The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-07-12


silver, and mass of pure chloride of
silver that will assay at $4,000.
WHEN Seth Green began Matching
shad on the Hudson the fish mongers
laughed at him and vowed to eat all the
shad he could hatch. The other day, in
going through the Albany market, one of
them called out, to his brother, " Green
stop this shatching; the fish are too plenty;
it don't pay
AT the Nassar commencement Miss
Culbertson in her defense of the women
who enter the profession of medicine,
said: Statistics prove to us that even
if they desire it all women cannot marry,
as they are largely in excess of men, and
even then the growing scarcity of esti-
mable men renders it still more hazard
Gus, if not impossible" a sentiment
which elected considerable applause.
AMONG the queer things of commerce
is the fact that beef, copper and so many
other commodities which are sent from
the United States to England, sell for
lower prices in England than they do
here. The facts in regard to copper
are peculiar. The expectation now
amounts to 100000 pounds annually,
and the product sellsin London from two
and a half to five cents pound cheaper
| than here.
A MEDICAL restaurant has been lately
established in London on the principle
that diseases can generally be cured by
a special system of diet, and that they
are caused chiefly by improper food.
On the entrance of a visitor physician
asks him regarding his ailments His
meal is then prescribed, and he is
allowed to eat no more than is presented
to him. At the close he is dismissed to
smoke a medicated cigar and to sip cof-
fee, camomile tea, or whatever other bev-
erage may be considered advisable
AMONG recent innovations in the
British army are new helmets. The ma
terial is of felt, with brass spike on the
top and brass plaque in front, consist
ing OF a star surmOunted by crown,
with the royal motto surrounding the
regimental number. There is brass
scale chin-strap and small brass scale
chain above the peak, which gives the
helmet a light and handsome appear
ance. There is a neck piece behind, and
the peak is of the Prussian style.
Mr.. JOHN HORN, JR., plunged into
the Detroit river last week, and for the
131st time rescued a human being from
drowning. He lost his watch in the
water, and the citizens of Detroit re-
placed it with Jurgensen's, worth $400,
the expense being betrayed by a sub
scription. The presentation was made
at the session of the Board of Trade at
noon, on the 30th ult Mr.. Horn
already has medal which was voted
him by Congress- recently.
A FOREIGN letter informs us that an
old lady who took passage for Europe in
one of the American Steamship Com
pany's vessels in May, became so deathly
sick all over when three days out that
she was afraid she would die before
reaching Liverpool; and sending for the
Captain, she endeavored to persuade him
to turn his ship around and take her
back home, and she wouldn't ask him to
| refund a cent of her passage money.
The ungallant Captain refused to turn
back.
ENGLISH shippers and underwriters
are becoming nervous over the frequent
loss of vessels by spontaneous combustion
of coal. Every year large numbers of
coal-laden vessels are posted at Lloyds as
missing, with all hands, and it is difficult
to avoid the conclusion that they have
been burned in mid-ocean, and not a
human being preserved to relate the
causes. The figures show that |, 155 lives
have been lost, and a tonnage of 10000,
representing 1000 tons of coal, has been
destroyed, through the spontaneous COM
| bustion of coal at sea.
THE previously heralded scientific ex-
petition around the world is definitely |
announced to sail from New York on the |
1st of October in specially chartered
steamer. The faculty of this floating
college of science is to consist of Prof. |.
Burt c. Wilder and professors from
Harvard, Yale and the university of
Michigan. A regular course of instruc-
tion will be given aboard ship, and when
tn different places where the steamer
will anchor are reached, the scientific |
investigation on the ground will proceed. |
The students will include both men and
women, and the expense to each for the
two years trip, $1,000.
For Professor Nordenskjold's expedi-
tion which is to set out from Gothenburg,
Sweden, in June, 1873, a vessel has
already been chartered for 150, ,0G0 Swed- |
ish crowns (about $25,00o.) King Os-
car has contributed $4,000 crowns from
his personal revenue, but the burden of
the expenses will be borne by the friend
and patron of Nordenskjold, a merchant
of Gothenburg named Dickson. The
route of the expedition will be from its |
starting point to the North Cape, thence
eastwardly through the Polar Sea to and
through Behring's straits thence along
the eastern and southern coast, of Asia, |
through the Red sea. the Suez canal and |
the Mediterranean sea to the Atlantic |