The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-11-28
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There are 1000 Icelanders in the
city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The eleventh commandment accord
ing to General Sherman, is to mind
your own business.
Wyoming is proud Of one of its quail
iiications for Statehood. OF its adult
population only 2 clio per cent are
illiterates.
A Michigan undertaken has invent
ed coffin lid fastener. and is willing
to bet that nobody can unfasten it
from the inside.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont is en-
gagged in writing the biography of old
Kit Carson, General Fremont's favor
ite scout of pioneer days.
What al Ohio farmer plowed up
land took to be the bones of an ancient
ten feet in height turned out to be the
skeletons of two five-foot men.
Yeijiri Ono, a son of poor japanese
parents, was Gno OF the twelve students
out of l09 who took the highest hon.
ors at the Ann Arbor University.
A Methodist church near Joanna
Furnace, Rerks county, Pa, was struck
with q lightning bolt which is describ-
ed as "a ball Of fire as large as a spit
toOn."
The flood dumped fully 100000
worth of lumber, which could not be
identified, on farms near Milton, Pa.
Many poor men have thus been en-
riched.
Three of the richest merchants in
the country are comparatively young
men. Wanamaker is tifty-one, Mar
shall Field, tifty-three, and Phil Ar
mour. fifty-fiye.
Two one-armed men had desper-
ate tight in Oglethorpe, Ca, the other
day, and were getting in some telling
blows wien q one-armed man ran be-
tween and separated them.
The Sepoys of India kicked up o
great rebellion about hogs grease, but
their tastes have changed in the last
five years and they now eat American
ham and bacon with as much gusto as
a European.
A Connecticut murderer has been
arrested. He gave himself UP to the
authorities, and they are Dragging
about it as being one of the sharpest
pieces of detective work done in the
State for many years.
A boy in Meridcn, Conn.,, broke the
handle off a tea-cup belonging to
neighbor, and the triile has not only
made enemies of 2 dozen people but
led TO several assault and battery
cases and three lawsuits.
Marcellus Pope, Secretary Mobiles
private secretary. is son of Gen.
John Pope of st. Louis. He is young
attorney who was recently graduated
from Harvard University. and is per-
sonal friend of Gen. Noble.
As Henry Wright,a young man aged
20 years, residing near Maud, Mo-,
was passing from his house to his
barn he was stung Oh each ear by
bce-the two bees singing him at the
same time. He died in twenty min
utes.
the young African explorer and trader,
is about to start on another business
venture to the west coast. He will
take back with him the young African
Prince and return him to his native
tribe.
A Georgia farmer prevents his COWS
from jumping fence by cutting off
their lower eye-lashes-make them
think the fence is three times as high
as it really is. If you cut the upper
lashes. reverse delusion will result,
he says.
Rev. Theodore Dwight-W ooley, ex-
President of Yale College. is 81 years
of age, and is still strong enough to
walk out without any assistance. His
form is bent. and ne ia evidently very
feeble, but his mental powers are as
vigorous as ever.
An Australian who was hanging to
the beam of bridge and realized that
he must fall made verbal will to a
companion, dsposing of about $4,000
worth of property. and the courts sus-
taihed it. Once in while the corr
do sensible thing.
A young lady at Athens, Ga, has
invented lamp that will cease to burn
exactly at IL o'clock The average
Georgia lover has No fault TO find with
the lamp; in fact he would be better
satisfied if it would go out as soon as
he came in. If the young lady wants
to make real ten strike She should in
vent father who will go to bed at g
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