The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-08-26
MISSING LINKS.
A LITTLE SEAMsTRESs.

"Oh, everything for my doll is done, and new
er to mending comesl
/ haven't a morsel of sewing.-Dear Mother,
in all the town,
Can't you find me one doll 40 matter how
small, who will wear out her gown
Mary z wilkins in ST, Nicholas for August.
Near Cannelton, Pa, the ground
heaves ard pulsates just like the human
breast
Eggs are said to be cheaper and more
plentiful this year than at any time
since 1860
A solid bed of alum 500 feet thick has
been discovered in Graham County.
Arizona
The discovery mas been made that
beetle, common in Southern Europe, Is
never-failing antidote in cases OF hy-
drophobia.
The San Francisco Bulletin reports
that lady at San Diego, aged 20 years,
gave birth to a daughter July y. The
husbands age is rs years.
Rose Leslie, whose immense size made
her famous as circus attraction, has
died in Lowell, Mass. aged % years
She weighed 615 pounds, and measured
five feet three inches in hight
The elms of Flushing, L. l., are suf-
fering for the third year from the raw
ages of the Larvae of the saw-f1y, an i'm
port from Germany, which, very curl
ously in its native country, confines its
rayages to the pine forests.
Salicylic suet is used in the German
army as remedy for footsores, etc, in
stead of the saiicylic powder formerly
employed. 1t is composed of two parts
of pure salicylic acid and ninety-eight
parts of the best mutton suet.
The popular superstition concerning
the unluckiness of splitting salt probably
| originated in Leonardo da Vinci's pict-
ure of The Last Supper" where Judas
is represented as overturning the salt.
Some people always throw pinch of
the spilled salt over their right shoulder,
hoping thereby to prevent misfortune.
Merritt Kanoff, of Creston, Iowa, re-
Gently met with novel though Distress
ing accident. He was carrying a pen
holder behind his ear. and as he threw
his head to one side the holder fell to his
shoulder, sticking in his shirt. As he
Strengthened up the end of the holder
entered his ear and punctured the
drum. destroying the hearing.
Lightning struck an oak in Tippeca-
noe County, Indiana, and tore it into
splinters. 1t is said that each years
layer of the growth of the tree seemed
to have been separated from the other
! and split into strips about half an inch
| wide. After completing its work on
the oak the lightning ran thirty rods
along wire fence, melting the wire in
many places and tearing each post out
| of the ground.
Queen Victoria once being at an i'm
portant ceremony in North of England
city, paper was brought to her for her
signature. OF course she inscribed it
as usual: Victoria, r. ct l." Then her
favorite daughters signature was de-
sired and was duly written: Beatrice"
Finally the wife of the Mayor was call
ed to sign the paper, and, not to be out
| done by any mere royalties, she unhesi-
tatingly wrote: Mary"
A well-known comedian for the past
two years has carefully clipped and
| pasted in scrap books all the reported
misdeeds of clergymen that he saw.
Now when he hears of a sermon on the
immortality of the stage he at once sends
the preacher letter filled with statistics
as to the number of preachers in jail.
the number that he thinks ought to be
IN jail, the nature of their sins and
crimes, and like pleasing facts.
Last year 279,0OO,OOO stamped envel-
opes were sold by the government.
They were worth $5,773, 600. Envel-
opes, which in 1869 cost $3.50 per 200.
can now be sold for $3.50 per 1,0OO and
the extra letter size that then cost Sc,
are now sold for S2.40. The proposals
for bids for the next four years will in
clude two sizes called baronial, about
by inches, for the benefit of ladies who
like to use fancy note papers
In some of the more primitive settle
ments of Canada they are ready to laugh
at any joke, however old. A humorous
, lecturer recently appeared in small
! back town in Ontario, and in the course
| of his remarks said that no piano is
| needed in a house where there is a male
infant, because "there is always music
in the heir" The laughter that follow
ed lasted ten minutes by stop-watch,
and one young man was taken out in
commissions.
Work on the Broadway underground
railway will be commenced in the fall
and completed in two or three years. A
new road will be constructed under
| Broadway, from curb to curb. A brick
wall, with iron pillars on each side, will
| be the only wall of separation between
the front cellars and the new road, and
a correspondent thinks it will not take
| long for the owner of a corner store at
| one of the underground stations to see
that store there will pay him better
! than coal cellar.
| The first written speech read in the
| United States Senate was by Isaac Hill,
| of New Hampshire, firm supporter of
| General Jackson. When about half
way through he suddenly lost the thread
of the discourse, and stopped, evidently
embarrassed. His wife, who sat in the
| gallery almost directly over him, COM
| pretended the situation, and said in a
| voice heard all over the Senate cham
Der: Mr.. Hill, you've turned over two
| leaves at once" He Immediately cor
rected his mistake and proceeded with
| his remarks, amid a roar of laughter.
Gen. Sheridan says he is delighted
with his new experience as a suburban
farmer. Instead of sending his wife
and children to a crowded seaside hotel
or fashionable resort this year he rented
a thirty-acre farm near Washington,
where he picks his own peas, digs his
| potatoes, and enjoys freedom from in
| trusion which has to be endured good
naturally at watering-places. The Gen.
| eral drives TO town every morning and
returns in the afternoon. The enjoy
ment of seeing his children loving Moth
er Earth. he says, is far more happiness
to him than he has ever experienced at
all the fashionable resorts.
! Polly's Sense.