The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-08-10
GLEANINGS.

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bakers of London.
West Virginia produces nearly one
fourth of all the nails used in the United
States.
Judge Clayton, Of Eufaula, Ala, has
decided that dealing in cotton futures is
gambling.
Twelve million bushels of corn were
last year made into glucose in the
United States alone. Brewers were the
largest consumers.
The more sociable and less dangerous
tricycle. is fast gaining in popularity
among Britons upon the more rapid BIZ
cycle.
1t is reported that a slate quarry
equal to any in the United States has
been discovered on the Arkansas river
forty miles above Little Rock.
The Philadelphia Record has moved
into its new building, which is said to
be the handsomest and best arranged
newspaper office on the continent.
The great seal of Great Britain and
Ireland is affixed to yellow wax for En-
glish documents, red for Scotch, and
green for Irish.
According to writer in the Revue
DIES Deur Mondes, the United States,
judging from its previous advance in
population, should have, in 1882, pop
ulation of nearly 200, 0OO,0 900.
Florida butterfly hunters get an av-
erage of cents piece for their cap
lures. Some rare specimens bring much
more, and one kind, that is very scarce,
brings $40 pair.
Cornell students are protesting against
the admission of ladies. They spoil the
fun for the boys, who are compelled to
behave like gentlemen-a thing they
are not accustomed to.
Mr. Adam Hefner, of Lenoir, S. c.,
has the honor of being the Oldest man
on this continent. He is lie years old,
as authenticated by the family records,
and his mind is still bright.
Pineapples grow to an enormous size
| in Key Largo. One recently exhibited
| at Key West from that place measured
a foot in length and twenty-three inches
in circumference. 1t weighed eight
pounds.
The Boston Post says there have been
| more lynching bees in the United States
this year than in any for the past Jour
teen years. Folks have come to the con-
| clusion that it's cheaper to lynch OBJ
| noxious persons than to. send them to
the Legislature.
Two young rascals, true types of
American boys, were arrested in a Phil
adelphia park for boisterous and troub-
lesome conduct. Being locked up in an
underground cell, they amused them
selves by catching rats and tying them
to empty cigar boxes that happened to
| be within reach. When their respeo-
tive paternals arrived they found their
wild sons engaged in the exciting and
| novel experience of betting their loose
change upon rat race. They were en-
ioying the situation amazingly.
Two sons of Garibaldi's daughter
Theresita, wife of General Canzio, are
named Abraham Lincoln and John
Brown. The family will leave Caprera
| shortly to reside on the mainland.
The Green River (Ky) Courier takes
| the calico off the shrub in the matter OF
snake stories. 1t tells of reptile that
| swallowed rabbit and then tried to
crawl through rail fence. but stuck.
While in this position it swallowed
bunny numbers two and three, and un.
able to get either backward or forward,
hung on the rail until it died.
AT Little Rock, Ark, Paul Earl and
Jim Young were testing the strength OF
their arms by locking fingers, placing
elbows on the table, and waiting to see
whose arm would bend and give way
| first. In one of the efforts Earl had his
arm broken about two inches above the
| elbow
There has been presented to the Ten.
nessee Historical society a piece of an
oak tree, dug up from the bottom of the
Upper island, Cumberland river, near
Nashville, twenty-five feet below the
surface, or an extreme low-water mark.
1t is supposed that the tree has been
there from period reaching back be.
fore the island was formed-say thou
sand years ago, or such q matter.
At Whitestone, L. l.. father has
| just been sentenced to the Penitentiary
for six months for theft; his stepson dit
to; his wife to Jail for fifty -nine days for
| receiving stolen goods; and her daugh-
ter-in-law for the same length of time
for breaking the peace. Depravity in
this case does not seem to run in the
blood, but apparently was infectious.
The :.year without a Summer" was
1916. Cattle were killed by freezing
weather in June that year in the New
| England aad Middle States. In Maine
and Vermont the snow was ten inches
deep. July was Wintry and icy. Au-
gust was the same, but in September it
was little warmer, and then came bit
ter cold weather until the end of the
yesr. The next year was fine pro-
du ,tive season.
The longest term of service of any
bank President in Boston is that of Mr.
| James w. Converse, who has served as
| President of the Mechanics Bank since
| August Is, 1886, when the bank was or
| ganized. Alvan Simonds, the Cashier
| has also served like term. This bank
! for the forty-six years of its existence,
has never made change in the Office
| of President or Cashier.
When President Arthur was school
teacher he did not punish the big bad
boys by seating them with the girls; he
| placed them on the lowest bench in the
| primary department and made them re-
! cite the alphabet with the little children.
BY this simple method he permanently
reformed one very bad school in exact
| ly two hours by the watch.
| George Dawson, who is always going
fishing, complains in the Albany Jour
nal of the increasing scarcity of his grace
| the salmon, in the Dominion rivers during
the past two or three years: The scar
| city is attributed to the unusual run of
sharks and PROPOSES near the mouth of
F.! the rivers, and the opinion is based on
40 fact that large numbers OF the
~ - heen found SCARED, as
netted fish ha,o
if recently bitten.
There is still one adventurous Arctic
explorer unaccoInted for. His name is
Leigh Smith, and he is an Enghshman.
He left England just one year ago in
his fragile yacht, Ezra, to run up and
take peep at the North pole, and has
not been automatically heard from since.
He expected to return last November.