The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-09-04

about three times the size OF England
and Wales.
Thirty thousand two-horse trucks are
employed in the business of New York
UpwArd of $50, 1000, 900 are invested in
this industry.
An observer says most of the centen-
arians in America are from Ireland,
though there are many among the col
ored people.
White stockings are coming once
again into fashion in London, from the
crusade by the doctors against colored
wear as slow prisoners.
Under the laws of Maine a person
who procures a divorce can not marry
for two years without permission of the
court granting the decree.
Five hundred men went out to the
circum-polar stations in 1881, and all
came back safely except the nineteen
members of Greely's party.
Additional hot springs are being de-
veloped at Hot Springs. Arkansas, by
digging in the side of the mountain out
of which the other hot springs issue.
A rag-picker in New York found an
old letter with Brattleboro Scent
stamp, the rarest specimens in the
American catalogues. He sold it for
$780,
Freight elevators have been in use
for more than 100 years, but the first
passenger elevator ever used was put
into the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New
York, in 1859.
By new electric headlight for loco
motives thirty-three telegraph poles
can be counted ahead of the engine on
a dark night. Thirty-three poles cover
about one mile.
The first brick building in Cincinnati
was the St. Clair House. built in 1906,
of brick brought from Pittsburg, and is
still standing upon Main street, between
Seventh and Eighth.
Three thousand years ago an Egyp-
tan couple named their boy Reupi.
He was 6 contemporary of Elijah.
Reupi's mummy has just been added
to the Cornell College Museum.
The uniform worn by the troops of
the Mehdi consists of a white smock,
decorated with three colored squares
IN front. IL has loose sleeves and q
fancy border around the sleeves and
neck.
A Philadelphia man buys for half a
cent 4 pound tons of old rubber over
shoes, rubber overcoats, belts, car
springs and hose, and makes them into
toys for the children and chewing gum
for the girls.
A species of lizard called the hell
bender is now considered n delicacy by
New York epicures. 1t is about ten
inches in length. of dirty mud color,
and provided with four legs and a tail.
The flesh is said to be delicacy.
When grieving over the number of
books that are published it will be q
satisfaction to reflect upon those that
ere not. A single publishing house re-
ports the rejection during the past
month of $50 manuscript works of fc-
ton.
At Amsterdam, New York, there is a
girl who has two tongues, the upper
one being two-thirds the length of the
other and having the appearance of
natural tongue turned over. The child
ioes not use the upper tongue in eat
ing, though she can move it slightly.
An intelligent but cautious weather
observer in Wayland, Nebraska, re-
sponded to the inquiry of 4 signal-ser-
vice officer who was gathering facts
about the origin OF cyclones with let
ter, thus: Ser your Surckeler es 1T
Hand as Ner as | Can Com to Eft the
% Was a Mise Day"
What is claimed to be a valuable
rust protector is among the recent
German inventions. 1t consists of an
ordinary oil paint mixed with ten per
cent of burned magnesia, baryta, or
strontia, as well as mineral oil. This
neutralizes the free acid of the paint,
and the alkaline reaction protects the
iron from rust
The Lancet condemns the practice of
giving and taking such depressing mar
eotics as choral and bromide of potas-
stun as q remedy for sleeplessness, as
mischievous and wholly indefensible.
1t is as clumsy in theory as knocking a
man down because he needs rest, and
yet, as by common consent this emil
nent authority states, the profession
sanctions the abuse of such drugs as
poisoned sleep" producers. There
IRE more than score and a half of
known causes or forms of sleepless-
ness, each one requiring direct and
specific treatment.
Some of the Italian papers are cry
ing out for return to the death penal
ty on the score of economy. "Lifers"
have, it is urged, their lives actually
prolonged by the kind care the gov
eminent takes of them. Such prison
ers are not assailed by the troubles
which befall men mingling in the bat
tie of life, and have no other occupa-
ton than to eat repasts which they
know will never fail them. They thus
lead regular life. protected from the
excesses which abridge human exist
ance, and it has been found prisoners
for life live to an age far beyond that
Of other prisoners.
A novelty in courtship has been in
troduced in France. The Partisan
'.masher," having little opportunity to
meet his beloved, except in the pres
ence OF her parents or duenna, now
consoles himself by carrying her min
iature portrait on his thumb-nail. The
picture is transferred to the nail by
means of photography, and fixed by
the aid of chemicals SO that it will not
wash off. OF course this fashion is
likely to spread, and lovers who are
very deeply touched viii probably ex-
tend the French practice of thumb
nail photography to the fingers of each
hand, and perhaps 70 their wristbands
and shirt-collars.