The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-10-30
GLEANNGS.

value will probably reach $50, 900.
The assessed value of real estate in
New York State is S3,0l4, 100000. Al
most half of this is in New York Coun-
ty.
A New York firm makes coffin ham
dies by the ton, in hundreds of styles.
Its product is marketed in every civil
lied country.
At Hartwell, Ga, a negro married
his third wife before No. 2 was buried.
No went with him to the funeral of
her predecessor.
Tradesmen in Madagascar who give
short weight must pay fine of five
oxen and 50, or 60 to prison and work
in chains for year.
The School of Architecture in Paris
has lately admitted Miss Laura White,
an American girl, and sister of Hon
j. d. White, of Kentucky.
1t is asserted that the chief substances
used in adulterating beer are hemlock
and soda, with little rice malt to give
it body and hold the foam.
A new steamer has been built for the
Cunard Line, which, it is claimed, will
make the trip across the Atlantic in six
days and beat everything on the ocean.
There is said to be not single in
stance on record where employees of
railroads have stolen tickets from their
respective companies and escaped ar
rest.
Whalebone is becoming more valu-
able every year, and is now worth
about $3.50 pound. Were it not for
the bone whale-hShing would no longer
be profitable.
From recently published tables it ap-
pears that the average time of sickness
among males is about nine days in each
of their working years. In women it
is tritie more
Ephraim Keyser, a young artist,
whose home is in Baltimore, but who is
now in Rome, has been designated as
the soul ptor of the monument to Baron
De kalb, to be erected in Annapolis
under the act of Congress of 1888.
keely says his new force is not at all
similar to electricity. He once expert
mented with it on 5000 feet of wire
and produced a current of sufficient
power to punch holes in pasteboard at
the other end of the conductor.
Lord Tennyson is represented to be
furious over the determination of
New York publishing house to include
n a new edition of his works all the
earlier poems which he suppressed,
particularly the one satirizing Buiwer
Lytton.
The Brooklyn bridge expanded over
twelve inches at the hip-joint in the
center during one hot day this summer.
With the $500 tons of iron in the .dp-
erstructure and the heavy planking it
works freely and is wonderful for its
delicacy.
The Graphic tells of a proud young
man who was too vain to take off his
cork lee when he went in bathing be-
fore his lady friends. The inexorable
law of grayitation turned him upside
down, and he was drowned in sight of
the fair ones he had hoped to charm.
Having lost the whole of both LEGS
in the war, and subsequently living in
poverty for twenty years on his pen
| sion, a Nashville man hit upon the idea
of making . side-show curiosity of him
self by attaching deceptive wax feet to
his stumps and figuring as freak of
nature. He is now prosperous.
The value of the cocoanut as food is
as vet but little understood. An in
stance of its use IS found in the exper-
fence of two shipwrecked sailors. They
| We're seven years on an island where
their only food was cocoanuts and an
occasional flying fish. They retained
good health and gained in weight
The latest novelty in bouquets was
carried by the Princess of Wales at 2
ball after the races at Goodwood. 1t
WIS OF roses. and in the middle of it
was concealed Il miniature electric
lamp, the light from which cou d be
turned on at will by means of little
switch in the form Of Il lady's brooch.
| Cafes, beer saloons. shops. stalls,
etc, are proposed for Brook yn Bridge.
1t is argued that by this means the
bridge trustees could secure enough re-
ceIptS to make up the present deficiency
in the finances. If the plan be adopted
visitors to New York may soon be able
| to see Il modern reproduction of old
London Bridge.
Theo. Voruz. of Antioch, Kan.
writes that he has petritied bird nest.
which became so through the action of
water in a small stream near his home.
| In the water is a white stony substance
| which adheres to all objects thrown in
| to the stream. The straw in the for
nation of the nest and three eggs that
were in it when placed in the water are
| all perfect, but covered with stone an
eighth of an inch in thickness.
There lives in Forsyth. Ga, an old
gentleman who is now in his seventy
ninth year. He was converted in 1887.
licensed to preach in 1910, and has
| been preaching ever since. He never
served on jury, never was sued, never
saw horse race nor a theatre. never
! saw game of cards, never saw a
! dance, not even at Il corn shocking,
nor was he ever drunk. He has twelve
children and lives a happy, peaceful
| life.
A famous dealer in the best wines of
Burgundy, having an idea that the wat
cry portion Of the wine is best done
away with, has taken to artiiciallv
freezing his stock. He thus withdraws
certain percentage of water in the
shape of ice from his wine The crop
| VI lNt thhN lNltpNNNA. Us SUM Dc IL llltltS,
becomes fetid, showing some elements
of queer decomposition. The freezing
process doesn't seem to affect the quail
lily of the wine except for the better, as
regards soundness, body and color.
Political enthusiasm sometimes leads
people to extreme lengths and entails
| some hardships on them in consequence.
| but it is not often that it results as it
did in the case of Mr.. Puckridge, who
is described as gentleman in good
position Mr.. Puckridge was an en-
thuSiastlc partisan in the Sandwich
election in 1880. ana could scarcely
| find sufficient means to express his de
votiOn to his principles. His party
colors We're yellow. and besides wear
ing Il yellow suit he thought it would
be Il brilliant idea to have yellow dog
as companion. 1t SO happened that
his tavorlte pup was not of this ex-
tremely common color, and he essayed