The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-05

Henry James, jr.. the nOYeilSt, DOastS
that he has never loved a woman,
though he is now forty years old.
\ new album for locks of hair is in
troduced II contains specimens from
the heads Of those who are dear to the
owner.
The Inspector of Rutcheries in Paris
reports that the consumption of horse
flesh has increased to an extraordinary
| extent.
The late Chief Justice Waite had
| four messengers during his fifteen
/ years on the Supreme bench. Three
| of them went mad.
\ comical use of the editorial word
| I'VE is Patrick Ford's statement in
! the irish World: I'VE came to this
country when a child of eight years"
The cowboys have fired so many bull
lets into telegraph poles in certain dis
tricts in the West that gust of wind
snaps the pole short off, and much trou-
| bic results.
| The Mikado of Japan has issued an
/ edict against what he calls 1.-The PERM
| cious game Of base ball, which foreign
! ers are attempting to introduce into
this country.
Miss Margaret MacIntyre, a Scotch
| girl, and the daughter of General Nc
Intyre, Of the English army, is a new
| prima donna soprano who is receiving
! great praise from the London critics OF
| Italian opera.
John !. CaIman, a merchant OF Bay
Shore, i, l., is the proud posSessor OF
hen which, it is alleged, has laid an
| egg nine inches long. Half the width
was well proportional, while the rest
tapcred to Il point like handle.
Thomas q. Downey, OF the United
States ship Fandalia. writes from Hon
olula to friends in this country that
he has grown very fond of King Kali
akaua "He. socially, is a very good
fellow says MIR Downey. He is on
the square"
The famous 30 Tree under which
| Buddha sat and meditated until he be-
came "enlightened and oyercame the
last temptation" is said to be falling 10
pieces. 1t is believed to be the oldest
tree in the world, being credited with
$500 years.
James Ruth, Of Newton, Pa, had
the little toe of each foot amputated as
a remedy for cornS. He had suffered
such pain that he threatened to cut the
toes off with chisel if the family would
not consent 10 have surgeons perform
the operation.
The valet custom in England extends
even to the poor lodging houses or
workingmcn' homes. In all these
common houses there are men VINO,
for q copper or SO week, black the
| boots, cook the supper andrun crrandS
for the aristocratlc among the dodgers.
They are having hard work finding
hard pan for the foundation of the
new bridge across the Thames at East
New London. Conn. They have put
piles down 113 feet, and have not got
to solid earth yet. 1t is thought that
bottom will be reached at about 1870
feet.
\ certain ear, No. 1+5, of an Indian
apolis street railway company, has had
SO many persons killed or wounded in,
on, or by it. that the drivers have
signed a petition asking to have it
taken of and either demolished or gen
erously presented to some other com
pany.
The workincn on the great Eiffcl
tower in Paris have struck on the
ground that the higher they go the
greater the danger. There are 200 OF
them, earning on an average 50 cents
4 day. II their WAGES are To rise with
the tower, ii viii not so very much
further.
il singular deposit has been discoY-
cred near the base Of mountain near
Taylorville, n. c. 1t resembles clay
in pliabIlity, but when exposed to the
air becomes rs hard as stone. Blocks
of II have been dug out and used fol
all the purposes of stone, and it is pro-
posed to build houses with it.
There are professional cooks in
Paris who make business of tasting
and inspecting dishes at private houses
The cook, when ordered to a house
where a great dinner is under way,
looks, smells, tastes of, orders a little
salt in this soup, bit of sugar in that
sauce, Il flavor of onion in the other
salad and 50 on.
The new slang dictionary, of which
Charles c. Leland is one of the editors,
is announced in London. 1t is a com
plete compendium of unconventional
phraseOlogy, embracing English and
American slang and all the recognized
vulgarisms. 1t is probably as com
plcte a guide to conversation in polite
circles as can be found in the market
An inventive genius at Pocahontas,
Ind, grlnds cornstalkS and coarse prai-
RE grass together and mOistenS them
with water When the compound has
been reduced to pulp he presses it into
blocks twelve inches long and four
inches thick. When these are thor
oughly dried they burn readily, and it
Is claimed give more heat than the
same amount Of soft coal.
| George Gray. Of Plymouth, Me. was
performing on the cross bar Of the bio
barn door the other day, and as he
hung head downward the bar broke
His head, in the fall, went between the
door sill and log, and had he not been
caught by man standing near IN
doubleday his neck would have been
broken. As it was his spine was in
cured in such n way that he cannot sit
up, nor move his head, except with his
hands.
4 young and enthusiastic kinder
/ s-'I 't'iA IS't !ICt' WHO pcLItNcS iidJ
much repetition will tix ideas firmly in
youthful minds, usually begins her
lesson on the idea of form by holding
up rubber bali, and asking: Now.
children, what is this? "A globe" is
the reply, piped out in childish ire
bic. The other day she began, as
usual. with the ball. Now, children
what do l hold in my hand?" Chest
nut" yelled Il prompt and cheeky
small boy from back seat That's
the sort of thing, the teacher says, that
discouraged her.
Colonel Nelson Tiff. of Doughertv
Co, Ga, has LOCO young pecan trees
now growing. These trees came from
the nuts of his large trees that are now
of huge proportions-f from forty TO fif-
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