The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-10-28
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a railroad has been constructed from
Los Angeles, Cal, to a large ostrich
| farm nine miles away.
1t is said that the application OF bit
| of ice, or even cold water, to the lobe OF
| the ear will stop hiccoughlng.
Sheep are dear at Is cents per head
| in Fayette county, Alabama Poor crops
caused the falling off in price.
By the settlement of a colony from
Missouri the town of Toledo, Oregon,
| jumps from population of 40 to 1,2AO.
Thousands of cigars are daily SNUG
| gled into the United States from Mex
leo and disposed of in San Diego, Cal,
| markets.
Recent determinations give light a
velocity of 1S5, APO miles per second
| (Cornu), or 1o6,5S0 miles per second
| (Michelson).
| Mrs. Cleveland, it is authoritatjvely
announced, wears a No. 81 slipper, Ok
ford tie pattern, French kid, width IA,
made by hand.
A white girl employed in Kingston,
Canada, hotel has brought suit for ST.
900 damages for breach OF promise
| against colored waiter.
There are SCI, 800 pensioners now on
| the rolls, and the government has paid
| on that account nearly $1,000, 100000
| since the close of the war.
Only 1884 persons in Virginia pay
| over 500 year in taxes, according to
the Richmond Dispatch, and only 80 per-
sons pay 5000 and over.
Francis a. Walker, Chief of the CEN
sus of 1880 and boss Hatistician of the
country, estimates that the population
| of the United States in 1900 will not fall
short of SO,000,00O.
| Mrs. William Aston. it is said, will
never again reign as leader of New
York society. Her affiiction has taken
| such an unfavorable turn that she is
precluded from again appearing in
| public.
The Salt Lake Herald (Mormon)
| quotes John Milton as encouragement
to the prosecuted Saints, as follows;
"Men of most removed virtue have
sometimes by transgressing most truly
| kept the law"
| On the old Indian road in Gloucester
county, Virginia, is living negro who
was brought to this country from his
| home in Africa in the month of July,
| 1871. He enjoys good health, and re-
tains all of his senses.
Engineer Ed Drohan of the Cincin-
matt Southern Railroad will likely have
| difficulty hereafter in procuring substi-
| tutes. -Four men who have at different
times made the run for him have been
accidentally killed on his engine.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was asked to
reply to Ouida's article on Female
Suffrage in the North american Re
| ULelO. She declined to lend her name
to any matter which seemed 10 recog-
nize so corrupt a writer as Ouida as a
party to reputable and honorable dis
cussion
Miss Maud Howe, in letter to the
Boston Transcript, asks why it is that
the first instinct of every woman cn ar
irving at a strange place is to 90 and
buy something. Probabaly it is the
same instinct which induces man un-
der similar circumstances to 90 and
take something"
Henry Bergh, whose tenderness for
the brute creation is widely known, is
quoted in the New York Herald as say
| ing day OF two ago: II do wish that
somebody would build a MOTEL at which
children were not taken. | hate chill
dren. If could only escape their in.
fernal CHATTER I'd be happy"
| Vice-President Hoxie of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad Company is still a very
sick man. Overexertion during the
fight with the strikers last spring re.
duced him to his present condition.
Martin Irons, his principal opponent,
has also been permanently knocked out,
though not from excessive labor.
| The Rev. Chow Ju Tien, the first
| Buddhist priest who ever visited New
York. is now located in Mott street
looking after the theological interests OF
that locality. He is a learned man,
speaking and writing Sanskrit, and
reading with ease several of the modern
languages OF Europe, though he speaks
none of the latter.
| 1t is said of Hon. Hannibal Hamlin
that If he meets man of his own age
he can call him by name, tell who his
father was, whom he married, and
where his children are, while if the ac-
qualntance be a man a generation
younger than himself, he not only
knows his ancestors, and whom he mar
ried, but also whom he wanted to marry
and didn't
| An Auburn, n. T., young man, banjo
struck, was the cause of so much suffer
ing to the gentleman that lodged in the
adjoining room that the latter bought {
wise, saw, and file, and, according
to the report ''that night when White
Wings sifted through the wall it was
met by sonata in E on the saw" The
duet was kept up until late hour, wher
the banjoist gave in.
Sunset Cox writes to a friend in
Washington that he would be very glac
to be back again in the House, but that
Mrs. Cox opposes in the most determin-
ed manner every suggestion of his re-
entering upon active politics, and that
so far as he knows he thinks the will
and wishes of his wife will have to be
respected. So it would appear that the
political sun OF the genial humorist has
set forever.
Little Miss Edith Perry, of Leomins-
ter, Mass, has a better baby than q
mere doll. 1t is kitten, which per.
mits itself to be completely dressed,
even to the bonnet, and rides for hours
IN doll-carriage. 1t is also superior
to doll in that it has learned to take
nourishment from bottle quite after
the manner of real baby. Edith is
envied by all the other little girls in
Leominster.
While party of workmen were ex-
cavating in the rear of the Olean house,
at Clean. n. Y, last week, they found
an odd-looking, highly-polished, cornu.
copia-shaped silver ornament imbedded
in the earth six or eight feet below the
surface. where it had evidently lain for
a century or more. 1t had possibly
been worn by some Seneca brave long
before Anglo-AmerIcan civilization had