The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-09-17
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The Philadelphia Press makes the
pleasing announcement that red-head-
cd girls are in fashion.
Pert is the best thing to quiet the
stomach of seasicll man. This may
not be news, but it is a fact. Harper's
BGzGr.
1t is estimated that $50, COO people co
into London by rail ever day to earn
their living, and leave it again every
night
Wires and bars are now produced di-
rect from fluid steel by pressing it out
through dies in manner similar TO
the production of lead pipes from lead.
The honey crop for this year in San
Diego county, California, is estimated
on good authority at 2.177, 500 pounds.
This would equal LOSS tons, or over
100 carloads.
Miss Blanche Williams, colofed, who
has matriculated at Toronto Uuiversi-
tv. is said to have passed an excellent
examination in French and German, as
well as in English.
People like the grip-cars right well
for one reason. Cigarette smokers
fill the car with their vile flavor of
burning paper. Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t is learned from the Sanitary News
that carbolic acid sold for disinfecting
purposes is adulterated until but 5 per
cent of its active principle remains,
while there should be at least IS per
cent.
Two young Philadelphia sportsmen
were recently freed for 4 whole day up
in Potter County by bear, which, as
was afterward found out, was perfect
" tame-an escaped pet; but they paid
$50 for the privilege of shooting it.
A French scientist who says he has
Investigated 400 shocks of earth
quakes attributes them, like the tides,
to the influence of the sun and moon.
The interior sea of fire, be argues, is
subject to the same laws rs the surface
sea of water.
When the ropes with which oil wells
are drilled are worn out they still have
their uses. They are purchased by junk
dealers, thoroughly cleansed of oil and
reduced to a pulp, which forms the
basis of the heavy paper of which flour
sacks and wrapping paper are made.
In preparing to play the part of a
boy in her new play, 1.-The Trump"
Mrs. Langtry is said to rehearse sever
al hours every day in pantaloons Ito
get the hang of EN-" and yet she is be-
lieved to have worn them continuously
during her sojourn with MIR. Langtry.
The Pull Mall Gazette, referring to
the deposing of Bret Harte as Ameri-
can Consul at Glasgow, says it is
standing joke with him and his friends
that the last time he went there he in
guired what place it was when the train
arrived, and it was notorious that he
seldom went there.
The internal heat of the earth, is be-
ing investigated by the German Gov
eminent. a shaft sunk at Schlade-
bach has penetrated about i. 565 feet
under ground, believed to be the great
est depth yet reached by boring. At
this point the earth's temperature is
120 degrees Fahrenheit.
An English naturalist recommends
the importation Of the blue titmouse in
TO this country TO deyOur the WORMS
and caterpiIlars. He mistakes the
country need. II i an animal that
will deyour the English sparrow which
was brought mere TO do the WORK for
which the tItmousc is recommended.
a new method OF dressing wounds.
by which their healing is said to be
fastened and The pain made to disap-
pear al once, has been brought into no.
tice by French surgeon. Ii consists
in the application OF congresses wet
with detection of thirty parts of val
erian root in LOO parts OF water. 1t is
expressly stated that the treatment is
OF no avail IN deep wounds.
Pottery was discovered, Grant Allen
suggests, by accident. A savage car
ried some water in calabash-the
hard shell of 4 tropical fruit-when it
occurred to him to smear the outside
with clay and put the calabash itself
over the fire. This he did, the water
boiled, and upon removing the calabash
he found it incased and protected By a
hard, red, stone-like substance.