The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-12-26
MISSING LINKS.


The Hon. Hannibal Hamlin has sur
vived all but two of his fellow members
of the Maine Legislature of 1886.
There is still $40, 900 in the hands of
the relief committee of Seattle, Wash.
and they don't know what to to do with
it.
The pin factories of the United States
manufacture about $4,000, 600, 600 of
these diminutive but useful articles
every year.
Florida produces croccdiles as well
as alligators, but they are harder to
capture, being more wary and ''chuck
full'' of fight.
The two sides of the face are not
alike. As rule, says German pro-
fessor, the want of symmetry is con-
fined to the upper part of the face.
The shareholders of the Eiffel tower
have got all their money back from the
profits and will take half the net re-
ceipts during the twenty years the con-
cession runs.
Some Wheeling boys put up job on
user of the weed, concealing piece OF
soap in the plug. The tobacco chewer
masticated some of the compound and
was sick for two days.
The Lancaster, Pa, police, unable to
fix any crime on a suspicious character
arrested there, bought a railroad ticket
with the money found on him and
shipped him out of town.
Prince Louis Napoleon, son of "Plon-
Plon" and younger brother of Prince
In- Cd
Major in the Russian army and will 90
on duty in the Caucasus.
Mrs. Eva Hamilton, wife of Robert
Ray Hamilton. divides her time in the
New Jersey State Prison between sew
ing buttons on shirts, reading the Bible,
and scheming for new trial.
Dom Pedro was Emperor of Brazil
for tifty-eight years, and yet he is not
an old man-63 at his last anniversary.
His reign has been longer than that of
any living monarch. Queen Victoria is
next.
The Queen of Italy is growing stout,
to her great distress. She has several
times tried to become a vegetarian, in
hope of reducing her weight, but is too
fond of good living 10 perSevere in such
a course.
Swooping down on weasel chick
en-hawk at Manatawny carried the ami
NAL up, but before many minutes the
weasel planted its teeth in the birds
neck and killed it. The weasel was
not hurt by It's fall to the ground.
The Gar of Russia has become. both
in appearance and manner, Muscovite
of al To
colossal figure, being giant both in
heighth and in girth, quite bald, with
stupendous beard, which flows over his
chest.
Three men being unable to drive or
drag 400-pound pig from its pen at
Reinhold, Berks County, Pennsylvania,
they called in the assistance of John
Berkeley, giant in strength. He de-
liberately picked the kicking porller up
and carried it out unaided.
In 1891 the charters of all Canadian
banks expire, and the plan upon which
they shall be reissued will soon have to
be determined. Whether it is better to
continue the old system or take pattern
by the newer and simpler method in
the United States is the point to be de.
cided.
At Cincinnati horse backed over the
bank and fell down declivity of 100
feet, dragging his cart and driver with
him. The driver did not get into the
water, but the horse plunged into the
river and swan across to Covington,
detaching the vehicle from him in mid
stream.
Unacquainted with the game birds of
this country, a newly arrived German
living near Scranton shot q barnyard
turkey under the impression that it
was wild fowl. He took it home and
had it cooked, and was about to sit
down at the dinner table and eat it
when he was arrested for killing his
neighbours poultry.
A sign that is attracting hundreds of
people to where it hangs, on carpen-
ter shop, in Paterson, n. j., reads:
Collins made and repaired. Extra
strong ones for country people" The
old man who owns the establishment
has his own coffin on hand 1t is made
of pine wood, and is covered with
neat pattern of wall paper.
The most fashionable hen in New
York State is said to live at Winslow's
Mills, in the town of Waldoboro. She
started in life a plain, dark-brown
pullet, bnt soon exchanged this for a
black and white suit. The next time
she shed her feathers she came out as
white as snow, and last fall she appeared
in black, white and tan dress.
Geronimo and his renegade Apaches
will remain at Mount Vernon Barrack,
Alabama, during the winter Geronimo
has become quite civilized. He has
learned to twang the banjo, and his old
surly manner has left him. 1t is not
probable, however, that his education
will go far. He would rather play
cards than learn to read, and his
former fondness for iirewater remains
He has to be closely watched or he will
get drunk at the first opportunity. He
has, however, made a better prisoner
than was expected.
A supernatural visitant, described as
white figure in human shape of IN
usual height, which stalks through the
woods at night, bearing in its right
hand a flaming torch and in its left a
black banner emblazoned with skull.
and cross-bones, is reported to nave
been seen in Crenshaw County, Ala
bama. His ghostship is said to make
his appearance every night at 10
o'clock, emerging from a cavern in a
side hill at the eastern extremity of the
woods, and trayersing westerly until
he disappears in the dense pine forest.
Henry Caby, whose real name il
kish-ka-ko. lives up in Arenac County.
Michigan. IS a great-@randson of an
Indian chief of the same name. and he
sets up a claim that in 1919 his ROYAL
ancestor was 10y treaty with the gov
ernment, given sections 20 and 30, on
which most OF the valuable part of Bay
City stands. and now his LAWYERS pro-
pose to get the land for him or &c. the
money value thereof 1t is alleged
that the treaty records show no further
disposition of the land has ever been
cl'thorIZed since the treaty of 1919
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