The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-10-28

had he kissed some one clse's wife. And
now they have called ont the police and
the electric light company to put a stop
To reckless OSCILLATION i'll the public parks.
The electric light company is to erect
electric lights every now and then in
the parks so that the kissing squad may
catch and arrest the awful violators of
the law. People who live near the parks
say that they are driven from their
verandas every pleasant night by the
Wholesale lOyemaking under their very
noses. So the word has gone forth. No
kissing goes.
\ travel stained, weather beaten young
man arrived in Ithaca, y. y, from New
Y ork, having walked from his home there
To take up his studies mt Cornell uni
in the college of civil engineering. Dick
erson made the trip from New York, a
distance of about 800 miles 10y road, in
nine days averaging forty-twO miles "a
day for the first six days The last day
he finished his journey by walking fifty
six miles. biCkcrson said he was not
lat all Gatlgued He thinks he could lower
that record without trouble.
\ hUrscthcf who went to Greenwich,
Conn, with a woman companion had
an experience which he probably viii
not soon forget. John Mouahan of Cas-
sdy park keeps two horses in his stable,
one of which he alone can drive While
he was ut the New DIRK celebration wit
Messing fireworks his horse of the fiery
temper made fireworks of her own. At
least the thief must have seen stars
soon after he started off with the horse.
Only Il few hundred feet from the stable.
while ON Lake avenue, the horse kicked
f,, t,iB 4
and when people came ont of their
houses to see what the crash was about
they SAW a man and woman limpng
away. All that the police found was Il
soft green hat, size ! Is, cane and a
Wuman's rat. The horse was so tangled
mp that it could not get away.
\ few days ago John A. Smith and
Alouzo Wells, residents Of Ferdsvlle,
near Greensboro. Ky, were killed in a
SaWmill accident in Tennessee. Their
bodies were shipped home for burial at
Memphis For some reason the under
takcr opened the collins, and in replacing
the lids made a mistake. The name
plate Of Wells was put on Smiths coffin
and Smiths name on Wells coffin. The
mistake was not learned until Wells
wife stopped the funeral procession two
miles from the grave and had the coffin
opcHtN. Luc HISl llne she viewed the
body she did not believe it to be that Of
her husband the second look convinced
her. Then il was found that her hus-
band had been buried by Smiths friends
and she was carrying Smiths body to
the grave. The mistake was corrected
and the funerals were properly held.
The Scabpard National bnnk of San
Francisco has had an experience that
has left its belief in its infalibiity
gaspOng for breath. Also the experience
A man asked the paying teller for So
III nickelS, The teller showed over Il
paper roll of coin.
When the roll was opened it was dis
covered to contain - gold peces-l2O Of
EN-, tOtaIling $500. The customer near
~ tainted. Then he asked the paying
teller if he hadn't made a mistake.
The paying teller hadn't seen the con
tents Of the package. Besides, it is the
policy Of every bank to inculcate tho
doctrine Of its infalIbility.
we never make mistakes" was the
calm reply.
The customer left. Some hours later
he was reached by frantic telephone
call, But by tbmt time the customer
thoroughly understood that the bank new
or made mistakes.
The bank got back all except 5000 Of
its extra money by the process of buy.
ing it back.
When Mrs. S. VI. Rcs of Traverse
City, Mich, bought whitcfsh from
local market she supposed she was buy
ing only a fish, not knowing that there
was prize concealed within it. The
fish was boiled for dinner aud this after,
noon Mrs. Ries shredded the remnants
for patties. Finding something hard,
she removed what looked like a pebble
a local icwclcr pronounced the find
m0obstouc, hat there is no explanation
rs go how the fish, which was caught
in Grand Traverse bay, picked it up.
One hundrcd-and-onc-y ear-old Michael
Powers Of Danville. Pa, celebrated his
birthday by taking trolley ride To
bloomsbury, ten miles away. 1t is the
first that he has had in two years. lie
enjoyed the journey immensely. walked
around Bloomsbury for n time and Wis
and spirits. and says he eat easily walk
two miles day. lie came to this coun-
try from ireland and Is Il bachelor,
Jonas Wimbush, Il young mountaineer.
and married man, aud Miss Mary
Conner, Is years old, daughter of John
Conner, one Of Wimbushs neighborS In
Lebanon Pa. have been cured of their
infatuatiOn for one another by severe
application of hickory switches welded
by their irate neighbors. including the
| father Of the girl who is said To have