The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-06-07

that the fish rarely migrate to visit th,
coast and bays, and the inshore fisherie
are destroyed.
A POLISH exile in Washington write,
to friend in Augusta, Ga, that there
are 297 families in Russian Poland, with
an average of 81 ,000 to the family, who
are desirous of emigrating to the United
States to engage in agricultural labor.
A SoNoMA, Cal, man has raised five
cork trees, which are now twenty-five OF
thirty feet in height and from ten to
twelve inches in diameter in the trunk.
One coat of cork, / inch thick, has been
stripped off. The tree resembles the live
oak in foliage. The seed were brought
from Spain twenty years ago.
NINE thousand inhabitants of Ceylon,
most of whom are Buddhists and Hin
docs, have sent memorial to Queen
Victoria, declaring that the payment of
annual subsidies out of the public reve-
nues, to which all contribute, to a small
body of Christians, is violation of the
principle laid down by the Royal Procla-
nation of 1858. They say that religion
will be benefited by disestablishment.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, is getting alarm
ed at the number of its paupcrs and the
money it costs to keep them, and, above
all, at the growth of the number of APP
plicant for outdoor relief In 1871
every thirty-ffth person in the popula-
ton was supported wholly or in part by
the city; in 1872, every 9th; in 1873,
every 34th; in 1874, every 23d; in 1876,
every 18th; in 1876, every 18th; in the
year ending April, 1877, every 10th.
ABOUT nine thousand new houses are
built in London every year in the
suburban districts, and the building
me meysmsnt same IS in nj thft tE il PRETTY th e.
is controlled by building associations
and those who put up bonus houses,
blocks of houses, new suburbs, and
through cash advances made by those
who own the ground, to builders. The
annual increase in Philadelphia has been
about six thousand houses, but of late
years it has fallen off to four thousand.
THE French painter, Courbet, rather
than remain in perpetual exile, has con-
sented to pay 100000 francs to which
he was condemned, for pulling down the
column in the Place Vendome. The
court, after much discussion, has given
him time to pay by annual installments
of 10000 francs, so that it will take 80
years to liberate himself The execu-
tions on his pictures and other property
in France are withdrawn.
A MANCHESTER mechanic has invent
ed horseshoe composed of three thick
nesses of cowhide compressed into a steel
mould and then subjected to chemical
preparation. Its inventor asserts that it
lasts longer than common shoe, and
weighs only one-fourth as much; never
splits the hoof, and has no other injuri-
Gus influence on it; requires no calks,
even on asphalt; is so elastic the horses
step is lighter and surer; and adheres so
closely that neither dust nor water can
penetrate between shoe and hoof
AN undertaken in San Francisco has
discovered process of preserving bodies
of deceased persons by washing them
with chemical solution and inclosing
them in a casket containing antiseptic
chemicals under false bottom. He
keeps corpse for show in his warerooms
and has one now which he prepared over
forty days ago. 1t is that of a Swede
who died in the county hospital. The
body remains free from discoloration and
the joints are as supple as in life.