The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-11-12
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There are FIVE hundred persons en-
ployed in the United States signal
| service
1t is estimated that 6S churches in
Paris possess works of art valued at
| 81. 615, $40.
Fashionable people ON Murray Hill,
New York, employ a man by the year
| to feed and take care of their cats.
Two hundred and fifty million per-
sons quench their thirst every year at
the London public drinking fountains.
The United States produces nearly
| 50,000 lawn mowers annually, and ex-
ports to every civilized country on the
| globe.
There are 445, 900. 900 acres of forest
| in the United States, and this area is
| reduced at the rate of 20, 0O0, 900 acres
annually.
Durham, N. c., now a famous to-
| bacco town of six thousand inhabitants,
| was hamlet of less than one hundred
souls 20 years ago.
| Mrs. Lew Wallace uses for paper
weight turquoise, from the Santa Fe
mines, which is said to be one of the
finest in the world.
In San Francisco there are 800
| Chinese launcries, employing 5000
men, the value of which is roughly
estimated at $250,0O0.
Many of the spring chickens sold in
New York city are fattened on sun
| flower seeds, which are said to impart
to the flesh very fine flavor.
In the region of the Catskills there
are more than 1000 hotels and board
ing houses, in which some 500, 300
visitors are yearly accommodated.
A Venetian gondolier makes on an
average four francs, about eighty cents
a day, the year round. On this he will
marry, rear a family, and put some
money away.
Hercules Wilson, colored, has re-
signed his seat in the Georgia Legisla-
ture. giving as a reason that he can
make more money by laying brick at
81 to S. day.
In Germany women do the main part
of the mental outdoor work Not in
frequently woman and a cow are
seen pulling a coal cart through the
streets. man behind gently touching
them up with whip.
A new system of drying lumber by
surrounding it with common salt is
just now attracting attention. The
peculiar power of salt for absorbing
moisture is well known.
Texas is progressing wonderfully
fast. In 1870 the grand total value OF
farm products of the state was $40,
100000. Now it has swelled to the
enormous sum of $S1. 006. 900.
Over 5000 women are employed in
the railroad offices in Austria They
get from S15 to $50 month. Nearly
all of them are widows OF men who
have died in the railroad service.
From 1871 to May 1874, inclusive,
the French government has expended
on the purchase of pictures and sculpt-
ures by living artists II. 700, Alp francs,
averaging more than 100000 francs
per annum.
AS many as 200 needle pointed light.
ning-rod tips (made in Philadelphia,
by the by) have been fixed upon the
rods at the top of the Washington
Monument to catch any thunderbolts
that may come flashing down.
The present production of the Rus
sian petroleum field is between 3O,OOC
and $4,000 barrels per day. 1t could
probably be increased to $4,000 bar.
rels from the same wells, provided
they were allowed to produce all the
time.
Albert Ulysses Simpson Grant Baat
has become known to fame not sc
much on account of his odd name as
because he collected a purse for the
Grant monument in New York. A. u.
s. 6. B. is boy of eleven, and he has
as many pockets as names.
A number of Yankee schoolma' ans.
who some time ago went to the Argen.
tine Republic, South America, to fol
low their vocation, have made excel.
lent matches with eligible Argentines,
and the demand is greater than the
supply Blondes are preferred.
New York saw new feature in adj
vertlsing few days ago, when n nicely
attired, good-looking girl distributed
business cards from a Ii ght wagon or
Broadway. This is a refreshing varia
ton from the peripatetic advertising
sandwiches of men and bill-boards thai
impede travel on crowded thorough
fares.
Massachusetts will be interested to
learn that on an original map of the
world by which Alexander vi. divided
the discoveries between Spain and Por
tugal, and which is now in the posses
sion of the Vatican, all the presen
United States form blank space
marked Terra de Bacalaos," or, The
Land of Goldfish.
Mr.. Parnelps estate in Wicklow, al
ready rich in valuable stone, almost ex
clusively used now in Dublin building
has developed new source of wealti
in mushrooms in great profusion anc
of extraordinary size. One specimen
sent to the Dublin market weighed fou
pounds and measured more than foo
within the cup.
The United States navy comprise:
thirty-nine vessels, and to officer thi:
fleet we have, on the active list rear
admirals, Is commodores, As captains
IS commanders, IA lieutenant com.
manders, Psi lieutenants, 10 junior
lieutenants, 1873 ensigns, and rs nava
cadets; and in the staff, 160 doctors
120 paymasters, and PAP engineers.
The Journal of Chemistry relates
that celebrated Partisan belle whs
made profuse use of cosmetics, from
the soles of her feet to the roots of hel
hair, one DAY took medicated bath
and on emerging from it was Mortified
to find herself as black as an Ethiopian
The transformation was complete; no
vestige of the supreme Caucasian
race" was left, 1t took some time t.
restore her to membership with tn,
white race.
The greatest gunpowder blast il
connection with railway works wa:
that b. which Sir William Cubitt blew
away with one charge of 10000 pound.
of gunpowder, the entire mass of tn,
Round Down Cliff, which rose to tn,
height of $50 feet above the level O
the sea, within few miles of Dover
This monster blast fired by electricit,
iof