The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-11-27
MISSING LINKS.
New York has expended 100000

A mountain of alabaster is sup pc sed
to have been discovered $50 miles
| north of Denver. Col.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has received
| subscriptions for 40. 600 copies of her
husbands life to appear shortly.
An artesian well near Alvarado.
| Cal, throws a stream of water twenty
feet above the oritice. 1t taps stream
| of water.
Lady Adelaide. wife of the Hon.
Frederick Cadogan. who died recently,
was one of the eight young ladies who
bore the train of Victoria at her coro-
uation.
Italy is at last beginning to econo-
mize in her military and naval eXpendi-
| lures. She promises to spend ST, OO0,-
900 less the coming year on her army
and navy.
| few Years ago regarded rs one of the
greatest men in France, is now brok-
en- down old man, socially, financially
and physically.
A w.t. who was asked what he would
rather be during the three stages of
live, replied: Till thirty, Il pretty
woman; till fifty, a successful general;
the rest of my life, priest. "
Experts say that the buried city of
Pompeii has not yet yielded up third
of its artistic treasure that at the pres
ent rate of progress seventy years will
| eiapse before it is thoroughly unearth-
ed.
The curator of the Brooklyn Insti-
tute told reporter the other day that
one beautiful butterfly in the collec-
ton of the institute is valued at 81, 600,
that sum having recently been paid
for Il duplicate.
French politeuess has never sur
passed that of the criminal who, being
placed on the guillotiue recently, put
his head in the nalf moon and. smiling
at the executioner. said: Cut away,
if you please, sir!'
Some dudes, who were annoying a
Chinaman at Sedalia, Mo-, were aston
ished when he suddenly mounted one
| of their BICYCLES and rode away. his
queue streaming straight out behind
him, as if Old Nick were after him.
DR.. Schweinnger the famous anti
an extended tour of Europe with the
object of increasing his weight. He
has grown as thin as a rail, and his
nervous system is thoroughly pros
trated.
A negro living at Newman. Ga, is
ninety years of age, has had three
wives, is the father of forty-one chill
dren and has nearly four hundred
grand and REORGANIZATION. He
is capable of doing fair days work
| on the farm.
The Penobscot River. the largest in
| Maine, drains 7,400 square miles.
region as large as the State of Massa-
| chusetts. From Old Town to Bangor,
| a distance of twelve miles, the river
falls more than ninety feet, giving sew
eral of the finest water powers in the
| world.
Mother Bennett lives hear Green
| vile, Mass, and her age, by the best
of witnesses, the family Bible, is lis
years. She did not unite with any
| church until in her 112th year, and
| was then immersed according to the
| Baptist rites by young minister
scarcely % years of age.
Russell Sage says that jay Gould is
| the heaviest owner of securities in the
world, his income from dividends alone
being s. 10000 year and his other
income five or six times as great. If
| this is true Mr.. Gould makes $l2. 0O0,-
| 600 year, and his wealth must be far
more than it has usually been estima-
ted.
| Brunswick. Georgia. claims a tough
somnambulist. The story is that while
asleep he walked out of second-story
window and fell to the street below.
| The fall did not wake him, and he
walked back into the house and went
to bed again. His wounds were not
serious, though quite painful, when he
finally awoke.
Nine. PATHS voice has undergone
distinct impairment as to its fleXibili-
ty, and has lost something of its once
dazzling purity and freshness. but she
is engaged this season for st. Peters
burg and Moscow at higher salary
than has heretofore been publicly
| stated, S.. 260 for each performance.
Her respective notes increase in inverse
| ratio.
Out at the Folsom prison. Oregon.
there is horse that has developed
| singular characteristic, which consists
in an earnest desire to eat all the red
aud green peppers he can get hold of.
! The animal behaves just like any other
| horse, except in the particular matter
| above mentioned. He is good work
er and tame and manageable. How
| he acquired the love for peppers is a
matter of conjecture.
The Buffalo fire department has
| lately received novel fire engine
which has excited much interest in
| that city. The carriage is constructed
| entirely of papier mache, all the differ
| ent parts of the body. wheels. poles
and the rest being finished in the best
| possible manner. While the durability
and powers of resistance possessed by
| his material are fully as great as those
| of wood the weight is, of course, much
| less.
Henry Francis Moore. a blacksmith.
| still living at Medford. Mass. is said
to be the original of Longfellow's Vii
| lage Blacksmith" who stood under the
| spreading chestnut tree and the mus
| cieS OF whose bfawny arms were strong
as iron bands. The poet was often in
| Mediocre previous to writing the poem
and was fond of chatting with Moore.
| The blacksmith is now 81 years of age
| aud is himself of the opinion that Long.
fellow had him in mind when he wrote
his poem.
w. B. Watson. well-known Idaho
miner, reports that in the Province of
Shang Tung party of wealthy Chi
| nesc officials have made one of the
richest gold finds ever made, exceed
ceeding anything ever discovered in
this country. 1t is a gold ore PROPOSE
| ton, with n vein of the almost incredi-
! bic proportion of l23 feet in width. It's
to be worked on scale Of prcportionate
| magnitude to the fluid. and orders for
| $3.50 900 worth of machinery have been
| placed.
Judge Silent. Chairman of the FIRE.