The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-04-16
GLEANINGS.

salted IN tnree Gays Dy new process.
Barlow (Fla) claims the honor of
being the farthest south of any point in
the United States reached by railroad.
The United States Government spent
$1,000 at Bozeman, NJ. T., to convict a
man for stealing 81 worth of postage
stamps. Who cares for expenses?
The Columbus Medical Journal re-
ports a case of death on the fifth day,
after taking eighty-five grains of bro
mide of potassium every four hours.
Charles Kingsley once said: IF you
want to be miserable, think about your
self, about what you want, what you
like. what respect people ought to pay
you, and what people think of you"
The Cherokee (Kan.) Sentinel says
the farmers in that section are all live
men. Each farm is known by title,
and the owners have printed stationery
on which to write their correspond
ence.
Vermont has still unrepealed law
on her statute books empowering her
justices of the peace to order the col
lection of wheat at shillings, rye at
shillings per bushel to pay the salaries
of certain specified preachers.
Arizona contains within her borders
nearly, if not quite, $4,000 square miles
of coal formation, which is computed
to be almost one-half of the coal areas
of the United States. The beds vary
in thickness from two inches to twenty
feet
The grandparents of a nine-months-
old baby girl at Erie have presented it
with superb sapphire necklace, and
the largest diamond to be found at a
leading New York jewelers.. They
promise to add each year two equally
gorgeous gems.
Senator Garland rarely goes to the
theater. 1t is told on him that several
years ago he went to see Joe Jefferson
in rip Van Wrinkle" the whole week
through - seven performances - and
then regretted that rip" was not to
run another week.
George Augustus Sala has made 50, SOC
on his nose. Georges nose is of the
sunset tint. A jealous fellow-journalist
once said it had attained that hue
through Mr.. Sala's copious indulgence
in stimulants. Result, libel suit and
$4,000 damages for plaintiff.
Osman Digma's original name was
Alphonse Vinet, he being a full-blood-
ed Frenchman. He was at one time
sold as a slave to Mohammed Ahmed
ell Mehdi, but quickly rose in that
prophets favor and became his son-in-
law. He is now about SO years old.
Mrs. Burton, wife of the well-known
traveller. has always averred that since
England took the Koh-i-noor diamond,
proverbial for the i'll luck it brings,
nothing but disaster has attended all
concerning British India. Recent
events will more than ever sustain her.
Col. Dwight Hall, OF Wallingford,
Mass, who has key left by Washing
ton in jeremiah Covington's tavern
there October Is, 1889, will have it
overland with silver and framed, to be
sent to President Cleveland, with a let
ing its history.
Sir Erasmus Wilson states in Quain's
new dictionary of medicine, page SIC,
that hair may turn white in a few
hours from mental disturbance, and
that it is caused by the rapid develop
ment of gaseous fluid within the sub
stance of the hair obscuring the pig
mentary granules.
Mr.. John Bright wrote to a confer
ence of a funeral reform association:
LAS to funerals, our religious society
has always offered good example to
other sects and churches and to the
public. but sects and churches and the
public are slow at learning this and
some other matters"
In the Island of Ivaca the popular
emblem of love is gunpowder, and the
most brilliant accomplishment young
damsel can display is to stand without
tlinching while her lover fires at her
legs, and which often assumes after a
lengthy courtship the appearance of a
Christmas plum-pudding.
There are some very odd things to
interest the traveller in Porto Rico. The
''switchmen" on the railroad are color
ed women, the telegraph operator at
one of the stations is convict with a
ball and chain on his leg, and the gar
deners at the Captain Generals coun-
try palace are Cinnamon with pigtails.
The oldest tree on earth, so far as
any one knows, is said to be the "Bo"
tree in the sacred city of Amarapoora,
Burmah. 1t was planted in 2S9 B. c.,
and is accordingly PHI years old. Its
great age is, according to Sir James
Emerson Tennett, proved by historic
documents. 1t is regarded as sacred.
There are 1915 trotting horses with
records of 2:3) or better, and $50
PAGERS whose records are within 2:3O.
In color the bays predominant, in both
PAGER and trotter, chestnuts taking
second place, while with the PAGERS
the grays and off colors are more nu-
merous in proportion to the number of
horses.
Lumber pools are being formed to
buy and hold timber lands until want
ed. One pool has recently bought
5000, 100000 feet, and refused to sell
any. This sort of control is steadily
growing, and will, in time, extend it.
self over enough timber territory to
make too rapid denudation of forest
timber impossible.
The american Mdchinist gives the
number of locomotives belonging to
American railroads at 1926 Reckon
ing the life of a locomotive twenty-five
years. there should be 1,169 of them
constructed in order to maintain the
stock. A car wheel lasts about eight
years; we are using 100000 of them
and produce 1,25O, 600 yearly.
There is said to be no living thing
that will compare with the common
flea in strength and agility. A flea,
one-sixteenth of an inch in length, can
jump a distance of twenty inches. This
is 800 times its length. If We should
require six-foot man to jump 800
times his length he would be obliged to
land 1920 feet from where he left the
ground.
A Methodist elder at Fort Worth,
Tex, recently whipped a bully, and
the Methodist OF that town thus appre-
ciatively describes the incident: THE
elder took him one square blow be-
tween the lockers without stopping his
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