The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1893-01-19
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cept for the face value it possesses at
the publishers.
The sultan of Turkey has 800 wives;
the king of Dahomey, $50; the shah of
Persia, 400; the king OF Siam, 600; the
king of Ashantee, 5000, and the en-
peror of Morocco. 5000.
Adlai Stevenson is fondly devoted to
his mother and the affection is fully
reciprocated. Mrs. Stevenson is 80
years old. She is walking encyclo-
pedia of kentucky's early history.
Stenography was first used in the
French parliament about the year
ashland one of the few official stenog-
raphers of that period still surviving
is NJ. Lagache, now senator OF
France.
Baron Hirsch is said by London
newspaper to be the richest man the
world has ever known, the statement
being that be is worth 5000 900
year. This implies capital of about
$500, 000,0
Judge Shepherd. the newly appoint
ed chief justice of the Supreme court
of North Carolina, and said to be the
youngest man that ever held the posi-
ton, began business life as telegraph
operator in Washington, d. C.
Ex-President Cham berlain of the
Iowa Agricultural College is now farm
ing in Ohio. His property has an ex-
tent of 115 acres; and he is not such
theorist as to be unable to make
practical success OF the business.
New Orleans has a new idea. To
prevent disastrous street-car strikes in
future it is l~oposed to place letter
boxes in all the street-cars and thus
bring them under the direct protec-
ton of the United States government.
1t is not often that jail is robbed
by burglars. Such thing happened
at Oldenburg, Hungary Burglars en-
tered the prison, then occupied by 800
prisoners. and among other things
stole and carried away 1900 t1orins
and quantity of gold and silver brio
a-brac.
The hero of Casabianca, who stood
talized by Mrs. Hemans, is to receive
a belated honor from the French min
lister of marine, who has ordered a new
torpedo boat to be called Luce de Cas-
abianca, in memory of the brave Cor
sican sailor and his son.
The empress of Germany is said
never to wear a gown more than once.
But reputable witness who was adj
mitted not long ago to the family cir
Gle of German royalty says that the
little crown prince was rather shah
billy dressed in an outgrown sailor
suit, and that it was patched.
Lucy Booth, Gen. Booths Youngest
daughter, is about to 90 to India to be
at the head of the work among the
women of that dark land Like all the
women of the Salvation Array in In
dia, she will 90 among the native
women in their own costume and live
in the same manner that they do.
Congressman J w Bailey of the
fifth Texas district is the Youngest
member of the present congress, and
is believed to be the youngest of the
next one. He is native Mssissippian.
tail and straight as an arrow, has a
handsome, intellectual face, and is
natural orator of the Patrick Henry
style.
Peter Berlo is going to place his new
safety bicycle on exhibition at the
worlds fair. 1t weighs but eleven
and three-quarters pounds, yet he,
weighing 10 pounds, recently rode
the bicycle over ten miles of road IN
the vicinity of Boston without so much
as straining the machine or starting a
spoke.
A Hartford, Conn, surgeon lately
induced woman, whose 2-vear-old
child had long been suffering from
peculiar attacks, to submit the little
one to an operation, on suspicion that
the baby had swallowed a diamond
earring the mother had missed. No
earring was found, but twenty-three
small carpet tacks were taken from
the child's stomach.
In Paris q novel apparatus has been
hXed IN front of II windows of few
shops, pioneering the way for the in.
PRODUCTION of the invention. 1t con-
slsts OF small pipe laid along the ex-
terror of the shop window, from which
pipe, through numerous holes, is
emitted gentle current of warm air.
slightly scented, which is very agree
able to the shop window gazers to
sniff, while it keeps the window clear
and bright, thus more effectively dis
playing the contents
What thought ransference actually
means was eXempljtied the other dav
in Philadelphia, when an entire school
OF blind pupils visited the Dore exht-
bition of paintings, accompanied by
DR.. Stryker, the principal. The latter
explained with such minuteness of de-
tail the general appearance of the pict-
ure ana Its various points of excel
Ience, that the children left the place
Sleetully chatting about what thew
had seen through their preceptor's
eyes.
1t has not been generally considered
tEat IN the various arctic expeditions
which have been made the arctic dog
has played an important part. In the
recent Journey of Lieut.. Peary !. 800
miles were made by sledges drawn bv
these faithful and useful animals. and
they averaged, according to Mr.. peary's
statement, about twentv-one miles 3
day. The dogs require about the same
amount of food as one man, and draw
a load about one-fourth greater than
could a man.
The first iron casting made in Amer
lea, kettle, cast at the Saugus Iron
works in 1852, has been presented to
the city of Lynn by j. E. Hudson, of
Boston, lineai descendant of Thomas
Hudson, the orr ginal owner of the
casting. Thomas Hudson owned sixty
acres OF lard on the westerly bank of
the Saugus river and sold it to the
IRON works company. He claimed the
first article made and received this
Kettle, which has been preserved
through two and half centuries in
perfect condition.
A charter has been granted in Phila-
delphia to the Society of the War of
1872" The society numbers among
It's members tifty-five veterans, scat,
tered throughout the union. David
Mccoy, aged 102, is probably the old