The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-07-15
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Mammoth pipe and foundry works
are to be erected at Chattanooga, Tenn,
which viii give employment to 600
men.
The Savannah Ne1cs says that the real
reason why Southern men wear their
hair long is to keep the sun from tan
ming their necks.
Danville, Pa, is to have a fine public
library and gymnasium costing $780,
900, the gift of Thomas Beaver, uncle OF
General Beaver.
The plenisphone, an instrument that
unites the tones of the violin, viola,
cello and double bass is a recent inven-
ton of Buffalo musician.
Mr.. Allen Thorndike Rice, writing to
friend in New York, says that the
story about his winning large sum Of
money at Monte Carlo is pure inven.
| ton.
On an island in Hampshire County,
| West Virginia, a graveyard has been
| discovered which contains the bones
of 800 persons, evidently of a race
which preceded the Indians.
The red flag of the anarchist like
that of the auctioneer, should be q
signal that everything under it Is to be
knocked down.-B0ston Commercial
Bulletin.
| A fisherman found a five pound
pickerel in the Mississippi River. In
its stomach was a pickerel five inches
| long. In the stomach of the second
fish was pickerel fry two inches in
length.
The ConfectionerS' Journal says that
| green cucumber peel, scattered about
building infested by cockroaches, will
| clear it of the vermin. The bugs de-
YOUR the peel with great voracity, and
it poisons them.
The largest authenticated snake ever
seen was an anaconda, which had swal-
lowed a horse. His length was forty
| feet, and after his feast of Undertaking
| he was indisposed, and was captured by
| a naturalist who was hunting specimens
| in the Amazon Valley.
A farmer driving into Glencoe, Ill,
| the other day saw a cautionary storm
| signal flag flying from tall building.
! The big black square on blood-red
| ground struck terror to his heart, and
| he turned and made for home, fully con-
WINGED that the Anarchists had captured
| the town.
A few days ago a number of Italians
went into the Rondout, n. Y. postoffice
! and asked for letters. One was handed
an epistle, on which was due 10 cents
postage. Yesterday morning the same
man handed one of the clerks 10 cents
and said: "Tenna centa. Wanta
| another lettee."
| Among Southern and West Indian
negroes a bottle of ''obeah water" put
under mans doorstep is supposed TO
bring him the worst possible luck. 1t
| is worse than finding white cocks
| head lying in the yard with the beak
| pointing toward the door. When a
| sOrcerer wishes to give a mild touch of
| his supernatural power he gets some
one to bury near his victims door a
bottle containing toad, spider, rusty
| nails, muddy water, and other articles
The Galveston Ne1Os says: "Ex-Gov.
| Hubbard, Minister to Japan, writes Col.
| Z. S. T. Pfouts of Dallas a characteristic
| letter. He speaks in high terms of his
| reception and cordial treatment, and he
| believes his mission will serve to heal
| the friendly relations now existing be-
| tween the United States and Japan.
| He says that the japanese women 90
| sea-bathing in Natures garb, and that
| the sight of the nymphs of the Orient
thus disporting themselves is worth a
trip to Japan"
A Buffalo hotel clerk has invented a
| very excellent check system for valuable
10 fob o,l
| writes the name of the owner on it
| Then whipping out a pair of shears he
| saws through the card and the name
and hands over half to the agent, PIN
| ming the other on the package. The
| matching of the card is conclusive
proof, and the clerk claims that it is e
| check with which there can be no
monkeying.
The hauling of the heavy slabs OF
stone for the steps up to the mansion of
| millionaire Flood, in San Francisco, has
been attended with much labor. The
trucks on which the stone was placed
were very heavy, and twenty horses
| were necessary to drag the load up to
the top of Mob Hill The wheels made
deep ruts in the ground, crushing the
stone pavements into the earth. Hun
dreds OF people watched the operation.
The antiquity of the harp appears in
| the fact that ancient Egyptian frescoes
contain harps that are three thousand
| years old. Bruce gives some copies of
| paintings in 1O0-gated Thebes of harp
| in the tomb of Rameses, thus showing
that before Athens was built the Egyp-
| tians used this instrument Bible read
ers know King David's favorite instru-
| ment was the harp called kinnor 1t is
| said that when hung over his couch the
wind caused the strings to sound at
midnight-the principle of the eolian
harp.
Leo Hartmann says in the New York
| Star: "Nihilism in Russia, though
| comparatively quiet now in manifesting
itself, is by no means dormant nor idle
No one need be aStonished at any time
at an outbreak more tremendous, far
| reaching and dangerous to Russian alb
solutism than any in the past. The
blood of our martyrs will vet be
avenged, perhaps much sooner than the
world suspects; but of my reasons for
this l have now no right to enter into
any explanation.
A Mississippi paper relates the follow
ing: a remarkable incident of war
time wound occurred the other day on
the person Of W. p Carroll, an ex-Con-
federate soldier. He has been suffering
from a wound received at the battle of
Ghickamauga twenty-three years and
seV en- months ago. On last Saturday
the fourth piece of bone came out of the
wound, which has been open during the
| entire time. The sufferer has been de-
prived of the use of his right side since
its intliction, but has now received the
full use of his body. The piece of bone
which last came from the orifice was
one inch Ill length and half inch in
width.
Various trials of the new French
horseshoe which Is nadn nnfirnlr- nf