The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-02-18

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ship from Africa $1,000 cocoanuts.
These are to be planted this year along
strip OF seacoast many miles in length,
down toward the southernmost point Of
Florida.
An experiment in tea culture has been
made at Auburn, Placer county, CAL,
where plantation was set out some years
ago. There are about fifty tea-plants
which have for several years been pro-
ducing tea pronounced of good quail
ity. Futher experiment will be made
with tea seed, and the result will be watch
ed with interest.
An extraordinary feat in telephoning
was recently accomplished between st
Petersburg and Boulogne, distance of
2, 465 miles. Conversation was kept up,
notwithstanding rather high induction
The experiments were made during the
night, when the telegraph wires were not
at work. The Russian engineers hope to
succeed in conversing by telephone over
distance of 4, 665 miles.
AT Budapesth, Hungary, the Austrian
government has a model dairy school,
where from ten thousand to fifteen thou
sand quarts of milk are daily manipulat
ed. 1t has also opened official wine GEL
lar were farmers can store their vintages
if of saleable quality, have it prepared,
classified, and sold under the guarantee
of the state seal, as of a certain quality,
and at a proportionate price.
BILL JONES, a coIored man from
Waco, Texas, is surprising Philadelphia
by eating glass lamp chimneys and win
dowpanes with great relish. For his
principal meal he took lamp chimney
and champagne glass, for his dessert a
sandwich made of two slices of bread, a
thin silver of ham, and a small section
of window pane, and then croquette
made of chicken and powdered glass.
In America and Antilles green turkey
soup is extensively ''put up" in hermeti-
cally sealed tins and sent to all parts of
the world. One mandatory at Key
West, in Florida, prepares over 300. zoo
yearly, and employs quite little fleet of
vessels and large number of men in
catching the turtles or in collecting them
from the catchers. In Jamaica, Barbad
oes and other of the West India Islands
also, good business is done.
In Norway it is belived that wolves are
frightened away by telegraph lines.
While vote was pending on grant to a
new line, a member of the Storthing re-
marked that, while his constituents had
no direct interest in it, they would sup
port the grant, because the wires would
drive away the wolves. 1t is said that,
however hungry wolf may be, he will
never 60 into a spot that is enclosed by
ropes stretched on posts. 1t is stated, as
remarkable fact, that since the first
| Geographic line was established, twenty
years ago, wolves have never appeared in
its neighborhood.
TEEL's marsh, in Nevada is the most
productive borax field on the Pacific
coast. Its deposits cover ten square miles
of surface, ard it is said to include chem
ically pure common salt, borax in three
forms, sulphate of soda and carbonate OF
soda. The basin of Nevada, in which il
is situated, is covered in many parts will
with dry, eff1orescent salts, washed il
course of ages from the soda, feldspar OF
of the volcanic rocks and ridges of vel
low lava which cover the country for
miles. The waters of lakes are heavy,
appear like thin Oil, smell like soap, pos
sess great defensive qualities, are caustit
as potash, and easily saponify.
An English company has been formed
with large capital for the regular con
Segment of frozen meat from the Falk
land island to England. A special agent
has been appointed who has entered into
contracts with the sheep farmers for sup
plying forty thousand sheep for exporta
ton annually for five years. A steamer
has been chartered by company for the
whole of that period. She has the re-
quisite machinery and freezing-rooms
for freezing and transporting one thou
sand tons of sheep every voyage. 1t is
asserted that the flesh of the Falkland
island sheep is superior to that of the
Australian or New Zealand sheep, and
the difference of distance is also in favor
of the islands.