The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-12-24
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region are operated with Cinnamon.
The mightiest of sea monsters is a
Russian ram now being built at cost of
$2,500,00O.
A plant has been discovered in Central
America from which .'real" ostrich feath-
ers will soon be made.
Recent discoveries prove that the art
of wood engraving originated with the
Arabs about the ninth century.
James R. Randall, who wrote s.My
Maryland when he was twenty-five, is
about to publish his first collection of
poems
Philadelphia claims to have in its
200" the largest and best collection of
the kind in the world, except that of
London.
A Chinaman at Sacramento has estab-
lished factory for manufacturing idols
and devils for use in Chinese professions
and temples.
An experienced arctic explorer says
that any further attempts to reach high
northern ATTITUDES must be made by way
of Franz Josef land.
A Philadelphia journalist has the larg-
est collection of canes of any man in
America They were gathered from all
quarters of the globe.
Russian physicians cure catarrh by the
application of ice-cold water to the ex-
tremities,. which are then rubbed vigor-
ously with coarse towel.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has
decided that tramps have the right to
tramp SO long as they do not trespass.
The decision will not help the tramps
very much.
A girl at Memphis has horsewhipped
her prospective father-in-law for endeav
oring to induce his son to break off the
union. This looks like a solemn warn
ing for the young man.
In Santa Clara County, Cal, there is
rat, allied to the ground-nest making
species, which climbs small trees and
makes a compact nest of twigs among
the branches, something after the man.
ner of gray squirrel.
There are 1900 white people in South
eastern Alaska. Vegetation is abundant
and luxurious, the cattle sleek and fat,
and the mining industry assuming large
proportions. These facts appear in an
official report to Washington.
Twelve life prisoners in the Kentucky
penitentiary work at chairmaking. Not
one of them is under six feet in height.
Eleven of them are ex-Confederate
soldiers. They are all industrious, ODE
dent, submissive, and accomplishing.
A new element has been discovered in
nickel ore from Norway. 1t is malleable,
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presenting, when pure, metallic luster,
but oxidizing when exposed to the atmos-
phere. 1t is about as hard as copper.
'"The claimants sons" says The Lon
don World, ''are going in for military
lives. One has joined the depot of the
Hampshire regiment at Winchester, and
brother is in the cavalry regiment
Both were recruited under the name of
Tichborne."
Three of the largest locomotives in
the world are being manufactured in the
city of Mexico. They have sixteen driv-
ers, will pass a curve of 20 to % degrees
with ease, and can carry weight of
100000 pounds! They are intended for
use on the Tehuantepec Ship Railroad.
The American Ornithologists' Union
officially recommend that all public fos-
tering of the English sparrow be stopped;
that its introduction into new localities
be prohibited by law, and that all exist
ing laws for its protection be repealed.
and pounties offered for its destruction.
Col. A. Louden Snowden, ex-superin-
| tendent of the mint at Philadelphia, says
| that in 1873 he received, with orders to
melt down, collection of most exquisite
silverWare, which the first Napoleon gave
| to Joseph Bonaparte, wi.o left it to Lis
private secretary, who turned it into
| cash.
Mr.. Z. A. Lever, New Orleans journ-
| alist, has served in the American, Mexi-
| can, Gillian, and Peruvian armies, and
| has just received a commission as briga-
| der general from the Honduras govern
ment, which probably intends to use this
| Lever to raise regiments for the army of
the republic.
| Antique furniture is becoming more
and more used in the finest houses in
| Washington. A dealer tells me Senator
! Logan has bought about 81, 800 worth
for his house. Secretary Whitney has
| bought nearly $4,000 worth of old furni-
ture foe his country place, and the pur-
chases of Mrs. Blaine run high into the
| hundreds.
1t has been hoped that few of the
| gigantic ostrich-like birds (Eryornts) of
| Madagascar, supposed to be the original
| OF the tabled roc, might still be living,
| but thorough search of the deserts in
| the interior of that island shows that this
hope is unfounded, though the species no
doubt existed within comparatively re-
| cent times.
| The Hestern Druggist thinks that to
prevent the dispensing of morphine for
| quinine strip of steel should be firmly
| riveted over the mouth of the vial con-
tanning it, the neck being first plugged
with torpedo so arranged as to explode
and shatter the steel when the poison is
taken in hand. If the clerk survives he
| will know that the shock meant NOR
| phine.
| A writer from the tea districts of
| Northern India defines the different varie-
ties of tea as follows: The very coarse
| tea remaining after the first sitting
| (Which ends the making } is called Be-
hea, and the second quality Souchong.
| Flowery Pekoe is the very young shoot,
with. down on it, called the flower.
Facing" tea is simply cooking it in an
iron pan. by which means principally
| green tea acquires its color.
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