The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-03-08
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divorce day in the Supreme court.
A Greek wedding ceremony lasts all
day and the richer the family the
more priests are employed for the SER
| wee.
An Anglican curate performed the
marriage ceremony for child eleven
years old in Kensington, England, re-
Gently.
Two young Massachusetts women
have gone to Buffalo with the inten-
ton of embarking in the profession OF
dentistry.
Queen Victoria sent 1925 to Mrs.
! James Lees of Goole, who was injured
by the exposition of fireworks durin 9
the jubilee celebrations.
Berry, the English hangman, has
executed 113 persons up to the present
time, sixteen of them having been in
Ireland and two in Scotland.
A farm in Greene County, Alabama,
consisting of 945 acres, was sold under
mortgage at Eutaw the other day, and
brought only 40 cents per acre.
Muscalonge fishing has been very
good near Ogdensburg this season.
The largest fish taken weighed forty
one and one half pounds drawn.
A girl in Oconee County, Georgia,
married at the age of nine years, her
husband being forty-fve years old. 1t
is said she became a mother before she
was ten years of age.
The last public whipping in the
State of Rhode Island took place in
Providence July II, 1927. Two horse
thieves were logged with cat-o-nine
tails by order of the court.
Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Jackson,
seventy-three years of age, recently
took a part in public concert at the
A. M. Z. Church in Reading. The
local paper says she has fine voice.
The gavel used by the presiding
officer of the United States Senate has
been in use over tifty-six years. 1t is
made out of an elephants tooth and
has no handle, nor did it ever have
one.
Mrs. Riley, of Brooklyn, run needle
into her heel seven years ago. Last
week she took it out from small fes-
ter in her thumb. 1t is needless to
say that she was good deal sur
prised.
DR.. Voisin relates the case of a girl
II years of age, who was a most in
veterate and persistent liar and
whom he cured completely of this
reprehensible habit by means of hyp-
notism.
Benjamin l.. Hume, native of Vir-
ginia, who was Stonewall Jackson's
guide during the late war, is now liv-
ing on farm near Madison, Ga. He
is a Methodist minister, now on the
retired list.
Hannibal Hamlin refused to don an
overcoat even during severe blizzard
in Maine when the mercury sunk out
of sight. He so far compromised HIM
self, however, as to put on Il pair of
wooden mittens.
MIR. Carson recently moved from
Inlay City, Mich, to Benkleman,
Neb., taking with him favorite dog.
The dog returned to Inlay City the
other day, having found its way back
on foot and alone.
The Russian sculptor Opekucshin has
just commenced a statue to form part
of a monument to be erected in the
kremlin by the ear to his fathers
memory. The complete cost is to be
at least 100000.
William Aiken, of Greensboro, Ca,
has an ear of corn which presents an
almost perfect picture of human
hand. The wrist and every finger are
represented. No grains of corn are
on the hand of the ear.
The young Duke of Newcastle, who
is now in Florida, is the possessor of
the famous blue Diamond gem
weighing forty-fve carats and the
most perfect specimen of its kind in
existence. 1t is worth $150,000.
Mrs. John Guest, of Wichita, Kas.,
during her twenty years of married
life has presented her husband with
twenty-five children. She has twice
given birth to twins and once to trip
lets and all were welcome Guests.
A tombstone weighing sixteen tons,
and cut in the form of tree with
birds and squirrels lodged in it's
branches, and ferns, flowers, an open
book and scroll of music at the
base, is curiosity at Menosha, Ohio.
Scientists assert that the newly dis
covered cities of Arizona are the same
as sought by Cortez and the early Span
lsh adventurers in their expeditions
after gold. The cities are seven in
number and show evidences of former
civilization and wealth.
Ex-Gov. Merriwether of Kentucky.
who succeeded Henry Clay in the
United States Senate, is prosecuting a
claim against the Government for 81
500 which he claims for balance of
salary due him as Governor of New
Mexico thirty years ago.
President Cleveland has adopted the
habit of slipping away from his desk
for half an hour at about dusk for
a sharp walk through the unfre-
quented portion of the West End. He
is said to have already reduced his
weight about twenty pounds.
During the last famine in China it
required fifteen days to transport re-
lief to the people over a distance Of
200 miles. Contrast with that the fact
that at the time of the big Chicago
fire in 1871 a relief train from New
York travelled / 500 miles in twenty
one hours.
William Carrow, a farmer, was
| thrown out of his sleigh by striking
against a lamp post in Ionia, Mich.
He was picked up insensible but he
still held his clay pipe between his
teeth, and his first sign of conscious
ness was a puff at it. The fire hadn't
gone and he was still smoking as he
left for home.
Game Warden Collins of Connecti-
cut comes to the defense of owls and
hawks by saying that the examination
of over two hundred specimens of
these birds by microscopes prove
that they live on small birds, frogs,
snakes, mice, and grasshoppers. The
small birds are mostly sparrows,
and very few game birds are eaten.
Mrs. A. c. Duncan, who now lives
in Pittsburg at the age of Y. was born
/ in the Castle of Edin hurr Her fathar