The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-10-18
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The demand for winter apartments
in the leading hotels of Boston was
never greater at this season OF the
year.
Professor Rogers has invented a
| solidified gas which can be Immediate
| ~ volatilized for the special use OF bal
| lOonists.
In order to popularize their own
wares the German champagne makers
are said to put German labels on French
wine.
A Memphis citizen was fined $50 for
spreading stories about yellow fever
| The Judge meant to protect the reputa-
ton of the city.
A man who slept with his false teeth
| in place swallowed them, and his throat
was cut in order to get them out. de
| died in consequence.
Ten millions sterling will be spent by
| the japanese Government in the next
ten years in the purchase of fifteen
ironclads and thirty torpedo boats.
Renan said recently that France
will perish in a literary sense because
| of her young writers. 1t is impossi-
BILE to write well before the age of for
| ty."
When Lawyer Henkle, of Washing
ton, had first to reply to Lawyer Belva
Lockwood in the District Court he re-
| ferred to her as ''my learned sister-in-
| law"
Partisan swells steadily give away
| to English fashions. They now wear
the regular short white tie for evening
| dress instead of their former black but
| terflies.
Man is awfully smart in some things,
but nobody has yet discovered one that
could jam hat pin clear through his
| head and make it come out on the 9TH
er side, as the women do.
A canary bird that had reached the
| age of eighteen years and six months
died lately at Iroquois, ID. L. He re-
| tanned his singing powers until the last
year, when he seemed to be in his dot
! age.
The italian coral fishery seems to be
| giving out. The 1900 workmen who
used to be employed have decreased to
| 1000. Calcutta is now the chief market,
America and Europe taking compare
lively little.
Two new roses on exhibition at the
| florists convention in New York We're
the Madame de VAUDEVILLE, "a tea rose,
| graceful in shape and delicate in color
ING. and the ''Meteor,na dark rec, very
fragrant rose.
A visitor to Duxbury has discovered
that Miles Standish never forgave j ohm
Alden for marrying Miss Priscilla Null
lens. A second tableaux should be
added to the pretty scene. ''Why don't
you speak for yourself, John?"
A rector writes to the Guardian that
a s.celibate order among the clergy is
one of the imperative necessities OF the
time" the reason being 1.-The impossi-
bility of supporting wife and family
upon the ordinary income OF a curate. !"
| 1t is rumored that certain women in
Minnesota are attempting to have a
law passed compelling man to de-
| clare his intentions within four weeks
woman. Courtship by law would be a
new social difficulty.
The richest nine of Australia, and
perhaps in the worlds the Mount Nor
gan, of Northampton. Queensland,
says the San Francisco Examiner. Its
value has been variously estimated at
from f12, 0Oc, 900 to f2O0,000,000, but
it is fact that one of the Rothschilds
offered 940, 600, 900 for the mine. but
the offer was refused. The gold. as
eek IN from the mine, is 80 fine, or al
| most pure.
English is wrote at Karlsbad by a
taller in this way: Honorable sir!
/ take me the liberty, to make your at
tentive on my Etablissement. There l
| please you, to favour me by some uses
| of clothes, with your visit. and always
| keep large chOise of englisch, franch
| and Drummer materials and clothes
| shall made to measure on the best and
newest facon; and l am like ready to
full full your esteem wushes."
A Detroit parent tells this story of
his little daughter: She was playing
in the room adjoining his own, and he
called to her but received no answer.
Then he called again. Mary No
answer this time. Then he said, i'm
patiently, MARY, come here Miss
Mary, aged three, toddled in. did YOU
hear me call? asked her father. .'Why,
papa, ] dot ears was the cool reply.
The father subsidized.
Exactly a quarter of a century ago
one Foreman. then soldier in the re-
bellion, was sentenced TO the Missouri
Penitentiary for six years for the theft
of horse. During the night he es-
capped and remained in freedom until
| recently, when he was again taken into
custody aud sent back to Jefferson
City to serve out the six years. He
claims to have lived within 100 miles
of Hannibal ever since he escaped.
An anecdote in the Tonaaps World
shows the attitude in Germany toward
womanS part in the public interests.
At a call made by an English couple
upon German of eminence and his
wife, talk arose upon the public ques-
ton of the hour. The Englishman,
perceiving that the German lady was
being left out of the discussion, asked:
''And what is your opinion, madam?n
Before she could reply her German
lord make short work of it: Leave
the room, meme Liebe; these matters
can be of no interest to YOU"
The owner of some homing pigeons
at Hamm bet that on fine day twelve
of his bees would beat a like number
of carrier pigeons in making the dis
tance Gone hour) between Hamm and
the town of Rhynern. Twelve pigeons
and twelve bees -four drones and eight
working bees, all powdered with hour)
We're taken to Rhynern, and simultane-
ously set free. a white drone arrived
home four seconds in advance of the
first pigeon; the remaining three
drones and the second pigeon arrived
together, and the eight working bees
preceded the ten pigeons by a length.
At the florists convention in New
York one of the addresses was on the
the wonderful growth of the florists
trade in this country. In 1910 Isaac