The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-08-07
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A photographer palu Stanley Il'VoV
for a portrait.
Baron Rothschild paid $150,0O0 for
Louis Quinze clock.
Mrs. Chandler. the widow of Zach,
is building residence in Washington
to cost 100000.
Armed with a pitchfork. a woman of
Pike County. Pa. drove away SIX
tramps from her barn.
Miss Marry Garrett is taking the
lead in movement to promote the
higher medical education of women.
A wren in Eastern Bradford, Pa.
built nest in the sleeve of a garment
that had been hung up in the yard to
dry.
Lord Albert Edward Godolphin Os-
borne. son of the duke of Leeds, has
gone to Ceylon to become tea-plant-
ter.
The Original Package is the name
chosen for paper to be published at
Old Orchard. Me-, during the summer
season.
An effort is being made at Chatta-
nooga to raise fund for the erection
of an equestrian statue of the con-
federate Gen. Forrest.
Senator Edmunds is reported to
make $40. 900 year by his law prac-
tice. Some of his arguments have
brought him so a word.
The professors and tutors of Column
bia College wore gowns at eXamina-
tons for the first time this year, in ac-
cordance with vote of the faculty.
A pet doe at Missouri penitentiary
gave birth several days ago to twins.
This is said by those who are up in
natural history to be of very rare oc-
currance.
Capt. W. ID. Andrews of Toronto has
received from King Kalakaua the med
al of the ROYAL Order of Kapioiani in
appreciation of his eminent service in
life-saving.
Dr.. Calling, the inventor of the
Gatling gun, is said to be at work on
new artificial ice machine, which he
believes, will make Ice at one-tenth the
present cost.
DR.. John G. Rolfe. teacher in the
Latin department of Harvard, has ac-
cepted an election to an assistant pro-
fesSorship in the University of Mich
igan, and will enter upon his duties in
the autumn.
While campaigning in Kentucky in
the early days of the war Gen. Garfield
bought a farm near Prestonsburg for
few hundred dollars Recently Mrs.
Ga. field sold the tract to spectators,
receiving $1,000 for it.
There are 265 applicants for admis-
sion to the "pleb' class at West Point.
Of this total 43 are alternates, and
man therefore try the examinations
part of their respective principals.
At the celebration of the tiftieth an
niversary of the invention of the post
age stamp, held recently in England.
a stamp WAS shown worth 100 guineaS.
1t was from the British Guiana col
lection and showed a rude postmark
on pink paper.
Thomas Aiva Edison, who is often
referred to as Yankee inventor"
is not Yankee at all, though he looks
more or less less ike one. He is of
mingled English and Dutch ancestry
and was born at the village of Milan,
in Erie county, Ohio, Feb. II. 1917.
Joseph Pulitzer of the New York
| World has rented and is living in con-
| siderable style III the famous Menier
| Chocolate Palace in Paris. Its pecul-
| 'arity is that each room has a separate
decoration and furnishing after the
manner of some one nation, and no
two are alike.
Nineteenth century realism has at
aimed its eliminating point in the
| cathedral at Manchester, England,
| where the late General Gordon. of
Hhartoum fame, is portrayed on Il
stained glass memorial window in the
,hancel arrayed in shooting-jacket