The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-07-31

The British fisheries last year yielded
the catchers between thirty and forty
million dollars.
Baroness Burdett-Coutts has headed
public subscription with the view of
purchasing Mr.. Stanley a handsome
residence.
An Ottawa, Mo-. man is the proud
possessor of two Chinese rats. They
steal and gnaw holes 'alle same like
Mclean lats.
A contemporary, which has been
looking into the matter, reports that
fewer daily papers are published in
Boston now than in 1916.
Mrs. Crook. widow of Gen. Crook,
has presented to Crook post, G. a. r.,
of Oakland. Nd, large and hand
somely framed portrait of her hus-
band.
An Eiffel tower may be erected in
Germany. The Bavarian government
proposes to build ore near Starenburg
Lake as a monument to Bismarck, and
also as an observatory.
The Swedish Oyster Culture Society
is trying to acclimatize American
oysters from Connecticut on the coast
of the province of Bahus. The young
oysters seem TO thrive well.
Col. Daniel S. Lamont is getting rich
at rapid rate. He is interested in
several large financial enterprises. Ten
years ago he was the legislative report
er for the Albany Argus.
An English naval officer has invent
ed pneumatic line-throwing gun, very
light and portable which fires hollow
shell bearing the cord to wrecked
vessel or into burning building on
dry land
The Rev. d. L. Moody observes that
he doesn't believe the Angel Gabriel
himself could come down and hold the
attention of a congregation that had
been busy reading the Sunday news
papers.
The biggest edible oysters in the
world are found at Port Lincoln. in
South Australia. They are sometimes
more than foot across the she'll, and
the oyster fits the she'll so well he does
not leave much margin.
The King of the Beloians did gal
liant thing on Queen Victoria's birth
day. He Travelled from London all the
way to Balmoral and back a distance
of about /, 200 miles in order to per-
sonally present her with a bouquet.
There is Il craze in London for queer
leather. Some shops are stocked with
fancy articles made from the skins of
all sorts of beasts, reptiles and fishes,
including pelican skins, lion and
panther skins, fish skins, monkey skins
and snake skins, etc.
Senator Carlisle is one of the many
men who have found Friday ANYTHING
but an uulucky day. His first nomi-
nation TO Congress and his nomination
as successor to the late Senator Beck
each occurred on that day, and he was
married on a Friday.
The Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon has de-
nounced certain clergymen with whose
views he does not agree as Villains"
Mr.. Spurgeon is Il great and good man,
but he is not heavily endowed with a
sense of perspective in estimating the
tendencies of modern thought.
1t is an interesting point in Ameri-
can history if, as stated, the confeder-
ate gray uniform was borrowed from
the First Virginia Regiment, which
borrowed it from the Seventh New
York Regiment. The confederate song
Dixie" was of northern authorship.
NJ. Ferrari. son of the Duchess of
Galliera, is an enthusiastic postage
stamp collector and his private collect
I- ,I,,nI T. A.
vet he has been known to negotiate the
loan of 4 stamp from his mother, the
Duchess, when he wanted to post a
letter.
The servants and mistresses of
Vienna have 10 manage their affairs
under the superintendence of the police.
The latter keep a servants book. in
which each girls dismissals and rein
gagementS are recorded. together with
copies of the character given by each
employer.
Pope Leo's resident physician follows
his Holiness about almost like his
shadow, and is forever going to and
fro with thermometer in his hand
looking out for the slightest breath of
an intrusive draught that might ven
ture to blow rudely near the head of
the church.
NJ. Splitter of Paris is dead at the age
Of "a. He was the most remarkable
example of the born collector in our
age. He began life with nothing and
has ended it the owner of a collection
of works of art valued at 1000. 900
francs. The RothschildS were patrons
of Splitter.
Between the Ural and the Okhotsk
seas there is spot half as large rs the
state of Michigan. which is frozen
ground to the depth of ninety-four feet.
That is it has never thawed out since
the world was created, and probably
never will, and even if it should no.
body would have any use for it.
Capt. Zelinski, who has made care
full and protracted examination of
European armies and armaments, eX-
presses his belief that body of such
cavalry as we had in the war, properly
trained to their method of fighting,
would be able to defeat force of
double its size if the latter were made
up of cavalry well trained in the
European school.
The crowding of the tenement houses
in New York City, where the sweating
system of work is in vogue, is disgrace
full. The state inspectors declare that
1t Is now worse than ever before, on
account of the great number of Polish
and Russian Hebrews who have swarm
ed over certain parts of the East Side
and taken possession of those trades in
which the sweating system is practiced.
,Jeffre Johnson, who was at one time
a slave under the laws of New York,
is still living in Kings County. that
state A bill of sale still preserved
shows that he was disposed of for $50
in 1909. and he was then ''about years
DID, Two of his sons did good SER
vice in the civil war. and it is to the
further credit OF the old Man that he
never posed rs the body servant OF
Washington.