The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-02-14
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IA.
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"A lCuitd, Nall, Clci Adu las
been asked to resign because his SER
mons are too long.
1t is said that when he is busy in
''round up single cowboy will tire
| out six or eight horses in day.
An Indiana woman who had no less
than five husbands is now looking
| around for sixth. She was divorced
| from the last one.
In Matamoras, Texas, wild geese sell
at 81 cents each, all ready picked and
dressed, and ducks sell at from three
to four for 10 cents.
The number of adherents of the
Roman Catholic Church in America has
increased during the past century from
A, 500 to 100000.
Colonel Stewart, of Nevada City, has
provided in his will that his body be
cremated and the ashes dumped into
the river at midnight.
The Jews Free School at Spital-
fields, England, is said to be the larg-
est school in the world. 1t numbers
$500 pupils-2,25o boys and 1850
girls.
A new dance called the "chow-chow"
has become very popular in the East,
A portion of it consists of waltz IN
which you can hug the four ladies in
rotation.
The Maltese cat in Poughkeepsie,
n. Y, drug store, suddenly developed
an appetite for leeches, and while the
druggists back was turned ate thirty
of them.
A great Indian cemetery has been
laid bare at Romney, Va, by a freshet
on a branch of the Potomac. Numer-
Gus skeletons and many trinkets have
been found.
A family of five in Dakota subsisted
for three weeks on five pounds OF pork
| and bushel of carrots, and there is no
! use in any young housekeeper trying
to beat that record.
The sum total of all the counterfeit
money set atioat last year did not
amount to $4,000, and the "queer"
men were out of pocket in their trans
actions. There is more profit IN steal
ing overcoats.
Strange what queer languages are
| spoken in this country. A Western
paper in local item recently told
of ga regular old razooper, who, hav-
ing got skate on, INDUCED in a glori-
Gus razzle-dazzle."
A Piedmont, S. c., clergyman mar
ried a couple and published notice
to that effect before he learned that
the contracting parties were men. They
wanted to have little fun at the
minister's expense.
Yes, it's Just bit awkward-just
a bit,n observed Charles McGraw, OF
Providence, as seven of his wives
gathered at the Jail to interview him.
Had the other four been on hand he
would have been almost broken up
over it.
The citizens of Dion boast that they
have the oldest poplar in France, but
just how old it is no one knows. 1t is
l22 feet high, forty-tive feet in Cir
conference at the base, and twenty.
three feet in circumference fifteen feet
from the base.
One of the English regiments is ex-
perimenting with machine called a
centercycle, which has four small
wheels foot in diameter and one in
the center. 1t is said that the inven
ton makes climbing hill as easy for q
cycler as rolling off log.
Frank Thornton, of Elberton, has in
his possession couple of eggs which
are curiosities. They have two shells
the yolk is inclosed in small one
and the white around it in the larger
The eggs are as large as a goose egg
which they closely resemble.
As soon as an article becomes un.
common, its value as work of art
rises to surprising degree. Buffalo
robes, which have become scarce, are
now fashionable floor rugs. Any one
possessing buffalo robe should take
it from his sleigh and spread it among
the rugs of Oriental manufacture.
M. Jeane ALBERT, whose pictures of
cupids and nymphs find so ready a
sale in this country, married an Ameri-
can woman, for whose death some
four years ago he is still inconsolable.
Her room is left just as it was when
she died, and every day her husband
lays bunch of fresh flowers on her
pillow.
The new American navy, when COM
| pleted, will consist of TWENTY-FIVE
vessels, ranging from the armored
cruiser Maine. carrying 444 men, down
to tirst-class torpedo boat, CARRYING
four officers and eighteen men. There
Will be 5,7S6 men on board the twenty
two vessels-50O officers and 5,2S6
sailors and marines.
They are still pegging away at the
Cape Cod Ship Canal, which was be-
gun nine years ago. The contract re-
qulres the work to be finished by June
~, 1891, but as there are seven miles
yet to be dug, and as during 1873 there
was only about seven-eighths of mile
opened, the prospects are not good for
the tuiiillmcnt of the contract.
| The Masonic fraternity in New York
State numbers 10000 men and has
$4,000 in cash, besides large pledges
| for construction of Masonic Home.
1t has been decided to locate the build
! lngs at Utica on account of the city's
| central position and railroad facilities.
| Probably cottages will be erected, with
one or two larger buildings for general
| purposes.
Illinois census returns show that out
side of the cities the population is de-
creasing. The school census of 1888
shows that in July last there were in
the state S43,976 males under TWENTY
one years of age. In 1880 there were
1866. This is gain of $4,000, but
the gain in Cook County was SS,2l7,
so that the loss in the rest of the state