The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-05-16
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novels, entertained himself sketching.
New Zealand has set apart two ISL
ands where hunting is prohibited for the
preservation of its remarkable wild
birds and animals.
On sandy Martha's Vineyard the road
commissioners are spreading Cotton
cloth over sand to prevent macadam
from sinking into the sand.
A bill has been introduced in the Mas
sachusetts legislature making it illegal
for passengers to stand in the aisles or
on the platforms of street cars.
Professor Charles a. Briggs declares
that no religious organization in history
has enjoyed such marvellous growth
as the Salvation army in SO short time.
A woman who wants to play Lady
Macbeth in Topeka amateur show re-
fused to 90 on because she couldn't
have big sleeves for her sleep-walking
gown.
1t appears from available statistics
that the birth of understood children is
of more frequent occurrence than that
of boys and girls who are abnormally
developed.
The smallest diocese in the world is
said to be that of St. Helena. Besides
the bishop, DR.. Thomas Z. Welby,
whose salary is 5000, it has only three
clergymen.
The Boston aldermen have decided
that theater managers must send adj
vance sheets of their living picture post
ers to the city hall before posting them
on the billboards.
The New England Kitchen, of Bos-
ton, serves a 5-cent lunch, consisting of
hot soup, bread and butter, sandwiches,
buns or cookies, to the pupils of the Bos-
ton high schools.
One of the achievements of the last
congress was to authorize the navy de-
partment to enlist ZOO extra men with
out arpropriating money to provide
them with food and clothes.
A movement is on foot to secure a
uniform game law in Michigan, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota and North Dakota,
plan. it is believed, that will furnish
good sport in that region indefinitely.
The Fourth National Bank of New
York is run on civil service reform prin-
ciples, and as a result of the resignation
of an assistant cashier, made thirty-four
promotions on the staff of its employees.
The Progressive Engineers Associ-
alton of New York, colored organiza-
ton, is going to send one of its mem
beers out to Liberia to see what, if any
inducements, that country offers for
colonization.
A. L. Mackenzie, an Englishman, has
earned the eternal gratitude of students
In general by versifying and setting to
simple music Dates of the Sovereigns
of England" from the Norman conquest
to the present time.
1t has been noticed that eggs through
out Georgia, being packed in the strong,
resinous pine Sawdust of the region,
have, when eaten, a decided flavor of
turpentine, which, though unpleasant,
| may not be unwholesome.
The New York Vegetarian Society
has opened its first restaurant in that
city, where all the luxuries of the sea-
son will be served, barring fish, flesh,
fowl and even oysters. 1t counts on
doing flourishing business.
At Copenhagen, n. Y, a young wo-
man who held a thief until the police
came, was presented with a diamond
brooch and letter of thanks from the
| director of police, and an offer of mar
rage from a well-known journalist.
A butterfly supposed to be thousan =
| of wears old was found under rock in
| California and removed to the Smith
| sonian Institution. When discovered
| its wings were growing shrveled and
| there we're wrinkles in its antennae.
The fiscal court of Fayette County
| Kentucky. has appointed a committee
| to ascertrin the cost of two bloodhounds,
to be procured and kept for the purpose
| of tracking criminals. There is talk
of similar action in other parts of the
| state.
Wells, Fargo & Co, who handle most
of the express business in the mining
country, report as their estimate of the
gold product in the United States last
yess about $40, 900, 900, or $12, 900, 900
| more than the year before-an increase
of 80 per cent.
A note of warning was sent to all the
principals of the public schools in New
York, at the instance of Superintendent
Jasper forbidding the collection of
money by the pupils in schools for the
purpose of making presents to any of
the teachers or for any other object.
Mobile, Ala, is congratulating itself
on an improvement in the character of
the buildings that are put up there.
The style of architecture has been
changed, so a note runs, from the
former box to the modern ornamental
combination of Swiss and other styles"
The spirituaists of Massachusetts, in
a recent convention, passed resolutions
against the medical laws of the state
and against any extension of the laws
relating to contagious and other dam
gerous diseases. They believe people
ought to be allowed to die without state
interference.
California is soon to try an industry
that has hitherto been confined in this
country to New York City, that of
whalebone cutting. While much of the
worlds supply of whalebone is landed
at San Francisco from the whaling ships
it has hitherto all been sent to New
York and London to be cut for use.
The Russian courts have reversed the
assumption of the American tribunals
that when a husband and wife are
drowned ia the same disaster the wife
dies first. The Russian doctors have
testified unanimously that the man
would be the first to die because the
woman is more agile and keeps herself
longer above water.
Pittsburgers are working hard for
Greater Pittsburg." 1t is proposed to
take in Allegheny, on the opposite
hank of the river, and enough other
towns to make Pittsburg the fourth
city in the union in point of size. They
also want a ship canal to connect the
city with the big lakes, and expect to
realize both projects.
A subscription is being raised in
Maryland to erect monument on Long
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