The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-03-19
manitomoe pilot.
THURSDAY, MARCH -, 1885.
GLEANTNGS.

John Ruskin wants the sewing ma
chine TO 60.
In Scotland they are trying divorces
and like them.
Arab Pasha is teaching school at
Colombo, in Ceylon.
Statistics show that women graduates
are about year older than men on the
average.
The word "hell'' appears eighty-six
times in Shakspeare's writings. and
| heaven SOC times.
Mrs. Diaz, wife of the Mexican presi-
dent, is only % years old. She was q
Rubie before her resetting.
One of the Washington Treasury
clerks is able to count 1000 new notes
an hour for seven hours day.
John Bright says that Queen Victo-
ria's reign in England has sacrificed
$3.50, 900, 900 and $4,000 lives in war.
The old moss found more than a foot
thick IN various parts of Sweden proves
an excellent materialfor paper-making.
Old, broken-nosed pitchers which
during the recent ancient craze
brought $500 are now worth onl y 30
cents.
Practical anatomy is taught in some
of the public schools of New Haven,
CT, by the dissection of dead cats and
rabbits.
Miss Anthony, it is remarked, seems
to grow younger as her years pile up.
She is now 81 years old, and her face is
no more wrinkled than at so.
In Madagascar no one could read
sixty years ago, but now there are near
" 800, 600 on the island who have some
part of the bible and read it.
A postal card is not mailable with
any writing or printing on the address
side, except the address, nor with any
thing pasted or pinned to the other
side.
A tendency to build cheaper houses
is noted both in New York and in
Brooklyn, in the anticipation that low
er rents will be imperatively demanded
during the next year or two.
The Congregational Year Book of
England, just published, shows that
there are now 4,347 Congregational
churches in England and Wales. with
total seating capacity of 1,568,357.
A Georgia editor concentrates some
| ideas thus: Gold is found in thirty
six counties in this state, silver in three,
| diamonds in twenty-siX, and whisky in
| all of them, and the last gets away
| with all the rest"
| White and gold china, the pretty, old
| pattern, with the wedding ring in the
center of every piece, has suddenly
come into favor; and this is reasonable,
as nothing can be in better taste than
that old French china.
| 1t is claimed that the best apples to
be had on this coast, and as good as
there are in the world, are raised on
| the western slope of the Sierra Nevada
| Mountains, at an altitude of from 1000
to 5000 feet.-San Francisco Atta.
Dr. Evans, the celebrated American
dentist, of Paris, says that crammed
children are always destined to early
toothlessness, and that the best thing
to do with a bantling is to treat it like
i young colt, and turn it ont to grass.
Among the people who inhabit New
Britain, which has just been annexed
| by Germany, is said to be a race of
men with tails. They live in the inter-
ior and are shy of visiting the coast.
This being 4 travellers story shouldn't
prejudice one against it.
The Bostoniau bruiSer is not fool.
He fully appreciates the expensive ma
,ure of the law. When mulcted in
! 800 ana costs for abusing his horse he
aid to his counsel, I'D a blanked
sight rather pay than appeal" There
are sermons in other dense matter as
| well as ii stones.
Crime is increasing at fearful rate
n Italy. In 1874 there were 3,2l0 serv-
ing lie sentences i'll their penal estab-
Ii>hmentS; now there are ), 363, of whom
| 2O4 are female prisoners. Italy pays
S6,0U0,O00 for the maintenance of its
penal system, while for education only
S5,40O. 600 is set aside.
The sum of 81, 1913, $50 was spent bv
Americans for pictures by French art
lists in 1888, and only S694.S70 in 1884.
The artists, if they will recall the casu-
alties in Wall street last year. will at
once perceive that they cannot infer the
Americans no longer want French
pictures. The Current.
Harrison Hahn. of Wind Gap, North
ampton County, Pa, is the father of a
two-year-old girl whose ears are bent
forward and grown to the face Both
ears are without the orifce but deaf
ness is prevented by the girl hearing
every sound, no matter how light
through her nose and mouth.
The Eastman (Ga) Times says:
lake blade of bear grass and boil it
forty minutes. Then beat it with a
hammer and serape it until the threads
are smooth. Suspend it to a whip for
a cracker, and after it has worn a little
and becomes dry it will strike fire like
1int and steel when struck against dry
sands"
George Dolby, the historian of Dick
ems American tour has incurred the
wrath of Butfalonians by recording
that the novelist was struci. by the alb
sence of female beauty among his Buff
ialo audiences, and that the faces of
he girls of that city were of "a sort of
German-Irish- Scotch mixed with In
dian type"
We have been favored with another
piece of shcet-music, saws the New
York World. This is "A Cry of Love,
an Idylle by lie Marquis de Leuville "
II is not dedicated to anybody in par
ricular, and we accept it as a peace-of-
fering to the World. The refrain is,
20, kiss me once and let ME die" I'm
der the circumstances we give our re-
| iuctant consent.
A New England man who inherited
the estate of an uncle, which included
some papers he did not know much
about. presented the papers at the
Treasury at Washington and was III
formed that they were part of the "old
debt, y which ceased to bear interest in
1886. The amount was $4,000, and
the interest up to 1886 $4,000. The
New Highlander left the treasury with a
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