The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-23
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A Georgia man has produced new
and gentle species of rodent by cross
ing white and black rats.
Joaquin Miller, who is said to have
named the Territory, insists that it
should be pronounced I-dah-ho.
Robespierre's hair was chestnut in
color A lock of it has just come into
the possession of the Musee Carnavalet
of Paris.
Prof. Moritz Benedict says that the
| brain of professional murderer bears
striking resemblance to that of a beast
of prey.
A farm in Green county, Alabama,
consisting of 954 acres, was sold under
mortgage at Eutaw the other day and
brought only 40 cents per acre.
Sam Jones said in late sermon at
Kansas City that men are sometimes
led to drink to aid digestion, and that
bad biscuit makers are the allies of the
devil.
Sampson Goliah, James Allgones,
and Pleasant Bumpass are the names
of three claimants before Congress for
compensation for property taken dur
ing the war.
The apple industry in this country
is a greater one than many people sup
pose. The United States sends 1000
900 barrels of apples every year to
foreign nations.
A girl in Oconee county Georgia,
married at the age of 9 years, her hus-
band being As years old. 1t is said
that she become a mother before she
was 10 years of age.
The largest savings bank in the
world is the Glasgow Savings Bank.
The last report shows funds in hand OF
f4,6S0,0 900, and "a. 622, 900 are due to
depositors, who number 1877, 240.
The prize for the effectual destruction
of rabbits offered by the New South
Wales government is being warmly
contested. Already $50 inventions
have been sent in to compete for the
$250,000.
Minister PAX of Corea has received
a cable message from Saoul which cost
$407. 60, and returned an answer at an
expense of over 5000. The cable tariff
between Saoul and Washington is
81 43 word.
The Austrian minister of public in
struction has issued a decree forbid
ing the use of small-printed books
in public schools, as the cause
of the nearsightedness SO prevalent
among school children.
Ruth Perry. 17-year-old girl
of Middleton, N. Y. just for a lark
robbed farmers hen-roost the other
night and was sent to the calaboose for
month. She had rich parents and is
now out of limbo under bond.
There is troupe of trained cats at
the Winter Circus in Paris. Some of
the performers walk a tight rope, on
which are seated here and there white
mice and pigeons, and one goes across
with mouse astride its neck.
An eighty-ton fiat car. which is
claimed to be the largest ever made in
this country, is being built in Packer.
ton, Pa, and when finished will be
used for hauling lot of machinery
from New York to Bethlehem.
British makers of steel rails are
jubilant over the result of experiments
made by the Japan Railway Company
on rails of English and of German
make. The German rails proved in
every way weaker than the British.
4 census has been begun of the
French carrier pigeons. They are re.
garded now as of such importance in
the event of war that all owners are
obliged to report their pigeons under
a penalty OLA maximum fine of 1900
francs.
An odd combination of wares is
offered by shop in the Italian city OF
Bari, on the Adriatic. A sign informs
would-be customers that within can be
obtained: 'Leeches, bread sold in
slices or loaves, and tuition in
mathematics.
James G. Blaine and Senator Win.
dom about three years ago bought 20C
acres of Denver suburban property
for $40 per acre. Their agents have
just sold the land for 5000 per acre,
and the Denver papers say that it was
fairly sacrificed.
William Clark, veteran of the
Mexican war, who is living at Sharon,
Pa, at the age of ninety-four years,
knew Daniel Boone and General Har
rison we'll in his youth, and was on in
innate terms of friendship with Henry
Clay and General Scott.
There will be an exhibition in Paris
next year intended to illustrate all the
religions of the earth, past and present.
Idols, manuscripts, and all tangible
symbols of religions will be shown
in museum building, which it is ex.
pected will cost 100000.
In Salt Lake City the houses of the
Mormons all have two doors, even the
smallest of them. Some have also two
woodsheds and two wells. A house
that is begun with only one room is
frequently heightened out room by
room and door by door as new wives
are taken.
When a Mr.. Blank, of Buena Vista,
Ga, became engaged to mis- present
wife number of years ago he gave
her yearling heifer in lieu of an en-.
gagement ring. This living pledge OF
their troth has given forth increase un,
til the lady now has handsome herd
of cattle.
William c. Beecher and the Rev.
Samuel Schotield, the son and son-in.
law of Henry Ward Beecher, have
their biography of the great preacher
nearly ready for publication They
are greatly assisted by Mrs. Beecher,
who even now never calls herself any.
thing but his wife,
Mrs. Secretary Villas has never re-
covered from the nervous shock re.
sulting from witnessing the sudden
death of Judge Elicit at the Presidents
reception at Memphis. There has
been little or no improveme since the
first attack, and her physician and
friends are becoming alarmed.
This important decision was handed
down by the Kentucky Court OF
Appeals recently: Where one NAV
kill in his own defense because of
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