The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-08-03
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cIares that TO toll fatgues like reading
manuscript.
THE divorce average in Cincinnati last
year was just one day-365 DEGREES haV-
ing been granted in all.
The census returns of Great Britain
chow that the surplus of female popula-
tion in on the increase.
A. +. WILLMARTH, Vice President OF
the Home, OF New York, is q policy
holder, stock holder and director of the
Washington Life.
If you know anything that will make
brothers heart glad, run quick and tell 1t;
but if it is something that Will cause
sigh, bottle il up.
No man with a dependent family is free
from reprnach if he fails to lnsure.-LoRD
LINDHuRsT. Insure in the Mutual Lille,
of Chicago.
LOCOMOTIVE No. s. of the New Jersey
RAILROAD Company, is said to be the fastest
locomotive in the United States, having
made eighty.nine miles in one hour.
SUMNER FAsHIoNs.-Lsrge checks are
in demand for summer toilets. A check
for So 600, presented to Miss Gunnybags
by her father, has been much admired.
A "CARpIFF pigmy, three feet long,
| was dug up in Ottumwa, Iowa, the other
day. Medical men have pronounced II
potrified human body-headless, armless,
and legeSs.
THREE hundred and seventy eight
Roman coins and urns have recently been
dug up in Luxembourg. They belong 10
the reigns of Nespasiap, Domitian, Nero,
Trajan, and their successors.
JOSEPH CALDWELL, of Columbus, u,
mystcriously disappeared ayear ago, and ~
| is just ascertained that he died IN an insane
asy lum at New Orleans, and was buried
| as a pauper He left an estate valued at
$l50,030.
AN official report, published at st. Pc
| tersburg, gives the number OF horses IN
| Russia as 19, 226, ,667 or about one to each
three inhabitants. In 357 towns and vii
| lagos in the Couutry, 1,01l horse fairs are
held each year, at which over 300WO
horses are sold at an average price of -
each.
AN Eastern paper with an appetite for
| figures estimates that American tourists
spend more than hundred millions
year in excursions to Europe. AS lmml-
grants bring only about twenty millions
| here, there would be at this rate very
| heavy balance of trade against us.
A Down EASTER lately came to New
| York, and took lodgings at one OF the
| high houses Telling the waiter he wished
! to be called in the morning tor the boat,
| both of them prOce, ded On their winding
| way upward, till, having arrived at the
| eighth flight of stairs Jonathan caught
the arm Of his guide, aud accosted him
thus, Look here stranger, 1t you INTEND
to call me at six O'Clock in the morning,
you might az well do ii now, as twill be
I J., t;,,,., g..r 1 ynt Inx
THE Burlington Free Press says that
| Woodstock, Vt, elected, at its last March
meeting, a Highway Surveyor, who. can
neither read nor write. When he asks
man for his taxes he presents the tax book,
and requests him to find his name and the
amount; and, if the man pays his tax, he
| crosses it out himself, and, when receipt
is desired by the party paying, the Sur.
veyor has to get some one to write IL, ana
| on this he makes i" his Y mark" and has
it witnessed.
A CURIOUS accident happened in San
Francisco the other day. A young man
was in the act of getting on train, when
| his left arm, which he outstre tched tor heip
himself up on the platform, fell power
| less to his side On examination IL was
| found that his arm was really broken With
out any inordinate strein. and without ex-
| terIal violence. Ills dfIu udi ho' pSeh
| broken before, and the accident may be
| mt down as one of the curiosltles OF
| science, as no ezpiainaUio ieason oan ho
| given for it.
CARPETS, DUST AND DIsEAsE.-Honae
| and Heath saws " An atmosphere impreg-
mated with the dust which has been gath
cred in carpets and remained there for
considerable length of time, is positively
unheal hy. The dust, after being stagnant
for some time, especially in warm wealth
er, presents myriads of animalcula. To
prevent the evil, the carpets should be
cleaned often. The dust should he thor
oughly removed every month. The trou-
BILE OF taking ur. shaking and replacing
| will be amply repaid first, iii the matter
of health, and, secondly, in preserving the
CARPET We advise the good housewives
there are many to make note OF this.
The Hartford lawyers are puzzled over
a singular legal case which has just arisen
there a man who died lately, leaving
! handsome property and Chlldless widow,
but with prospect for the future, left also
Il will, duly executed. in which it was pro-
| vided that if the expected child should
prove to be boy, two-thirds oi the prop
erty should go to him and one third to the
widowed mother. If, however, the child
prove to he girl, only onethird OF the
|
to the mother But the widow has become
the mother of twins, and, what greatly
heightens the perplexity of the case, the
twins are boy and girl, and the law
yers are in quandary to know what they
shall do about it.
In 1870. it is stated, there were 10000
600 dozen corsets. or 120 000,0 ,0O0 pair, i'm
ported into the United States--a quantity,
it is calculated, sufficient to supply three
pair to every adult female in the country.
In addition, the annual domestic product
of sewed corsets amounted TO 100000
pairs, manufactured by about twelve es-
tablisbments. Near Strasburg, city in
Germany, there are / 800 hand looms em-
ployed in weaving Corsets for the con-
, sumption Of the United States. One man
as d weaver, and two women as hnlshers,
are required for each loom, which produces
three corsets daily. The sale OF corsets,
il is estimated, increas 5 per cent. every
= year Corsets for males are also made,
ami about 2. dozen Of this article oi mas
S culine apparel are imported into The United
? States every year.
! &c. VARIEy, the famous electrician o
I the Atlantic Gable Company, revives the
/, Old theory of earthquakes being due to
4 the subteITanean lighting. He supports
:. this theory by obSe: vatons before, and a
few minutes after the earthquake Of Til,
/ 18th of March, when he noted powerful
: positive electrical currents rushing TOWARD
1 England through the Two Anglo American
5 telegraph cables, which were broken neal
= Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. The French
r Atlantic cable was disturbed at the same
S time, and SO were many of the English
y land lines, but the only observations as tt
J. the direc ion of the current were thos,
+ made by Mr.. Varlcy in the broken Anglo
:, American telegraph cables. He thiDk
It that as the center of the earth is ap
i preached q layer of hot dried rock may b'
l. found, which is An lnsulator, while TN
u red hot mass lower down is a conductor
o If this conjecture be true, and there 1
II plausibilty in it, then the world itself !
=, s.n enormous Leyden jar, which only re
e auires charging 10 very moderate degre
a. TO be equal to the production OF terrlnc ex
1t plosive ELECTS.
BURGLAR. .PRcoF.-From across tb
| oceap in the London Builder comes tn