The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-10-09
GLEANINGS.


speak both English and French.
| Eighty million dollars is spent annu-
ally for public schools in the United
| States.
| Twelve petrifed clans were found at
depth of $50 feet while boring oil at
Purissima, Cal. 4.
| DR.. Koch has received a grant of
500, 600 for his labors in the cholera
infested districts.
| louisiana Seven barrels of potatoes
yield barrel of rum.
There are 550 000 miles of telegraph
| lines in the world, of which the United
/ States has 143, $40 miles.
The value of the butter made in the
| State of New York annually is esti-
mated at over $50, 600, 900.
1t is predicted that the volume of
| telegraph business will be doubled
within the next five years.
Maiden is the name of young town
in Montana where all the babies born
| thus far, except one, are girls.
Pennsylvania has 3,S46 post offices,
more than any other State in the
Union. New York comes next with
| 3, ISL.
| The Southern Pacific railroad COM
pany has in store in San Francisco,
| 1000, 900 feet of lumber and s, 900 tons
of coal
The navy of this great and glorious
country numbers less than 100 vessels,
but we have 1, 600 officers and ought to
feel safe on that account.
William Henry Forman, editor of
the Manhattan Magazine, says that the
cost Of producing one number of the
periodical is little more than $4,000.
Mr. Chamberlain thinks the Wiscon-
sin man of the near future is to be al
most German, while the New Eng
| lander will be at least halt an Irish
man.
There is exhibited at Baltimore
| curious Australian fish called the go
| by. 1t is said to climb out of its aqua
rum with great ease for several hours
upon terra tirma.
T. G. Schneider, of Baltimore, has
| just finished a new micrometer, to
measure the wave length of light. 1t
is said to be the finest instrument of
the kind in the world.
| Lorillard, the rich horseman, is re-
ported as often saying he would rather
win $500 purse with a horse of his
own breeding than the richest stake in
the country with another's.
Carrots, potatoes, parsnips and beets
are heat-producing, while vegeta-
bles that form above ground, such as
asparagus, lettuce, peas, beans. corn,
cabbage and tomatoes, are cooling.
| Strychnine and nicotine must be
among the very slow poisons, since an
old fellow in North Carolina, ia years
| old, has been 4 slave to whisky and to-
bacco for the last ninety-four years.
Sheffield, Ala, was farm six months
ago. A syndicate bought it for Sc. 600,
sold it in lots for $2l6, 900, and now, as
the Louisville IL Nashville Road refuses
to build to it, the place has collapsed.
Paper is made in France from the
| hop vine, and it is claimed that the
| fiber secured is the best substitute for
rags yet obtained, as it possesses great
length, strength, tlexibility and deli
cacy.
There is an old fellow in Hamilton
County, Ohio, who is nearly 102 years
| of age, and has been chewing to-
bacco for the last seventy-ive years.
Nothing less than strychnine will kill
| some men.
Scientific men now have q theory
that animal life originated in the arctic
| regions. II it attracts attention and
| proyokes discussion the result will
| doubtless be more scientific expeditions
TO the land of ice.
The fancy green and red rd's-eye
leather bags and pocket-books are be-
coming the rage, indicating that even
| the most inharmonious and inartistic
fashion conceits are acceptable if
Everybody wears them"
The American who took twenty In
dams to Europe for an exhibition tour
has returned with fat pocket-book.
Every venture of this kind should be
encouraged. We must keep even with
the opera singers in some way.
Discussing the suicide of animals a
London paper declares that the dragon
fly '.held securely 10y the wings curls
Its tail upward to its mouth and chews
itself viciousI y to pulp" This beats
the performance of the Kilkenny cats.
Many people buy tea from Chinese
dealers on account of it being packed
in quaint little boxes. The package is
no proof that the article is genuine, as
the wrappers are made and the tea
packed by New York firm on Water
street.
In England there are but 227, 900
land owners, while under the system of
| peasant farming of France there are
1000. 900 landholders in the republic.
A farm of two acres is quite large,
while those of 4 quarter of an acre are
plentiful.
The religious opposition to crema-
ton is REINFORCED by opposition from
the life Insurance companies. They
claim that it will interfere with the
successful contest of policies by de-
stroying the evidence as to the cause
of death.
Captain Joe," the local chief of tae
Washoe Indians, says there is squaw
living in the outskirts of Carson, New,
1 who is nearly $50 years old. Her
grandson, at the age of 90, was one of
General Fremont's guides when he
crossed the plains.
Every Mussulman is entitled to four
wives and no more. The Sultan is the
only man who is not bound by this
rule. Every year on his birthday he is
presented with new wife-a sort of
annual reminder, as it were, of the
vanity of the position.
The inventor of an electric apparatus
for deaf people claims that no ear is so
dead that it cannot be made to hear,
and that in many eases the apparatus
will cure deafness. 1t may be conceal
ed in cane, umbrella handle. fan or
any such article of convenience
OFF the Gulf coast of Texas is the
Padre Island, containing $50, 900 acres
and owned by no man knows whom
There are scores of claimants to the
title, some of whom have already in
duced credulous Englishmen to sink
800, 900 in ideal schemes of improve