The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-11-05
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LowelEs poems, 10 DC publisheu ov
Macmillan.
A red fox guards the barnyari of a
fdrmer in Butler county. Pa. and the
chickens aud geese are perfectly safe
from thieves when he is around.
There nave been seven marriages
among the female clerks of New
York weekly paper in seven years. and
they each occupied the same desk.
Frederick II. Seward. son of the late
William H. Seward, has finished the
biography of his father. He has been
engaged upon the work long time.
The buttonwood tree 10 which Mas
ter NARROW. of the ship Kent, dashed
the cable when the first settlers landed
at Burlington. \. j., in 1876, is still
standing on the river bank.
DIR. C. F. Rand. of Washington. has
an army cracker that was issued 10
him with nine others at Centreville. in
July. 1861. when lie was private in
The Twelfth New York Volunteers.
Tolstoi. who bitterly opposes all
marriages except what he calls angel
marriages." is the father Of sixteen
children, only niue of whom are now
living. The youngest is three years
old.
The cannibal tribes near re Niger
delta, in Angola and in the Congo
basin are probably the only natives %.
Africa who habilually eat human flesh.
They, however, are numbered by mill
ions.
Miss Helen Cloak, a pure-bred Ind
ian of the Blackfeet Nation. has been
appointed by Secretary Noble rs spe-
cial allotting agent i'll the Ncz Perces
reservation. She is well-educated
woman.
The duke of Cleveland is the ninth
British peer whose title has become
was chosen. But Lord Salisbury has
created twenty-one new peers since he
came into Office.
In person and attire the scrapulous
cleanliness of the Malay women is pro-
verbal throughout the orient. Twice
daily she bathes, changes her gar
ments and washes and rinses her lux
uriant black hair.
Baron Hirsch, the Jewish philan-
thropist, has signed a notarial deed
empowering his representatives to ex-
pend e., 600, 600 for the purchase of
land and the location of colonies in
the Argentine Republic.
A woman fell overheard in japanese
waters and was eaten by a shark. For
three years her husband has done
nothing but hunt sharks and up to
date has landed about three hundred
of them and is still fishing.
A Lewiston (Me. } lady has \ needle
in her sewing machine that she placed
there in the fall of 1874 and has not
once been removed. 1t has done all
the family sewing since that date and
continues to do it. although worn
rather thin.
DR.. Ignatius Hortsmann, who is
mentioned as the probable successor
of Bishop Gilmour in the Cleveland.
o., diocese of the Catholic Church. is
six feet three inches tall and broad in
proportion. He is handsome and in
tercstiDg man.
Over the shop door of pork butcher
in village in one of the eastern coun-
ties of England may be seen sign
board representing a man in black
coat braudishing hatchet with the
inscription: John Smith kills pigs
like his father"
A Concord On. CO. mule finding its
neck so swollen by some throat aifec-
ton that it could not reach the ground
to feed standing. lay down. and after
eating all the grass within reach on
one side rolled over and finished its
meal Oh the other.
The story told years ago of the dis.
covery of an ancient ship in the sands
of the Great American Desert is now
revived. with the addition that it is
aflo2t on the waters of the new inland
sea forming there from an Eruption OF
the Colorado river.
Jacob Kahn. a Philadelphian, re.
Gently escaped horrible death by rea.
son of his thinness. A switch engine
drawing five freight cars knocked him
down and passed over him, but by
hugging the ties closely he came out
of the ordeal without injury.
A story is told in Louisville of a
man, now poor and needy. who less
than six years ago had so much money
to squander that he took champagne
bath, filling the tub to the brim with
the costly fluid. Two years later he
did not have Il dollar to his name.
Another popular American who will
not grow old is Rev. Dir. Edward Ever
EFT Hale, who although II years of
age, still performs the duties of pas
tor, contributes articles to papers and
magazines. edits 4 department in a
magazine, and does many other things
difficult even for younger men.
A new steel cuirass, covering the
breast only, will shortly be introduced
into the Austrian army. 1t is said to
be impenetrable to the bullets of any
rifle yet invented. 1t can be folded
up aud packed in an ordinary KNAPP
sack. The armies of the triple alli-
ance will be provided with it.
The new equatorial telescope re-
Gently mounted in Paris has its tube
bent ut 4 right angle. and the image of
the sky formed by the object glass is
reflected TO the eye of the observer. 1t
is the largest of its kind in the world.
its optical powers being very fine and
the images of the planets remarkably
distinct.
The crown princess of Denmark.
only daughter of the late King Charles
Nv, of Sweden, is superb woman.
Her wit and Intelligence have won for
her the friendship of many brilliant
men, while her striking beauty is the
admiration of Denmark. She and the
queen of Portugal are the tallest two
princesses in Europe.
Richard Harding Davis. the young
author and editor. is n rather hand
some fellow of medium height, with
an athletic and well-knit figure His
features are clean-cut. his ewes bright.
and he has the bearing of well-bred
gentleman. If the adulation with
which he is at present overwhelmed
does not spoil him he may some dav
take high rank in the American world
of letters.