The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-07-02
GLEANINGS.

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with it.
The Mormons have increased in this
country between 500 and 500 per cent
since 1880
\ Paris publisher is said to haves the
skull of Richelieu carefully preserved
il velvet case
The pearl fisheries off the Lower Cal
ifornia coast are said to have produced
SIS, 900, 600 last year.
A Georgian claims to have perfected
a continuance for running street cars
by 4 quicksilver motor.
During the past sixteen years SZ5.-
000 600 worth Of property has been de-
stroyed by fire in Canada.
A harpoon of the pattern made over
forty years ago was taken from a whale
captured near Coos Bay recently.
General Gordon was never married.
He was handsome man in face and
figure and OF rare personal charm.
There are more than seven million
farmers in the United States, or nearly
one-eighth of the entire population.
In some provinces of Brazil iron ore
is used in large quantities as building
stone, so abundant and ready to handle
is it.
Iowa contains more persons who can
read and write in proportion to her
population than any other state in the
Union.
So high-priced have been peaches for
the past two seasons that 500 new
peach orchards have been set out in
Delaware within a year.
An authority on the subject says that
a dog show is called bench show
because the cage kennels in which dogs
are exhibited are located on benches.
There are in England over 800, 900
cyclists, and the capital invested in the
manufacture of bicycles and tricycles
is $4,000, 900, employing 5000 per-
sons.
A New York chemist asserts that in
every 100 pounds of green tea used in
this country the consumer drinks more
than half pound of Prussian blue and
gypsum.
The attendance in the public schools
of England has risen in few years
from 1000, 900 to 100000. Juvenile
crime has greatly diminished in conse-
quence.
There are published in Honolulu four
English daily newspapers, four English,
three native, one Chinese and one Port
uguese weeklies, and three English and
one native monthlies.
Charles O'Conor enunciated the prin-
ciple that "a reporter should get all
the news he can and give it to the
world, but lawyer should get all the
news he can and keep it to himself"
Az infdel colony in Missouri, after
five years experience, is falling to
pieces The people are continually
wrangling, and "It's wise child that
knows its own father in that town.
A congress of historical experts is
called for early in September to decide
whether the set of bones held by Ha-
vana or the set held by San Domingo
is the true skeleton of the discoverer of
America.
One of the business interests of
San Francisco is the gathering of old
tin oil and fruit cans for use in the
packing of matches. Collectors receive
cents each for them, and 10000 are
annually used.
NJ. Lauth, of Seyres, has, after ten
rears of experimentation, produced a
porcelain tar superior to the famous old
Sevres. 1t will take all kinds of glazes
and is susceptible of the highest kinds
of decoration.
Henry Clews has collection of pict-
ures worth in the neighborhood of
500, 600. Dinners, he says, are the
highest and only rational way of en-
tertaining. Balls he despises. He is
devoted to the opera
The operation of the mechanical ap-
planes in Il watch factory have be-
come so rapid and systematic that it is
possible to take the raw materials from
stock in the morning and have watch
running from them by noon.
Two years ago Professor O. Sars, of
Chrlstiana, received some mud taken
from the bottom of an Australian lake.
Recently he placed the mud in small
aquarium and produced from it quite a
fauna of fresh water invertebrates.
No machine of travel that man ever
invented can equal the speed of wild
fowl. The canvas back duck flies two
miles a minute. The broadbills 90
slightly slower. The teal can fly at the
rate of 100 miles an hour; the wild
goose goes abouty ninety.
The lean part of good beef should be
of bright red color, with flakes of
white fat through it, not larger than
pins in thickness, with white creamy
layer of fat on the outside. Very lean
beef that is free from fat will be apt to
be tough and tasteless.
When Mr.. Cleveland went to select
a pew in the Washington church which
he attends he was asked what part of
the building he would like to sit in.
"Well," he said, 81 don't want to be
so near the minister that he can see
whether or not am listening"
The saddle which General Grant rode
in from all the battles from Fort Henry
III February, 1862, until the surrender
at Appomattox, is now the property of
Colonel A. II. MARYLAND, to whom it
was presented by the General himself,
and it is kept in the Soldiers Home at
Dayton, Ohio.
I'm ~N'SLiu-O, Dol ii III 4NcW
City IN 1880. admitted to the bar in
1872, and a soldier of the war of 1912.
is the oldest member of the New York
bar. He is still. st ninety-five years of
age, IN active practice, and has son
SlNty-elght years of age, who is also
lawyer of repute.
In France criminals under sentence |
of death are never told of the date fix |
ed for their death. They are informed |
OF nothing until the fatal morning, when |
they are awakened to be led forth to |
which event usually takes |
place about o'clock, or in the winter |
season as soon as it is light.
The diary of Lieut. Lockwood, of the |
Greedy expedition, is being transcribed |
by an expert lady stenographer in
Philadelphia He wrote his Journal en- |
tirely in shorthand. His account of |
the life in the Arctic region is thought |
to be an interesting story. The tran
scription is almost completed.
A dim light and rest from reading
are not always heIDf1l TO the evoS %