The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-08-16
GLEAEINGS.

Nearly one hundred lady teachers in
state this summer.
There are about $4,000 Christian In
dams in the United States, and one
half of these are Baptists.
Chicago is spoken of as ''The Mush-
room City of the Lakes" vet it is about
to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
its incorporation as a city. How old
must city be to get by the mushroom
charge, prayP-Bufalo Express
Cucumbers, according to NJ. Deliee,
caterer of the New York Club, should
be peeled and put to soak in ice-salt
water at least an hour before served.
The salt extracts the poison and the ice
renders them brittle and easier to be-
digested.
A telegraphic cable to be laid between
Cadiz and the Canary Islands is now in
process of manufacture by an English
firm. The Spanish government has or
dered the work, which is expected to
be finished this Autumn. The length
of the cable is about one thousand
miles.
Fl. H. Cole. of Sandy Creek, Oswego
county, n. Y, has invented q flying
machine by means of which, he feels
sure, a man can fly as nicely as bird.
The wings are made of the lightest kind
of muslin, and are fastened to the body
near the hips, and extend ten feet each
way from the body.
A few years ago two of the bellies of
Newport were the twin daughters of
Maturin Livingstone, of New York.
One of them married an English lord.
The other is the wife of son of d. o.
Mills, the millionaire banker of New
York, and she has recently presented
him with pair of twins.
A little old lady of Davenport, Iowa,
Mrs. Mary Kenny, is 10 years of age.
and walks two miles to church once a
month. Her hearing and eyesight are
good, and her family expect her to live
many years longer. She is a native of
County Mayo, Ireland, and came to
this country forty years ago.
The Kaw Indians in the Indian Ter
ritory are disappearing with strange ra-
piditv. There were fully ten thousand
of them in 1870, and the tribe was not
ed for the physical power and warlike
disposition of the men, but since then
the smallpox and other malignant dis
eases have done the most deadly work.
1t is said that only about three hundred
now remain, and these are diseased and
likely soon to die.
The square pianoforte appears to be
doomed. In Germany and other Euro
mann trio ca1Jo,,, caar opI IN
America its place is being rapidly taken
by the upright, ''pianino," as the Ger
mans more POLITICALLY call it. One of the
leading piano firms in New York re-
Gently announced that it had eliminated
all styles of squares from its catalogue,
and would henceforth manufacture on
ly uprights and grands.
An exchange says: 'Give your wife
a vacation" There is no doubt that
she needs one as much as man.
While he can throw aside his work at
the expiration of office hours, her work
is never done. She lives in the midst
of it constantly. There being no sur
cease from cares and anxieties, it is no
wonder that she gets nervous, and would
fain fly to the uttermost parts of the
land and sea. When she feels in that
way, it is certainly time to give her a
vacation.
A Philadelphia bill-printer relates
this anecdote of Sothern: GA lady in
his company who played a very minor
part gave herself an extraordinary
amount of airs at rehearsal Sothern
came here and ordered a bill to be
printed with the lady's name starred
in large type, supported by the follow
ing ladies and gentlemen and then fol-
lowed the names of the company, end
ing up with Sothern's in the smallest
type of all. The bill was hung up in
the theater, and the young lady's pride
came down several pegs
A quack in Erie tells those who stop
at his stand on street corner that if a
person affected with incipient consump-
ton blows through a glass tube into
water It will at once turn milky, and
invites them to make the trial. As the
liquid which he offers is lime water, the
result follows, as matter of course.
He then adds a few drops of his medi-
cine, containing some acid, to the water,
when the cloudiness at once disappears.
This, he argues, is proof that the same
remedy will eradicate consumption
from the human system.
Ex-Mayor Daniel R. Clymer, of Read
ing, Pa, sends to the Times of that city
the following plan for putting up a
swing that will be safe: Near to each
end of joist hole is bored Run a
rope through each hole, and tie three
knots on top of said joist to secure it to
hold the swing seat. Then tie knot
in each rope three inches below the
joist; this done, tie a strong safety rope
under said knot; then lay this rope loose
ly over the top of the joist near the ends
OF the swing, so that when the rope
breaks at the greatest point of friction
and wear-right under the joist-
the safety-rope lying idle over the ioist
top will at once catch and rescue the
falling person from injury
According to the census mortuary re-
turns now in the hands of the printer,
more people die in New England of ex-
IRENE old age than in any other part of
the country. The death-lists contain
the names of hundreds of men and wo-
men every year who attain the advanc-
ed age of S5 and 80, and it is not unu-
sual for persons to live to and beyond
100 years in that land of good morals.
pure air and steady habits. There are
more deaths from malarial diseases in
mountain regions than along the river
and gulf lines, strange as it may seem.
The lowest rate of mortality for any
considerable stretch of country, where
there are people enough to make the
data of value, is in Minnesota, the rate
being only to the 1000 inhabitants.
A man will do almost anything I'M
der the influence of surprise, and often
after doing it he wants to kick himself
because he did so. A case in point was
furnished in Boston day or two ago.
Two young men were strolling down
Summer street in the direction of the
New York and New England depot,
when an individual with a large bag
came up behind and pushed his way be-
tween them. Having done so he drop
ped the bag, and with the remark,
Take this; am in a hurry to catch
the train started off as fast as his legs