The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-11-20
GLEANINGS.


side of Sheep Mountain and walked OF
uninjured.
There are 7,668,O00 women in Eng
land and Wales who figure as wage
earners-a fact which would seem to
indicate that the right to work at least
is being granted to women with cheer
ful alacrity.
NJ n. Foster, farmer living near
Haywards, Cal, has hog which
spends his time with a flock of geese.
Every day when the geese go into the
pond for their accustomed swim, the
hog plunges in at the same time, and
remains as long as the geese do.
The state authorities of Massachu-
sets have consented to allow another
Sunday train to be run through the
Hoosac Tunnel, thus to enable the Wa
bash line to run a train through from
St. Louis every day in the week.
A German industry is the coloring of
meerschaums. The pipe or cigar hold
er is suspended in tightly closed box,
and smoke from damp, strong, black
tobacco is blown over and through it
until the desired color is gained
While the business of canal boat nav
igation has been very largely overshad-
owed in this country by the introduc-
ton of and development of railroads it
is still of sufficient Importance to sup
port a population estimated at $4,000,
number about equal to that of the
persons engaged in our coasting trade
Many tenement-house cigarmakers
receive from their employers 100 pounds
of tobacco, for which they have to re-
turn l02 pounds of cigars. Complaints
are made that when the tobacco falls
short, cigar stumps, willow, oak and
elm leaves are used to make good the
deficiency, and that in some instances
100 pounds of tobacco have thus been
made to produce 200 pounds of cigars.
A Brooklyn girl writes to the papers
that in her opinion ''strict fathers are
at the bottom of these Opponents -
She says her papa finds some fault with
all her young gentlemen friends, and
orders her to ''give them their walking
papers without either rhvme or reas-
on And when the fright one' comes
along she declares she will elope with
HIM, if she can't get him in any other
way.
One of the newest and most helpful
electric inventions is the dental and
electric lamp, for the purpose of il
Eliminating the mouth and other parts
of the human anatomy. The battery
used to produce this ight is only six
inches square, but the light it produces
so brilliant that it penetrates the skin
and actually shows through it the root
Of a tooth, enabling dentist to know
at once what causes any of its diseases.
Some years ago travellers in Dalma-
tia noticed large tracts of land covered
by a wild flower, near which not a
sign of insect life was visible. The
bloom was the pyrethrum, whose odor
deals death to the lower forms of life,
and whose powdered leaves form the
basis of insect powders. The seed
of this flower has been distributed in
the United States, and Dalmatian has
been growing it with great success in
Stockton. Cal.
Much interest has recently been ex-
cited in English engineering circles by
the announcement of the discovery of a
new motive power by Mr.. Edwin
Surge, who has patented the means of
application. According to report, the
new motive power threatens to dis
place steam as the motive power for
driving light machinery and for all
purposes of light locomotion. either on
land or water. Arrangements are in
progress to give the invention a public
test.
The Schenectady Union tells a sad
story Of how two lives We're blasted by
a fly misstep. A couple were mar
ried two years ago. and have lived hap
PLY until few days ago. 4 few morn
lugs since fly fell into the wife's cof-
fee, was pulled out by her husband,
and accidentally tossed upon her plate.
She became angry, got her bonnet and
left the house. Her father has since
removed her effects to her parents
home. The separation is final.
Although the nineteenth state in the
Union in population, New Jersey is
seventh in the amount of capital in
vested in manufacturing, sixth in the
number of workmen thus employed,
and sixth in the value of her manufac-
tured products. Of the seven great
manufacturing states she is second only
to Massachusetts in the proportion of
her total population that is directly en-
gagged in manufactu ing, and second
only to Massachusetts IN the relative
value of manufactured products to
population.
Ella Wheeler, the poetess, says that
when she began to write she didn't
know soul connected with the press,
not even a country editor. She did
not even know where but two or three
well-known literary papers and maga-
zines were published. A little girl OF
her own age went to book store and
copied off the addresses of several of
them, and she sent out poems to most
of them, coolly requesting the editors to
send their papers as pay for the poems
if they were accepted The very first
one sent to responded favorably.
Writing of the Keely motor. the Sci
entifc A1aertcdn says: Another chap
ter in the history of this time-worn,
stock-jobbng deception was lately COM
pleted by public exhibition at Sandy
Hook, n. Y, on September 20, of a
pretended "etheric force gun: but
which in reality, to our eye, was moth
ing more than clumsy air gun, from
WHICH Il lew outlets were ulSChdr0eU.
Keely was present and performed as
juggler, much to the satisfaction of the
assembled crowd of New York stock
brokers who seemed TO relish the Kecly
jargon and the muddy clarity of his
absurd explanations.
On the shores of the keuka lake,
New York, the culture of the crane
and the manufacture of wine have at
tanned a development not elsewhere
reached in America. There is Pc
culiarly favoring quality i'll the sunshine
and the soil thereabout. Eight thous-
and acres are devoted to grape culture,
the annual product averaging about
$50 per acre, or nearly $500, 900. The
Pleasant Valley company consumes
annually 1.500 tons of grapes. from
which are made 250,000 bottles of
champagne and $50, ZOO gallons of still
wines. sweet and dry Catawba, choice
brandies and port made from choice
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