The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-07-24
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foot mining operator of means.
Japan has a fishing population, of
| l, col, 400. At their last national fish
ing exhibition the Japanese showed
| 8, 967 articles connected with fishing,
| and GAIA kinds of goods made from
fish and aquatic plants.
Charles Reade directed that none of
| his personal effects be sold at public
| auction, as he considered that though
| common, a brutal and heartless prac-
| tice" Mr.. Reade had evidently bought
| something at an auction sale, with the
| usual result.
A gullible youth who mailed dollar
| to lottery concern, recently received
| it in a letter from the Dead Letter
| Office, on which was Endorsed in Post
| master General Gresham's handwrit-
ing. Young man, the advice of
| Postoffice is, if you earn your money
keep it
Frank Hilman, who invented the
| polka, has just died at Prague at the
age of so. About forty years ago he
| was struck by the musical rhythm and
| dainty motion of a Bohemian country
dance. and he forthwith composed the
! first polka that ever appeared in print,
| borrowing not only the tune but the
step.
Representative Hewitt occupies sew
| eral sleeping-rooms in his Washington
hotel. When he is feeling we'll he
| sleeps downstairs, but when he is
| troubled with insomnia-and he often
is-he sleeps in a room just under the
roof He has carefully and conscien-
tiously purchased and killed every cat
in the neighborhood, in order that he
may have none of their music vexing
his soul.
1t is said that only one small herd of
buffaloes remains in Texas. This has
been feeding on the Pecos river, in the
Staked Plains region, but band of
hunters is lowering about this contin-
ually, killing the animals as fast as the
meat can be cared for, and its days are
numbered. This is the remnant of
| what was known few years ago as
1.-The great Southern herd
Rubber or gutta-percha may be
united firmly to metal by the following
method: Dissolve finely powdered
shelac in ten times its weight of pure
| spirit of ammonia. In three DAYS the
cement will have the necessary consis-
| tency. The ammonia penetrates the
rubber and enables the shellac to take
firm hold. When all the ammonia is
evaporated the joint withstands the
penetration of gas or water.
Managers of theaters have playful
way of addressing the ladies Of their
company as My dear" One young
actress, on being thus addressed, felt
| very much hurt at the-what she nat
urally thought it was-liberty, but her
ruflled feelings settled down when she
l noticed that all the other actresses
were similarly addressed, ard all feel
| ING vanished when she heard the man
| ager address an ancient property man
as My darling"
Two great engineering projects are
about to be undertaken on the CONT
nent. The Spanish and French Gov
| ernments have agreed to authorize the
| construction of two new railways,
| which will involve the cutting of two
| new tunnels through the Pyrenees.
! The one will shorten the route between
| Paris and Madrid; while the other will
| give France speedier access to ports
! in Spain, whence she could most expe-
ditiously dispatch relief to Algiers.
| Tie styles of architecture, Mr.. w.
| Scott Morton says, are so varied that it
| is impossible to lay down any fixed
| rules for interior decorations, but he
! points out that every good color scheme
| has the three practical primaries, red
yellow and blue, in modified proper
ton; that all color should be sympa-
thetic; adapting itself to the use of the
building where it is applied, and that
attention should be paid to the intlu-
ence of color on the health of the pep
| pie.
Cardinal McCloskey has received
from Pope Leo XIII. a gold and silver
chalice of exquisite workmanship. 1t
is about one foot in height and has a
square silver base, with golden cher
ub at each corner holding the emblems
OF the passion. Four rubies and four
emeralds are set Immediately above
them. The golden cup is supported by
three female figures representing faith,
hope and charity. On the silver sup
| port are has reliefs of the heads of
! four saints. The chalice came in a red
morocco case bearing the Pope's arms.
Garden slugs, when they become a
| nuisance, may easily and safely be
| abated. Distribute pretty literally over
| the garden, flat pieces of stone or bits of
| slate or zinc. At nightfall put a little
bran on each fragment, and soon the
slugs Will come out from among the
plants and shrubs to feed upon the
bran. When it is dark 60 out with a
lantern and pail containing some strong
brine, and remove the slugs from the
bran-baited surfaces and place them in
| the pail, when the salt and water will
| soon dispose of the pests.
Nothing does as much harm to
boys" says an old public school teach
er, las letting them run wild in the city
during the summer vacation. The very
best boys are demoralized by it. If
they could only spend few hours each
day learning some industrial art, it
would be much better in the end for
them and the community. Many
promising boys are ruined by one Sum
mer vacation in the city. The same
may be said of girls, though, as rule,
they are taken better care Of
An Egyptian rather knocks the ro-
nance out of the camel. He says 1t
cannot 90 ten days without drinking
anu twenty days without eating. The
bedoulnS, when working or travelling.
water their camels every fourth day at
least, and give each animal six to six
teen pounds of dry food daily, accord
ing TO the condition of the pasture over
which the march is made. The camel
can carry one man and his own food
twenty days and no longer Under
these conditions he cannot be effective
" used as means of transportation for
the British Army in the Soudan.
a physician got up in the Pennsyl- |
Fania State Medical Society the other |
day and said that there were more |
rabies from rum than from mad dogs. |
If man dies from hydrophobia it is |
announced all over the world; but if q
hundred die of alcoholic commissions. |
almost like those of rabies humana,
nothing is said about it
ALL IN THE LINE OF NATURE.