The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-11-08
MISSING LINKS.

New York finds that an electric
plant for the execution of dogs will
cost but 5000.
The Duke of Westminster, England s
richest Peer, has an income Of thirty
shillings a minute.
The latest arrangement in Paris for
a wedding at home is a floral umbrel-
la, under which the happy pair stand.
The Maharajah Holkar of Indore
has Just married 12-year-old girl.
His numerous other wives are justly
indignant
A bed of the finest clay, six miles
long, three wide and fifteen to twenty
feet thick has just been discovered near
Carrolton, Ohio.
The first Chinaman to receive a
pension has just been placed upon the.
He was injured while serving on a
man-of-war.
A citizen of Ty Ty, Ga, has lamp,
the wick of which has been burning
for four years, with good prospects of
it lasting through the fifth.
The champion fish liar lives at Iron
wood, Mich. He tells of a party of
four trouters who caught 5000 trout
in three days, gave $50 to their friends,
and ate the others-2,750.
A British vessel is now surveying a
route between Australia and Canada,
preliminary to laying telegraph
cable The cable will be $500 miles
long, and the work of laying it will
take three years.
ed in a creek near Americas, Ga. Now
it is said that her ghost haunts the
place and walks back and forth across
the bridge spanning the stream, carry
ing torch in her hand.
A merchant at Sanford, Ga, had a
| lot of melons that he could not sell, and
in order to be rid of them left them in
front of his store one night. When he
went down the next morning he was
chagrined to find them all there.
Florida mourns the loss of the sweet
| notes of the mockingbird. Formerly
| hundreds of them could be heard sing
ing, but their nests have been so
Systematically broken up or robbed of
their young that they arc rapidly dis
| appearing.
A Midtown, Me-, mechanic has in
vented a log-sawing apparatus which
has an upward as well as downward
| motion. The scheme has not been
fully tested yet, but, if successful, will
| be great time-saying invention to
| lumber dealers.
Favored subjects of the Shah of
| Persia are permitted, as a special mark
| r. ac{ao,,, IN ia ,,I,aSnpt whom hp IN n
| tooth pulled, while all persons who
would r" lily enjoy the spectacle-thoso
suspected of being unfriendly to him
are cruelty excluded.
A Hudson River ferry company has
| devised new use for automatic
machines. You put your handkerchief
in a saucer, drop penny in the slot
and the handkerchief is sprinkled with
cologne. The working girls of Jersey
City patronize it literally.
| did Col. YerGer treat you politely
when you called to see him?" asked
Uncle Nose of another colored man.
You bet he did. He blowed de smoke
oh a cigar IN my face whit must hab
cost 20 cents. Hit was de finest kind
Oh cigar. - Teas SJtings.
Aggie = How did George propose
to you? Nellie-He rushed into the
parlor the day after we had been in
PRODUCED, flung $50, 900 worth of bonds
into my lap, kissed me eagerly seven
teen times, and cried OF: Darling,
you must be mine!" SO became his
| Time
A New York politician is so fond
of being "deadheaded" everywhere
that when some of his friends were
debating how to get him to attend
church one of them said: Charge an
admission fee and he'll be after a pass
before breakfast. Shoe and Leather
| Reporter.