The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-11-14
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TO fifteen different countries.
The United States exported pork last
year to the value of $110,000,000.
It is found that the sale of American
beef in Paris will ruin the trade in horse
flesh.
The majority of Auburn, Maine, flcto-
RES started up for the fall with full
crews.
The land on which the New Orleans
mint is built has been decided to the gov
ernment.
a three-headed chicken, AJersey hen
is accused of doing it with her little
Ratchet.
A single firm OF Sheffield, Eng, has
this year ordered $4,000 dozen of Ameri-
can hay-rakers.
Pennsylvania supplies one,ffth of the
rye produced in this country, or 3,517, Gal
bushels out Of 16,918.795.
Japan has made trade dollar of 400
grains, 80 fine, legal tender, thus estab
fishing double standard.
Germany's last big gun, for her navy,
has a range Of nine miles, and the ball IS
as heavy as it is far-reaching.
4 Polish scientist claims to have dis
covered a method of successfully taking
clay casts Of the whole human body.
The head of Boston man is wider than
it IS long. lie wears silk hat with one
zeal.
The Marquis of Lorne, who married the
Queens daughter, is the successor of
Lord Dutferin, as Governor-General OF
Canada.
The city officials of Prague forbid the
wearing of long dresses in tie streets, as
the dust they raise is injurious to the pub
lie health.
Under the vagrant act, Springfield,
Mass, presents her visiting tramps with
the freedom Of confinement in the Jail for
sixty days.
The dried beach crop of Georgia this
year Is estimated to be worth S1,500,000
and not one family in fifty dries peaches
Tor market.
A moderate amount of fat is generally
considered an evidence Of good health.
At least it is so regarded by the majority
otcomposltors.
The Permanent international Exhibi-
ton at Philadelphia IS open on Sundays,
with extra attractions in the shape OF ''sa-
cred concerts"
Gold in quite perceptible quantities has
been discovered at South Royalton, VT,
in a vein Of black sand taken from the
bank of the river.
| Among the mechanical toys at TIT
Paris Exposition, were dolls that swim
dive and tread water, after the most APP
proved human style.
1t is seriously proposed in the British
Parliament to let Queen Victoria provide
ior her children herself, instead o. appeal
ing u lio nation to do it.
An egg weighing ~ ounces consists Of
1870 grains of carbon and 1734 grams Of
nitrogen, or 1926 per cent of carbon and
two per cent Of nitrogen.
| Chicago revenue officers are beginning
TO complain of thcirinabiity TO tell by the
aroma whether house contains an illicit
sill Or sleeping Alderman.
Most of the MoTmons are said to prac-
tice mOnogamy, though believing in po-
| lygamy. The institution IS said to be
hoarishing steadily in Utah.
The exports OF live beef from Boston to
Europe are increasing at rapid rate, and
| wo&.t-e IN a short time to expand into a
| large and permanent business.
4 Minnesota father who has five grown
/ Il Ior ~. n
claims that his residence has been used
as court house for the past two years.
In the United States 100000 bushels
of grain are manufactured into liquors
England uses 6OO0O,O00 bushels for the
same purpose. Awful to contemplate.
'.Fine nainsook, embroi3erod, makes
.ovely little slips for Children says d
lashion-wrijer. Orange-peel on q side
walk continues to be good enough FOL
men.
Rev. Albert Barnes, the Bible common
tator is to have a fine stained-gass Win
dow erected to his memory in the Walnut
Street Presbyterian church Of Philadel-
phia.
| A Philadelphia belle is said TO have
been asked in marriage hundred times,
marrying the hundTedth man. The rest
go aroGnd EIpying; am one Of the Nine
tyand-nine.
Statistics show that the number of idi-
OTIS are increasing; and yet some newspa-
pers continue to make war on quack doe
tors. What's a quack doctor for but to
kill OFF foolsi
A very dangerous hundred dollar coun-
tcrfeit note on the Pittstieid Mass Ma
| tional Bank is in circulation, compelling
the withdrawal OF the banks entire issue
Of tie denomination.
The average chemical composition of
the flesh OF poultry, when tit for the mar
lcet, in 100 parts is Il parts water, u
parts heterogeneous or flesh forming, SO
! parts fat and 1.2 of salt.
The thTee-cent piece nuisance is now IN
e fair way to be abatcd, postmasters hav-
! ing been ordered to send ali money OF
| that description 10 Washington, in order
| that lis circulation may be stopped.
sW.at sort of minister has you got,
! Georgie2" ooh. well, he's so muckle
! worth we seldom get a CLINT o him. Six
| DAYS o the week he's enveesible. and on
the seventh he's encoomprehensibie,"
Fifteen millions Of dollars have been
| expended on the Canadian Pacific Rail-
/ road, and all there is to show for it IS
/ about one hundred miles OF completed
track, and many cords of maps ofsurveys.
Edison's photograph can whistle, sing,
| howl, and jaw, but it can't throw stone
I st a yowling cat on the back fence, or
kick chrome agent off the front stoop.
| There is still lots Of room for improve
| ment.
The sleepers and ties of the Metropoli-
| tan Elevated Railway have been insulated
/ from each other and from the iron struc-
ture by felt, and in some cases by lead.
Il has decidedly d adening effect on the
1 sound.
CUnundrum by Arohimedos johnson,
slys the Syracuse Sunday Times: "H'hy
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