The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-03-26
GLEANINGS.
Henry Ward Beecher hates dogs and

| 1t is said that japanese women have
| never seen and do not know the use of
pins.
Notwithstanding all the talk, Chinese
| lepers are as rare as hens teeth in San
| Francisco.
There are now nearly seven million
children liz tie United States who do
not know their letters.
Tennessee has great natural resourc-
es, including 10000 square miles of
timber as yet untouched.
Nine. Ristori wants to buy a Boston
residence. She has one in London, one
in Paris, and one in Rome.
1t is estimated that two large parties
| given recently in Boston were produc-
tive of distributing 100000 among
artisans and others.
Small tobacco pipes are frequently
] unearthed in Ireland, and are supposed
/ to ante-date the introduction of tobacco
in Europe by Raleigh.
Gainesville, Ga, claims the honor of
having more boys between the age of
ten and fifteen years than any other
town of its size in the world.
| An Andersonville, Ca, physician
boasts of having watch 2l3 years old
| and clock over $50 years old, both
running and keeping good time.
Hira Bates and wife, now residing at
South Hanover, Mass, were both born
| on the same day, August 5, 1896, and
within few hours of each other.
The Journal of Health says the ill
health of school children is more large
| ly due to lack of proper care at home
than to inadequate hygienic provisions
| in the school-rooms.
Cincinnati has under discussion the
| building of an elevated belt railroad
| around the city, the length of which
| will be seventeen miles and the esti-
mated cost 100000.
Under the cellar of famous inn at.
Bath. England, called the Sedan Chair,
which was lately demolished, the work
men discovered a fine mosaic pavement
belonging to Roman times.
The tonnage of the effective armored
fleets of the leading naval powers of
Europe is as follows: England, 329. 500
tons; France, POI, 789; Germany, "A, O07
tons; Austria. 63,11O; Russia, S3,62l,
| and Italy, 59,905.
Since the birth of the first Prince of
| Wales in 1884, more than six centuries
| ago, the title has been borne by seven
teen persons, but the present possessor
| of it is the only one who has lived to
see son attain his majority.
A Montana man has introduced in the
Territorial Legislature bill to regu-
| late inheritances, which provides that
| no person shall be allowed by will, be-
quest, or inheritance as heir to any es-
tate, money, or property, exceeding the
value of 81 100000.
Gone to join William Tells apple:
Another famous legend has struck
| snag. 1t is now asserted that when
| Rome burned tiddles had not been in
vented and consequently Nero could
not have INDUCED in the musical pas
time attributed to him.
! The latest novelty is ginger ice
cream, in which the heat of the ginger
| counteracts the chill of the cream, and
fire of the ginger, producing happy
medium most gratifying to the epicur-
can palate. -Newton (M ~ Register
Ministers need no longer preach
against roller-skating. The rink has
had its day, and its new rival, the
toboggan slide, will ruin the roller
skate trade. Tobogganing is the sport
of the future, and it will be useless for
any man 10 try to resist it.-N Y.
| Times.
The cocoanut will not flourish away
| from, tha bnJ-n and no -,porpof i,
trucr to the pole than is the root of the
cocoanut tree to the ocean, for when
the roots break through its husks it
points directly toward the sea, no mat
ter in what position the nut is placed in
the ground.
The venerable Professor Leopold Won
| Ranke is great favorite in Berlin So
ciety. His conversation is brilliant and
| epigrammatic, and he is always good
natured. In religion he is al ultra
orthodox Lutheran, in politics con-
sentative RoyaliSt, and in all things an
intense Prussian.
| The Washington monument has had
strange visitors since its erection. A
gaunt and hungry cat climbed to the
| top; five rats have made the ascent to
| get the CRUMBS from the workingmen's
lunches; wasps build their nests and
| pigeons roost at nj ght 434 feet above
the habitation of man.
| The Connecticut legislature has pass
ed bill offering 10 cents to any per-
son planting, protecting and cuItivating
elm, maple, tulip, ASH, Eastwood, oak,
black walnut, hickory, apple, pear or
cherry trees, not more than sixty feet
apart, for three years, along any pub
lie highway of the State.
The temperature Of the mines on tho
| ComstOck vein is exceedingly high. At
depths of 1,50O feet and 1000 feet the
thermometer placed in IA fresh-drill.
ed hole will show $50 dpgrces. Very
large bodies of water have run for
years at $50 degrees, and mailer bod
les at 10 degrees. The temperature
is kept down to 10 degrees by forcing
in fresh air cooled over ice.
John C. Emo mad rather uncom-
Portable time when he went to the Que
bee opera house the other night to
hear the ''Chi es OF Normandy"
When the old miser. Gasnard, gloating
over his gold, repeated aloud There
are no defaulting bank presidents
| mere, all eyes were lnStinctveiy turn
ed toward Emo. He b u>hed up to the
roots of his hair and did cot look at his
ease again until the curtain fell for the
! last time.
There are great many handsome
men in Texas. The free, outdoor life,
with much notwithstanding, gives
them good forms, clear eyes and COM
plexions. There is great deal of ma
tive intelligence and good thinking.
The women among the well-to-do class
es appear to live mostly indoors Even
in cities very few are seen on the street
or in the stores. They are no as often
rosy-cheeked as the men, but much
oftener powdered.
1t is estimated that there are one
thousand Chinese children in San Fran
cisco eligible to the public schools