The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-09-27
GLEANIMGS

Blue birds should be protected. They
are insect-feeders.
The Princess of Wales has reused the
Indignation of the English milliners by
the extreme plainness of her hats.
The New Orleans Times Democrat as
serts that of 100 Swedes that went to
Quincy Fla, in 1874 every one has
died.
To enact laws and not enforce them
is the surest of all methods for bringing
law into contempt, and training up a
generation of law breakers. Church
man.
Those women in New York who are
given to smoking cigarettes are usually
Inhabitants of boarding houses. They
have nothing to do but while away their
idle hours smoking.
The Boston Globe says a man worth
$3.50, 900 died in Lowell not long ago.
An inventory made of his estate con-
tanned these items: Household furni-
ture, 5000; two horses, $75; carriage,
S25.
The Mexican fnancier states that a
vein of ore has been struck in San Au-
gustin mine, at Catorce, San Luis Po-
tosi, which yields about $4,000 ton.
The mine has long been distinguished
for the great treasure it has produced.
Nearly every engineer on the New
York and New England Railroad has a
sweetheart or wife in New Britain,
Conn Every train would whistle a sa-
lutte to some fair dame, and the din
grew SO fearfully ear-splitting that the
authorities have had it stopped.
The Chinamenin New York are indig-
nant at the charge that they eat rats.
The editor of the Chinese american
offers reward of $500 to anyone who
will prove that a Celestial has eaten a
rat or cat. Here is chance for those
Chino-phobists who used to howl them
selves hoarse at the almond-eyed leper.
There is scarcely an instance of any
large business failure which is not the
result of some sort of speculation in
other matters. The lesson taught is,
stick to your legitimate business; you
may not get rich at it in day or a
month, but you will be better off in the
end. Utica Herald.
Health, SO far as mere sun-tanning is
concerned, is only skin-deep. For that
matter, person engaged for any length
of time in a close room, in near proxim-
ity to strong electric light, will soon
become as darby tanned as by exposure
to the rays of the sun. 1t is said linen
may be bleached by electricity.
A train boy may be happy. The pea
nut crop of Virginia is set down this
year at 2, 100000 bushels, and Virginia
is a generous state. There is nothing
about it of the man "who hath peanuts
and giveth his neighbor none" Ten
nessee expects to raise $50, 900 bushels,
and North Carolina $4,000. Peanut
pastry is coming into fashion down
South, the pastry being made of pea
nuts ground up.
An Indianapolis man makes flavor
that turns bad scent cigar into 10
center that can be smelled mile. His
recipe is as follows: Gumguaiac, gum
tolu, tonqua beans and essence of pine
apple, of each one ounce; valerian root,
two ounces; laudanum (tincture of
OPIUM, one ounce; oil of rose, six
drops; Jamaica rum, half pint; mac
crate for thirty-six hours and pour of,
using one ounce to pint of port wine
to blow on the filters.
Sir Henry Thompson, the London sur
geon, recognizes in fish combination
of all the elements of food that the hui
man body requires in almost every
phase of life, more especially by those
who follow sedentary employment. To
women he considers fish to be an inval-
al W.T. al Df hut Io
complete fallacy the notion that fish
eating increases the brain power. 1.-The
only action fish had on the brain was to
put mans body in proper relations
with the work he had to do.'
There is free railroad in Oakland,
Cal. That city is across the bay from
San Francisco, with population of 49,
600. The Central Pacific Company
needed a way directly through it, and
the principal street afforded the best
route; but the people were reluctant to
have the thoroughfare spoiled, and only
consented with the provision that no
fares should be collected for rides with
in the corporate limits. There are sew
eral stations on this peculiar section of
the line, and the residents use the
trains freely.
1t is reported that firm in Paris has
patented an invention for the instanta-
neous formation of steam, 50 that it can
be used at once in the cylinder of the
engine. A pump sends the required
quantity of water between two plate
surfaces, which are heated, and between
which there is only capillary space.
The liquid, spreading into thin LAYER,
evaporates instantly without going into
the so-called spheroidal state, and the
steam acts in the cylinder as fresh form
ed steam. The speed of the pump is
regulated by the engine.
Miss Alice Senseny, of Bloomington,
I'LL, has pet of very queer kind.
The Bulletin says: 1t is young coon,
very little coon, a four-legged, ring
tailed coon that we mean. The young
miss, with her young coon. with blue
ribbon around his neck, was down street
yesterday. The little fellow, not big
ger than a good-sized kitten, padded
along the street at the side of his mis-
tress just as a kindly disposed poodle
would, cutting up prtnks that were
quite amusing to all of the many pass
ers. Miss Alice, who is quite a comely
little lady, and her little coon, were the
observed of all observers.
They said it was curious circum-
stance that two men from New York,
two from Boston and two from Phila-
delphia. should all meet at the same
hotel in Colorado. In fact. the six sat
in row on the veranda, all smoking,
when 4 native came up and said:
Gentlemen, [ have discovered q
new silver mine which beats anything
in this country. There are thousands
of tons of ore in sight, and the assayer
says it's 80 per cent. pure quill. / want
to get my dying wife out of this climate,
and I'll sell the mine to any of you for
$1,000"
Then the other curious thing hap
pened. Not one of the six men replied
by word. Not one of them even
looked up. Not one of them seemed
to care a continental whether his old
ore assayed 10 or 95 per cent
They had all "been thereby Wall
Street Ne,re