The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-04-24
MANITOWOC. WIS, APRIL 81. 1890.


sOOl nave 10 DOFTOW largely
Thad Stevens old law offices at Lam
caster Pa, are now occupied by re-
tail dealer in agricultural implements.
NJ. Chanteloup, the largest brass
founder in Canada, dying in Montreal,
leaves has fortune of $500, 900 to his
workmen.
Herr Krupp, the cannon manufacture
er of Germany, had an income last
year of 81, 395 900. He is the biggest
financial gun in that country.
Corporal Tanner is making money
in Washington. He employs a force
of twelve clerks and his practice at
present is worth $50, 600 year.
The Empress of Brazil was patron
/ of Sonora X, worthy business wo-
man of Rio, whose sign now reads:
Sonora \. corset-maker to the Repub-
lie of Brazil
1t is said that the English authorities
are still in pursuit of Jack the Ripper,
and that one of the best known of their
| detective inspectors devotes his whole
| time to the case.
William II. Clark, colored student
| from the Ohio State University, took
second prize at the intercollegiate
contest in Springfield. His essay was
upon Monopoly and Communism.
Jay Gould is going to stock with
trout lake he has bought III the Cat
skills. The rumor that he would pas
ture lot of lambs from Wall street on
| the banks is believed to be unfounded.
Mr.. Gladstone's hats are now fully
Lon haD ha tive
years ago. A like phenomenon occurs
over night in some heads, but the ex-
ira fulness is more easily understood.
Gladstone has published 299 books
and pamphlets. This does not include
his magazine articles or any of his
speeches. He has all his life been as
similating knowledge and giving out
ideas.
Nicolai Uspenski. the Russian novel |
ist and poet, considered of as great |
genius as Turguenelf, has just died. |
For over thirty Years Il slave to drink |
he had lived the life of common |
tramp.
Mr.. Charles Emory Smith is the |
sixth Pensylvanian in late years to be |
honored with the Russian mission, his |
predecessors having been Messrs.
Boxer, Curtin, Cameron, Dallas, and |
Wilkins.
The theme of the japanese national |
anthem, rs recently rendered in En- |
glish, is: ''Oh, that the reign OF our
Emperor might continue thousands |
and thousands of years-until oyster |
shells become rocks"
Ralph Dsraeli. brother of Lord !
Beaconsheld, has retired. ut the age of |
80, after fifty years of public service,
from the office of deputy clerk of the |
Parlaments, to which he was appoint |
ed by Lord Beaconsfield.
Prince Albert of Monaco is said to |
intend to devote the $3.50 900 per year
that he gets from the gamblers to the |
completion of the cathedral and other /
public Improvements. He is wealthy |
himself and has an enormously rich |
wife.
Oliver Wendell Holmes makes this |
cold-blooded proposition in the -Atian-
tic: Il think you will smile if | tell |
you of an Idea | have had about teach
ing the art of writing poems to the |
half-witted children at the idiot asy-
lum."
DR.. CorloS Tejada Guzman of MeXi- |
leo has been commissioned, on month
ly salary of 800 Il month, By Presi- |
dent Diaz to visit Paris and there re-
main for one year to study chidren'S |
diseases for the benefit of medical |
science i'll Mexico.
Scientific farming in Italy is to be
undertaken this year by company |
t,1 e al
operations prove successful the old |
wooden plow, pulled by oxen, that has
held the field since an era before the
Roman Caesars, will probably have to
go.
Samuel j. Tidens estate has proved
to be much larger than was at first
supposed and the aggregate is nearer
$15, 600, 900 than s., 600, 600. 1t Is like
ly now that the contest of his will will
be compromised and New York will
probably get her $4,000, 600 for pub
lie library after all.
Somewhere in the West Indies an
Englishman claims to have discovered |
what he calls the ''whistling tree 1t
has, he says, Il peculiarly shaped leaf
and split pods opened, the motion of
the breeze through which causes a pc
culiar whistling sound that can be
heard at great distance.
Miss Mildred Fuller, the fourth
daughter of the Chief Justice, is the
author of the pretty little poem called
"A jolly Wizard which has recently
been going the rounds. Miss Mildred
is about 19 years of age, and one of the
most attractive and beautiful debut
antes in Washington this winter. She
is girl of decided ability and has
written a little opera called Dreams"
John Jacob Astor, the many million
aire who died recently, was a genial,
kindly man, and never Haunted his
wealth or indications of it in anybody's
face. He promptly offered his per-
sonal services to the Government at
the beginning of the Rebellion, and
later was made Brevet Brigadier-
General, serving on McClellan's staff
until Little Mae lost command of
the army.
Mrs. Henry Gladstone nee Miss
Maude Rendel, the new daughter
in-law of the grand old man, is
an accomplished musician, with an
especial ability with the violin, to
which she is devoted. She is described
besides, as handsome and young. with
a soft, smiling face and ripping dark
hair, and a small but well-carried iig-
ure. She is an attractive talker also
an ardent reader, and dresses in ad-
mirable taste.
Phillips Brooks is counted one of the
most rapid speakers in the American
pulpit. He is, nevertheless, so clear in
his pronunciation that the audience in
general do not observe how rapidly the
words follow each other. But when
the stenographers in the press corner
try to take down his sermon the num-
Der of words uttered in minute is
found to be amazing. There are prob
ahly not DOZEN man Gnual n |