The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-08-22

An Iowa clergyman recently mar
ried three couples and conducted two
funerals in one day, and to do 1t drove
fifty miles. Total receipts, 80.
The prejudice against horse flesh
has now so faded out in Paris that
there are 1872 recognized butcher shops
where horse flesh is openly sold.
The colored people of the South go
to the postoffice on an average of once
per day and receive an average of four
letters per year as their reward.
The Boston Advocate, a journal for
colored people, which suspended re-
Gently, had 1,120 subscribers on its
list, of whom only sixty-thrce Lad paid
up.
At the examination in descriptive
and practical anatomy held by the
Irish Royal College of Surgeons, two
lady students have taken the highest
prizes.
Whoever wants to rent the great
Isle of Arran, one of the greatest
sporting estates known, the property
of the duke of Hamilton, can do so at
$1,000.
Morphinomanie is becoming such
an epidemic in Paris that the Academy
of Medicine is appealed to. 1t con-
stantly appears in new forms, exalgine
being the latest.
The candle in Othello and Desde-
mona's bedroom in "Othello," now
being played at La Scala, is an electric
light, no other form of illumination
hpinp pprmitted there
Arkansas weather prophet predicts
that the states east of the Mississippi
River will have livery little rain this
season, but that Kansas and the other
states west of the river will have
abundance.
"if Bismarck lives five years longer
free press and free speech will be I'M
! known in Germany" was the para
graph which sent German editor to
| prison. The climax was nearer than
ne thought.
There will be only two-thirds of the
usual crop of peanuts harvested this
year, and the light and airy tritie will
| be more expensive than it has been
for several years. The circus will be
greater luxury.
Alexandria, Va, has a population
of 10000, yet during the thirty-one
days constituting the month of March
not a wedding occurred i'll the place,
and not marriage license was issued
by the clerk of the court.
Since the charge of the 600 at Balak-
| lava over 5000 men have claimed to
be survivors of that memorable event,
and the claims are still coming in. As
a matter of fact not over twenty-five
of the number are alive to-day.
The fashionable dog is to be the
schipperke, or little skipper. He
| comes from the Low countries and is
the old-time companion of the Flem-
ish bargee. He is black, with next to
no tail, and hard coat inclined to be
rough, and does not weigh over twelve
pounds.
The latest freak of English society is
an amateur minstrel company. headed
by noble lord and embracing among
its members many distinguished per-
sons of the aristocracy. They black
up, do clog dances and sing negro
melodies. They give performances
for charities.
| The astounding announcement is
made by Herr Krupp, in reply to some
criticism on his guns, that since 1870
he has supplied ION the average 1000
guns per anDum, and of these not one
single piece has given away or caused
trouble" This does not correspond
with statements made from other
sources.
Deer and elk are literally massacred
in Wyoming and western Colorado by
wealthy Englishmen who come over
to enjoy the sport. The great herds
along the continental deer ;rail' are
being rapidly depleted by this useless
slaughter. Men who belong in the
region do not kill an animal except to
use it, and will pass by whole herds
without firing a shot.
The land of dazzling promise. the
Argentine Republic, TO which the gov.
eminent has been bringing shiploads
of immigrants at great cost, is as yet
unable to maintain its new population
J A dozen families of coal miners who
went there from France have beer
sent back by their consul, and they
say there are 10000 Frenchmen there
now who cannot find work and are
starving.
Thomas Best, of Newcastle, Pa. who
is eighty-two years old, has used to-
bacco for sixty years. Three years age
he lost his mind and sight, but after
three days his mind returned, his sigh
came back so that he dispensed will
glasses, the aches and pains of old az,
| ,sh ad mud pa n no h,.
forgotten that he ever used tobacco
and the taste of it makes him deathly
sick.
Unwonted activity in tree planting
prevails in Los Angeles county, Cali
fornia, this season. Never before ha:
there been planted anything near 81
many trees. The finer varieties O
peaches for canning, Bartlett pears
apricots, pruues and fine varieties O.
apples are the favorite species. The
planting of orange trees has also beer
resumed on gigantic scale Walnu
trees are also being set out in large
numbers.
1t is asserted that the smallest screws
in the world are those used in the pro
duction of watches. Thus. the fourth
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invisible, and to the naked eve it look,
like dust; with glass, however, it il
seen to be small screw. with 25(
threads to the inch, and with a yer,
fine glass the threads may be seer
quite clearly. These minute screw,
are +1000th of an inch in diameter
and the heads are double; it is also es
timated that an ordinary lady's thin
BILE would hold 100, 600 of these screws
A singular discovery was made q
short time ago by some lumbermen or
the Cowlitz River, near Toledo, w
L. 1t was a collection of firearms
leaning against a log. There wer,
twenty-six of them-some rifles, som,
shotguns, muskets and old smooth
bore guns, all of old designs. Som,
had flint locks and some had beer
remodeled into percussion cap locks