraded from his rank and
declared unfit for the public service con-
sisted in his having violated the etiquette
of Pekin by endeavoring to secure a po-
sition in the provinces before reporting
himself at court
Miss Cleveland is bent upon tobacco
reform in the White House. The smoke
laden atmosphere of the lobby has an
noyed visitors during public receptions
and she is using her influence to secure
a ukase compelling all visitors to leave
their lighted cigars upon the front steps
of the Executive Mansion.
The ''ordeal beam OF Madagascar,
which innocent people are supposed to
be able to eat with impunity, though it
is sure death to criminals, is described
as being very poisonous drug which
kills by arresting the respiration. Never
theless, the chemists are working it UP
into new medicine, and one investi-
gator hopes to make it useful in palsy
and other nervous troubles.
A New Haven boy recently s.for fun, -
inserted an advertisement in a local pa
per for a husband. A Western farmer
answered it, and the young man wrote
at length, describing himself as hand
some, middle-aged woman, with long
bank account. The granger came on
last week to see the woman. He is now
after young man with suit for fraud
and loss OF time and money.
In his recent work on anthropoid
apes, DIR. Hartmann, of Berlin, admits
that 1.-The most fanatical advocates of
the doctrine OF descent are becoming
more and more convinced that man
cannot be the issue of any extinct form
of anthropoids," and says, .'that hy-
pothetlcal being, the common ancestor
of man and apes, is still to be found-a
task assigned to paleontology.'
When Italian brigands paid their re-
spects to chance foot travellers and load
ed dlhgences, two or three decades ago,
their occupation was a romantic one,
but they are merely .'road agents" now.
Not long ago daring band attacked a
railroad train, and, after shooting the
guard and securing large sum of
money, they safely jumped from the
train when it was going in full speed. ?"
A cigar smoking doctor says that when
other smokers ask him for light he Of
fers them box of matches, but never
his cigar. Gentlemen suppose" said
he, that l do this because my own
cigar is not well lighted The real rea-
son is that l wish to avoid the risk of
contagion from any one disease out of a
dozen or more which may be transmit
ted by putting into the mouth an arti-
Gle infected persons have handled"
The London Standard says that the
population of Paris is decidedly decreas-
ing. Last autumn there were nearly
1850 fewer inhabitants of the French
capital than four years ago, and this
diminution bears heavily on the cab
and omnibus companies. Apparently
the chief absentees are the foreign resi-
dents and the poorer working class, who
can get food and house room cheaper
outside than in the city.
The baby Infanta Mercedes of Spain
cannot understand the death of her
father, whom she may succeed as sover-
eign. The child believes the King to
be still staying at the Pardo, and lately
pulled a rose to pieces, put the leaves in
an envelope, and gave them to King
Alfonso's favorite valet, saying, "Here,
Prudencio, go to the Pardo and give
this to papa. Tell him to come soon
for it is so sad here-nobody does any,
thing but cry"
At least one man in New York has
seriously made collection of bottle
corks, another has consumed time and
risked liberty and life in getting tiny
chips of stone from noted monuments