The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-06-29

nave manufactured ARTIFICIAL motner-O1-
pearl which cannot be distinguished
from the genuine. 1t is not stated
what name he will give to the new az
Observation-Disclosures of pearl, perhaps.
A bride, who was married at her IA
theirs farmhouse in Hartford county,
Md, last week, wore wild flowers at
the throat and in the hair. The parlor
where the ceremony was performed was
decorated with wild flowers only-ar-
butus, violets, dogtooth violets, and
spring beauties.
AT Russian Jewish colony in Louisi-
ana the other day were noticed yoke
of oxen hitched to plow, a Russian
leading each OK, one at each plow-han-
die, and one with whip driving, max
ing five men to each team. They don't
seem to understand farming intuitively.
One hundred and forty-eight thous-
and four hundred and eighty-one Ger
mans came over here during the nine
months preceding the LIST of April,
against l02, O93 during the same period
Of the year previous. A large proper
ton of them have gone directly to the
northwest.
SHIlSlldu Z. ScHdlcI, I'LL tCCcDtIlC
German traveller, has Just died in Aus
tralia The largest portions of his jour
neys were performed on foot, and he
boosted that he had walked nearly 150,-
600 miles. Travelling without money,
he relied for assistance upon charitable
persons he met On the way. He fire.
Quently maintained a merry tramp on
bread and water, but Free-masons, Odd
Fellows and members of other friendly
societies lent him aid generally, and
railway and steamboat companies often
gave him free pass to help him along.
A grain of coffee, like Il snow flake
or a grasshopper, counts for little in the
worlds affairs when considered singly.
But many snowhakes blockade the best
organized railways, and many grass
hoppers lay whole country under trib-
ute So many coffee berries have q
power.of their own. The Pacific mail
steamship Salvador, loaded with coffee,
iaak in Costa Rica port last
sprang 80 hold sWelled,
week. The coffee III a. '---
forced up the deck, broke stancnions,
beams, braces and knees, and efiectual-
ly completed the wreck of the ship.
The first use we hear that was made
of cotton was for candlewicks in 1900.
Now it is stated that houses can be built
of cotton and straw, which, under
chemical treatment, are converted into
paste, compressed into Stats, and be-
come hard and firm as stone. The ma
terial neither warps nor cracks, and is
both fire and damp proof. Refuse cot
ton and the sweepings of factories are
used The inventor, q Canadian, is in
Producing it in the dominion, and it may
not be many years ere a ''cotton house,
will be no novelty in New York.
The highest railroad bridge in the
world is now being built across Kinzua
creek, Mexican county, Pa, four miles
from the town of Altoona. on a railroad
which is to connect Buffalo, N. Y, and
Pittsburgh, Pa. The bridge is at an al
titude of 2,100 feet above the sea level,
and spans chasm 2,051 feet from the
abutment, and is 301 feet from the bot
tom of the creek to the bottom of the
rail. 1t is As feet higher than any 9TH
er bridge in America, and is 60 feet
higher than the suspension bridge at
Niagara Falls. Four million pounds of
iron viii be consumed in its construc-
ton, and 1000 yards of masonry will be
required. 1t is to be completed next
August.
A young French geographer named
Gorloff recently made an interesting re-
port of his explorations in the Sahara. His
only companions were two Arabs. He
described the sittiag-room of the Town
Council of MetliI as a subterranean
gallery, ornamented with pillars, run
ming around a deep well. By that con-
trivance the Council was kept cool even
in hot days. The men of the Touareg
tribe were not allowed to have more
than one wife each, and she possessed
the greatest influence, not only in do
mestic but in political affairs. The
Touareg women were far more highly
educated than the men. They read and
write well. they possessed some musical
talent, and their poems were celebrated
IN the desert.