The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-05-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

In China 100 cancelled postage stamps
will buy baby.
Canadian shipbuilders are buying Ore
gon spars in Boston.
India-rubber carriage-tires are getting
frequent in London.
Six thousand acres will be planted in
sugar cane in Minnesota this spring.
The new game law of Iowa prevents
the shipment Of game out Of the state.
| The total amount of fractional currency
| (all issues outstanding is SIG, $50, 115. 60.
Tilden's friends assert that the late
Presidential campaign cost him $780,
600.
The total coal production of the United
States for the past year was $4,000, coo
gross tons.
DIR. J. ". Oates, of Dallas, writes to
the people, advising them to stay away
from Texas.
There is said to be very largo falling
off in the sugar and rice crops of Louis
lana this year.
The artificial ice sold in the south is
delivered in beautiful cubes of exactly
100 pounds each.
| Upper Alton has forty acre asparagus
plantation from which twenty-five boxes
of asparagus are shipped daily.
The expectation of forest-tree seed is
assuming dimensions in this country
California sends $4,000 per year.
The iron product of the Lake Superior
district during 1877 amounted to 1,020,-
$50 tons, valued at nearlyS4, 100000.
Hon. Coles Bashford, ex-governor of
Wisconsin, died in Prescott, Arizona,
Thursday, the 10Th, of heart disease.
The hotel accommodations for the
Shah of Persia and his retinue, while
travelling i'll Europe, must include thirty
five rooms.
The revisers will be through their work
by May 18th, and the extra session of
the legislature will be be called about
June LIST.
Ninety-fve million two hundred fifty
thousand dollars, was the product of the
gold and silver mines in the United
States for 1877.
The official register shows that the
Federal office holders commissioned by
the United States Government, number
eighty-fye thousand eight hundred and
eighty.
Count Andrassy, it is said, is as pop
ular in Vienna for his grace as a dancer,
and for his drawing room conversation,
as for his acknowledged diplomatic acu-
men.
A Scotchman has proposed that every
body who drinks alcoholic liquors should
be compelled to take out license. This,
at S. head, year, would raise very
pretty revenue.
A natural curiosity has appeared at
Paxton, ILL.,, in the shape of pig with
two Threats, four ears, two distinct bodies
joined at the breast, and eight legs, two
of which are on the animals back.
The superintendent of factory in Can
ada which manufactures paper from wood
says that the process is now so much i'm
proved that the paper can be made ready
| for use In six hours from the cutting of
the tree.
The Treasury Department at Washing
ton is in receipt of information that the
Canadian Government has decided to
exact duty of III per cent. ad valorem
upon all importations of United States
silver coin shipped into that country.
A Baptist missionary writes to Shan
ghai paper that he saw men carrying in
baskets little girls and years old to be
sold for food. He says they boil and
eat these children, so severe is the famine.
The distress extends over regions of
China inhabited by about $1,000, 900 of
people.
The Canadian double-headed baby has
received a visit from Barnum's agent
with an offer of S25, 900 to secure it five
years for exhibition. The child lives
with its parents in st. Scholastique, and
has reached the age of five months in
good health.
Fannie Mcguire, young white girl,
eloped forom Houston, Texas, with We'll
ker Denning, negro employed by her
father. After marriage ceremony they
went to live in hut in the negro quarter
of the city. The girls conduct was
amazing, because she was educated, pretty
and had stood well in society. Denning
was arrested on the handy charge of
carrying concealed weapons, and, while
in jail, was shot to death by mob.
The Scientific american states that
the telephone has found valuable appli-
cation as a means of communication with
submarine divers. Signals have hitherto
been transmitted by simple pulls on a
line, but recently in England the instru-
ment has been connected with divers
helmets. 1t recently was the means of
saving the life of diver who, just before
fainting, called to be pulled up, without
making the additional signal with the
rope.
The jewels that the ex-Queen of Spain,
Isabella IL, is about to sell at auction
are worth much more than was at first
reported, their value being estimated at
between 100000 and 5000, 900 francs,
or $780, 900. There is one set of emer
aids which is worth third of the sum.
Two crowns are in the collection, but
they will De broken up, and the Jewels