The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-10-22
MISSING LINES.

time.
Mrs. General Grant has an intense
love for diamonds The stones in her
ears are Us large as gooseberries and
very fine.
1t is said that old sailors are made
seasick by the excessive vibration
caused by the propellers OF some of
the high speed cruisers.
Fulton, Mo-. proposes to stop the
COW nuisance by passing an ordinance
authorizing any one to milk COW
caught running at large.
The cheapest railway fare in the
world will be that on the Central Lon
don Railway. on which there will be
three Yorkmen's trains daily, the fare
for six miles being but two cents.
The Duke of Cambridge, Comman-
der-in-Chief of Her Majesty's army. is
known as Umbrella George" Per-
haps this designation arises from a
disposition on his part to get in out OF
the wet on all occasions.
To form an idea of the experiments
that take place from abroad ia the way
of testing devices in warfare. the sta
ton at Liege, Belgium. consumes
nearly 1000, 900 cartridges and forty
tons of powder year ia testing fire
| arms.
Walter Besant's query. Where have
all our poets gone?" seems to have
met with response. The annual re-
port of the Norristown Insane Asylum
Superintendent Says that 80 per cent
of the patients there are addicted TO
wiring verses:
Marion Harland is large woman,
of matronIy appearance, somewhat
| above medium height. She has Il
| brown complexion. black hair that is
| beginning to turn grey. and broad
forehead. She began to write stories
when child Of 6.
The ruins of the palace of the Queen
| of Sheba have not been found in Mas
| homeland, whence the wonderful gold
of Ophir is supposed to have come.
| But the Zimbali ruins show that this
strange country was once the scene of
mighty civilization.
A teacher from Kansas found in To-
ronto, Canada, the most wonderful
four corners in the world. They are
occupied by n church, the Governor
Generals palace. university and Il
saloon, representing education. legis-
| lation, salvation and damnation.n
A recent order from an Australian
firm for 20, 600, 900 feet of lumber will
require twenty-five large vessels to
carry it. Recent extensive develop
ments in mining interests in Central
! and South America have led TO large
shipments of timber from this country.
An English naturalist has discovered
proofs that the bedbug was quite COM
mon in the armies of the world at least
120 years before the Christian era. and
that he was ever sea rover, rs the
stocked with this breed of nocturnal
prowiers.
David Parker. Of Los Angeles. Cal.
has been poisoned by ROSTERS bite.
He was lover of game chickens and
surprised the poultry yard just as a
fight had been finished. Picking up
one of the expiring cocks he received
bite on the tip of one of the fingers
which led to blood poisoning.
Margaret Mather, who has just re-
turned from Europe. relates with
great gusto that she visited Melrose
Abbey at midnight, rousing up the
dingy old keeper TO let her in. and that
she is the only American who ever
made so curious a demand and sue
ceeded i'll accomplishing her purpose.
The late f. p. WhippIc. the essayist.
used to say that there should be n law
in virtue of which Il man could copy
right his own jokes, So that the mo-
ment he said a good thing it should
not be impu.lently appropriated by
any concienceleSs nearer who was
axious to shine by means of stolen
wit
Mrs. Lease, of alliance fame, SAYS
that she has gained more suits than
any other lawyer in Kansas. She did
not begin the study of law until after
the birth of her fourth child. who is
now nine years old. She used to read
Blackstone while busy about the house
hold work, with 4 crying baby in her
arms.
Princess Milena, wife of the reignino
Prince of Montenegro. has subjected
herself to Il severe surgical operation
in the clinic of Heidelberg The Prin-
cess is now only As years old but she
has been married thirty-one years. AS
Mileua Petrowna Bukotitisch she was
called the loveiest and most beautiful
woman in Europe.
In the japanese capital there is a
gigantic image of woman made of
wood and plaster. and dedicated to
Hachiman. the god of war. In height
it measures tifty-four feet; the head
alone, which is reached by winding
stairway in the interior of the figure,
being large enough to comfortably
hold twenty persons.
A tobacco drummer who has trav-
eled all over the country says that
Maine uses more tobacco per capita
than any other State in the Union.
Tobacco dealers drum the State harder
than any other, large firms keeping
one and sometimes two men continu-
ally in Maine, while one man will look
out for the trade in several other
| States.
Charles +. Lummis has discovered
an almost virgin region of big game in
| the Flagstaff country of the San Fran
cisco Mountains. Black-tail deer and
mountain hons abound. but the rugged
inaccesslbility of their habitats above
| the SNOW line is fortunately such as to
brighten Off pot-hunters and the trav-
cling foreigner with his caravan of
| guns.
The Queen of the Belgians. who
| learned sleight of hand from Her.
mann. the European. not of the Amer
/ lean, is fond of travelling incognto.
Not long ago she and Princess Glenn
entlne were run out of a railway
compartment near Ostend by fat
woman, who declared she did not
believe such plain people had first
class tickets anyhow"
In 1871 three couples were married
at the same time in a homestead near
Gordon, Ga. They are still alive and
healthy, and are arranging to celebrate
their golden weddings at the home
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