The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-08-11

1ue proportion OF men 10 WOin-
en- who commit suicide is as four
to one.
Nearly all OF the $4,000 inhabi-
tants of the town of Alcoy, Spain,
earn their livelihood by making pap
er for cigarettes.
When an arm of q sea encircles
a neck of land and the swells be-
gin to hug the shore, then lookout
for the fishing smacks.-Bafalo
Aduertiser.
A captain of a vessel in Florida
waters recently saw school of
whales two miles long. He esti-
mated that they were 700 fish, and
that could all have been taken the
oil would have been worth $1,000,
900.
When a Cairo man was sunstruck
the other day no water could be
found to dash over him, and as
whiskey cost too much they used
pailful of vinegar, and when the
man revived they made him pay
fortyfve cents for the liquid.
The surface of our bodies is COW
cred with scales like a fish; a sin
gle grain Of sand would cover $50
Of these scales, and yet a scale COW
ers 500 pores. Through these mar
rowo penings the perspiration forces
itself like water through sieve.
Forty THOUSAND wax candles are
instantaneously lighted by a single
match in the Palace Royal, Berlin.
The wicks are previously connect
&c with thread spun from gun
cotton, on igniting one end of (which
all the candles in the 700 apart
ments are lighted simultaneously.
In the swimming schools of Ber-
lin experiments have been made
with a new style Of life preseryer.
1t is a sort of cloak of silk, with
three India rubber bags or pockets
on each side and one at the back.
On touching the water a chemical
compound in the pockets turns in
to a kind of gas, which will sup
polt a man and keep him afoat for
two days.
Some wag in Chicago mailed let
tiers to a score of business men, tel
ling them to lookout for man who
would visit their houses that even
ing to see their wives, and twenty
business men surprised their wives
by coming home two hours ahead
Of time. They all begged pardon
for the intrusion and promised new
er to do so again. The apology
was accepted and placed on file.
A CALIFORNIA woman in fair cir
cumstances sold her ffteen-year-old
daughter to a rich old rancher. The
girl managed to tell her woes to a
newsboy Of twenty-three whose train
passed near the rancho, and he in
his valor married her in order to
rescue her from her mother and the
rich old rancher. And yeti is said
that California romance is playing
out.
An exhibition of a singular char
acter is to be held in Berlin next
year. 1t is to an illustration of
heraldry in all its phases, and the
emperor is to be its patron. In the
display of helmets, weapons, seals,
letters and patents of nobility, ban
ners, gold and silver work and gems,
many curious valuable historical
and artistic relics will doubtless be
included. The London Echo cy-
nically observes.
Philadelphia tobacco dealers are
alarmed at the influx into their mark
ct of Lancaster-made cigars that are
sold at $40 a thousand, including
the government tax of Sc a thous-
and. This is at the rate of five CT
CARS for two cents. 1t is said that
they are really made of tobacco, and
a dealer admits that they are as
good as the cigar he retails for three
cents apiece. The tobacco is grown
in Lancaster, and is said to be as
good as some of the. Connecticut
leaf.
FyTFP,IrN AT1>VC, CIIJNCtI pr-cc-
believe | have found an extermin-
ator Of those pests, the chinch bugs.
Land which | MANFRED last fall
with clover fed droppings and SOW
ed to spring wheat, | observe has
not been injured by the bugs, and
| conclude it is the clover, as other
land not so manured is full Of them.
Please publish this SO that farmers
can experiment and report. A plan
SO easy as this, if true, will be god
send to this bug pestered country.
Harvey Luce, McGregor, Iowa.
In the body Of an antelope which
was killed in California recently
was found a knife that had evident
ly been plunged into the animal
years ago. 1t extended on the left
side of the neck, just before the
shoulder, passing about half an
inch from the heart, the point stick
ing into rib holding it in place.
1t was entirely covered by the skin.
The wood part Of the handle fell
in pieces, as the knife was being
taken ont, showing that it had been
confined for some time.
Among the papers purchased in
England by W. w. Corcoran and
presented to the Virginia Histor-
ical Society are sixty letters from