The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-01-10
GLEANINGS.

Senator Conkling carries an unlight-
ed cigar in his mouth, preferring a
''dry smoke" to the other kind
There is talk of bringing James Rus
sci Lowell home and working him, as
foreigner, on lecture tour.
Over 1000, 600 sheep are within the
borders of Bernaiiilo County, New
Mexico.
A Georgia train cut off the heels of a
drunken mans boots and left him un-
harmed
Seven of the largest English trades
unions have spent in six years $40, 000,-
600 for the defense, support and relief
of men out of work.
Governor Murray, of Utah, estimates
that of the $50, 900 people in that terri
tory, 10000 are Mormons He be-
lieves that there is now danger of what
will be virtually a polygamic empire in
the far West.
The rise and fall of the great lakes is
something scientific men win some day
have to investigate and find out about.
Old settlers on Grand Traverse Bay say
that the water slowly rises for seven
years and then recedes for the same
length of time.
Between East and West Pearl Rivers,
on the borders of Louisiana and Miss
issippi, is a territory called Honey Is
land, with 800 inhabitants, located in
numerous small towns, who claim that
they are on neutral ground and belong
to no state.
Tha nf a 1op how fol
cleverly to the manufacture of firearms.
They have accurately initiated the
French mitrailleuse, and call the Ger
man engineer, who has shown them
how to make dynamite, "Father Gun
powder.
Judah P. Benjamin, says Senator
Gibson, of Louisiana, who has just re-
turned from Europe. ''looks very much
as he did thirty odd years ago when 1
first knew him, only not quite SO buoy
ant, more sedate, and somewhat sad
dened when he recalled old times and
old friends in Louisiana; but his genial
ty, naturalness, and kindness remain. "
Thackeray libeled that glorious prod
uct of our sounds and bays and coasts
the oyster. Before his arrival in this
country he had never eaten anything
but the miserably small, coppery-tast-
ing mussel of Britain. After he had
gulped down a magnificent Chinto-
league as big as your hand, and
weighing at least four ounces, he, &C
cording to James T. Fields, remarked:
''My God, / have swallowed babyr
An artist who was out sketching in
Kern County, California, lost his wife,
and in his wanderings discovered a
great cliff of photographic stone, such
as is only found in one other part of the
world, Solenhofen, Bavaria. The Ba-
varian quarries produce annually 49,
900 cubic yards of photographic stone,
at cost of 81, 600, 600, and the proprie-
tors of the quarries sell the product for
$40, 900, or an advance on the cost
of 900 per cent.
On the roof of his burning mill stood
the two little daughters of Dallas
Crawford, of Wesleyville, Pa. No lad
ders were available, and the children
were given up as lost. Alfred X. Bon
nell, young farmer, sprang forward
with coil of rope and an iron hook.
He assembled tall oak tree near the
mill, and in minute stood ON limb
high over the children. He threw his
rope and the hook caught in the small
er girls dress. Bonnell lowered her
safely into her fathers arms. He then
cast his hook second time, and the
other child was saved, her clothing
catching fire as she left the roof.
In one of the Lofoden Islands, off the
coast of Norway, is a deep and tideless
lake of considerable extent, connected
with an inlet from the ocean by a short
and shallow ditch. The important dis
covery has lately been made that this
lake, though it contains so little salt
that the water is not unpleasant 70 the
taste, is stocked with herrings, which
not only thrive but breed there. They
are so numerous that thirty tons of
them were netted in a few days this
season. The story is that they multi
ply faster and flourish better than in
the sea, for the reason that the lake
contains none of their natural enemies.
A new sect has arisen in Finland,
which calls itself The Pure, or rather
The Pure. The members distinguish
ing doctrine is that woman is superior
to man, and that it is she, and not he,
who ought to govern the family, which,
by the way, may be new as doctrine,
but it is by no means unknown as
practice in our own country. Wherev-
er the new sect has spread, a woman
elected by the rest exercises supreme
authority, and has the right to infict
punishments, even very severe ones.
Other women have the Office of confess
ors, and all the disciples of the new
doctrine are obliged to confess to them
once week.
Sir Joseph Banks, the celebrated nat
uralist, once had a cask of wine which,
on tasting, he found too sweet. 1t was,
therefore, locked up in cellar to III
pen. There it remained for three
years, probably during the time he was
with Captain Cook in his voyage
around the world. At the end of that
period he directed his butler to ascer-
tain the state of the wine, but the wine
cellar could not be opened on account.
of some powerful obstacle within. The
door was cut down, when the cellar
was found to be completely filed with
a fungus so dense and firm as to re-
quire an AK for its removal. 1t was
then discovered that the fungus had
consumed every drop of wine and
raised the empty cask to the ceiling.
When Senator Beck visited his old
home in Scotland in 1875, while stroll
ing through the fields he met an old
schoolmate. "You don't remember
me, Donald?' he said to him. NO"
said Donald, Il don't know your face.
But caught six-pound salmon to-day
in the firth, and whenever have done
that before something has happened.
/ don't know you by sight, but you're
either John Mcpherson, who left us
thirty years ago, or you're Jim Beck.
Now, which is it?'' Sure enough"
cried the Senator, ''it's Jim Beck"
"Weel, Jamie. they tell me that the
Americans are going to elevate you to
the House of Peers. Is it so? Come
along home. then, and we'll eat the
fish. An American lord is good enough
for Scotch salmon"
According to recent statements, the
schools of Germany ere SrfferiDp from