The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-01-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The shortest will may be perused in
Pennsylvania. This is all of it: Emily
/ K. Miner is my heir Sarah X. Miner
WHAT is the use, in these DAYS, irving
to be honestF" exclaimed grumhler.
Oh, you ought TO try it once and see"
retorted one of his companions.
\ LECTURER made his debut in St
Louis recently, and began by stating
that he had caused the doors 10 be
| locked, so that no one could escape until
he had finished
A PHILApELPHIA horse-Car conductor
| found a pocket book containing 500.
and after two lays vigilant search dis
covered the owner and restored the
property, AT a private meeting of the
other conductors he was denounced for
his reckless disregard of the opportuni-
| ties vouchsafed him by a mysterious
| Providence.
WHILE eNcavating street at Helena,
Ark, week or two since, the workmen
struck huge iron lid or cover eight feet
! below the street surface. On raising it
an immense cavern was discovered, the
dimensions of which were very large
The chamber is believed to be the work
of former civilization. Ii is now partly
filled with water
MANY years ago the city of Baltimore
invested three and u quarter mil ions in
the Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad, and
raised the money by issuing bonds AT
u per cent. interest. The annual divI-
dends upon the stock thus held by the
city have long been 10 per cent, leaving
"A clear profit of Sl30,000 year for the
benefit or taxpayers.
THE plaid suit excitement appears to
be subsiding as rapidly as il began The
fashion was decidedly overdone. as other
fashions have been time and again, and
now ladies are not aYcrSc to admit the
fact. Black silk, discarded and neglected
for a time, is ioyfully taken up again,
and now the fashionable girl of the
period rattles and rustles happy. and
radiant in the heaviest gros grain.
One who has tried il says that a cup
of coffee is sure barometer if YOU allow
the sugar to drop to the bottom Of the
cup and watch the bubbles arise without
disturbing the coffee. If the bubbles
collect IN the middle the weather will be
fine if they adhere to the cup, forming
ring, it will be rainy; and if the bubbles
separate without assuming any fixed po-
sition changeablc weather may be ex-
pected.
THE Maine ice dealers now realize fully
the great blunder they made last year in
going into the business so largely. They
cut about 500 600 tons, not more than
half of which has been sold. There was
a perfect fever for iCe-cutting early in
the season, owing to the failure of the
crop in New York State, and the busi-
ness was carried on not only on the great
rivers, but on ponds and little streams
Dealers who AZ first asked 81 ton would
have been glad to get 81. 50 later in the
season.
y sUN-DIAL that strikes the hours has
lately been invented and constructed by
the AbhG Ailegret. 1t is simply a modi-
tication of what is known as the solar
counter, for registering the times at
which the sun shines or is obscured. To
effect this there ar" balls, one black
and the other yeIl.u. liked at opposite
ends of lever, sustained by a central
pivot When the sun shines the black
ball absorbs more heat then the yellow
one, and the vapor of liquid contained
in the former is elevated o higher
temperature than in the latter. As the
result, the vapor leaves the one ball, and
being condensed in the other this be
comes the heavier, disturbs the equilib-
rum of the system, and in so doing lib
crates a weight, giving motion to a
clock work attachment In the sun dial
here referred to pair of these balls is
fixed at every hour mark. When the
shadow of the gnomon reaches any par.
tCular hour mark one of the balls is
shaded, "a preponderancc of liquid enters
the ball, the lever tits, the mechanism is
set going and a gong sounded as many
times as the number of the hour to be
indicated. 1t is necessary, however,
that the sun should shine at the time OF
the hour mark being passed by the
shadow or the time will not he struck