The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-04-09
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4 man named Justice has been given
eighteen years in the Illinois peniten-
tiary for couuterfelting.
Candlcsticks for the corners of rooms
are now designed in wood. They are
two feet high, new and inexpensive.
The development of smokeess coal
mines in TonGuin shows much larger
deposits then were 1T first believed to
be possible.
districts who said she envied homeless
sardines because they could never have
the rheumatism.
Gen. Lew Wallace says that poul-
tIce Of mustard and garlic applied TO
the soles of the feet will cure rheuma
tism in one night.
A German explorer says the whole of
/ South Greenland is covered with Il
sheet of Ice that is ) 600 to G. 900 feet
thick in the valleys.
One Of The employees of the postal
telegraph office in 81. Petersburg has
invented watch which will run forty
five DAYS ut a single winding.
Sherman was rs light aslceper when
in the field rs the great Napoleon. He
rarely took more than 1--we hours of rest
when the enemy WAS near by.
A curious advertisement in IN En-
glish paper SAYS: This concert takes
place tonight (Friday), aud not ycster-
day, as was enormously announced
A series OF stalactitc cavcrns, sur
passing any similar ones in Europe,
have been discovered in German East
Africa. Millions of bats frequent them.
An Indian industrial school similar
to the one at Carlisle, Pa. is 10 be es-
tablished at Mount Pleasant. Mich,
where there is a large Indian settle
ment.
In the sixteen cities of Virginia the
negroes own property worth IS. 324-
542. the greater part of which is in real
estate. In Richmond their possessions
amount TO $500, 1873.
The question asked by the teacher
was: In what part of the body is the
liver9 and she was a good deal sur
prised when the tail boy replied:
South of the lungs"
The numerically smallest religious
denomination discovered by Porter's
census takers is that of the Schwartz
feldians. There are 305 of them and
they dwell in Pennsylvania.
Queen Victoria has expended So. 900, =
600 on memorials to the Prince Con-
sort. Honoring the memory of a good
husband can be made more costly than
getting divorced from bad one.
Joseph Bond. colorcd. living near
Toronto. has lain in bed in the sulks
for twentv-Seyca wears and is now APP
preaching death. all because his
mother sold her farm against his will.
Joe Burks. of Panther Creek, n c..
is an enthusiast upon the subject Of
egg eating. lie lacks one inch of be-
ing seven feet Eigh, and claims a
record of having eaten $50 eggs ut one
meal.
Henrik IbSen was little boor in his
bovhood and even his brothers and
sisters disliked him. IN revenge for
his meanncss and unsocial ways they
| used to pelt him with stones and snow
balls.
David Dudley Field at IS SAYS that
even if the figures standing for his age
were reversed they would make him
too old for his fceings-and the adj
age says that "A man is no older than
he feels. ;"
St. Louis is now the largest fur
market in the United States. AT re-
cent sale of peltS in that city more than
million skins of the coon. muskrat.
-l-,nl- mimi n,,l
were disposed of.
There is very little cbb or flow of
tide in the Arctic but occasionally
there are very strong currents. Al!
winter there is a general flow of tide
and ice toward the south, while in sum-
mer this flow is northward.
Hannibal Hamlin at 81 can make a
rafting speech, which younger orators
can only envy without being able to imi
tate. Aud this is the result of living in
Maine, having boiled dinners, and
never wearing an ovcrcoat.
The salmon fishermen of Maine are
in earnest in their war against the
seals. that seem 10 be multiplying
along the coast. They say Il bounty of
81 Il head must be offered bv the state
on seals or ere long there'll be no sal
mon.
Mrs. Calhoun, sister of Gen. Custer,
bears a semblance 10 her dead hero
brother and possesses many of the
mental characteristics that distinguish
ed him. She is most fluent CONVEX
sationalist and an elocutionist of wide
reputation.
David b. Hills seat in the Senate will
be the one directly behind Senator Cor
mans. His ri~ht-hand and left-hand
neighborS will >De Senators Daniel and
COlquitt. The seat has been occupied
for dozen years past by Senator Wade
Hampton.
Gen. Sherman had four daughters
The eldest, Eleanor. Is the wife of
Lieut.. Thackara of the United States
navy and another is the wife of Mr.. L.
w. Fitch of Pittsburg. The two young
er daughters, Lizzie and Rachel, are
unmarried.
The late Duke of Bedford was very
much of Il hermit. He rarely went
abroad. and not one in a thousand of
his tenants had even seen him. His
~
every morning he awoke to find him.
. self richer than he was the day before.
Mrs. Elizabeth Booser, who for
eighty years had been famous work
or in the harvest fields of Lancaster and
Dauphin Counties, Pennsylvania, is
dead, aged 81. She worked in the
fields as late as last fall. She was the
oldest member of the Dunkard Church.
in Pennsylvania.
John McKcown. who died in the
Pennsylvania oil regions the other day
aud left several millions. lived in
little $500 cabin and enjoyed the COM
forts of this life TO about the same eX-
tent rs the poorest Of his follow
creatures. except that he was more
worried about his vast possessions.
Bishop Hare. of South Dakota. who
is well known because of his devotion to