The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-02-16
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| that office in the county.
Lake Linden, Mich, is excited over
the discovery of copper in apparently
| large quantities just north of town
upon the grounds of the Ship canal
company.
| Anthracite coal has been found on
Washington county, y. T.. specimens
proving to be of fine quality and free
from stone. Active preparations are
being made to develop the deposits.
George McO;de, colored, of Wrights-
town, n. j., shot large arctic owl
recently. The bird was pure white,
dotted with brown spot the size of a
pea. Its eyes were CO gold color,
about the size of 5-cent nickel piece.
NJ. Albert Wolf, the typical writer
of the Figaro. is called .'the Partisan
| of Parisians," and is looked upon as
the very quintessence of the boule-
wards; yet, strange to say, he is Ger
man by birth and was educated at Co.
logne.
DR.. a. B. Jones, of Huntsville, Ala,
has purchased the buildings and equip
ments of the Huntsville Female Col
lege. This property has been in lti-
CATION nearly 90 years, having been
taken to the Supreme Court of the
United States.
A colossal stick of lumber from Pu
get Sound has been contributed to the
Mechanics Exhibition at San Fran
cisco. Its length is Isl feet, and it il
20 by 20 inches through. 1t is be-
lieved to be the longest piece of lpm-
Der ever turned out of any saw mill.
All the steel marking and canceling
stamps used by the various postof1ices
throughout the country are made in
the little machine shop of Col. Benja-
min Chambers, at Heathsville, Va.
Heathsville itself was one of the first
towns established by the settlers in
Virginia.
A warning against wearing full
boards comes from Burlington, n. J.
Gen. Abraham Post of that city was
| talking with friend near cigar
stand when his beard came in contact
with the cigar-lighter. Before the fire
could be extinguished his face was
badly burned.
An old couple of 90 years. Mr.. and
pllS. ILL SliIt bdIJos VI 1lahONC @AdOo.,
, were born in the same town, on the
same day and same hour, brought up
| together, and have now been married
62 years. The old man wants to bet
| 500 that he can ''rassle" and beat any
man of his own years.
1t is not generally known that one
of the sons of Sir Morell Mackenzie,
the physician who is intrusted with the
| charge of the Crown Prince of Ger
many's case. is on the stage. He is
member of the Adelphi Theater Com.
pany in London, in which he figures
under the name of IL. H. Morell.
Mr.. Calling has invented another
! gun, which he calls the police gum
and which is designed for use in riots
1t is brass, weighs rs pounds, is mount
ed on tripod with universal joint.
works very much like the Gatling gun,
and will deliver / ,O0O shots a minute
| III any direction-sidew ays, up OF
| down.
Special Agent Tingle, in charge OF
the Seal islands of Alaska, estimates
| that 5000 sealskins have been unlaw.
fully taken during the past year, and
on the basis of ten seals killed or NOR
tally wounded by these marauders for
each skin they secure, the number OF
seals killed by them during the year is
| placed at 500, 900.
OF the l,406 students of Michigan
university, it is stated by President
| Angel that the parents of SOP were
| farmers. III merchants, SO lawyers,
| S3 physicians, 50 manufacturers, 81
mechanics, and 81 clergymen. He es-
Inmates that as many as 40 per cent be-
longed to the class who gained thei1
living by manual toll.
In the stomach of COW killed in
La Crosse, Wis, were found one sill
yer piece, two wood screws, each an
inch in length. six carpet tacks, %
shingle nails, two large knitting
needles, and one street railway spike
three inches long. One of the needles
had pierced the cows lungs and caused
the formation of a big tumor.
The sloop Favorite, which recently
| foundered near Orient, L. l., was
wrecked by a beach weasel which
was loaded into the vessel when she
| took on cargo of seaweed. Finding
| himself confined in the hold, the weas-
ell gnawed hole in the side of the
sloop below the water line, and the re-
suit was that the Favorite foundered.
William n. Riddle. ex-President of
the Penn Bank, of Pittsburg, and now
New York broker, is among the best
close-range shots III America. He is
pale, slender man, with only one lung.
1t was owing TO his invalidism that he
became crack shot. When not al.
lowed to walk about he used to sit in
the hospital yard and shoot at mark
nearly all day.
Since Boston Corbett has been placed
in the insane asylum his effects al
| Concordia, Kan, have passed into the
| hands of an administrator, and among
! them was the identical Enfield rifle
with which Corbett shot the SLAYER OF
Lincoln. This old weapon has been
purchased for S. by Grand Army OF
the Republic post at Concordia, and
will be kept as relic.
Newspaper men in Germany have to
be very careful about punctuation.
The Hofer Tagebtatt q short time ago
| said decoration had been conferred
| upon Count Won Holstein. By an
| oversight an exclamation point instead
of a period appeared at the end of the
| sentence, and for this the authorities
seized the whole issue and instituted
suit against the editor for atrocious
libel.
William A. Johnson, who recently
died at a good old age in Lisbon,
Conn, was workman worthy of the
name. he was wagon-maker, and
one of his last jobs was to repair an
ox-cart which he built in 1882, and
which had been in constant use for So
years without repair. His first job in
| Lisbon was to make set of wheels.
| They have been used on farm wagon
tifty-six years aud are just as good as
| ever.
A lady in San Francisco had three
canaries SO tame that they few about