The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-11-01
GLEANINGS.

| a gentleman Just RETURNED lTOIu LOu-
don says that Mirister Lowell is known
among Americans there as Yorkshire
Pudding
In the year 1872 the consumption of
copper in the United States was 34,-
100000 pounds, and since that time it
has steadily increased. Last year it
was 100000.
A party of Minnesota young women
have gone to the Argentine Republic to
teach school, and they write back that
their first impressions are pleasant.
The Argentines are yet to be heard
| from.
| If it is true that sparrows and swal-
| lows forsahe district when cholera is
about to make its advent, the fact
| should be generally known and thor
| oughly established on all creditable
| data.
/ There are eighty-three Catholic pre-
| lates in the country, divided as follows:
One Cardinal Archbishop, thirteen
Archbishops and one Archbishop in
part, sixty Bishops and one Vicar Apos-
| tolic and seven mitered Abbots
A statue to the inventor of the man.
ufacture OF soda is about to be erected
at Issoudun, his native place. When
this great chemist was alive the world
| refused him breakfast now that he is
dead, why, monument, of course.
The wheat farm of DIR. Glen, the larg-
est cultivated farm in the United States,
is to be broken up and sold, 200 acres
having already been advertised, while
the remaining $4,000 acres will be short
ly placed ON the market.
One of the hammers in a Pittsburg
mill strikes ninety-ton blows. On this
account it is known among the work
men as the ''step-mother. They are
putting up sleam whistle near it that
| will be heard eight miles and be called
the ''mother-in-law.
1t scarcely pays to whitewash fruit
trees; a better method is to every other
year at least scrape the trees and then
wash with soft soap and water. This
/, will dislodge insects, open the pores of
the trees, and give them a natural,
healthy appearance.
Austin, Tex, is now burning what is
called ''native coal, brought from the
Mexican border, near Laredo, and
which is sold for $3.50 per ton. One
ton of coal equals two cords of wood,
| for which the Austinites have to pay
from $40 to $1S per ton.
The Worcester, Mass, town records
| show that, in 1879, 6-year-old boy had
| his ear bitten off by horse, and the
Selectmen drew up certificate show
ing the manner of his injury and record
| ed it on the town books, so that the
| no oil fn ho
| boy when he grew up.
The ascent of Mont Blanc was &C
complished the other day by a young
| Irish lady of fifteen. Earlier in the
summer a Norwegian damsel named
| Guennessen performed the same feat,
| but she was year older than the maid
| of Erin, who can now boast that she is
| the youngest of her sex who has ever
reached the highest among European
! submits.
Ancient records disprove the popular
belief that green has always been the
national color of Ireland. Not to men,
ton other testimony, a drawing in the
British Museum which was made in the
| time of Elizabeth, or at least registered
| the colors as they existed in her reign,
shows the Irish flag as harp with
strings argent on an azure ground.
A remarkable old man died at Lud-
| lowville, Tompkins county, n. Y, re-
Gently. His name was Chester Childs,
and his age ninety-eight years. When
| he died he had full set of natural
teeth. He boosted that he had never
visited dentist, nor had he ever lost
tooth. His hair was thick upon his
head, and in person he was straight
| and good looking. He was born in
RoXbury, Mass, but most of his life was
| spent as merchant in New York City,
| though he had travelled considerably
and could speak several languages.
A young man from Texas married
! girl in North Carolina and then propos-
] ed to leave her while he worked his way
| back to his Texas home in the hope of
| there earning some money to send for
her. She said, however, that she pre-
| ferred to accompany him on foot. They
therefore made their Journey of one
| thousand miles as tramps, but their
| siderable help along the way, and for
the last fifty miles they rode triumph
| antly in carriage provided by an en-
thusiastic admirer of their pluck.
d. M. Taylor, of Indianapolis, has
| succeeded, after fifteen years constant
| effort, in producing bloom on the
| Damperil or Australia glory pea, a
great curiosity in the horticultural
kingdom. The flower is of striking
| beauty, the petals forming an outline of
the human face surmounted by hem
let. The leaves of the plant fold up at
| night like those of the sensitive plant.
1t grows in dry sand, the least moisture
applied to either leaves or root being
| fatal.
A curious fact about water is that it
| is the rust of the metal known as hydro
genium. When oxygen combines with
iron it forms reddish rust, and the
| metal becomes in time disintegrated.
In this condition it is said to be oxidiz-
ed. Now, water is simply oxidized hy-
drogenium. This metal is present in
the sun and all the planets in enormous
quantities. Indeed, it is said that the
human body is composed of five and
half pals of water, mingled with some
lime, iron and certain salts. Chemistry
has revealed to us many marvels, but
none greater than the composition of
common water.
The name of great man as the au-
thor of a book is no guaranty that he
wrote it after all. 1t now appears that
jeff Davis Rise and Fall of the Con-
federate States was his only in the
authorization and not in the construc-
ton, as the Appletons employed Judge
Tenney, of Newark, lately deceased, to
go south and put Jeff's material into
shape, and this, after three years of
useless labor had been put upon it by
an amanuenthis employed by the rebel
ex-president. He had prepared only
800 pages in that time, bat Judge Ten
ny took hold of it and in six months the
"Rise and Fall of the Confederate
States was done
Mr.. j. w. Donaldson has finished his
statue of Pere Marquette, for which he
received a commission a year ago from
Mr. Rala Hubbard Of nafro;t t. =,