The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-12-02
MISSING LINKS.
Belle A. Donough is the name OF a
drug clerk in New Jersey town.


] drug clerk in New Jersey town.
I Churches in this country are estimated
to use 10000 gallons of wine every year
for saeramental purposes.
A German entomologist declares that
/! spiders destroy more insect enemies of
( trees than do all the insect-eating birds.
The conscience fund in the treasury
at Washington is approaching the
round sum of quarter of a million OF
dollars.
Philadelph housekeepers, tirsd of
vain efforts to get good servants, are
now experimenting with colored help
from the south.
A wealthy New York physician de-
clares it as his belief that "'the oyster
is the most healthy article of food
known to man."
There is an artesian well 1000 feet
deep in Aberdeen, Ncb., that throws out
. numbers of fish that look like the ordi-
nary brook minnow.
A soldier VINO assembled the Pyramid
OF Cheops recently, without a guide,
slipped and fell to the base. He was
. picked up shapeless mass.
The crown prince of Germany is
thrifty person and not ashamed to turn
an honest penny bv selling milk from
his dairy farm near Berlin.
Capt Eads, the lmprover of the Mis-
sissippi delta, has bought large tract
of land at Bar Harbor Me-. with the
intention of building residence there.
In climates where the variation in
temperature is 20 degrees, 400 miles of
railroad track will change over 800
yards in length-nearly a yard to a
mile.
An oak that was cut before Shakes
peare's day furnished bit of timber
now in use as bench in an English
farmers kitchen. The timber did duty
as a roof beam in church for 364
years. 1t is still as sound as sound can
be.
A boy in Runnells county, Louisiana,
captured a small animal known to
naturalists as a stoat, a species of er-
mine. Its fur is white, and it is re-
markable for its length, being able 70
enter a rat-hole, and is fourteen inches
long.
The Shasta county California;
Indians have superstition that catfish
We're put into the river for The special
purpose of killing off the Indians.
Tney eat most other kinds, but throw
back into the river all the catfish they
catch.
Bonvin. the painter, arose at his mar
riage banquet and, addressing his wife
in an inflated style, remarked: Never
forget, my wife, that you have entered
family of the gown and sword. Was
not my mother seamstress and my
father in the rural police?"
\ Paterson, n. j.. justice, after repeat
ing the formula of an oath to Young
woman, ended as usual by saying Kiss
the book" Il will not" was the unex-
pected reply. THE last witness that
was sworn was chewing tobacco, and
one before him had fever blsters on
his lips" She was permitted to af-
i1m.
An old Mississippi pilot tells the St.
Louis Gl06e-Democrdt that the affection
exhibited by Mark Twain and his ven
erable mother, now resident of Keo-
kuk, Iowa, is very refreshing. She
always had firm faith in her son,
Samuel, and says OF him: He was al
ways a good boy, Samuel WIS. though
prone to be mischieyouS He's always
the same TO me-the best son mother
ever had.
a Piute Indian in Virginia City fur
nishes the following local price list for
game: Whitley man pay um Two bits
for teal duck and four bit for mallard,
maybe Plute bring um. White woman
kick Ike a mule; no want to pay um
p.ute only one bit for mallard and four
1it for goosen. lnjun no sell um goosen
less than one dollar quarter. Pute want
um four bits, one for big jack Liability
and two bits for little
Among old papers recently found in
Kingston, n. Y. was letter written in
l176 by James Hasbrouck to his friend
Peter Van Gaasbeek. of Esopus In the
letter he writes that Gen. Lee has erect
ed battery in 1.-The Broad Way, near
the Boldiug Green Il it possible, SAYS
the New York San, that our historic
Bowling green was not bowling green
after all, or was James Hasbrouck
simply poor spcller?
An Albany, n. Y, lady suspected that
her cook was playing sweet with the
"rocer's clerk. A maid who PLAYED spy
reported that the clerk brought the
cook French candy every day, wrapped
in tin foil. The maid procured two
specimens of the French candies and
the maid and mistress each ate one
Within half an hour they We're well re-
paid for their curiosity. for the supposed
candies proved TO be yeast cakes.
A very old Indian relates that about
forty years ago battle extending over
several days. each having about one
thousand lodges, was fought in the
vicinity of Portland, in Trail. Remains
are still visible of trenches sunk bv
Chippewas, who We're victorious, but
lost about one thousand ponies that
the Sioux took in their retreat to Devils
lake. They had fiint-iock muskets,
and the number killed was large on both
sides.
The Sultan of Morocco is fond of tri-
cycling, but too lazy to work the pedals
himself; so he has had gorgeous ma
chine constructed. propelled by slave
labor. He sits cross-legged upon an
embossed couch, curtained and cano-
pied with silk and silver and gold At
his right hand is a clock. and at his left
a compass. in order that when beyond
the reach of the muezzn' s call the faith
ful Mohammedan may observe the exact
hour of prayer and the exact direction
in which his prisons are TO be address
| ed.
The use of the Suez Canal in moving
the tea crop from China to America is
rapidly being abandoned for the swifter
| means afforded by our transcontineItal
railways. In 1884 the bulk of the ship
ments were via the Suez Canal. In
| 1885 the shipments by that route to
America were but 9,254 1917 pounds,
| while San Francisco received 13, 1876. 1877
! pounds. This year the imports by way
| of San Francisco have reached 2O,525,-
| 280 pounds, while those via the Suez
| Canal have fallen OF TO 1902. 049
! pounds. From Yokohama to New York