The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-05-28
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| ital amateur boxer.
Queen Victoria is said to have,
| mounted in silver, the ball that killed
Admiral Nelson.
Vaccination with the microbe of lep-
rosy is about to be undertaken in Hon
olulu, where the disease is spreading
to an alarming extent.
The Medical Times says that the So
luton of cocoaine is being used by New
York dentists to render the filling of
teeth painless operation.
Colored people are more successfully
photographed, as rule, than white
people are. In taking pictures of ami
| mails cats are the best sitters.
The telephone monopoly is fast put
ting itself in position where the peo-
pie will be disposed to show that the
squeezing is game that both can play
at.-Boston Herald.
New York's State Capitol is Just
about as bad as the Hoosac Tunnel. 1t
has cost Sl6,OO0,000, and the bill APP
propriating another million to again
"complete" it is just going through the
Legislature.
The Medical Journal states that a
few handfuls of common salt thrown
daily into closets, and an occasional
handful into wash basins. goes far to-
ward counteracting the noxious effects
of the omnipresent sewer gas.
Coffee made with distilled water is
said to have greatly improved aroma.
1t seems that the mineral carbonates
in common water render the tannin of
the coffee berry soluble, but the drug
will not dissolve in distilled water.
The word ''zareba' imported from
Egypt since the opening of the cam
paign against Ell Mahdi, means a bar
ricade hastily constructed with army
wagons, baggage, brush, etc. Proba-
bly, our American earthworks meet the
idea as nearly as anything.
That pegged shoes and boots are still
quite extensively used might be infer
red from the fact that a peg manufac-
turing company at Bartlett, N. H., is
turning out the little wooden articles
at the rate of l, 800 bushels a day, and
has orders on hand that will require
several months to fill.
An Atlanta man claims to have dis
covered, new principle in hydraulics
which upset the old theory that water
will not rise in a vacuum more than
thirty-three feet. He says he can
| pump water any distance required, and
| partially proves his assertion by pump
| ing it 600 feet without valve and on
direct vertical rise.
In paper by DR.. Varick, read be-
fore County Medical Association, the
use of simple hot water as a dressing
f, for wounds is strongly recommended.
| During an experience in its use of six
| years in cases of acute surgery, such as
| railroad accidents, ETC., he has had no
| death from speticamia or primary or
| primary or secondary shock.
Genuine Perique tobacco only grows
| on ridge situated about one mile from
the Mississippi river, in St. James Par
ish, La, and that said ridge is only
| about two miles wide and seven miles
in length. Tobacco will grow in any
| part of the State, but it is on this
! patch only that the famous Perique
is cultivated. The average crop is
about $1,000 pounds.
AS rule longevity is less frequent
than people think. The age of SO is
reached only by person in IS, the age
| of 100 by in 3, 800 and the age of 10
| by l in 100000 Out of ], 200 individ-
uals "a die between 60 and 20, about 90
between 20 and 80, "a between 80 and
| 80 and not more than one between 80
and 100. The average of life seldom
exceeds 80 years, even in the best-reg-
ulated and temperate communities.
In Japan earthquakes have had a
very noticeable influence IN determin-
ing the nature of the buildings. Arch
| ltecture as understood in other parts of
the world may be said to have hardly
any existence there. In consequence
OF the frequent shaking to which houses
4! are subjected it is said that the great
| city of 1eddo has to be practically re-
built on an average every seven years.
Fire almost invariably follows a great
earthquake in Japan.
There is in Schuyler County, N. Y,
young old man who, without appar-
ent cause, living plainly on farm,
has IN eighteen years passed through
the physical changes of four score At
the age of six he had all the develop
ment of strength and muscle usual in a
lad of fifteen. At twelve his beard was
grown and gray hairs appeared. Now,
at eighteen, he is as decrepit as an old
man of eighty, and seems tottering on
the verge of the grave.
certain Brooklyn gentleman who
has successfully practiced an old meth
cd OF extending his income by borrow
ing, has been so annoyed by duns that
his physician has been called TO his aid
The medical gentleman has cautioned
him against discussing business mat
tiers, especially with his creditors"
Written advice to this effect is faunt-
lngly waved in the faces of the expect
ant gentlemen who call upon him to
settle their bills.
Well-diggers may learn point from
! Sylvester Snow, who occupies range 81,
south of Plankington, Dakota He al
ways makes it a point if possible, to
find an ant hill, and digging directly
beneath it, Invariably strikes water at
a depth of from nine to seventeen feet
1t is said that the ants invariably locate
| their hills directly over vein of water.
| Tie says he has tried the experiment
several times in Dakota, as well as in
the East, and as yet it has not failed
| once.
German sea captains have filed in
Berlin reports from which it appears
| that the glacial Labrador current is an
nually protruding further and further
south, crowding the gulf spring out of
its wonted spring course. So great is
the southwark sweep of the heavy gla-
cial current that when the buoy at
tached to the broken end of the Allan
tic cable of 1865 got adrift it was found
to have travelled nearly due south a
distance OF 600 miles in scventy-siy
days, in opposition to the gulf stream.
A female dentist in Oregon is said to
| have resorted to novel device to OBJ
tain husband. She had as a patient
handsome man, and one day gave
| him a dose of ether that confused, but
did not make him insensible. Then
| she sent for a clergyman. and while
| the subject was under the influence of
| the drug the two were declared man