The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-06-03
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oratorical talents OF the people.
w. S. jackson, husband of Helen
Hunt, will probably become president
of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway.
This country sends TO foreign parts
S3,OOO,OOO worth of locomotives every
year, and Philadelphia has big hand
in it.
Lartiio, the chief bull-fighter of Mad
rid, during his career has killed in the
arena 345 bulls without the slightest in
jury to himself.
The coal available for the future
market in the Pittsburg field is placed
at 5000, 100000 tons.
The value of the hardware produced
in the United States each year is now
about S60,000,000, and nearly half of II
is made in Connecticut
Walton, 1.-THE Plunger,'' to provide
against possible financial accidents, has
settled property worth third of mil
lion upon his wife. He is out of politics
| and it is understood has abandoned the
turf, being engaged in the scheme of a
big hotel in Philadelphia.
The British flag still proudly flies SUI.
| preme as regards the traffic through the
! Suez canal. The total of the British
| tonnage for the last year was 4, S64, 04S,
while that OF France, the nearest COM
petitor, was only 573,645. Holland is
third on the list with 252, 145 tons.
Notwithstanding the depression in
trade and the general shrinkage OF
values in the country, Great Britain s
expenditure for intoxicating liquors last
|
This is equal to the Nations entire out.
lay for bread, butter, cheese, and eggs.
Queen Victoria has placed in John
Browns bedroom at Windsor Castle a
large brass tablet inscribed with the
legend of his death in that room, his
many virtues, and the Queens grief al
his loss. But Wales is so oblivious OF
that good mans memory that he is said
to have dropped his old formula OF
praying for the Queen, John Brown,
''and the rest of the royal family"
Speaking of extravaganza in Dress u
writes a correspondent, 1.-The most ex-
pensively-dressed man ever saw was an
African chief on the Gold Coast. His
wives had anointed him thoroughly
with palm oil, and then powdered him
from head to foot with gold dust. You
never saw in your life man got up SC
utterly regardless of expense"
Tom Reed, the leader of the Republi.
can side of the house, is the wit of that
body. Strolling down in front OF
Beach, the great objector from New
York, the other day, he turned to him
with quizzical twinkle in his eye and
said: about this objection business
of yours, Beach, do you get your inspi-
ration from other members or does il
come direct from the Almighty?''
Beach was too dazed to answer.
Senator Dolph of Oregon is regarded
by the ladies'" says the Washington
Post, las the handsomest man in the
Senate. He is tall and broad-shoulder-
ed and speaks with rich, deep bass
voice. But his chief claim to admira-
ton is his magnificent full beard, which
falls in wavy profusion to the middle OF
his waistcoat. He has, besides, a
striking face and a majestic bearing,
which attract immediate attention"
A New York letter to the Newark
advertiser says: Il learn from Mr..
Clemens Mark Twain) that he can
manufacture each single volume OF
Gen. Grants Memoirs for about As
cents. As the book is sold at IS 80,
you can estimate the great profit de.
rived from it. The profit is divided be-
tween Mrs. Grant, the agents, and the
firm of Webster & Co. Mr.. Clemens
has, by long odds. the largest interest
in that firm"
A writer in the Therapeutic Gazette
recommends soups made of lentil flour,
mixed with one-eighth part of ground
malt, for the Use of invalids. In warm
ing, the distaSte of the malt converts
the flour into soluble and easily digested
substances. The soup may be favored
with beef tea. The writer says that
lentil flour contains more inorganic
sails and twice as much heterogeneous
material as wheat or oat flour.
A recent writer on photography and
chemical properties of light says: THE
experiments of modern photographers
have revealed to us extraordinary
chemical properties in the suns rays.
while some of these rays are entirely
destitute of this peculiar power. 1t has
also been discovered that there are rays
OF light outside of the solar spectrum,
and which are invisible to the human
eye, just as there may be vibrations in
the atmosphere too high or too low to
produce an audible sound
Gen. Fremont has taken house in
Washington for year, and he and his
wife are now hard at work upon his
memoirs. Mrs. Fremont is nominally
zen. FremOnts secretary or amanuensis
IN the work, but the burden of memory,
arrangement, and composition is rather
evenly divided. They found it neces-
sary to 60 to Washington, where Gen.
Fremont could have access to the old
papers and reports, and meet his old
comrades in scenes that would alone re-
call many things by association.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie dedicates his
book on democracy" ITO the beloved
Republic under whose equal laws | am
made the peer of any man, although
denied political equality by my native
land;' but he errs in suppoSing that he
feels for the Republic San intensity of
| gratitude and admiration which the
natlve-born citizen can neither feel nor
understand" 1t is said that Carnegie
has never been naturalized He owns
the controlling interest in dozen after
noon English dailies, and talks of re-
turning to his native Scotland to run"
| for Parliament
There are certain diseases which
Chinese physicians declare to be in
durable save by a decoction of which
the principal ingredient is warm human
flesh, cut from the arm or thigh of
son or daughter of the patient. To
supply this piece of flesh is esteemed
one of the noblest acts of tilial devotion.
and there are numerous instances on
record in quite recent years in which
the generous offering has been made to
save the life of a parent; and the worst
of it was, that the sacrifcial remedy
didn't cure, as the parent almost in
variably died-but the superstition con-
| tinued to live
Ladies of the second rank of ROYALTY
in England lead very dull and hum
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