The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-06-07
GLEANINGs.

A New Yorker writes that Denver is
far more cosmopolitan than Chicago
Servant girls in Helena. Montana and
Portland, Oregon, get $50 a month.
San Francisco has a worse record for
divorces than Chicago or St. Louis.
A Dresden artist has made watch
entirely of paper, which keeps good
time.
Deer hunting is favorite sport Of
some of the young ladies ofCenterville,
Tenn.
The ground upon which Cincinnati
stands was purchased byJ. c. Symmes,
bout ninety years ago, for 81 cents per
acre.
There are said to be 1900 convicts
in the Texas penitentiary. Of this
number three-tifths are negroes and
Mexicans.
The chemist of the Agricultural De-
soil best adapted for the growth of
sorghum for sugar appears to be sandy
loan.
Miss Belle Cushman Eaton, of Boston,
only II years of age, grand-niece of the
late Charlotte Cushman, has entered The
field as public reader, and is said to
be success.
Tall, slim men, with spider legs,
should wear close but not tight-ftting
garments. Fat men look best in tight
pantaloons; swells wear stripes, gam
blers plaids.
1t is stated that Nine. Patti will sing
in opera in this country next season,
under the management of Colonel
Mapleson, at a salary of $4,000 per
night.
Fifty thousand bushels of corn are
used daily in the manufacture of glucose
in the United States. 1t is chiefly used
to adulterate sugar, syrup, candies and
beer.
An authority says there are $780,
600. 900 invested in the s. 900, 900 miles of
fences in the United States, and that
they have to be renewed on an average
once in fifteen years.
Complaint is made at Sierra Leone,
Africa, that tobacco imported from the
United States is dishonesty packed and
that large proportion of the importa-
ton is not according to sample.
The late Marshall Jewell, of Con-
necticut. is to be honored by the peo-
pie of Denver, Col, who have decided
to name new park on the outskirts
of that city .'the Marshall Jewell
Park"
From the Duchy of Cornwall, last
year, the Prince ofWales received sum
of f63,S70, the total receipts of the
Duchy having been f1O5, 052, of which
f10,530 were balance from the previ-
GUS year.
Krupp's works, at Essen, Germany,
now employ 439 steam boilers and 456
steam engines, with the aggregate of 1S.
500-horse power There are SO steam
hammers carrying weights ranging
from 200 pounds to so tons.
A lady in Providence has, among her
elegant articles of bric-a-brac in her par
lor, large carved wooden spoon with
wooden chain attached, hung by the side
of the fireplace. This unique ornament
is over 200 years old.
Servant-girls in Helena, Montana, T.,
and Portland, Oregon, get $4,000 a
month. They might get it in this State
if they could be persuaded to do suf-
fcient work to earn it.-RocheSter Dem
Ocrdt.
William Knight, who died in Loreina,
Ala, recently, was 100 years old, and
had served through the war of 1912. He
leaves l65 children and grandchildren.
Besides these great many are dead,
some dying from old age.
Simmons, of Manson, Ia, dug a els
tern for his neighbor, Moody. On set
Element there was difference of Sc. The
suit following has been tried five times
in several counties and has accumulated
over $1,000 costs.
A writer in one of the medical jour-
nails says he has found the application
of a strong solution of chronic acid, or
hair pencil, to be the best and easiest
method for removing warts.
In Lyons, France, the cold-bath meth
cd treating typhoid fever has been
adopted with marked success. In the
civil hospitals the death rate was reduced
from 26 to per cent, and in private
practice to l or 2 per cent.
To remove fixed glass shoppers, tap
and then unscrew with this sort Of a
wrench made of piece of strong wood:
Have the wood 3.5 inches long and inch
in breadth and depth, with piece NOR
tised out large enough to admit the fiat
part of the glass stopper.
Competition between the two gas
companies of Baltimore has brought
the price Of gas down to 81 per thou
sand, and it is believed by some that
they will be offering it before long at
% cents, throwing in beautiful chro-
no."
Rattlesnake skins are much used in
Florida for ladies' belts and slippers are
also made of the same material, the rat
ties serving as ornaments thereupon,
instead of bows or tassels. Northern
visitors come home bearing numbers of
these trophies OF their sojourn.
Bismarck, lit is said, was much affect
ed by the news of Prince Gortschakoff' s
death. "Beaconsfeld and Gortscha-
koff," he remarked to those around him
-'the only men whom could becom-
ingly recognize as antagonists-ooth
disappeared! Friends, my turn is COM
ing"
The cut of lumber this season in the
| pineries of Minnesota and Wisconsin has
largely exceeded that of any previous
year. The extra quantity of lumber is
probably no greater than is warranted
by the increased demand, but the in
crease only tends more rapidly to the IL
nal destruction of the pine.
The Governor of Texas has signed the
Land bill. 1t fixes the minimum price
| of public lands at 50 for common with
transient water, and s. per acre with
| permanent water; mineral lands to be
leased. A special commission is provid-
ed for transacting the land business con-
nected with the sale of school, univers.
ity and asylum lands.
Mai. Low, of Brooklyn, advocates the
Swedish system governing the sales Of