The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-11-28
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", bitter dissatisfaction.
The prize catches of the season in
French Greek, at Cambridge, Pa, were
twenty-seven-pound pike and an eel
weighing four pounds.
China is moving. though slowly, in
the line of modern progress. A tele-
graph line, 1,600 miles, is to be con-
structed from Pae-ting-foo to Ill.
N. R. McCaillis, of Dexter, Me-, paid
up the dues on his life insurance just
in time to prevent its expiring and ex-
pired himself an hour afterward.
The famous Germsn regiment know
as the Black Brunswickers are about to
exchange their time-honored uniform
uniforms for the Prussian pattern.
Rev. Wayland d. Ball, of Baltimore.
is at home again after having travelled
1000 miles through Europe on tan
den bicycle. His wife accompanied
him.
j. g. Rich, of Bethel, Me-, a veteran
trapper, is engaged in the novel bust
ness of catching wild hares to ship to
sportsmen who wish to stock game pre-.
serves.
The Probate Court at Tacoma has
decided that Indian children of wives
married according to Indian customs
cannot inherit except by legislative en-
actment.
An elephant recently died in Ceylon
which had served the public works de-
partment for over sixty-tive years. and
had previously worked in various parts
of the island for an unknown period.
Baggage-smashers should take as q
warning the fate of William Kelly,
Lake Minnetonka porter who dropped
trunk, when a revolver in it was dis
charged shooting Kelly through the
head, killing him instantly.
Great street improvements are il
progress in London. The Strand is to
be widened its whole length, Holywell
street is to 90 out of existence and
new street is to be opened from the
Strand to Holborn at cost of s., $780,
600.
The other day a Chinese cook at
Livingston, Cal, made a pie for the
guests of a hotel. 1t looked all right,
but he added two ounces of pulverized
glass for seasoning. The first bite
caused stalwart transfers mouth to
bleed and he beat the cook to jelly.
AT Napa. Cal, lawyer after attend
ing to some papers brought to hlm by
colored man, inquired How did you
happen to come to me with this bust
ness?" We'll you see sab, l read the
sign on your office, Notary Repub-
lican,' and so ! concluded to patronize
YOU"
Miss Minnie Earheart, of Glendale.
Ohio, awoke in Chattanooga hotel to
discover a man in her room. She put
her hand under her pillow, drew out a
long black silken purse, pointed it at
him and threatened to shoot. The fell
low thought it was pistol and left in
stanter.
1t is reported from Birmingham, Ala,
that a Scotch chemist named Archi-
bald has discovered a process by which
all phosphorus may be removed from
iron and the ore converted into
Bessemer pig at cost of only 90 cents
a ton. The process is said to have been
successfully tested.
Some English and American ply
sicians have resolved to found in
Vienna society to be called the Anglo
American Vienna Medical Association,
with view to giving information and
moral support to the English and Ameri-
can doctors and students of medicine
who come to the Vienna University.
The students of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity have adopted the Oxford cap
and gown, but it is not likely that they
will retain the costume for any great
length of time. There is hardly col
lege in the country which has not at
some period been afflicted with the cap
and-gown craze and has given it up.
Mr.. and Mrs Addison g. Hayner
living near Buskirk N. Y. are sub
stantial, solid married couple, Mr.
Hayner weighs 40 pounds and his
wife pulls down the scales at 315, max
ing conjugal total of 725, pounds, and
it is all solid flesh. Both are in good
health and cheerfully do the ordinary
work of a farm.
In Stock bridge township, Michigan
hungry hawk swooped down on some
young turkeys. The mother turkey
tried to drive him away, but, failing to
do so. sped away and in few mo-
ments returned with a whole flock of
able bodied adult turkeys and made
a combined attack on the barn yard
pirate and beat him off
The ''staff of lifen down in Maine
appears to be tobacco. A contractor
who has employed a crew of twelve
men for six months on settling up with
them found that ten of them who are
tobacco chewers, had consumed S53
worth of tobacco, besides cigars, and
that the cost of flour for the whole
dozen was only SOL.
A few days since Sergeant Groo, of
the New York police force, met five
brothers at his fathers house in the
town of Neversink. The total weight
of the sixwas 1,125 pounds, and their
aggregate length 80 feet. The father
is a sprightly old man of seventy-four
years, and can yet hold his own with
any one of his boys.
According to official reports, there
are $4,000 beggars in Russia, all of
whom carry on begging as a business
with the Endorsements of village.
city and church authorities. Upward
OF ), 200 of them are of noble blood. s.
&91 are of the clerical calling, 20 were
once merchants. 43, 434 hucksters and
small traders, and Isl ,932 peasants.
A report comes from France of the
discovery of remarkable subterranean
river in the department of Lot Two
explorers found the river at the bottom
OF gouffre or abyss known as the Pit of
Paderac. Procuring a folding boat
made of sail-cloth, they worked their
way down stream for a couple of miles
thu ough a succession of wonderful
grottoes sparkling with stalacities.
They found seven lakes on their way,
and had to shoot thirty cascades
or rapids.
There lives in Union township, In
diana, a family that can boast of the
most euriousiy complicated relation
ship. Some years ago widower named
Horgan, who had a grown son. mar
ried a widow who had grown daugh-