The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-03-18
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tics the number of working women in
England and Wales is 7,7o6,545.
At swell dinners in Iowa they serve
four kinds of water. Congress, Bethesda,
Apollinaris, and Bitter water, and top
off with mug of good cider.
The word environment" now so
popular, was introduced into our Ian
guage by Thomas Carlyle, who Dor
rowed it from the French, they having
used it for two centuries.
John Russell Young is good listener.
Nature made him reticent; but when
pressed, and he finds it is his turn to
talk, he becomes a most pleasing and
entertaining conversationalist Like all
good takers, he has wonderful
memory.
The Chinese and japanese govern
ments are translating and publishing at
cheap rate many of the best English
text books. Most of Professor Tyndalls
works, for instance, have been trans
lated and printed in Chinese, and are
issued at a merely nominal sum.
In Norway it is believed that wolves
are frightened away by telegraph lines.
1t is said that however hungry wolf
may be he will never 90 into a spot that
is inclosed by ropes stretched on posts.
Since the first telegraphic line was estab
lished, twenty years ago, wolves have
never appeared in its neighborhood.
''There is a good deal of religion in
nature" solemnly remarked young
Aberdeen clergyman calling upon a
lady of his congregation recently.
There is" was the quiet reply. I'VE
should never forget that there is a SER
mon in every blade of grass ''Quite
true. We should also remember that
grass is cut very short sometimes"
Oscar Wiley, of Davenport, Iowa, is
the possessor of a horse of excellent
build and good gait, with five legs, and
every time it is shod five shoes are re-
CURED The horse is six years old, and
was raised on a farm near Moline, Ill.
1t runs as well as a four-legged animal,
and to all appearances finds nc incon-
venience in using the fifth member.
The latest newspaper adyices from
South Africa appear to indicate the ex-
istence of BOOM" really honest and
trustworthy this time, in Transvaal gold
mining enterprise. The Kaap gold
fields, it is reported, are now thriving,
and the yield of the old and new fields
together for the last year amounts to at
least f100,000-one journal, indeed,
| estimates it at between 100000 and
f15O,000.
II see it stated says Mr.. Labouchere,
'that, whilst Enghshmen drink five
times as much tea as coffee, Americans
drink eight times as much coffee as tea
This, in great measure, Is due to the
coffee sold in the United States being
less adulterated than ours. To a GER
tain extent it may also be accounted for
by the fact that Americans are richer
| than we are, for there are good many
more cups in a shilling's worth of tea
than in shilling's worth of Coffee
A remarkable story about Mr.. Glad
stone was told by DR.. Theodore L. Guy
Ter in a recent address to Yale students.
He said: with my own eyes | have
seen Mr.. Gladstone kneel by the side of
| common street sweeper and pray for
the salvation of his soul. know of no
| grander sight than the premier of Eng
| land and the leading statesman of the
world kneeling by the side of common
| street sweeper and pouring forth his
eloquent appeal to God in behalf of his
| humble brother"
Another story of feeling in an ampu-
tated limb comes from Byron, n. Y.
Four weeks ago DR.. Townsend ampu-
tated Mrs William Goodliff's leo lust
| below the knee. The leg was buried,
and the patient was getting well all
right, except that she constantly COM
planned that corn on her departed foot
panied her excessively. After three
weeks of this kind of suffering, her hus-
band dug up the buried member, and
found that bandage remained bound
| tightly about the toes, on one of which
was the corn. He removed the band
age, buried the member in an easy and
comfortable position, and since then
| Mrs. Goodliff has had no trouble with
that foot or corn.
DIR. Wyman. of Sitka, Alaska, has sent
to his brother in Detroit pack of play
ing cards such as are made and used by
the Tinklet Indians in Alaska. The
| cards are bits of bamboo trife over
four inches in length, the surface of
each cylinder is very smooth and even,
and on the surface are carved variety
OF odd designs-faces, figures, animals,
birds and other hieroglyphics. In their
| general character the signs have feat
ures strongly resembling both japanese
and Egyptian designs The method of
| playing with these carved sticks is
known only to the Indians but it is
| known that private seals, made in the
same way and of the same material, are
also used by the Indians. The impress
sion of the characters on the cylinders is
made by rolling the cylinders over
melted wax OF by filing the carved
lines of the designs with ink and then
rolling it over paper or parchment
Count Munster, lately German Am
| bassador in London, once at Bucking-
ham Palace reception engaged in an
undertone conversation with another
diplomatic officer, when up came a
superserviceable court functionary,
| slapped him smartly on the shoulder
and informed him that "people were
not supposed to come to the palace to
talk" The Ambassador pulverized the
official with a naughty Bismarckian
stare and replied: Il did not come
here, sir, to receive lessons in manners"
and he at once summoned his attache.
quilted the throne-room in high dudgeon
and drove direct to the Foreign Office,
where he lodged formal complaint
against the court functionary for insult
ing lmpertinence, announced that I'M
less he received a full and ample apology
he would lay the matter before his gov
ernment The case was laid before the
Queen, who ordered that proper letter
should be written to the Count by the
fussy court official, which was done at
once.
1t has been generally imagined that
there was only one picture in existence
which was painted by Gen. Grant, and
that one was in possession of the Borie
family. Another production has been
brought to light belonging to w. E.
Rotheray of Camden, N. j., who has
been offered, and who has refused to
take, $1,000 for it. The picture is an
ordinary-looking water-color landscape.
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