The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-03-12
MISSING LINKS.
George Bancroft was pronounced
cnostic In the matter of religion.

couid play the accordion.
BIZ the will of the late Dr. A.yan
| Talcolt. of Gnilfor,i. CT. Y ale College
| will receive S25 0O0 and a valuable
| medical library.
Clarence " Greathouse formerly n
| San Francisco newspaper man, has sue
| ceeded in winning the favor of the
| King OF Corea, and has been made
Deputy King.
The discovery of Arisiotle's treatise
| on the Constitution Of Athens is pro-
nounce;I Dy the London Tan s as al
most unprecedented in the History of
classical learning.
Grace Grecnwood's name is now
more closely allied To works of charity
| than to literary labor>. Sac still
writes little. bat can usually he found
where sorrow aui suffering hold sway.
The class yell OF the young ladies of
| the freshman class of Colby University
| is stated to be as follows: '.Co-ordina-
| ton; ha. In. la, tesSaras kai cneBe-
| konta duX fcnIiEa facta; rih, rah, rah.'
Col. Robert G. IurersoH SAYS There
| is 10 city beneath the shining stars
| where there is more genuine liberty of
/ thought and expression than there is
| in Boston" He Knows he has spoken
| there.
Schliemann. the Psy Nd Gazette
| states. died while eight doctors. all
| leading authorities. were considering
about the question of trepannlng' to
| relieve him OF tile trouble which caused
| his death.
Russell Sage who is regarded rs the
| largest individual loaner of money.
makes it Il rule never to loan more
| than $500 0OJ on any given day. That
| indicates to some extent what his re-
| sources are.
Mrs. William Morris. wife of the
| London artist poet. and Socialist, is
| said to be the most beautiful woman
| in the world. She goes out but little.
and is rarely seen by the multitude
who visit her husband.
Lord Tayi>tock, the successor to the
| title and estates of the late Duke of
Bedford is said to be excessively
| purse proud. As he has IN income of
81. 800 600 year, it can't be denied he
has good deal to be proud of.
The Hon. Charles Pelham Viiliers is
80 years old and for fifty years has
represented the borough of Wolver-
hampton in the British Parliament,
| and he has no salary for the job and
will have no pension when he retires.
A Philadelphia paper suggests a
fruitful subject for speculation in an
article in which it gives the names and
| IL, Il of, &c
| Philadelphi most of them young,
who mysteriously disappeared last
| year.
Mrs. Cleveland recently received a
letter from Il leading magazine incIos-
ing Il check for $500, with the request
| for an article from her pen on personal
| recolections of the White House. The
| check was returned at once with
| polite declination.
The original manuscript of Mr.. Glad
stones article Oh Mr.. Carnegies
pamphlet. entitled The Gospel of
Wealth., has been sent To Mr.. Carnegie
| by the editor of the Nineteenth CentJtiy.
1t was written by the grand old man
himself and bears his signature.
Mrs. Pering, who has been elected
to the Office of road overseer in Kan
sas, is Il wide-awakc woman, with
swapping black eyes and determined
mien. When she has occasion TO say
No her voice can be heard Il mile
away" says correspondent.
Daniel Webster is given whatever
credit there is in it of having started
the first college paper published in
this country. 1t was issued ut Dart
mouth in 1900 and may be regarded. if
not one of the greatest, ut least one of
the first events of the century.
! The Rev. John Jasper. who gained
celebrity by his ''sun-do-move" lecture
| doesn't let his salary move. His con-
grcgation has several times rendered
| him an increase, but lie declares that
$50 a month is ample for his needs,
and he declines to accept more.
Gen. n. p. Banks is now but a
| shadow of what he was fifteen wears
| ago. HIS face is thin. and, though he
still carries himself with some of his
| old-time erectncss, his manner is that
| of a man who lives in the past. His
| hair and mustache are snow white.
The Earl of Devon became bank
rupt in 1872. owing So, 800, 900, most of
| which was ION honor" or for racing
| obligations He paid about half a cent
| on Il dollar and didn't lose much rest
over the balance. As he is dead now
his patient creditors may strike bal
ancc and call it square.
The King of Siam will soon send six
| youths from his kingdom 10 Pcnnsvi-
vania 10 be educated. They are all 10
become physicians. The Young men
are chosen from among the poorer
classes. and the expense of their tuition,
about $500 year each, is TO be borne
by the Siamese Government.
Jeremiah (Sockless) Simpson is not
a product of the American soil, but
was born in Vroomfield hamlet five
miles below Sarnia, Ont. Along the
river Jeremiah is still known us Capt.
Simpson. for he sailed schooner
until he had got together the So 900
that gave him the impetus to go West.
Kageama Hdde is the japanese
Louise Michel (but. it is asserted. with
out the French agitators fanatcism)
who is gradually getting together a
party that is likely to revolutionize
thin gs. social and political, in the
Mikado's Empire. She is 81 years old,
and is represented as pretty and gentle.
Fanny Fern, the authoress. once said
that she never had much opinion of
feminine culture in Boston after being
| called TO the window of lady friend.
at whose house in Cambridge she was
staying, to look out into the garden
and .'sce the dear little chickens run
in under the maternal hen to get their
tactical nourishment.
Historian Bancroft was good man
of business, in which respect he was
unlike nine literary men out Of ten
Though lie was economical in lis liY-
ing expenses he left q snug fortune.
As an illustration of the enthusiasm Or
his old age it IS related that he took up
the study of Shakespeare when 81, and
prosecuted his new pursuit with all the