The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-05-17
GLEHEINGS.


Of the delightful white wines of Paris.
Madam Patti wears number one
/ shoe and a five and one-ha,f glove.
There were $50, 900 worth of cabbages
exported from Wythe county, Virginia,
last winter.
i a Chinese lawyer has hung out his
shiDgle in Colusa county, Cal. He is
the pioneer John in the law line.
London tests show that from three 20
nine per cent. of the fuel in stoves is
/ lost in smoke.
Arkansas has doubled her population
/ in the last ten years, and is ranked as
the fourth cotton State in the Union.
The imitation alligator skin SO largely
used forlittle satchels, pocketbooks, etc.
is made of pigs skin.
1t is said that the Mormon emissaries
Il the South have never succeeded in
converting a negro to Mormonism.
In London bicyclists are called
''bikes, and tricylists are called
"trikes.''
General Diaz says one sentence in
English with ease and perfect pro-
nounciation-'I am happy to meet you. "
Oscar Wilde has failed-to attract at
tention in Paris, where he is trying to
exhibit himself and his sunfower
Colorado is one of the few States
that can boast to-day of freedom from
debt.
The sweet brier, which grows wild on
commons and roadsides-a hardy plant
makes an excellent and quick-growing
hedge plant.
A set of paper wheels under truck
of an engine of the Central Vermont
railroad have been in use two years, and
they are still apparently sound. 4,
Nordenskjold. the eminent Swedish
navigator, will leave in August with an
expedition for Greenland. He proposes
| to 90 into the interior and to make
| thorough exploration of the territory.
The new bridge across the 'Tay river
will cost $S,500,000, and, it is thought,
will take six years to build. Its center
| and longest span will be 245 feet in
! length.
Harry Hamilton bet twenty dollars
| that he could look at the head of a pin
for twenty minutes. At the expiration
of ten minutes he was nearly blind, and
he had to battle his eyes in warm water
and 60 to bed
Where the bark has been gnawed or
scraped off from tree the new bark
| may be made to grow again by covering
| the. denuded place with clay. 1t has
been made to grow in this way without
even leaving scar.
The $4,000 offer of the Harpers for
! L. LOT - -
has excited the rising artists of the coun-
try, and over one thousand applications
for copies of the poem have already
been received by the firm.
A new French Gun is twenty-nine feet
six inches long, weighs fifty tons, and
| cost 100000 1t is wire-bound, and is
expected to put ball through fifteen
inches of armor, heavier than any of
our monitors, at distance OF seven
and half miles.
It is said that the ostriches upon ar
irving at the corrals in Anahelm, Cal,
manifested their joy by indulging in the
most ludicrous antics. For over half
an hour they kept up an incessant waltz
around the corral, and in other ways
exhibited their delight at escaping from
their pent-up quarters in the car.
The official return gives the value OF
the tobacco consumed in France in 1882
at 363, 800, COO francs. Cigars show
total of 60,000,000 francs; cigarettes,
100000, and chewing tobacco 6,000,-
| 600. The heaviest amount, 2?8,0O0. 0OO
francs, was for ordinary smoking to-
bacco.
The cattle of the Pampas are COM
puted at 20,000,000. They are the de-
scendants of bull and eight cows
which were brought there by two Portu-
guese brothers in 1853. 1t is only near
Buenos Ayres that they have been cross
cd with finer stock. The old herds are
ill-shaped and ugly.
Wilkie Collins is fond of Scott,
Cooper and Reade, but not of George
Eliot, and he cares little for the new
American analytic novelists He
says that Longfellow was perhaps the
greatest writer of his age, and that
William Black and Bret Hare might do
much better than they are doing.
An old Spanish lady named Julia
Benites recently died in San Francisco
of osteomalicia, or moilities ossesum-a
disease in which the bones lose then
salts and become like so much gritty
gelatine, so that they may be bent into
any shape and even tied in knot.
The disease is rare, and results usually
from scrofulous faint.
Professor J. P. STEELE, agricultural
editor of the Mobile Register, thinks the
Southern States admirably adapted to
raising hogs, and that by the new re
frIunra ,,c,.l- hoe
at the South as well as anywhere else.
The long continued warm weather is
favorable to fattening and cheap pork,
since hogs cannot be kept up and warm
ed by stoves and wood fires in cold
weather, and it is expensive to warm
them by heat-producing food like corn
and peas. He thinks pork can be made
at less cost in the South than in the
North
In the House lobby, back of the
Speakers desk, says the Washington
Sunday Herald, is an incomplete collec-
ton of portraits of Speakers of the past
All are labeled with the correct names
except one. This is the second picture
on the right hand side of the lobby. as
you go from the west. No one appar-
entity knows who this represents beyond
the fact that he was once Speaker. The
Oldest citizen has vainly struggled to
identify him. Unknown, the face of the
man who once held the third office in
the United States gazes calmly down
upon the procession, passing him in a
maddening rush for political fame.
Detective John Norris, of Cincinnati,
was treated to a quick railroad ride re-
Gently during his trip East with the
noted criminal Lou Hank A writ of
habeas corpus had been put in the hands
OF the sheriff at Cheyenne. who expect
ed to serve it when Norris came through
with his prisoner on tire regular train.
Norris, however. got wind of the mat
ter, and secured an engine and special
car from the road, together with an en-
gineer and fireman. whose orders were
10 carry tho detac+iva and his ,,,.;co,a,