The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-11-22
manitomo1 pilot.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER %.
MISSING LINKS.

MISSING Inns.
Forests are springing up on the aban-
doned mines and mining towns of Cal
ifornia.
Recent experiments in England DEM
onstrate that locomotives can be used
for towing boats on canals.
A Winfield, Kan, married man wrote
love letter to a young girl, and she
turned it over to a local paper, in which
it was printed verbatim.
Mahpeahwakosia,a an old Sioux scout,
has just died of lock- jaw at the age OF
100 years. In an unguarded moment
he tried to pronounce his name as
monosyllable.
Yam Phon Lee, a Yale graduate, who
married New Haven girl, has been
put at the head of the Chinese Ex-
change Department in the Pacific Bank,
San Francisco.
A piece of tin ore was picked up
in Georgia the other day, and now the
discoverer is giving his whole mind to
discovering the vein it came from, but
so far without success.
The electric button which started the
machinery at the Buffalo Industrial
Exposition was pressed by resident
ninety-three years old, who came to
the city when it had few houses.
The other day the photographer at
Hillsboro, n. H., took picture of a
group representing five generations of
the Wilson family. Mrs. Wilson, the
eldest of the group, will be one hun
dred in few weeks.
Rattlesnakes have been unusually
numerous in Georgia this year. and
their increase is attributed by the news
papers of the state to the enforcement
of the stock law, which prohibits the
hog, the rattler's greatest enemy, from
| roaming at large.
A man heretofore regarded as truth
full down in Prince George county, Vir-
ginia, swears he shot fifty-two squirrels
before breakfast one day last week,
but neglects to add that breakfast must
| have been pretty well toward the
'.shank of the evening
The Gar, as memorial to his late
parents, has devoted 100000 rubles
1 anu du CSldlc NOl III OCb,pOV luDlSS
| wear to the foundation and mainten-
| ance of an institution for the blind at
st. Petersburg, to be called the Alex
| ander-Marien Institute.
| Engine SO, of the Union Pacific road,
| that is now employed in transferring
| cars across the Omaha bridge, has a
| record of having run 1,140,625 miles.
1t has been in use for twenty-five years,
| and was one of the first locomotives
| used west of the Missouri River.
Joseph Taper, negro, living in
Pittsburg, is said to be one hundred
| and four years old. He was once the
property of a Virginia planter named
| Stevens, near Winchester, and the an
cient slave records prove his great age.
He remembers distinctly the war of
| 1912.
! Wilson Waddington, of Savin Rock,
Conn, is said to be the largest land
| holder in the United States. He is be-
lieved to own over 100000 acres OF
| grazing land in New Mexico and else.
| where, and he has also made large in
| vestments in real estate in Western
| cities.
DR.. William Goodell, Professor OF
Chemistry in the University of Penn.
| sylvania, announces that he has lost
confidence in the use of antiseptics in
| surgery. Personal cleanliness, in his
opinion, is of more Importance in
surgical operations than the carbolic
| spray.
| An Albany paper speaks of life,
| saver at Hudson who has rescued q
/ number of people from drowning, and
| in whose behalf local newspaper
started testimonial. At last &C.
counts the fund amounted to Sc. He
| is now eXclaiming, Save me from NY
| friends"
! A Spanish General of Barcelona has
| bequeathed million francs to found g
| refuge for the orphan daughters OF
| poor officers, proviso being that each
must be beautiful in face and form
"because the more lovely woman is,
the more she is exposed to danger in
| this world"
There are still on the pension rolls
| of the country 500 men who served in
the war of 1912, which ended seventy
three years ago. 1t has been computed
that If a proportionately large number
OF soldiers of the late waT live for like
period there will be 10000 surviving
veterans in 1888.
| In 1887 four men mining in the Bos-
| ton Mountains, near Nashville, set a
| trap for fox. The other day they
found the trap in a small cave at some
! distance from the spot where it had
| been set, containing the remains of a
| snake which when alive had been fully
| eleven feet in length.
Henry r. Smith, of San Francisco.
| left a will in which he directed that his
| son be taught Chinese and the cost de-
| trayed out of the estate. The young
man is still pegging away at the lam
guage and the widow has appealed to
the courts TO save the unconsumed
remnant of the property.
A woman named Scelwig, living at
the Malaga mines, near Halifax, went
to dentist to have thirteen teeth ex-
tracted. After two had been pulled
she begged him to desist. He refused,
and her husband held her down while
the remainder were extracted. The
woman died two hours later.
The London railways have just dis
covered trick which their patrons
have practiced for a long time. A man
would buy a number of third-class
tickets and one second-class ticket.
The latter he would show to the in
spec or on the train, and one of the
foimer he would give up at the exit.
An Illinois woman, indirectly through
the rebellion, lost sight of her two in
FAINT children in 1870. Innumerable
times since she attempted 10 find them,
but IN vain, until last week. when,
through pension examiner, she
learned that the long missing ones are
alive and happily married in Kansas.
1t has been discovered that large
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