The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-11-18
MISSING LINKS.
Natural gas is SAID to be a goot
remedy for ridGing house of rats.


Natural gas is SAID to be a good
remedy for ridGing house of rats.
The general election in Great Britain
last year cost "a. 633, 737-an average
of As sd per vote
Libby prison is now fertilizing fac
tory and Castle Thunder has been
burned to the ground.
The residents of Chestnut street, Phil
adelphla, Pa, have petitioned to have
its name changed.
In the cities of New York, JERSEY
CITY, Newark, and Paterson there are
sixteen thousand saloons.
A mathematician estimates that q
machine of one-horse power would keep
2IoooooO watches running.
They do not vaccinate women in
Burmah, as they are not considered
worth the trouble and expense.
a hog on exhibition in Writ county,
West Virginia, is over feet long, 3 feet
high, and weighs us pounds.
A rich New York woman with a hu-
morously tender heart is to establish
IAN asylum for injured polo players"
Lace is said 10 be driving out fril-
lings in England, and the Honiton fac
tories at Exeter are overrun with orders.
A European economist reckons that
there are on the face of the globe A.
5000 head of cattle and 105, 100000
sheep.
Men employed in sinking a well at
Coleman, ID. T., found live frog i'm
bedded in the earth 2S5 feet below the
surface.
w. S. Perryman, of Thomaston, Ga.
has 8 pet owl that consumed two pounds
of fresh beef, five rats and four jay birds
at one meal.
A California farmer who owns a
separate water right recently refused
81, 500 per inch for all he will sell from
his canyon.
A well digger in CISCO, H., found a
hollow log twenty-eight feet below the
surface of the ground, and in the log a
vigorous frog.
There are numerous masonic lodges
i'll France composed exclusively of wo-
men. They have all the fancy features
and ceremonials.
A Georgia hermit has his house in
the branches of a spreading oak tree.
1t Is small, but quite snug abode,
securely fastened to the limb of the tree.
English milliners are said to have
discovered way of making bonnets of
tissue paper; they cost about as much as
if they were covered with bank notes.
In the little but rich city of Fargo,
out in the wheatlands. each policeman
carries heavy gold-headed cane in
stead of billy-which is a base thing
at best.
The old homestead built by Gov.
Chrittenden, the first governor of the
state, is still standing at Williston,
Conn, and has been occupied by six gen.
erations
Tie Phoebe Nev.) Record SAYS the
sma est Indian agency in the country
is ltcated in that county. There are
no men, no women, 10 children, and
one agent.
A hundred-acre peat bog has been
discovered near Glendale, d. I. The
peat reaches to a depth of from seven
to ten feet, and is said to overlay sur
face of ice.
Measurements have shown the thick
ness of the human hair to vary from
the 250th TO the 600th part of an inch.
Blonde hair is The finest and red hair
the coarest.
81 once saw n person 90 into the
water with his nose embraced by
clothes-pin," says scientific writer,
land the greater number of bathers
now protect the ears with wool"
The sheep interests in Southern Idaho
have increased so rapidly during the
past few years as to seriously interfere
with some of the ranges heretofore oc-
cupied exclusively by horses and cattle
The widest shaving ever made by
woodworking machine was recently
placed on exhibition in a store in Win
chendon, Mass. twas forty-two inches
WIDE, several feet long, and of uniform
thickness.
Mix Chicago with Pittsburg and
salt the whole with smoky sandstone" )"
writes Carp, land you have the great
Scotch city of Glasgow. 1t is larger
than Chicago, and better built than
either Chicago or Pittsburg.
prominent sign upon a Pennsyl-
yania roadside states well-known no.
tice in this original manner: For
Bitten For dresspassing over This
Ground. Five dollars Fine for any Body
Sewed on this Ground"
The late Archbishop of Canterbury
once demonstrated with a celebrated
Parsee for worshipping the sun. ''Ah!
your grace. was the reply, you should
gee it once"-a pretty good hit at En-
glish fog-and prejudice.
A Moline, H., man has arranged
grlndstone in wagon in such man.
ner that when the weels turn they cause
the grindstoDe to revolve. He makes
bis living by driving about the town
grinding hatchets and knives.
Lord Randolph Churchill has very
large hands, and the hair on the top of
his head has a moth-eaten appearance.
When seated on the ministerial bench
in parliament he spend his time fercely
twlrllng his tawny mustache.
At the present moment, so says an
English paper, fortune telling is one of
the most fiourising systems of imposture
in that country, and there is scarcely
town or village without its resident or
visiting cheat of this description.
A travelling show struck hard luck re-
Gently in a Texas town. Among its
curiosities was an Egyptian mummy.
upon which local coroner insisted on
holding an inquest at cost of S25-just
81 more than was ,aken in at the door,
A man has gone mile on bicycle
IN two minutes and thirty-three seconds
That would have been good for trot-
ting horse twenty-five years ago. Per-
haps twenty-five years hence the bicycle