The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-10-22
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Bog oak and Irish diamond jewels
are once more worn in London.
Scientific inquiry is being made into
the medical virtues of dogs tongues.
Do not put salt into soup when
cooking until it has been skinned, as
salt prevents the scum from rising.
A strip of property only one inch
wide, situated in One Hundred and
Thirty-fifth street, near Eighth avenue
New York, has been sold for 1915.
The Superior Court of North Carroll
ma has decided that railroad compa-
ny can not force a passenger to ride
in smoking-car if he objects to doing
so.
Capt. James B. Eads of St Louis
says he has been called to Brazil by
the Emperor 10 examine the harbor OF
Rio Grande do Sui with view to its
Improvements
Toy rabbits, with clockv ork things
to make them hop, are let loose at
Newport balls, to the vociferous Joy OF
silly beaux and the trepidation of mice
stunning young women.
A Paris writer finds two types of
faces among the English girls-the
nose of the one is ''wedge-shaped,"
and of the other slightly retrouSse; and
he adds their eyes are uniformly Rue''
and their feet 'long and square-toed.
Epicures object to spring chickens
Matched in incubators and raised by
hand. 1t is alleged that on the artiti-
cial diet they lack the flavor of chicks
who can pick nice juicy worms and
delicateiy organized bugs out of dirt
which the hen scratches over in the
barnyard.
Rochefort, despite his radical de-
mocracy, is not able altogether to sub
due his instructive aristocracy. He
failed in practical politics because OF
his dislike of mobs. He fatters the
common people in l. Intraastgeant, but
when it comes to mingling with them
personally, never
The new idea in nostrums is not to
pretend that particular medicine will
cure all maladies, but will positively
and completely cure the one disease
for which it is designed. The clear
sighted student of human nature who
discovered this slant is said to be on
the road to fortune.
The New York papers seem more
troubled about a suitable inscription
for the Grant monument than they are
about the million dollars to erect the
monument. 1t might be well enough
not to hurry about the inscription. BY
the time the monument is finished the
English may be one of the dead Ian
I L. r.
In Tolosa. Spain. the people insist
upon it that Mr.. White, an English
protestant missionary, who went
through the province distributing BIZ
bles, brought the plague: so they hit
upon the remedy of stoning the Eng
lishman, who found it advisable to take
to his heels. He was, however, badly
bruised by the heavy missiles thrown
at him.
There are existing more than forty
Egyptian obelisks; many of them are
fallen and broken. There are seven
teen of them in Italy, seven in England,
two in France, two in Constantinople,
and one III this country. The smallest
is at Berlin, which is twenty-five and a
half inches high. An unfinished one i'll
Inc qudIIleS III cOeue IL eSlluldlcu 10
weigh LOO, 900 pounds.
Dr. Crichton Browne says that the
men of to-day eat bread, mot in the
sweat of their faces, but in the fever OF
their brains" Apoplexy, neuro-
cephalus and paralysis are, he says,
carrying off an increased number of
victims every year. In England dur
ing the five years 1861 they caused
105, 1S9 deaths, and in 1876-SO the num-
Der had increased to 145, SOB.
Milo Collins, the half-breed Indian
who placed $4,000 in one OF our banks
this week, started in the business of
stocA-raiSing with two or three head of
cattle a few years ago. Yearly he has
disposed of portion Of his increase,
and recently sold his herd for S22, 00O
This shows the possibilities of stock
raising Milo is married to deaf wo-
man of the Crow tribe, and takes life
very easy, surrounded by his horses,
cows, and offspring. (Hont)
Chronicle.
Referring to the rage among Ameri-
cans for the collection of relics a Lon
don paper sarcastically says: 1T is the
American who chips off bits of the
Parthenon, who cngrosses the lynx
eyes OF the Swiss guards at the Vatican,
who used to make Temple Bar even
more hideous than it was, and who
barks every British tree to which any
tradition attaches or from which any
historical character has been suspend
ed. Americans supply steady market
for locks OF hair ana old boots, and
they were chief bidders for the clip
pings of Thorwaldsen's beard, which
was sold in Copenhagen.
Particularly interesting points, sharp
ened and put at the service Of the pub
lie by the late S. l.. Burritt, of Jack
sonville, Ga, who once relieved the
tedium of a six months sea voyage in
their compilation 1.-The Bible contains
1866, 369 letters, SO, 697 words, 31,173
verses. 1.164 chapters and 66 books.
The word and occurs 46, 227 times,
Lord 1870 times, reverend ONLY
once and that in the 11th psalm. The
9th chapter of Ezra contains the alpha
bet The 10Th chapter of the I'd book of
Kings and the 9th chapter of Isaiah are
alike. The first man recorded AS be-
ing buried in coffin was Joseph-5Oth
chapter of Genesis, Goth verse. No
where but in the 1st chapter of 81 Tim
othy is the word grandmother men
toned. Two particularly fine chap
tiers to read, you will find, are I'd Joel
and the Goth Acts. There is no name
or word of more than six syllables in
the Holy Bible.
A toboggan slide LOO feet long is
being laid out at Waterbury, Conn.,.
and it is predicted that many other
American towns and cities will adopt
the exhilarating Canadian sport this
| winter.