The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-02-19
GLEANINGS.


that snails in captivity can live on
paper.
Nearly five thousand patents on
churns have been issued in this country
alone.
There is a glacier in Alaska moving
along at the rate of quarter of mile
year.
With the exception of Hayes all the
Presidents since Lincoln have been
smokers.
A fair quality of artificial stone is
made of equal parts of lime and sand.
1t costs about the same as brick.
The Italian funds have lately been
quoted as nearly the same figures as
the English. In 1866 they stood at sc.
Just sixteen years ago the interest on
the national debt amounted TO $685.
0O0,000 year. 1t is now $5S, 600, 900.
There are $500, OOO,O 900 copies of
daily, weekly and monthly journals
published annually in America, against
7,50O, 900, 900 copies in Europe.
Penny dinners have proved so popu-
lar among the children of the London
poor that movement is now on foot to
provide penny breakfasts. In some
schools 20 per cent of the children are
unable to procure breakfasts.
A family of twelve children now re-
siding in England can count up their
aggregate ages to the figure of 972
years. The youngest is seventy-nine
and the Oldest is eighty-nine, the aver
age for each of the twelve children be-
ing eighty-one years.
Queen Victoria's determined an
nouncement that she shall keep Beat
rice with her after the marriage to the
impecunious Prince Henry of Batten-
berg is believed to be prompted partly
by her love for Beatrice and more by
the belief that she can board the beg
carly Battenberg cheaper than Beat
rice can.
The Campbellite Church, the denom-
ination to which Mr.. Garfield belonged,
has purchased $4,000 acres of land, at
S1.75 per acre. and taken up $1,000
acres additional, near Redding, Shasta
county, Cal, on which they intend 10
found colony The Complexities of
st. Louis are the prime movers in the
enterprise.
Mr., Froude is going round the world,
partly for the sake of his health and
partly because, as he says, Il have
grown tired of the chatter which my
last volumes on Carlyle have brought
forth, and | thought thatin six months,
at any rate, the world would forget the
existence of SO unlucky person as the
biographer of Carlyle"
Experiments have lately been made
in Paris which it is to be hoped will
lead to process of heating railway
carriages by electricity. A Gramme
machine generates current that pro-
duces heat in boxes similar to the pres
ent hot-water pans, but which will diff
fer from them in uniformly accomplish
ing the object for which they are de-
signed.
In the lead production of different
countries Spain holds the first place,
the amount reaching some 120, 00J tons
in one year, or one-siXth more than
America, which comes next on the list,
while Germany follows with $4,000, OF
SPANS total production some $1,000
tons are derived from one district, that
of Linares, in which more than 800
mines are registered.
There is.a Baptist Church in Pittsyl-
vania county i'll which is kept cradle
During a single sermon often as many
as half a dozen babies are rocked in it.
A child is not half so apt to make itself
disagreeabl2 in a cradle as in it's moth
er'S arms even, and lencc. rs sooR- as
one such begins 10 give trouble, it is
placed in the church cradle.-hich-
npnd (FG.J HeiigjoaS Nerald.
After Ilr. Thoma; Whitaker had
been giving a temperance lecture at
the Alexandra palace, London. L friend
said to MIN: "Wny, InOm;is, / heard
you say the same Things twenty years
ago. 1 can't think how you can 60 on
repeating the same old stories" .'Ah!
Did you?" replied Mr. Whitaker.
well, I've heard YOU lots of times,
and for the life of me | cant remem-
Der single thing you ever said"
The Adams family is renowned for
IFS diary writing. John Adams began
a diary Nov. -. 1855, just after his
twentieth birthday, and continued it
with breaks until Nov. q, 1777. The
diary of his son, John Quincy Adams,
was begun soon afterward. and ran
through its course until 1873. 1t is
said the third generation has done
similar work, so that 100 years of his
tory will be found i'll the family annals
Boston JOurna'.
Prof. f. l.. Ritchel, of Bridgeport,
Conn. has invented a poisonous air.
bomb, which is charged with gases
several times compressed and impreg-
mated with poisonous vapors which will
prove quickly fatal to any creatures
breathing them. With one of them he
killed twenty rats in an Enclosure. The
bomb exploded will charge a radius of
100 feet with silent death. An army
bonn barded with such bombs would
have to retreat or be annihilated.
This is Laramie, Wyo., criticism or
a Western actress; And Stringham-
the sublime and beautiful Sadie-how
shall we find the words to characterize
her? She was a symphony in red.
She had rouge enough on her face to
paint the town, the general effect being
heightened by crimson dress of an
tlque design. 5 repeated several times
chat she was ready to beg from door
to door TO save her tarving child and
that's about what she will have to 60
if she depends on the stage for liv-
ing"
Mr.. Dolby's book on Dickens as
lecturer confirms the opinion that
Dickens brought on his death by over
work and over-eycitement. According
to Mr.. Dolby, the reading of the MUIR
der scene in ''Oiver Twist" by Dickens
brought up the readers pulse from its
normal y to 11S. ''On these occa-
sions he would have to be supported to
his retiring-room and laid on the sofa
for fully ten minutes before he could
speak rational or consecutive SEN
tence." Yet this reading he gave very
frequently.
A Learned Judge.
well, remarked The Justice, What
is this young man accused OF ?'
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