The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-06-05
GLEANINGS.

shoVeling sand in the penitentiary, pre-
paratory to learning the moulding
trade.
Bismarck says gentlemen of elo-
| quence are like ladies who wear boots
much too tight and always try to show
their feet.
| Tobacco has been found upon analy-
sis to contain sugar in quantity vary
ing from mere trace to as much as
10 per cent.
Springfield, Mass, has local gym
mast who packs himself into a box
measuring % inches long by IL wide
and 10 high.
Mr.. Drummer ]. Adams, a mechanic
of Kittery, Me-, claims to have dlscoV-
| cred process by which he YIELDS cop
per as perfectly and securely as iron.
A new stalactite cavern has been
discovered in France near Gordon.
Naturalists are busy exploring, in the
hopes of finding some remains of past
races.
A wholesale tobacco dealer in New
| York City claims that cigarette smok-
ing is dying out and that 100000 600
less cigarettes were sold in 1888 than
in 1882
According to the Constitution, ''soci-
ty'' in Atlanta, Ga, is giving evidence
that it demands greater intelligence
and higher education to meet its re-
| quirements.
The population of Mexico, including
natives, Indians, Spaniards and those
of mixed blood, numbers about 10, 000,
| 000 The area of the country is nearly
800, 900 square miles.
Mrs. Dubuys, of Pass Christian,
daughter of General G. T. Sherman, is
the owner of one of the loveliest rose
gardens in Mississippi. She has $50
varieties of roses in it.
Rose Coghlan, the actress, smokes
cigarettes, and is said to be the only
woman in America who can puff rings
of smoke from her mouth. Rose is I'M
doubtedly very accomplished woman.
The FRANKLIN cottage at Elberon has
one room entirely lined with cork. 1t
is arranged in fiat, narrow pieces about
one foot in length, which are made to
| fit in each other. 1t has TIE effect of
light wood.
There are $500 Edison lights in ten
cotton mills in Fall River, and SO pop
ular are they that the hands in one
mill have struck against all work by
| gaslight in a mill where they refused
to put in electricity.
The rage for armor continues, and
clocks now come in the steel breast
plates and shields ready to be placed
on large frame of plush, shield-shape
| hol hot
and other warlike surroundings.
Oleomargarine has found its way
into the English market from this coun-
try, and is creating considerable talk
among the people there. 1t is certain
to encounter fierce opposition, and
there is strong probability that string
ent prohibitory laws will be enacted
DR.. Charles Z. Clark, of Boston,
while rummaging around in junk
shop in that city recently, found some
valuable Colonial documents, worth
their weight in gold. The papers were
bought by Abbott Lawrence and by
him they have been given to the Boston
public library.
Statistics recently gathered show
that the colored population of the
United States is increasing at the rate
of nearly two hundred thousand year
| "a fact that does not look much like
the immediate eXstinction of the ce
which has been so freely prophesied in
some quarters.
A Spanish Mormon has just COM
pleted the translation of the Book of
Mormon into Spanish, and began mis-
sionary operations in Mexico He
makes out that the Mexicans are de-
scendants of the various tribes spoken
of in the book, and teaches that Mexi-
co is to become the land flowing with
milk and honey. This suits the greas-
ears exactly, as they are constitutions
ally opposed to work. The conse-
quence is he is making progress.
Bank of England notes will stand al
most anything. They will hold togeth-
er at the bottom of the sea and come
out of furnace intact, but they will
not outlast the scrubbing, the bleach
ing, and the mangling of the laundry.
That trial, to which they are some
times subjected through the inadvert-
ence of ladies who send them to the
wash in their pockets, usually defaces
them, though even after it their genu-
ineness is still recognizable.
A writer il. the Boston advertiser
complains that teachers in that state
are frequently removed without Just
cause, and he calls for the abrogation
of the practice of electing teachers for
a single year. ''Let this annual humil-
iation," he says, this crippling anxiety
and this liability of keen and cruel in
| justice cease. Let teachers be elected
to serve during efficiency and good be-
havior. Let US have no possibility of
this worse than Greek ostracism in
Massachusetts.
The gossips have found out what it
was that broke down Lord Randolph
Churchilrs health, and made him leave
| parliament some weeks before the close
| OF last session. One night he and some
fellow statesmen were standing on the
Thames embankment, at friends
| garden gate, when Big Ben struck mid
| night. Some one remarked upon the
deliberateness of the ringing, and won
| dered whether man could run from
there to the tower steps before the last
note was struck. The young Tory lead
er thought he could; a wager was
made, the following night was appoint
| ed for the enterprise, and Lord Ran
| dolph won; but he so over-exerted him
| self that the others had to carry him to
bed, and next day his physician order
ed him off to Gastein.
Lady John Manners impeaches mod
ern luxury in the National ReUie }. The