The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-10-01
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In Ohio there is one divorce for every
twenty marriages.
The American humming- bird can
whip the English sparrow.
Ninety out of every hundred prcdic-
tons made by the French weather bu-
rcau last year proved true to dot
Last year there were 1900 suicides
in France, an increase of about one
thousand on al average, over the pre-
ceding decade.
A cigar tester in New York says that
simple way to ease heartburn from
smoking is to touch some of the ashes
to the tongue.
Scrap iron shipped from Portland,
Ore, to Hong Kong, is turned into lit
tie razors, with which the Chinese
shave their scalps.
Miss Adelaide Rudolph. of Cleveland,
o., has been elected Latin Professor in
the State University OF Kansas. Sheis
niece of Mrs. Garfield.
A New Jersey man has gone to
Florida and established cocoanut
farm. 1t comprises 1900 acres, and
has 100000 cocoanut trees.
The newest thing in musical instru-
mentS is a duplex. strung VIOLIN" by
which, it is claimed, a tone is produced
equal to two ordinary instruments.
The deserted mansion of Bancroft
Davis, near Marlborough, n Y, which
cost 100000, now stands empty and
idle, and is Il prey Of bats and rats,
moth and rust.
The production of cottonseed oil in
the United States each year is about
equal to 200, 600 tierces of lard. The
quantity might easily be doubled if
there was an adequate demand for it.
In Paris the people are asked to
give their sous in aid of project TO
bore big hole far down into the earth
TO see what is going on inside this mys-
ferrous planet, upon the unscratched
crust of which we live.
There can be no lightning without
thunder and rain. The lightning seen
of summer evening, sometimes called
heat lightning, Is an accompaniment
of distant storm. The lightning can
be seen much further than the thunder
can be heard.
Bombay's ice is provided from i'm
mense machines, in which the ice is
manufactured daily. Recently the
water supply gave out, and for three
days no ice was to be had. During
this time the death rate of the city
more than doubled.
A French scientist predicts very Sc
we're volcanic disturbances for 1886, to
occur at Il time when the attractive in
tluence of the other members of the So
lar system is most strongly felt upon
our planets, or, rather. when that in
fuence is most unevenly distributed
during near approach of the great
attractive bodies.
Winooski claims the inevitable dis
tinction of being the worst governed
town in Vermont, according to reports
from that State. The hoodlums burn
and rob as they please, in spite of the
efforts of the law and order league
Two houses belonging to members of
the league have been burned recently,
and a mill where many members work
ed.
The late Dean Buckland is said TO
have been so intimately acquainted
with the properties of all the geologic
al formations of England that being
one night belated, and not knowing
where he was, he aIighted from his
horse, lookup clod Of earth, and ex-
amined it. He Immediately exclaimed
'Uxbridgen' and proceeded on his
journey.
When Emperor Napoleon signed the
declaration OF war against Prussia he
recalled by wire his cousin, who had
sailed Tor the north pole with kenan.
After Prince Napoleon read the dis
patch he ordered the captain of his
yacht to fire up. Where are we GO
ing, prince?'' asked the officer. TO
Clarendon ii. G., the lunatic asylum,)
shouted the prince in thunderous
tones.
James Arkinsall, one of New YorS's
champion swimmers, says swimming
is fast becoming more popular with
women. Five years ago." he SAYS, "a
woman who could swim was looked
upon as masculine and a girl who
dared to confess such n thing was in
Guided in the condemnatory catalogue
of 'tom-boys.' Now at every watering
place you see women away beyond the
line of ropes"
A girl writes to Cincinnati paper
that she has invented and wishes to
patent combination hustle and chair.
She explains that the hustle is con-
structed like the usual article, to be
worn under the draperies of a dress,
but that within it are adjusted the lees
and seat of a chair, arranged so that
When the bearer bends to sit down
they will automatically drop into place
to support her.
The Glasgow Philosophical Society
mas demonstrated that at about 122
degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, the
flesh OF animals becomes so hard as to
ring like porcelain when struck, and
also to be capable of being crushed to
line powder. Microbes, however. liy-
ing in the flesh before freezing. have
been found alive when thawing took
place, after an exposure of 200 hours
to this intense cold.
Among the odd German ideas is one
for universal language, and there are
now tlfty-two associations for learning
aud extending il. To give an example
the word to think is lik, and is declined
tikob, think; tikol, thou thinkest;
tikom, he thinks; tikobs, we think;
tikols, you think; tikoms, they think.
And it appears these practical people
tikoms that the world will adopt this
and the tower of Babel be forgotten.
From Michigan Supreme Court
decision in the case of sharpers who
had swindled countryman by IA
miliar card trick: 1--WE do not think
it profitable TO draw overnice meta
physical distinction to save thieves
from punishment. If rogues conspire
to get away a mans money by such
tricks as those which were played here.
it is not going beyond the settled rules
of law to hold that the fraud amounts
tostealing,''
In Garfield county there are 737 sim
gle men and only sixty-eight unmarried
women. The Glenwood Echo saws:
1--WE want girls in Garfield COUNTY
blondes, brunets, tall, short, fat, lean,
jolly girls-girls who can ride in car
ri Low tbo