The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-12-27
Mlonitomof pilot.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER q,
MISSING LINKS.

York was published In 100 ana con-
tanned but $40 names.
The occupants of an Astoria, Ore,
hostelry fish from their bedroom win
dows and haul in their suppers from
the surging waters about the hotel
foundations.
A new device of the Patriotic League
of France is to engrave on monuments
the figures 1870-1S-, the blank being
the date of the War of Revenge, which
is left to the imagination.
Call for All Song" said an Aus
tralian Judge to the Hibernian court
crier in Chinese lawsuit. Gentle
menu shouted the crier to the specta-
tors, would wan of yez favor his Honor
with song?"
A French gentleman, after a grouse
drive in Scotland, being asked by his
host what he had killed, replied: ''Of
the grouse, none; they are too difficult;
but of the nlout0ns SauUdges l have
seven over the hill"
A Wyoming paper has made the
discovery that there is fertile valley
in Uinta county, forty miles in length,
that is peopled by colony of 700 Nor
mons, who harvest large crops and are
in every way prosperous.
"The Poodle Dog" restaurant, the
San Francisco Delmonico, was yclept
by the Frenchman who started it. "Se
poulet dor" (The Golden Hen,) which
was too much of a jawbreaker for the
natives; hence the present name.
There are 4O3 mountain peaks in the
United States more than 10000 feet in
height. The highest mountain east OF
the Mississippi is Mount Balsam Cone,
in the Black Mountains of North Car
DINA, which is 6,671 feet high.
A raft of piles is being constructed
at Norfolk, Va, on the Berkeley side of
the river. The raft will be 600 feet
long, % feet beam. 1t will be in six
sections, coupled strongly together
with wire. 1t is to be towed to Bos-
ton.
An old observer tells that ones eye
brows are an infallible guide to his
age. No matter, he says, how young
looking the person may be, if his eye
brows lack gloss and do not lie flat
and smooth, he is no longer young
man.
A street Fiddler" in Omaha was
given s. gold piece in mistake for a
nickel by an absent-minded person
who was listening to his music. The
giver did not discover his error, but
the player did, and honestly returned
the money.
The returns of the Paris Mont de
Pete for the last year show that 1884,
979 articles were pawned for total OF
30, $500 francs. The average sum
lent was of 4Sc. Applications to bor-
| row were most numerous in January,
July and August.
The plan of Supplying birds with
| whisky, so that their capture can be
| more easily accomplished, is being
successfully tried on quail by an enter
prising fellow at Santa Cruz, Cal.
Quail abound there just now, and large
catches are being made.
The Austrian Consul at Yokohama
| reports great difference in commercial
morality between the merchants OF
| China and Japan. The japanese, he
says, are neither enterprising nor up
right, but the Cinnamon are solid and
| trustworthy in every respect.
The Russian Government has grant.
ed an annual subsidy of Ill, 900 rubles
, to private firm who contract to run
| a line of steamers between the Russian
|! Pacific ports and Corea, Japan. and
China, the vessels in time of war to be
| at the disposal of the government
on street leading to the cemetery,
has reversible sign. Usually the
sign presents his name and Office hours
but when funeral passes, he turns it
over, and then the following legend is
displayed: Not my patient; I cure
all who follow my directions"
A Yale graduate, who was student
about thirty years said, in speaking of
changes that had taken place since his
time: 81 never knew whether to at
tach any significance to it or not, but
when Twas there the law school adjoined
the Jail, the medical college was next
the cemetery, and the divinity school
was on the road to the poor house."
Martin Wiles, bathing master of the
Mohican House, Lake George, while
digging under the roots of big cedar
not far from the beach, found guam
tlty OF Indian weapons, evidently of
great antiquity, and portions of hui
man skeleton, which crumbled into
dust as soon AS exposed to the air. The
weapons were arrow heads and stone
hatchets of curious design.
A woman in North GAINESVILLE, Fla,
saw little bird flying in and out of a
back window of her house. She watched
It and saw it pass through several
rooms to the front parlor and disap-
pear on n "whatnot in the corner.
There the housewife found a nest with
four eggs in it. They were not dis
turbed, and at last accounts the bird
was trying to hatch the little eggs.
A Greenyille. Mich, woman who
asked for divorce the other day told
the court that little measlev, one
armed cuss had licked her husband.
My marriage contract calls for lord
and protector but when a man is so
easy to get away with he can't be much
OF lord to woman and protect her"
The Court allowed that she had all the
logic on her side.
According to the Roman Catholic re-
turns for 1888, there are in England and
Wales 2,3l4 priests. as against 1,72S in
1873, serving 1904 churches, chapels
and missionary stations. In Scotland
there are five bishops and 334 priests,
serving 327 chapels, churches and sta
tons. The estimated Catholic popu-
lation in England and Wales is | .354 :
900; in Scotland, $4,000; in Ireland,
S,9ol, 900; total, 5.641,0 900.
The etymology of the word honey
moon is thus given by good authori-
ty; Among the northern nations of
Europe there was an ancient practice of
newly married couples to drink me-
theglin or mead. a kind of wine made
from honey (hydromeD for thirty DAYS
after marriage. Hence the term honey
month or honeymoon. Attila, the
Hun, drank so much mead at his we'd
ding feast that he died"