The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-12-04
ELEANINGS.

+ be better supports for building IN
I case of fire than iron, the latter being
liable to warp from the heat.
Twenty-nine young bachelors of Fort
( Dade, Fla, have organized club, each
taking binding and solemn obligation
to get married in one year.
The peasant farmers of France have
about $500, 600, 900 on deposit i'll the
Government Savings Bank, upon which
they are paid 4 per cent. interest.
The latest invention is an electric
fan which is warranted Ito lower the
temperature of a room from ninety-fiye
10 sixty degrees in few minutes
Snakes are never found on the Island
of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland,
although they exist on the Island OF
Null, only three-quarters OF mile dis
tant.
The Long Island postmaster who is
short 81 400 in his accounts says his
wife wanted diamonds and q family
carriage so bad that he couldn't bear
to disappoint her. She wears the dia-
monds when she visits him in jail.
The DeutSche ReUNe tells that imme-
diately after konig-gratz Count Moltke
exclaimed to Prince Bismarck; You
! are really a great man now. Had we
been beaten, all the old women at home
would have pelted us VITA wet rags"
As preventative of petroleum fires
it is now proposed to place a bottle of
ammonia in each barrel OF the oil. On
ignition, by accident or otherwise, the
bottle would break, and the effect of
ammoniacal vapors would be to eX-
tinguish the flames.
In the province of San Pedro, Brazil,
the destruction of all eucalyptus trees
has been ordered. 1t appears that the
tree favors the generation of terribly
| dangerous dragon fly, which attacks all
living creatures, and whose sting is ia
tai within a few minutes.
Lieutenant Albert Todd, of the
United States army, who has written a
history of the campaigns of the REBEL
ion, says in the preface that ''he has
sometimes been obliged to overstate,
sometimes to understate, the truth, in
order to make his meaning clear"
Colonel Edward Richardson, the
president of the New Orleans EXPOSE
ton, has twenty-three cotton planta-
tons under successful operation in
Washington and Issaquena counties
Each place has from one thousand to
two thousand acres, and there is q
laborer to every ten acres.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins has caused the
municipal heart of Great Darlington,
Mass, to leap with joy by changing
her residence from San Francisco to
that place. Her property, which has
hitherto been taxed in California, will
be assessed hereafter at Great Barring
ton, and will cause a reduction of one
half in the tax there.
A New York gentleman made a
wager with friend that there was not
$4,000, 900 in actual cash in any one
building in this country. Calling at
the Sub-Treasury they found that in
the vaults of that building there was
the sum OF $40, 401 900, all in legal
tender of the realm, 81, 900, 900 of it
being in gold coin.
1t is suggestive of the rigor of the
discipline in the German army that the
standard bearer, an officer of battal-
ion OF infantry of the garrison at Bres-
lau, in returning from the maneuvers,
having got into wrong train, SO that
his company waited in vain for him at
BreSlau, committed suicide to escape
! from the punishment that awaited
him.
The New York Freemdn'S Journal
does not believe that convent schools
should be fashionable resorts merely
for the young ladies of rich parents. 1t
says: There is no necessity for con-
vent schools unless they send out into
the world Christian gentlewomen. Ii
they become ScrVile to wealth, they
should close their doors to pupils and
take in the poor and the sick"
The German Government is prepar-
ing for the expected invasion OF cholera
by ordering physicians from all parts
of the empire to study the most improv-
ed methods for discovering the EXIST
ence of microbes through the micro
scope at Berlin. DR.. Koch, the cholera
expert, has been ordered to personally
investigate the first case that appears,
and take measures toprevent the spread
of the disease.
The forthcoming Paris beauty show
IS to be beauty show as is a beauty
show. A committee composed of the
| most distinguished painters and sculp-
tors is to be organized. This commit
tee will send out requests to all the
large cities of Europe and the East for
photographs of the highest types of
| beauty, and the subjects of such of the
| photographs as are considered up to
the standard will be called to Paris.
London is the greatfur market of the
world, and the great bulk of all skins
are shipped there. There are two large
sales of furs. one in October and one in
March, at each of which the skins are
bought by agents for American account.
Many skins are shipped to London
from this country and at the next sale
bought for American account and ship
ped back, thus losing the freight
charges, there being no duty en- raw
skins.
Fat people have now their choice be-
tween four systems of reducing their
weight: First, the original Banting.
which consists of eating nothing con
| tanning starch, sugar or fat. Second,
the German Banting, which allows fat.
but forbids sugar or starch. Third, a
Munich system. which consists of be-
ing clothed in wool and sleeping in
flannel blankets instead of sheets.
Fourth, not eating and drinking at the
| same time
A fish auction in Holland is one of
the oldest things in the world. As soon
as boatman reaches port with load
OF fish. the fact is announced by the
sounding of a gong. Those desiring to
make purchases repair to the beach.
where the fish are piled up in little
heaps. The owner then proceeds to
auction them of. Instead of leaving
the purchasers to do the bidding, as is
done in this country, he does it him
self. He sings out price at which he
will sell the lot. If no one takes it, he