The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-10-17
The average age of the twelve En-
glish bishops is seventy-six years.

A woman at Reading, Pa, hanged
herself because she had a severe tooth
ache. She told friend the day before
she couldn't bear it any longer.
The New Hampshire girl who drank
chalk-water to make her look pale
fooled the doctors nicely. 1t took two
post-mortems TO tell what she died of.
There are altogether about 1900
Arabs in this country, and not 10 per
cent of them have a settled home or
any other means of support than ped
ding.
a projected canal across the upper
part of Italy, connecting from the
Adriatic to the Mediterranean, would
take six years to build and cost $780,
900, 900.
North Dakota will be the first state,
as state, to make provision for sys-
TEN of manual training. Forty thou
sand acres of land are set apart for that
purpose.
A Young woman from the West who
was visiting a seashore resort was told
that man-eating sharks could be caught
there. where do the sharks get the
men?" she exclaimed.
Over three thousand French desert
ers who have been living in Geneva
have been benefited by the late amnes-
ty law, and have left with their families
to return to their country.
At a wedding in Arizona the other
day the bride received. with other gifts,
furnished house, mule, a heifer, a
barrel of beer a cask of wine, some
whisky and corkscrew.
Micaiah Owens. one hundred years
old, living near Rochelle, Ga, walked
to town the other day distance of five
miles. Only three years ago he walk
ed twenty-eight miles in one day.
The whole of the sewage of Paris
will soon be used for the purpose of
market gardening. Gennevillier now
absorbs and purifies third of the Paris
| sewage water. Achires and Merry will
soon utilize the rest.
George Bucket, a Louisville inven-
| tor, is to the fore with a mysterious
vacuum bed, which will cure all pain,
and a triple motor to travel with equal
c0lerity, ease and economy on land or
water or in the air.
House boats are becoming so COM
mon in England that there is a talk
about taxing them. There are nearly
twelve thousand pleasure boats includ-
ing house boats, used on the upper
reaches of the Thames.
The Victoria and Albert, the queens
yacht, was built at Pembroke in 1854.
She is constructed of wood, sheathed
with copper, and cost f136, AL, at the
outset, and about 100000 has since
been expended on her.
John Cannon Short, an aged farmer
Of near Georgetown, computes that in
going to Georgetown three times per
week during the past forty years, the
distance each way being seven miles,
he has travelled 81, $50 miles
Judge f. Wellhouse, of Fremont,
Kas., is said to be the proprietor of the
largest orchard in the world He has
1918 acres in fruit trees, and it is claim
ed that no other grower on the face of
the globe can make a similar showing.
The cigarette habit is Increasing
faster than the cigar habit. Last year
taxes on 2, 151, 515, 300 were collected.
tlI NV tStSt VI -cJ, o.. -tp ON Inb wear
before. For the same period 1867
$50, $50 cigars were taxed, an increase
of %, 63S, $50.
A child who had Just mastered her
catechism confessed herself disappoint-
ed, because, she said, Though / obey
the fifth commandment, and honor my
papa and mamma, yet my many DAYS
are not bit longer in the land, be-
cause am still put to bed at o clock
The 'cold fresh air cure i, :. new
cure for consumption. Slowly being
accustomed to the action of air, the
patient is moved a little nearer each
day toward an open window. The last
stage OF the cure consists in sleeping in
the open air, regardless of wind, rain
or snow.
The Kansas man who made 1000
barrels of vinegar from twenty acres
of watermelons and sold the vinegar
for SO barrel has founded new and
valuable industry. He has also shown
that the best way to avoid cramps from
watermelons is to convert the melons
into vinegar.
According to the Portland Oreqonian
not slow in taking advantage of mod
ern improvements is shown by the
statement that one company alone dur
ing the last four months has put in
nearly 10000 electric lights in Oregon
and Washington.
The Portland Oreqonian saws that
the Pacific coast has suffered greater
losses from fire during 1889 than any
other section of the United States. 1t
is computed that $50, 000, 600 worth of
property has been DESTROYED by fire
since the beginning of this wear. Of
this sum California and Washington
contributed little over half
Lewis Purdy, postmaster at Shrub
Oak, Westminster county. n. Y, was
appointed by William Henry Harrison
in March. 1911. and has served contin-
uously from that time. Though now
in his eighty-fifth year, he is vigorous. |
mis- memory and vision are clear. and |
he still receives and distributes the |
mail twice day, as he has for long |
years.
A. r. Rucker of Athens, Ga. has a
specimen of genuine cork wood, which |
was cut from a tree growing in Buck |
ersyille, III Washington county. We |
learn that General Toombs sent the |
seed of this tree to h1r. Bucker's father |
many years ago when the former was |
a member of Congress. The seed was
planted. came up, and has made large
tree.
Hurry to the door, Mary, and let
Mr. Smith in. He has rung twice"
"That isn't Mr.. Smith, it is the other
young gentleman" well, wait a
minute. then. | must change the pho
tographs on the mantel. Life.
First OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES gold mine
discovered in Michigan, | see. Big
one this time. Second SPECTATOR
Yes; the uninhabitable swamp of the
particular settler who wants to sell ia
twice the usual size.-Philadeiphia In
quirer.