The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-10-31
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The only medical college for negroes is
IN Nashville. It has an ample endoB-
ment.
1.-THE nearest I ever came TO cannibsl-
ISM" said old Lord George Bentnck,
was when l swallowed little London
porter"
& Kansas man. who offered bail for a
friend, was asked by the judge if he had
any encumbrance on his farm. so! yes"
said he, "nly old woman"
The Manchester, England firm of Ell
let, Grover & Co., announce that they have
made arrangements with an American
firm to supply caicoes for home or export
trade!
Lightning sometimes appears forked
because, being resisted in its progress by
the air, the electricity divides into two or
more points, and seeks passage in diff
fcrent directions.
Whirlwinds are produced by violent
and contrary currents meeting and strik-
ing upon each other, producing a circular
motion. They generally occur after long
Gains, attended by much heat.
To drachm of solutionfof ierchloride
of gold add two ounces of ether, and shake
together. Polished steel articles i'm
mersed in this clear liquor will become
covered with thin film of gold.
There are four hundred colleges in this
country, with an aggregate of three thou
sand seven hundred professors; there are
Twenty-Five universities in the German
empire, with twenty thousand two hun
dred and twenty nine students.
1t is reported that several Americans
have been guillotined in Paris for persist
ing in speaking the French language
Ths French government justities its course
by saying the French people can't stand
everything.
Americans travelling through Europe
say that business is more depressed there
than here, and altogether the times are
worse. Many Of the large industrial es-
adjustments are either closed or only in
partial operation at very reduced wages
Two butchers at Sunderland, England,
have been sent to prison for three months
at hard labor, for butchering a dog and
selling the flesh to their customers for
mutton, and as several large dogs have
been missing of late, it is thought this was
not their first offence.
As the animal system does not admit OF
two eXcitementS at the same time, most
morbid affections are relieved by new
excitements, and these abating, the dis
ease aLates, and is often cured. This is
called sympathy, and the stomach and
brain appear TO be the common centres
of it.
The latest effort of the Educationalists
in England is to found a Woman's Col
lege in Oxford, somewhat after the model
of Giston, in Cambridge. The religious
question has formed a difficulty. One
party desires that the college should have
nothing to do with religious instruction;
the other headed by the Warden of Keble
and other High Churchmen, wish to train
the young women in the direction of Rit-
ualism.
The Marquis d'Allcn, in France, has
been sentenced to six months imprison-
ment and fined 800 for illegal practices
in the elections at Vaucluse. a gang Of
fifteen men was organized. Twelve We're
told off to create a disturbance in the
polling booth, and pending row, the
three others, who had previously pre-
pared false bulletins, deposited the noces-
sary number in the urn, the sub-prefect
authorizing the fraud.
In 1855 there were 10000 more shoe
makers in Massachusetts, than there ars
to-day, and yet the value OF the product
of the various factories is S10,000,000
greater per annum to-day than it was then.
There are machines for sewing, siding,
lasting, heeling, pegging, butling, r1vet-
ing, crimping, edge-setting, eyelettlng,
Blacking and other minutiie OF the shoe
making business, and no less than seven
teen different inventions are now required
for any large boot and shoe factory.
Tie jol1ers who included piece of
stained brick among the geological spec
linens" which they placed upon the desk
of the professor as objects worthy of his
explanatory remarks received the follow
nc reward. Taking up one of the speci-
mems, he said: This is one of baryta
hom the Cheshire mines. This hold
ing up another, "is a piece of feldspar
from the Portland quarries. And this"
coming to the brick, sis piece Of im-
pUdence from some member of the class"
The value of potato is determined by
the quantity or proportion OF starch 1t
yields, but it is not always that the best
favored tuber contains the most of that
material. 1t is we'll known that light
land produces a better favored potato
than a clay soil, but the produce of the
latter may nevertheless be the most valu-
able as an article OF commerce, if the OBJ
ject be the production of starch. The
former, however, as an article OF food,
will command the best price at market.
The fashionable game in the Paris clubs
is baccaret which seems to exercise an
extraordinary fascination upon many
Frenchmen who have not hitherto shown
any propensity for gambling. Letter
writer's say that gambling has grown To
be mania in the French capital owing
partly TO the example set by a number of
young noblemen. The baccaret tables
are crowded nightly, and the game is often
kept up till 10 or II o'clock the following
morning.