The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-02-06
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Pa.
Emin Bey has two relatives in this
country-his fathers sister. Mrs. j. p.
Kolsen. of Pittsburg, and cousin her
son, who has served as Mayor of Terre
Haute.
Senior Velarde, Bolivian delegate to
the Pan-American Congress. favors a
common American coin. This would
be a great thing for the simplification
of the slot machine.
The belle at recent dog feast on an
Indian reservation in Dakota wore !
Jacket trimmed with teeth from $50
elks, which she herself had slain. She
is the granddaughter of the chief of
the tribe.
BY paying s. in spot cash, you can
get divorce in four hours in Japan.
But there is great deal of dissatisfac-
ton at the length of time required, rs
it is generally felt that the business
ought to be done in one hour.
The rise of the price of ivory may be
described by the statement that the
cutlery firm in Sheffield. Rodgers q
Sons, used to pay $500 a ton, but they
have lately paid Il, go and in some
special cases as high as $4,000.
The proclamation suppressing the
Chinese secret societies has been pub
lished all through the straits settle
ments. The property of the societies
may be disposed of, though the gov
ernments do not desire to confiscate it.
President Carnot of France has learn
ed to waltz in the American fashion.
He has always been fond of dancing,
and his recent intimacy with the Amer
lean colony in Paris has led him to
adopt our mode of tripping the light
fantastic toe.
Beer has become very popular
beverage in Japan. The importations
from Germany increased from $50, 699
bottles in 1886 to 2,601,2 2S bottles in
1888, but since then the imports have
decreased, owing to the establishment
of native breweries.
1t is said that the first thing that the
new government of Brazil did was to
send telegram to the Rothschilds ask
ing for their continued financial sup
port, and the reply received was favor
able and undoubtedly did much to-
ward solidifying the new government.
A Greek paper reports that a num-
Der of Golfers containing $4,000 gold
and silver Spanish pieces of the year
1865 have been hauled out of the sea
near the island Of Andres. Six bronze
cannon were also found, and it is
thought the articles came from the
wreck of Spanish war vessel.
Gen. Boulanger, a recent visitor to
the Isle of Jersey says, has not aged.
On the contrary he has a rested face,
a fresher color. His shoulders, how
ever, have weakened and his gait has
become slightly heavier. His eye,
always bright, clear, and curious, has
lost none of its expression, but the
smile is uncertain.
Alfred n. Hazard, seventy-three
years old, turned up in New Haven,
recently, much to the surprise of his
son, Alfred n. Hazard. Mr.. Hazard
deserted his family in western York
State forty years ago, and after wan
dering about in the West has become
wealthy and returned to his son. As
he put it, he has come home to die.
James S. I. Stranahan of Brooklyn
seems likely to enjoy the unique dis
tinciion of living to see a statue erect
ed in his honor His name is intimate
ly identified with numerous important
public works. and movement has be-
gun for the erection of his statue in
Prospect Park. Brooklyn's proximity
to New York, however, may prove ia
tai to the project.
G.. Y. Dupont of the great gunpow-
der mandatory at Wilmington, Del,
declares that the so-called smokeless
and noiseless powders so far invented
are failures, but he proclaims his be-
lief that in the next five years new
powder for warfare will be invented
which will be smokeless, noiseless uni
form, and safe and free from poisonous
gases when it is consumed.
Some men are disastrously supersti.
tious, says the Burlington Free Press.
A Burlington swain came to the deter
mination to propose on a certain even
ing. Entering the parlor in consider
able trepidation, he picked up a book
and glanced at the title page 1t was
Il copy of Don't" He didp't and on
the very next afternoon his girl con-
sented to be Mrs. Somebody Else.
Sir Henry Aaron Isaacs, the new
Lord Mayor of London. has two
daughters who are deaf and dumb, but
they have been so admirably educated
in the oral system in Holland that they
can by lip-reading even understand
what goes on at Il theater. They have
such bright, intelligent faces that no
one could possibly imagine them to
be deprived of two of the best senses.
DR.. Seth Pancoast, who died recent
ly in Philadelphia, was descendant of
the three PancOast brothers who came
to this country with William Penn.
He was graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania in 1852 lie became
Professor of Anatomy in the Philadel-
phia Female College in 1853, and in
the following year was called to the
chair in the Pennsylvania Medical Col
lege.
While the sealing industry OF Alaska
holds prominent place in public at
tention, and gold mining in southeast
ern Alaska and ut Unga Island to the
westward is inviting capital for grad
ual and certain development, the coal
deposits iii the vicinity of Cooks Inlet
and at other points west of Sitka are
rapidly coming to the front. Experts
pronounce the coal of good quality and
the beds extensive.
Lizzie. polar bear in the Cincinnati
Geological Gardens, has lately given
birth to twins. The cubs are about
the size of full grown rats. 1t is four
weeks before the young of the polar
bear species open their eyes and fully
six weeks before they venture out OF
their den. In their native haunts the
mother remains with her young until
spring, when, emaciated and scarcely
able to walk, she crawls out.
i sportsman entered an inn in En-
gland, his gun on table outside. Dur
ing his absence a man named Speak
man picked it up, cooked it, sighted it,
and then laid it down again. The
owner took it up afterward without
noticing that it had been cooked, and
he and two others. including the man