The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-09-13
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England Is til1I DTltlsn grown luDaccO
cannot be made to pay.
An order to an encampment Of
British volunteers is. "all hair to be cut
quite short, and where possible the
mustache only is to be worn"
Colonel Tuitt, of Georgia. has not
seen the bottom Of his corn crib for
more than twenty years. and is now
selling sound grain grown in 1876.
A Kansas ranchman predicts that
cheap beef and mutton of the future
will come from the immense grassy
plains of Brazil and the Argentine Re-
public.
There is likely to be a large migra-
ton of colored people from Florida to
Nicaragua soon. Some who are now
there send back very encouraging re-
ports.
A bismuth mine with ore assaying
so per cent metal has just been dis
covered at lingo, Colo, and as the stuff
is worth 81 pound it is find by no
means to be despised.
One of Disraelis fayorite peacoc>s
has recently died, and Ralph Disraeli
has had the tail feathers made into a
fire screen and has given it to the
Queen, much to her qualification.
New Yorh's hotels are a small city in
themselves. There were only nineteen
of them in 1870, but now there are
siXty-two, with six more to follow, and
they will accommodate 10000 people.
A remarkably attractive lobster was
caught at Norwich a few days ago.
The upper parts were of the delicate
tinge of old-fashioned blue china, and
beneath the color was a beautiful
blush white.
just because Mrs, Moore, of Texas,
had not 500 in hand with which to pay
a discharged laborer he went into her
field and shot seven mules and a horse
that were blowing there, and easily
worth 200.
A masseuse who has practiced her
profession largely among families of
wealth says that in many years she
has administered to only one woman
whose ribs had not been displaced by
corset-wearing.
A lady in Norwich, Conn, it is said,
has constructed scarecrow so lady
like and thoroughly fetching that
every man who goes by tries to get up
a Irritation with it. 1t is taken in the
house rainy days.
The MeXicans are hard at work on
the banks of the Rio Grande opposite
Ell Paso, Tex, building wing dams and
willow mattresses to prevent their
territory from being washed away by
Z hn t,,p ~ n-t
much in past years in this manner.
A new glass recently invented in
Sweden is said TO be capable, when
made into lens for microscopic,
of enabling Us to distinguish the 2O4,-
700,000th part of an inch" 1t is also
said that there is great promise of this
glass producing wonderfully powerful
telescope lenses and new departure
in astronomy.
1t is proposed to celebrate the two
hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Alexander Pope by commemorate
festival at Twickeuham, when there
will be a water pageant Illustrative of
the times Of Pope, and a temporary
loan exhibition of editions of the poets
works, and collection of autographs,
PORTRAITS, and relics of his busy life.
Kansas is anxious to annex the strip
of land called mo Mans Land" adj
joining the state. Not, the newspapers
say, ''for boom purposes" but for pro-
lection. Every thief and murderer
who commits crime in Western and
Southern Kansas makes a break for
No Mans Land, where he is as safe as
the manslayer of old in the city OF
refuge.
Speaking of the curiosity of great
men, a Philadelphia says that he has
seen Austin Corbin stand in a crowded
thoroughfare and watch the manipu-
lation of street fakir who was trying
TO call attention to something new in
tooth powder" while at another time
he saw Senator Quay gaze for a long
time with interest upon a Gneman
climbing telegraph pole.
ENcursionists do not realize some
times that they bring with them the
hurry and rush noticed on excursion
days at popular seaside hotels. On q
very large excursion a particularly
critical visitor surveyed the hotel. the
shore and the water with superciiious
chances. When asked how he liked the
place he replied, with a motion to the
crowd: i couldn't stand this sort of
thing every day
Rudeness is justly considered as
social crime. The ill-bred person has
no place in the social fabric, and he
should be as much excluded from
polite life as should the criminal from
the business transactions of honest
men. Beautiful manners are the fine
lni1orcscence of ali forms OF art. Noble
sculpture, beautiful paintings, the har-
mony of music, the charm OF intellect
ual gifts, all find their highest and
most potent expression in manner.
a Coroner's jury at Macleod, in the
Canadian Northwest, has brought in
curious verdict to the effect that an
Indian woman who had suddenly died
had come to her death s'either from
eating sour beans or drinking some
fluid from bottle given to her by
Constable Simons.n 1t appears that
the fluid in the bottle was iodine, aud
Constable Simons has been arrested,
but it still remains to be determined
whether death was caused by the fluid
or the beaus.
The contractor who undertook to
bore series of artesian wells to sup
ply the Galveston waterworks, for
which he is to receive $50, if sue
cessful, recently struck bis first well at
a depth of ~ feet. Boring was at
once suspended. and preparations are
in progress to sink Il ten-inch strainer
the entire length OF the bearing
strata of sand. 1t is given out that
when this is done. and the we'll
thoroughly developed, it will probably
yield from 10000 to $4,000 gallons
daily.
The record in rapid machine work
has again been lowered. Heretofore
the Baldwin locomotive Works, of
have held the first place
with the record of an engine built in
hours, but the Pennsvl-
vania Railroad company has taken the
palm by constructing full-Sized Ql0.-
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