The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-09-30
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estate.
Henry Ward Beecher is to lecture in
this country next winter on Ireland.
Frank Harris has succeeded Mr.. Es-
| colt as the editor of the Fortnightly.
A son of the Mexican general Santa
Anna recently committed suicide in
| Havana.
Cocoanut culture along the lower
coasts of Florida is growing rapidly in
volume and Importance.
| La New York City the Audubon So
ciety for the protection of birds, has
taken out articles of incorporation.
England has Dicky Bird Society
composed of 100000 children. Its aim
is 30 encourage protection of birds and
| animals.
Lettuce leaves fried in butter make
Creole dainty. They are also re-
garded as delicacy in central Penn
sylvania.
Henry f. Abbey was $3.50, 900 IN debt
two years ago. Since then he has paid
of 100000, and hopes to stand clear
by Christmas.
Queen Margharita of Italy has chosen
a woman physician, Signora Margarita
to study medicine.
School teachers are so numerous in
| California that more than twenty appli-
cations have been made for each school
| in solano county.
Eear Coblentz is the church of St.
| Castor, and this church they are now
bedecking with evergreens, for it is
one thousand years old, and fifty years
to spare.
Some girls and young women are
beginning to part and wave their hair
again in the fashion so becoming to a
certain type of face, IN vogue dozen
years ago.
4 New London oyster dealer has in
vented a dredge with which star-fish,
the greatest enemies of the oyster. can
be taken from a bed without disturbing
the oysters
George Augustus Sala is about to
write his life. He has known "a little
of every body"-sometimes a great deal
Of somebody, as for instance Dickens
and his autobiography will contain
many good stories.
A Macon, Ga, correspondent notes
that church in that CITY has secured
! the service of I'm elegant soprano" "a
beautiful alto" "a nne tenor" and "a
fine basso." Naturally some fine
music is expected from this strong COM
bination.
Valerian and tincture of opium are
used in the manufacture of popular
brands of cigarettes. Havana flavor
ing" so-called, is made from the tonka
bean, which contains deadly poison
called millolotis, seven grains of which
are sufficient to kill dog
Little Juanita, the tiny daughter of
Joaquin Miller, has been creating a
sensation at the Grand Hotel, in the
Catskills. by her extraordinary recta-
TONS She recites like an experienced
actress and looks veritable baby, with
curfs and short skirts, and has to be
lifted on the table to be seen.
The Office of the Secretary of the Navy
has recently been decorated with a
beautiful model Of the Japanese twin
screw cruiser Naniwa-kan, which is to
be duplicated for the American Ravy. 1t
is in perfect working order, and every
thing about it is according to scale. 1t
is perfect ship in miniature.
Three American horses are to be
shipped to Rosa Bonheur. One was
bred on the Sun river in the Rocky
mountains, another is a wild horse
caught on the head waters of the Mo
brara, and the third is a mustang from
the Brazos river, Texas. They are de-
signed as specimens of horses used on
our frontier.
Jane Wycoff, a colored woman of
Wilkes-barre. Pa, is l05 years old, and
unhesitatingly declares that she never
was servant of George Washington
and never saw him. She was discover
ed in Pittsburg, and her case was con-
sidered SO remarkable that she was
Immediately furnished railroad pass
to Der home.
The captain of a Mississippi steamer
amuses his friends by this statement
concerning the great stream: Il have
seen it so low at some places that we
have had trouble soaring the calves
away from in front of the boat The
whistle was used for that purpose, and
sometimes we would have to keep her
going continually for long time"
Mime. Alboni, whose gloriously rich
and thrilling voice all old opera lovers
recall with d sigh of yearning, now
weighs almost 400 pounds, is very lame,
but jolly, wears glasses, and has an I'M
mense appetite. She sings for charity
sometimes, and preserves all the beauty
Of her remarkable style, though the
tones themselves have lost their fresh
ness.
Ar. Frank Stockton is credited by
Ario Bates with sending a ponderous
door-key to a friend just sailing for
Europe with this message: He says it
is the key to one Of the very best board
lighthouses in London. He is sorry ne
has forgotten the address; but if you
try the doors until you find the one this
fits you may be sure the place is capt.
tai one"
For the past two or three years the
continent of Europe has been deluged
with forged Bank Of England notes exc
cuted in style defying detection, even
by the most experienced. 1t is evident
that the forgers have either access to
the bank paper or have found means of
copying it exactly, for the strictest COM
parison of the real and forged notes
fails to show any difference in the water
mark or quality of the paper; and, in
fact, high authorities in the Bank of
England say that it is impossible to
detect the difference except by signs
and numbers known only to them
selves.
There are in Dundee, Scotland, eight
companies dealing in mortgages and
cattle in the Western and Northwest
ern states. In Edinburgh there are
eleven, and in Glasgow three. The land
and cattle companies in the United
Kingdom operating in the United States
hold in fee simple 2,016,SS3 acres, and
by lease 1,445,796 acres. Their divi-
dends in 1883 averaged over per cent,
but fell to only little over per cent