The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-10-24
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Francisco under the age OF IS.
General Fremonts salary as Governor
of Arizona is $4,000 per year.
The fortune of the Rothschilds is est
mated at $500,000000. 1t is nice.
Bertha Won HilIern cleared $1,000 out
of the walking business, and saved it.
An Omaha critic thinks "Grandfather's
Clock" lays over the "Larboard Watch"
The new Mormon temple in Salt Like
now being built Of granite, will cost
$5,000,000.
Genuine German silver is 4015 parts
copper, 3115 parts nickel, 2512 parts zinc,
! and 211a parts iron.
The directors of the Atchison railroad
expect to push the road as far as Santa Fe,
New Mexico, in 1879.
The light of lightning, and its rehec-
tons, will penetrate through distance OF
from $50 to 200 miles.
Precipitation cools the body, because it
takes up part of the heat, and, cvaporat
ing, carries it into the air.
A farmer named James Francis, near
Victoria, d. c., while telling a tree, was
struck by a branch and killed.
Ben Franklin was a plagiarist. 1t was
a hen that first set the example OF laying
up something for a rainy day.
A letter from London says England
will soon be receiving five thousand head
of cattle from this country weekly.
Brass bands are found to be effective in
frightening away Indians from the from
tier towns in Oregon and Nevada.
Flame Is quenched in air containing
three per cent of carbonic acid; the same
percentage is fatal to animal life.
\ heavy dew is regarded as the precur-
sOr of rain, because its formation indicates
that the air is saturated with moisture.
1t is estimated that 100000 will c
ADDED to the population of Minnesota ~
immigration during the present year.
You never read of breach of promise
suit in which the mother doesn't seem to
know much more about the case than the
girl.
Texas claims TO have 100000 inhab-
itants. and to be the third in population
nj the first in size in the States in the
Union.
"What's man yelling at?' asked an Hi
nois farmer of his boy. why, chuckled
the boy, shes yelling at the top of his
voice
Cement for hot-water pipes: Ram on 10
the tiange a few strands OF tarrcd rope,
and fill up with iron boring cement, and
ram in we'll
As many as 1000 salmon are often
taken at one haul OF the seine in Alaska,
some Of them weighing from 45 to 100
pounds each.
The San Bernardino Times says there 5
no market for honey III that town. The
finest white sage, in section boxes can
hardly be given away.
Schenectady is said to have SAB widows.
They are of the grass pattern undoubted-
Is, as the place has been going that way
for the last fifty years.
Neal BOWS latest utterance on the
liquor tra.Gc: "But for it there would be
no vagabonds, no tramps, no dangerous
classes in the country"
Gold is generally soldered by gold Of an
dercd with eighteen carat, sor eighteen
carat with sixteen carat
Peru has for the first time INDUCED in
a census, which gives the population as
2,G99,945, of whom l,365,045 are males;
100 men to IS women.
When water freezes, it forms itself into
crystals, with intersticcs, and expands;
hence ice swimS, and is eight parts in one
hundred lighter than water.
Living coral, which were not before
known to exist on our sea coast, have
lately been dredged up from thirty faith
oms of watcrotf Martha's Vineyard.
Mr.. W. w. Story is reported by Mr.
James jackson Jarves to have recently
sold five statues 10 a Polish nObleman at
the comfortable price of $1,000 each.
A woman was recently before the Roch.
ester police court, who had been arrested
one hundred and thirty-iye times. Her
trouble is her temper. Her husband likes
her.
An article introduced in the Constitui-
ton of Washington Territory limits the
amount OF land which may be acquired
or held hy any individual or corpora
ton.
\ good friction polish for iron or steel
rotating In the lathe, is made of fine emery
and olive, sperm, or neat's-foot oil. APP
ply by lead or wood grinders screwed to-
gether.
\ durable black paint for outside work
may be made by grinding powdered char
coal In linseed oil, with sufficient litharC6
as drier; thin for use with well boiled lin
seed oil.
Gigantic timber thefts have been dis
covered in Louisiana. 1t is alleged that
in one parish sixteen saw-mills are en-
ployed in saving timber taken from gov
eminent lands.
Kerosene oil applied with rag TO
stoves will keep them from rusting during
the Summer. 1t is also an excellent ma
,erial TO apply to all iron utensils used
about the farm.
When the bridegroom finds all the
clothes he owns in the world hung over
the other on a hook behind the pantry
door, he realizes for the first time that the
honeymoon is over.
Brass is tempered or hardened by roll
ing or hammering; hence, if any object Is
to be made of tempered brass, the hard
ening must be done before working it into
the required shape.
Wood will be found to bend much bet
ter if the piece TO be bent is wrapped in
flannel or any woollen goods, and then
steamed in the steam box. Almost any
wood can be thus bent.