The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-08-12
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| the Texas ranges for over year.
An English firm has at last succeed
ed in making colored water mark.
An effort is to be made in Los An
geles to grow bamboo on an extensive
scale.
School property in the South is valued
at S6, 100000, as against 0S,0OO,0 600 in
the North.
A newspaper has been discovered at
Pekin, China, that was started in the
year Gil.
By the decision of a Philadelphia
Dogberry the nk-eraser is a deadly
weapon.
The Boston Postoffice yields the gov
eminent an annual net revenue of over
$3,000,000
The vein of iron ore discovered at Ne
gaunee. Mich, turns out to be $50 feet
in thickness.
A citizen of Allendale, S. c., has just
begun cutting new set of teeth. He ID
fifty-one years old.
Adelina Patti kindly takes in as
many as five of Nicolini's children,
becoming to them willing step-moth-
er.
A Tallahassee merchant who began
business over three years ago has not
often having his midday meal sent to
him.
The proportions of the different colors
in eyes among the people of Italy is
thus estimated by Professor Mantagaz-
"a: Black eyes, % per cent; chestnut,
Ga; blue, II, and gray, 3 per cent.
The Hebrews. who form such pub
lic-spirited and wealthy class in every
city, number less than 100000 in the
United States. Most people in making
guess would say million or two.
1t is estimated that 100000 tons of
paper are manufactured in Europe an
nually. The value of the materials
used is placed at about f20,000,000,
and the value of the paper at f4O, 00O,-
600.
A young lady advertises in French
paper for employment in a railway
restaurant, her accomplishments being
that "she can speak German and make
sixty sandwiches with half pound Of
butter"
The first cemetery located at Newton,
Kan, Is known throughout that locality
as BOOT Hill" on account of the large
number of persons who were buried
there with their boots on in the wild
and early days.
In attempting to remove the remains
Of MIR. and Mrs. Chappele from the
cemetery at st. Mary's, Ontario, the
sexton found that each was mass of
stone, that of the woman weighing
eleven hundred pounds.
There is no patch of the moons Wis
IDLE surface half a mile square that is
not accurately mapped, according to
Professor Young, while the earth con-
tains immense tracts, in Central Africa,
which have never been surveyed.
The japanese have not only nearly
three hundred miles of railroad in
operation, but they make their own cars
and the building of the line from Tsur-
Iga to Ogaki was conducted by young
japanese engineers, whose task includ-
ed two large bridges and tunnel
mile long.
An Arkansas farmer writes that last
year. when 'coons made havoc in his
corn-feld, he went to the drug store to
buy strychnine, with which to kill
them. By mistake the druggist gave
him morphine, and the next morning
he found his field full of sleeping 'coons.
He advises the use of morphine instead
of strychnine.
Mr.. Cobb, who lives at Chulafinee,
Ala, has biscuit baked at the second
battle of Manassas during the war. He
was wounded in that battle. obtained
Through, and on getting home found the
biscuit in his haversack, and has pre-
served it as relic and has had it in his
possession ever since. 1t is kept dry
and has become almost as hard as
stone
After much dallying and hesitation,
the British War Office has decided to
adopt the machine gun for the army.
Three-b arreled Nordenfeldts, each
weighing sixty pounds and firing 400
bullets in one minute, and tive-barreled
guns OF 1856 pounds and firing 600
rounds minute, are to be sent to
Egypt and India. A twelve-barreled
gun, that fires 1,200 rounds minute, is
being experimental with.
India rubber is menaced with rival.
The rubber dealers of Eastern Nicara-
qua think they have discovered tree
whose gum will give as much satisfac-
ton as rubber, and will, in fact, take
its place. They say that the milk of
the tuno furnishes most excellent gut
ta-percha, equal to the best found in the
Eastern tropics. while the number of
trees Is virtually inexhaustable. and the
gum can be produced with profit at y
| cents pound.
The Hindoos say that chess is the in
yention of an astrologer who lived more
than 5000 years ago and was possessed
of supernatural knowledge and acute
ness. Greek historians assert that the
game was invented by Palamedes to be-
guile the tedium of the siege of Troy
The Arab legend is that it was devised
for the instruction of young despot by
his father, learned Brahmin, to teach
the youth that a king, no matter how
powerful, was dependent upon his SUBJ
jects for safety.
A tourist in Alaska writes home:
"Ihere is not horse, mule, ass or BIZ
cycle in Alaska; each and all would be
useless as means of locomotion. The
whole country leads toward heaven at
an angle of As degrees. To move on
you must climb and keep on climbing
forever. The Indians, for that reason,
with level heads, avoid the land, except
as place to sleep on; they live and
move in canoes. What the gondola is
to the Venetians the canoe is to the
people of Alaska"
Mr.. Larkin, who was for ten years a
sort Of secretary and intimate associate
of Carlyle, SAYS that the open secret OF
| the Scotchman's life was his desire to
be man of affairs rather than a writer.
Little as some of his critics imagine
it." says Mr.. Larkin, "his heart vas
sick of perpetually exhorting and ad-
monishing. He longed to be doing
something, instead of. as he saws, elo-
quently writing and talking about it;
to be a kind of king or leader in the
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