The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-03-04
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dor to England is one of the most expert
rifemen in Europe.
NJ. Herve, the father of opera
has become a naturalized British sub
ject-
Salvini smokes only cigars that he
himself gets from Naples, and his son
avs they are frightfully bad and cost
lily II cents each.
The Prince of Wales now wears a
black silk ribbon as watch-guard, and
about the first of next July the Anglo
maniac in this country will affect the
same style.
Asbestos cloth has been chosen as the
Jacket for the boiler of a new loco
motive built for the Boston & Albany
Railway. This will not char, as does
wood, and will retain more heat
A platinum wire too fine to be seen
with the naked eye is said to have been
made by H. T. Read of Brooklyn. 1t is
to be used in telescopes as substitute
for the spiders web usually employed.
The single town of Besancon in
Switzerland, employs over $4,000 per-
sons in matchmaking, and the annual
product approaches 100000 watches. A
government Theological school is main
tanned there.
In St. Petersburg there are men who
take about hot tea in large metal pots
covered with felt, and sell it to hack
drivers and coachmen, who have to
wait for long hours in the cold when
there is party.
Archdeacon Farrar is telling English
audiences that during his long journey
through the United States he saw less
drunkenness than in single walk in
London. He thinks America is far
ahead of England in temperance work.
The French have looked with alarm
upon the steady export of Percheron
horses to the United States; but the
most prominent breeders there now
say that the progeny of these horses
raised in the United States are an i'm
proyement upon their sires, and that it
is profitable to reimport 1t is known
that Napoleon III. used to import Per-
cheron horses from Vermont for the
post chaises which he used SO much.
DIR. Gould, the astronomer. is shocked
at the progress America has been max
ing during his fifteen years absence
toward practices and fashions which
are not the normal OuGrowth of Ameri-
can institutions. but an aping of foreign
ways and usages, an acceptance of So
cial and other standards which belong
to England or continental Europe
of h.+ ha e.
fits says the Boston Transcript, put
it on.
The French papers have been filled
with stories more or less apocryphal
about the late Mr.. Vanderbilt and his
purchases in Paris. One tale is to the
effect that on one occasion, looking at a
superb exhibit of ornamental iron work
shown at the Palace of Industry at an
annual fair. he inquired the price of the
lot. ''The whole is worth $4,000 francs,
if it is worth a penny" proudly said the
owner. tn take it," said Vanderbilt;
deliver it to me after the exhibition is
over" And he went away. The deal
er plucked at the sleeve of the gentle
man accompanying Vanderbilt and in
quired in a whisper: is your friend all
right in the head?'
Referring to an announcement that
at recent elimination in a Western
cemetery the body of woman was
found turned to stone, the Louisville
Medical NelcS says: "Petrifaction Of the
body of a warm-blooded animal never
has been known, and it is quite safe to
say never has taken place The condi-
ton of the body which leads to such
misconception is not that OF petrifactiDn,
but saponification. 1t is explained that
nitrogenOus tissues give off ammonia,
and this, attacking the fats in the body,
produces adipocere, hard form of soap.
The writer, when at the New Orleans
fair, saw barrel of pork labeled,
Found floating in the Mississippi in an
advanced state of petrification. Berg
skeptical rs to the capacity of rocks %
float, he Clipped off piece and found
that the hog, like human beings under
like circumstances, had merely turned
to adipocere.
A knotty problem in will case, sad
to have been never settled, came up Ie-
Gently in Seymour, Conn. John b.
Tingue died recently in Seymour, leav-
ing personal property of 5000, 900, be-
sides considerable real estate, to his
heirs, ''to be taken, owned and PIE
served by them, as if had died intss-
tate" His heirs were five brothers ard
sisters, one of the latter being a half
sister. The will was executed in New
York. where he had formerly lived, ard
if he had died intestate in that state the
half-sister would have been entitled to
an equal share with the others. But had
he died intestate in Connecticut she
would have had nothing. The question
of how mans VIII executed while a
citizen of one state, is affected by his dy-
ing while citizen of another state, is
still open to Interpretation. The matter
in this case was settled by the other
heirs sharing equally and voluntarily
with the half-sister, and so the question
remains undetermined.
Investigation shows that the limit of
temperature at which men can work de-
ponds upon the length of their exposure,
the amount of exertion they put forth,
their condition, and the nature of the
atmosphere, particularly as to its degree
of moisture. 1t is stated that men have
been employed on railways at 104 de
grees, in mines-under very favorable
conditions-at 125 deg, and are said TO
work occasionally in the stoke-holes of
tropical steamers at 156 deg. Professor
Dubois is reported to have estimated
that temperature of 122 deg. can be
endured when the air is as dry as posi-
BILE, but that even 104 deg. is likely to
be fatal in an atmosphere saturated with
moisture. 1t is also considered certain
that men cannot become accustomed to
stand for any considerable time high
er temperature than from 145 deg. to
165 deg. even when they keep perfectly
still and are in quite pure air.
Physicians Have Found out
That a communicating and foreign element in