The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-05-26

lean women studying in the university
at Leipsic.
Spurgeon didn't like being called
reverend" Reverend is as reverend
does" was his idea.
Gen. Butler says in his book of Gen.
Grant: He was a great general in
very many respects"
Mrs. Humphry Ward, the author of
"Robert Elsmere" and The History OF
| David Grieve," is II years old.
A story is told of Texan pony that
found the watch lost by its owner and
brought it to him in his mouth
An idea of the size of the Vatican
may be gained by the statement that
there are no fewer than / 4,422 rooms in
it.
The Druids held many plants sacred,
| as, for instance. vervain. selago, mis-
| tletoe, and, among trees, the oak and
the rowan.
The Tolstois now have in operation
| twenty-five relief Kitchens which are
located in fifteen different villages and
feed 1,0JJ people daily.
Squire johnson, a justice of the
peace at Grayson, Ky, 10 Years old.
| has enrolled himself as a scholar in q
! country school near his home.
The time of building the first iron
ship is a matter of dispute, but there
| is a tradition that as far back as 1897
| an iron vessel was used on the Severn
river.
The late Mr.. Spurgeon used fire.
| quently to visit Monaco, but he re-
Trained from entering the beautiful
gardens attached to the gambling hell
! there.
Comrade Howard, who has just
| joined the Grand Army post at Goffs-
town, n. H., is 81 years of age. He
was private in the Fourth New
Hampshire.
At a Catholic convent in Fort Berth
old, \. D., all the sisters, including
| the mother superior. are Indians, and
the spiritual director is a priest of
Mohawk descent.
The Salvation Army is rigidly boy
| cotted in Finland. No mention of it
OF any kind may appear in public
print, and the law is strictly enforced,
even as regards advertisements.
An engineer on the Missouri Pacific
| has invented a coat of mail so con-
| trived that when a man is held up by
robbers he can discharge revolver
| while both hands are confined above
| his head.
Hulda r. Gracer, a pretty. smart
| and WidC-awake Montreal GIRL Just en-
70 f,11 L.,
| business of a customs broker in Gin
cinnati, and can give points to the
boys in making it a success.
The Phenicians were acquainted
with the use of extremely hardened
iron (properly speaking steeD. as their
numerous and beautiful works in or
namental metallurgy. and the cutting
and engraving of previous stones
show.
The United Kingdom has neither
petroleum nor natural gas. Our prod
| uct of each in 1888 was nearly $25, ,000.-
ODJ on the spot-the aggregate, as
given by the latest report OF the United
| States geological survey, being over
| $47, ,OJ0,OJ0.
The Duchess de Ia Tore. the widow
| of Marshal Serrano. is reported to be
the haughtiest woman in Spain. She
was once noted for her beauty. and
now makes up for the lack of it in the
possession Of an enormous fortune.
She is said to Ie an inveterate gam
bier.
1t has been discovered that silver
exists IL the ashes of two volcanoes in
"a Of i
lea. The quantity of silver is exceed
ingly minute. however, being about
| two-fifths of an ounce to a ton OF ;ishes
at CotopaNi and about three-tenthS Of
an ounce at Tunguragua.
One of the scholars in a country
school at Grayson, Ky, is justice of
the peace. aged "A years.
In 1916 an awful famine ragged
throughout all Europe, and again from
1893 to 1875, when complete crop fail
ures caused terrible suffering. In
England and France the people ate the
flesh of dogs and cats, and many cases
of cannibalism were recorded. During
the latter three years thousands upon
thousands persisted from starvation.
Richard Wagner's son, Siegfried.
now a young man of twenty-one, is
said to resemble the composer in APP
pearance not little. His mother is
training him to manage the Bayreuth
interests when she is gone. Herr
Wagner has recently spent fortnight
in London as the guest of the impress
sario, Augustus Harris, but is now off
in Egypt.
The cheapest taX-dodging scheme on
record is that of churchman in Lin
coin county, Maine, who has organized
bogus religious and charitable soci-
ETY., has made himself treasurer, and
has turned all his personal property
over to the treasury of this montana
bic corporation. He dcfies the assess
ors and they don't see how they can
get at him.
Everybody who has read the poetry
or novels of Sir Walter Scott has seen
the throstle o.. mavis frequently men
toned in them. \ number of these
birds were imported to Portland from
Germany. Last year they made nests
and reared young in the large trees at
Ninth and Main streets, and in the
fall migrated TO the south. They have
returned to Portland and are merrily
whistling about their haunts of year
ago.
A Californian, having read an arti-
Gle in Nature on the intelligence of the
fox. writes that whatever may be true
of the English fox his California cousin
is next door TO fool. His son caught
Numbers of them IN a trap. but many
of them escaped by parting the chains
(by dint of strength, not OF intelli-
gence), and were again caught within
two or three days in the same traps!
One of them was caught three times
in quick succession,
Coast Indians of the Pacific shores
of British America deyour raw sea
urchins with great gasto. crushing
them in their fists. sucking out the
orange colorel cluster of eggs. which
cOnStit.ltc the only lille mart amount