The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-30

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teenth of his name which fact makes
his mother feel nervous about him.
John w Dwight of Pennsylvania
owns in North Dakota farm nearly as
large as the state of Rhode Island.
James Whitcomb Riley, the bachelor
poet, is in receipt constantly OF letters
from women who want to marry HIM.
Secretary Rusk and Representative
Reed are great friends. They are
called Tom and Jerry in Washing
ton.
John Horn. of Orville, Ohio, is six
feet four inches high, weighs $50
pounds, aud is twenty-five years OF
age.
A West Virginian has been arrested
for personating his deceased twin
brother and drawing the pension OF
the latter.
4 proud mother in MERGED, Cal,
owns a four months-old baby that
weighs twenty-six pounds and has cut
four teeth.
An exchange chronicles the fact that
Mrs. Sophia Bennington, of Xenia, o.,
aged forty, has given birth to her
twenty-ffth child.
The pope has expressed to the cardi-
mails at the vatican his desire for burial
under the Church of ST. John Lateran,
in the part restored by himself.
The lances reintroduced lately into
the French cavalry are considerable
shorter and lighter than those used in
this b. inch of the service under Ma
poleoE |.
1t is reported that the sheep raisers
of eastern Oregon are selling off their
focks as fast as they can. About one
hundred thousand have already been
disposed of.
A colorcd woman who said her age
was one hundred and one years was
arrested and put in the Birmingham,
Ala, lookup the other day. She had
been quarreling.
There is a Mission grapevine at Car
penteria. Cal, which has 4 girth of six
feet at the base, branche- out in every
direction for hundred feet, and this
year produced four tons OF fruit.
In London they are utilizing cleo
tricity in novel way. During heavy
fogs horses carry an electric light on
their heads which can he illuminated
rs occasion requires, the storage bat
terry being in the wagon.
If YOU would gaze on an example of
superb disgust, find the Maine hunter
who thought he fired ut the shining
orbs OF ferocious wildcat and after
ward discovered that he had filled a to-
mato can with shot-holes. =
Eight cotton factories, sixteen banks
and various other enterprises have
been started in South Carolina within u
year. Corporations chartered between
October 1888, and 1889, number eighty
TWO, with an aggregate capital of over
Sal, 600 600.
A watch for blind people has been
invented in Switzerland. In the mid
die Of every figure is small peg.
which drops when the hour hand
reaches the figure. The owner feels
that the peg is down and counts back
to twelve to determine the hour.
When Dom Pedro, of Brazil, lay sick
unto death in Italy, not very long ago,
he told his nurse one morning that he
had had dream. AN old man came
To me. said Dom Pedro. land in
most earnest way informed me that /
should lose my crown before lost my
life
4 queer circumstance has Just been
brought to light in the Marvinville,
Ohio. postotiice. A large rat was dis
covered by the postmaster which was
in the habit of making one meal day
out of postal cards. After being de-
prived of this diet the animal soon
died.
Unequivocal contradiction is given
by Colonel George W. Williams, the
negro orator and historian, to the re-
Gently current tales of his engagement
and marriage to a young English lady
whom he met on board ship while 60
ing to Europe last month. The ro-
mantle rumor," he says, lis without
foundation
Citizen George Francis Train when
in Boston recently was surrounded by
crowd in hotel corridor when he
offered to bet that he was the biggest
fool in America. Nobody accepted the
wager at first. but finally man came
forward and said: I'm take your bet,
stranger, provided you are not George
Francis Train"
A well-known London journalist, a
man of culture and ambition, is having
his eldest son educated to be a cook
The boy has been trained by famous
chef at Brussels. He afterwards studied
under the chef of the Grand Hotel,
Paris, and has just been apprenticed
for three years to NJ. Charpentier. chef
OF the Savoy Hotel, London.
\ large tract of swamp land on the
line of the Jacksonville Southeastern
Railroad, near Mantle, H., has been
recently drained. The result of the til
ing has been peculiar. In some places
the roadbed of the Southeastern sunk
four feet and the road was compelled
TO spend n large amount of money in
making the necessary repairs.
John B. Allen, the Senator-eleet
from the State of Washington, is the
youngest-looking man in the upper
house of Congress. He has blonde
hair and rosy cheeks and the extremely
youthful appearance that accompanies
that complexion into middle life He
Is not as young as he looks, but the
fact does not give him any uneasiuess.
DR.. Dratft-Ebing. an eminent profess
sor in the University of Vienna, saws
that 90 per cent of all eases, OF insanity
inherited a predisposition from their
ancestors. In 20 per cent of all eases
intemperance is found to be the sole
or chief cause. and in 80 per cent more
one OF the causes of mental disease
He advises legal measures TIC combat
the habit of iutemperanee. or the for
nation Of societies to counterfeit it.
The other day at jackson, Mich, a
dog chased mouse, and the frightened
little animal ran up a telegraph pole
and then started out on wire for the
next pole. loo feet distant. The wire
swung gayly in the breeze, but the
trembling traveller hung on and reached
the next station in about an hour. He
descended the pole. and when be
reached the base he was so tired that
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