The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-09-10
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A Denver man has been awarded
800, 600 damages for the alienation or
his wife's affections.
The latest story is that Andrew Car
negie desires to run for Parliament IN
the next English election.
Shares of Paradise are alleged to
be sold by the Salvation Army through
out France at Il large profit.
At a recent English marriage cere-
mony the bride was exactly twice the
age and twice the weight of the groom.
The British admiralty has resolved
to give $40, 900 to Admiral Colomb for
his invention for flashing night signals.
The payments to Bret Harte by his
English publishers last year are said to
have reached a total of SIS, 900. while
in America he was paid only 81, 600.
A 10-year-old schoolgirl in New
York City is unable to read unless the
print is upside down. When writing
she forms her letters and figures upside
down also.
The Coreans are the largest eaters
known. Their stomachs are generally
abnormal in size, and the one possess
ing the largest is generally considered
the richest.
Ex-President Cleveland has rented
a cottage for the summer at Glen Sum-
nit, Luzerne county. Pa. a mountain
resort on the line of Lehigh Valley
Railroad.
Frank Ingalls, young brother of
| the ex-senator. is President of Drury
College at Springfield, Mo. He is tall
and slender, and otherwise resembles
his distinguished brother in personal
| appearance.
Whittier is quoted as saying, the
| other day, that there were times when
| it seemed to him that he must take up
| his pen and write. but that he felt that
| he had done enough and that his work
was really completed.
A San Francisco man has peculiar
mania for opening and closing doors.
| and will stand for hours at Il time at
| one of the entrances to the post office
| opening and closing the doors for the
accommodation of the pedestrians.
Red stockings are generally colored
! from matters of aniline which contain
| large quantities of antimoniac pro-
ducts. When perspiring, this matter
| becomes soluble, enters the pores OF
the skin, and produces violent rash.
There is a spinster in Pittsburg who
| had marble monument for herself
made some ten years ago. 1t Is kept
in the yard of the marble dealer, where
she visits it about three times week,
| n
pleasure in being near it.
A new industry is gaining Roadway
in the tropics, by which bananas are
dried for shipment. The fruit in dry
ING loses one-third of its weight. and
when dried readily sells at 1G cents a
pound. The dried fruit can be trans
ported over bad roads without injury
and it retains its flavor.
SANKEY'S contract with the American
publishers of his last book called for
$50 900 in royalty. 1t is now author
from them the additional sum of S41.
900. and that Major Pond paid to him
some 800. 900 as his portion of the pro-
ceeds of the lecture tour.
Alfred Tennyson has been England's
| poet laureate since 1850, longer
period than the honor was held by any
of his predecessors. Colley Cibber ell
loved the distinction from 1870 TO 1857,
aud Robert Southey from 1913 10 1913;
all the others. from Edmund Spenser
down. for much shorter terms.
There are &c. 900 oil wells in the
United States. representing Il capital
of 1920 900 900, with an output of $780,
600 barrels per day. The refining
capacity of the country is 40, 900 bar
rels per day, while Is, 600 barrels arc
consumed as fuel. A surplus stock is
held in tanks of more than 80, coo, 600
barrels.
Lyman S. Low. New York dealer
in medals. has among his collection
several hundred medals presented to
soldiers in the English army from
1893 to 1890 for deeds of valor and
conspicuous bravery. With but few
exceptions they were all pawned by
their owners to meet the necessities OF
life.
The gendarmeric of Budapesth sue
ceeded after several brave attempts in
taking hand of gypsy robbers. num-
bering fifty men, prisoners. Among
the captives are several notorious
murderers. The leader of the band,
strange to say. is the author of die
tionary of the gypsy language. for
which Archduke Joseph wrote the pre-
face.
Mabel Hunter. a 16-year-old Iowa
girl. is the victim of Il peculiar habit
formed in childhood. Whenever she
is sent on an errand she walks to and
from the place backwards. Some
times she will abSent-mindedly walk
right, but upon recovering her senses
will Immediately retrace her steps and
begin the journey over again back
wards.
1t is stated that in India soap is re-
! gardcd almost in the light of natural
! curiosity. for it is rarely, if ever, to be
obtained of Il shopkeeper there. OF
course. it is sold in the larger towns;
but the amount used bv the natives
must be very small. seeing that the
total consumption of soap in India last
| year was only 5000 tons. This means
| that the amount used by each person
| for the year was considerably less than
!
In Bodiga. CAL. not long since. a
| man lassoed n wild COW. he being on
horseback, when the animal broke the
| lariat and made dash for liberty
| Not far off there was n large house.
with the front door wide open. She
| rushed through Ike door, up the front
stairs, through a narrow hallway, into
| a bedroom, out of the window. on to
the roof of the porch, from which she
| leaped TO the ground, striking with
| such violence as to break her neck
San Francisco Chronicle.
Says San Francisco special to the
| n. Y. Tribune: The death of Dona
Bandine at Los Angeles removes one
of the last survivors of distinguished
native California family. At her
house in old San Diego generous
hospitality was dispensed in the early
| days. and it was n ball ut this mansion
of which Richard III. Dana wrote so
, Urapbie a dissertation in his ..'Fvo