The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-09
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recently brought up a flint idol from
depth of $40 feet.
Hannibal Hamlin has survived all
but two of his colleagues in the Maine
Legislature of 1886.
The Lewiston journal says it's a pref
ty small Maine town that hasn't dry
goods palace nowadays.
Secretary Blaine attributes his good
health to the fact that he has given up
his habit of eating meat three times a
day.
Miss Annie Patterson has been award
ed the first degree of doctor of music
which any lady has yet gained at the
Royal University of Dublin.
Our own wild turkey has been sue
cessfully acclimatized in Austria.
There are great fiocks of them in the
forests belonging to Count Bremen.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany has made preparations for fenc-
ing both sides of its tracks in Oregon.
1t will require 700 miles and viii cost
$16S,OO0.
Private Secretary Halford was once
a newsboy, and he is now earnestly
urging some action looking to better
ment of the condition of the waits of
the streets.
There has been discovered near
Visalia Cal, the stump of sequoia
| which, four feet from the ground.
| measures AZ feet in diameter and 1873
feet in circumference.
Stephen Pettus, the Brooklyn fl
nancier shot dead BY Mrs. Southworth,
| left an estate valued at 100000 By
his will. drawn in 1881, his property
| all goes to his wife.
Nearsightedness is overrunning the
French people as much as the Ger
| mans. Among the senior boys in the
different French colleges more than
| 4G per cent are nearsighted
A Santa Clara correspondent of the
| San Francisco Bulletin gives a list of
eleven women in that county who run
| and manage prune orchards, doing
much of the work themselves.
| The Rev. c. d. Martin, who now
lives at Dakota City, Neb., in April,
1860, preached at Vermillon the first
| Protestant sermon ever delivered in
| what is now the State of South Dakota
The soil of Bradford county, Florida,
is said to impart "A peculiar gloss to
| Strawberries, making them look as ii
vanished, and giving the berries a
| beautiful appearance. 1t is due to the
| silica in the soil.
Alfred East, a celebrated artist, has
returned to England after trip around
| the world. He states that III Hasa,
! japan, he he saw native poet reading
| Tennyson's In Memoriam," which
had been done up to the tongue Of
| Satsuma.
Cardinal Gibbons is a happy illustra-
| ton of the Scriptural saying that the
| humble shall be exalted. Born of
| humble parents, and in early life a
| poor.grocers boy, he is now Prince
of the Church, in whose presence the
proudest Roman mobiles must stand in
respectful reverence.
| At Crawfordyiile, Ind, the other
| day, the members of the city school
board presented Miss Constant with a
| handsome set of Tennyson's works
| Miss Constant attended the Crawfords-
| vile schools for eleven years without
being absent or tardy a single time,
and the presentation was made on that
| account.
About two months ago Mrs. Ed Wes-
| sells, of Frost, Glare county, Michigan
| moved to Tennessee. She took her
dog with her, but lost it in Cincinnati
| A few days ago the dog made its APP
! pearance at the old home in Forest, a
| good bit the worse for wear, but happy
to get home. How did the dog find its
| way back?
The old gunboat Condor, which. I'M
| der the command of Lord Charles
Beresford, did such efficient service at
| the bombardment of Alexandria, has
been condemned and sold. The Con-
dor will be broken up for the old iron
that is in her. Lord Beresford takes
command of the cruiser Undaunted and
will do duty in the Mediterranean.
| Ayoung lady of Augusta, Me-, has
received bill amounting to over 800
that tells little history. The bill
came from Peter Clark. of New York,
and in it she is charged with twenty
two yards of silk dress goods, two gold
| bracelets worth $40, one diamond ring,
a hat and several other items. Clark
was rejected sutton of the lady, who
| claims that the above named articles
| were presents from him.
The Sultan's presents to Emperor
| William and his wife during their re-
| cent visit in Constantinople cost 5000.
600. They were packed in twenty
| four chests, and consisted of shawls,
silks. rugs, and carpets, made express
ly for the royal Prussians. The most
expensive gift was the diamond brooch
with pendant of pearls and diamonds
| for the En- press. The ornament cost
$4,000. Count Herbert Bismarck also
| is said to have carried away from Con-
stantinople some 100000 worth of
diplomatic plumber.
A 'coal palace" $50 by 500 feet and
| three stories high, is to be erected in
East st. Louis. This palace will be a
decidedly novel structure. The coal
companies, will furnish the material for
| the uperstructure-black coal of every
| kind, and wrought out by saw, by ma
| sons hammer. and into artistic forms
| by the carver's chisel. The first floor
| will be polished coal, and pillars of
coal viii support the floor-coal, coal
everywhere. The purpose of the build
| ing will be to continually exhibit the
agricultural and mineral products of
southern Illinois.
Amos j. Cummings, who knew Hor-
ace Greeley well, says that his strength
and weakness as a boy were shown
| throughout his life. He never would
run away and he never would fight.
When Rush knocked his hat off and
| kicked him he neither resisted nor ran
| away. but stood the racket. This
quality could be traced all through his
life. He was a great agitator. but had
| little nerve, and weakened before ply
steal force. His cry of ION to Rich
| mondr' in 1861, followed by his sur
render of everything in the face of de-
| feat, is type of his character.
A monster crocodile. measuring II
feet inches. was killed in the Roughly
River at Utterpara. India, in front of
| Baboo Joykissen Mookeriee's library.
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