The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-12-30
Hlonitomof pilot.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1886.
MISSING LINKS.

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The erection of a 100000 opera
house is talked of at San Diego, Califor-
mia.
At Newton. Mass, the artesian wells
furnish 100000 barrels of pure water
daily.
Mrs. Jenny June Croly has re-
signed from the editorship of DemoreSt'S
Monthly.
The Buffalo Express has come out
with new word, 'soliped," but does
not furnish the definition.
The sand thrown up by the Charles
ton earthquake is deep black, pale blue,
light brown, pale yellow and silvery.
An orchard near South Glastonbury,
Conn, contains twelve thousand peach
trees, and is the largest one in the
state
Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of
the great Abraham Lincoln, was slain
by an Indians tomahawk just one hum
dred years ago.
Miss Kate Field will pass the early
winter at Old Point Comfort. In one
way and another Kate manages to get
a good deal of comfort out of life.
Dwight L. Moody will this winter
pursue his evangelical labors in the
south. 1t is not known as yet whether
he will be accompanied by Mr.. San
key.
A grape-grower in the Allegheny
valley, Pennsylvania, claims to have
raised eighteen thousand pounds of
grapes from five acres OF ground this
year.
Since the recent revolt among the
conyicts at the San Quentin, Cal,
prison, the directors have issued an
order forbdding female visitors within
the walls
Artificially grown ducks are said to
be the plumpest in the Boston market
At one duck-pond at South Easton,
Mass, seven thousand have been hatch
ed this season.
Francis X. Pendleton says his father,
Minister Pendleton, has no inter zion of
resigning He is said to have become
closely attached TO his home and his
duties in Berlin.
Now it is the Boston TrdUeler that
prints list of men and women in San
Francisco who are worth 81 ,000,0 or
more. The entire number of million
aires thus given is 104.
There are more daily papers in Phila-
delphia than in New York city and Bos-
ton combined, while New York city has
more places of amusement than Boston
and Philadelphia combined,
Queen Ficloria's health is said to be
better now than it has been for several
years, and more guests are being enter
tanned at Balmoral than at any time
since the Prince COnsOrt's death.
Prof Whitney, of Yale college, has
been working too hard on the new
dictionary, and in consequence will
have TO give up his classes in the Shet-
field Scientific school for several months
at least.
Mrs. Anna Woerishoffer, daughter Of
Mrs, Otenjorfer and widow of Charles
/. WocrishoIler. the banker of New
York, has just given TO several charit-
able and scientific societies the sum OF
500 900.
Hand bouquets most in demand for
the society season will be of very long
stalkeI roses that will hang loosely,
being supported by banks of smilax and
maldenhair fern. Corsage bouquets are
to be of Russian violets.
The United States and Canada sent
fOrty-tWo representatives to the recent
congress Of uaturalists in Berlin, cut OF
a total of 429 foreign delegates. En-
gland sent seventeen, Japan sixteen,
Italy fifteen, and South America twelve,
Amelia Steele, who claims to have
been the wife OF Joseph Gail. Il Brook
lvn optciIn. who uled recently, worth
Sl5O, GEO, received but $1,000 from the
estate, and proposes TO begin an action
il the Supreme coy."t for larger slice
OF the pie.
a Massachusetts citizen tells of a voy-
age he made from Europe many years
ago Anchoria fashion. He was on 2
sailing vessel, and, as the winds were
unusually light, the vessel drifted away
up into the Iceland channels. and when
New York was reached had been on the
water los days.
An awning on the first building south
of the Delaware and Hudson cut on
Broadway. Albany, n. Y, projects
across the track of the company. so that
trains can not pass withou. wrecking it.
The agent of the property refuses to re-
move it. and the cut must remain use
less until the matter is settled
4 gentleman near Sulesboro, Ga, dis
covered recently what he at first thought
would amount to big treasure. 1t
was an old stone image or idol, about
eighteen inches in height, and from APP
pearances must be very old, probably
being one Of the last relics of the ancient
idolaTous "mOund-bulders," traces OF
whose existence have been discovered
all along the Etowah and other Georgia
rivers.
AT medical convention the physical
decay OF women was recently melan-
choly subject When women's gymna-
Sums, riding-schools, and lawn-tennis
courts are increasing in popular femi-
nine favor, and the vim for the exertion
OF shopping has not utterly disappeared.
there seem 10 be indications that the
physical condition of women may have
been misunderstood by tire learned
medical men.
There appeared before court in
Sparta, Ga, the other day, a negro
named Cooper Lamar, who was capt
ured Oft the coast Of Africa and brought
to America on the Wanderer twentv-six
years ago, and consequently was one
of the last negroes ever stolen and
Struggled into slavery. Notwithstand-
ing his twenty-Six years residence here,
he knows but little of the English
tongue, and had to be questioned By
signs.
Cardinal Jacobini, Papal Secretary.
who has been in ill-health for some
time, is to take years rest. He is only
Oh and has good constitution, but
has broken down under too much work.
His substitute will be Archbishop Vamu-
tell, now Nuncio atLisbon. very able
man and skilled diplomat. But the
strongest man at the Vatican is the
Pope himself. who regularly works