The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-08-14
GLEANINGS.

Mrs. Southworth is now at work on
her sixty-sixth novel.
Mobile has tax on travelling men of
S. day or 1925 per week.
Tive white children are in possession
| of Indian squaws at San Diego, Cal.
| 1t is said that over 5000, 900 trees
| were planted in Great Britain in 1888.
Carolina exports 10000 boxes of
oranges, and grapes without end this
year.
| Montana's drummer tax is 800 per
| year for each county, with S25 local
extra in Butler City.
Clarence Three-Stars. the son of
Sioux chief, is employed packing goods
in a Philadelphia store.
| The crop of wheat this year bids fair
to reach $40, 100000 bushels, 100000
900 in excess of last year.
The Medical Summary recommends
| the external use of buttermilk to ladies
| who are exposed to tan or freckles.
| A Houston county, Ga, man made
| $3.50 clear profit off II acres of peanuts
last year, besides fattening drove of
800 hogs.
A rosebud at Chambersburg, Pa,
| has yielded over 5000 buds in the
| past three years, which have been sold
at SO per 100.
Coffee-cups become smaller and
smaller for ''after-dinner service"
The newest size is a tritie larger than
the fat woman's thimble.
Although Frenchmen are spoken of
as frog eaters" it is asserted as a
fact that more frogs are now eaten in
| New York alone than in all of France.
| The cadets at West Point during the
summer are taught how to swim, how
to rescue drowning person, and the
quickest method of restoring the ap-
parently drowned.
The newspapers are mentioning the
somewhat curious fact that Mr.. Blaine
was for time a teacher in a deaf
mute college, and Mr.. Cleveland was
teacher in an asylum for the blind.
The Government spends about $780,
| pouches, says the Albany Journal;
there are about one hundred thousand
mail bags in use, and about ten thou
| sand new ones are bought yearly.
Most of the expense is in repairing the
staples in the opening of the bag.
The bridegroom in an Oregon we'd
| ding was 10 and the bride was 49,.
| Moreover, the man was handsome and
the woman plain. But he had been
| for year herder on a lonely range,
without feminine face of any kind to
look at, and when she visited the place
with some tourists the courtship was
rapid and resultant.
The celebrated Alderbach echo has
at last been cclipsed by q seventeen
| tongued one in Silesia. Ii the traveller
! sounds his horn at a point called
| Garves Rub, near Charlottenbrunn, he
| will hear, after the lapse of few Sec
| onds, q succession Of sweet, clear notes
coming back to him at brief intervals
until seventeen in all have answered.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson is agitating
| for an improvement in the construction
of New England cotton mills, arguing
that outside the largest cities one
stored buildings would be healthier
and in less danger Of contlagration, as
| we'll as cheaper to construct and to
| run, than the present tiVe-story struct-
| ures.
The Boston Herald thinks that the
| watermelon is a much-abused fruit.
Eaten when it is fresh and ripe, at the
| proper timc-which means as the first
course at breakfast-it is a wholesome
| and harmless article of diet Eaten
| when under-ripe or stale, or on top of
big dinner late in the afternoon, it
often "creates disturbance" And
| 40 wonder.
a German engineer has just obtained
letters patent on device for building
mine shafts and bridge piers upon
| quicksands. His method, says a cor
respondent, Is to introduce pipes into
the quicksand and pump through them
a freezing mixture by which the entire
mass OF quicksand is frozen solid,
when it may be worked through with
no more difficulty than stratum of
| rock.
Some time ago a man in Edmonson
| County, Ky. killed a rattlesnake on
| his premises, cutting the body in two.
short off behind the head. About two
weeks afterward child playing around
accidentally strayed near the head,
when that supposed-to-b e-defunct mem
Der made spring and buried its fanrs
IN the childs leg, and only the prompt
application of powerful antidotes saved
it life
Philadelphia has five establishments
where plaster of Paris casts are made.
They turn out chiefly Venuses and
Apollos and sometimes q Minerva and
Bacchus. Life-size figures of these
| 60;
ness is done in the busts of Socrates.
Webster, Shakespeare and Byron cost
| ing 50 each. When a man orders his
own bust, the charge is $3.50, which
| Will only pay small profit on the cost
OF making the cast and the mold. The
mold once made, a hundred husts can
De turned out. but the person who
caters to his own vanity wants only
one or two.
During the last year the Dead Letter
Office has handled about 4, 800, 900 let
tiers. OF these about 1900 were
mailed without any address. and nearly
100000 without stamps. Half q mill
ion are from other countries, whose
owners cannot be found. Foreign dead
letters are returned to the country
from which they come. Those origin
ating in this country. and whose own
ers are not found, are opened. At the
Postoffice is museum made up from
the articles found in these letters. 1t
contains everything from money down
to q pair of dirty socks. The money
amounts to nearly $4,000 for the year,
While the drafts, checks, notes, etc.
amount to 81, 100000.
A tendency to crime manifests itself
at very early age through certain
''well-known characteristics" for MN.
Lombraso and Mano have studied $50
infants, and especially 160 from houses
of refuge, and easily recognized the
criminal type in the proportion of "A
per cent The loss of moral sense
was observable in Al per cent, and a
veritable propensity to crime in 10 per
cent. Out of twenty nine infants they
have noticed, however, the disappear-
ance of the criminal Tendencies n.rt1-