The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-01-21
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Fort Pickens in 1861, is poor and PENN.
less in Philadelphia.
OF the 100000, 900 eggs annually used
in Paris every one is inspected by being
| held before candle.
The bronze Bacchus recently found in
| the Tiber has not silver eyes, as was
said, but eyes of ivory.
Three Lowell, Mass, girls of good
family have been sent to the State In
| dustrial School for drunkenness and
larceny.
Texas pecans, having a rough exterior,
are placed in a newly invented machine
and polished before they are shipped.
This adds considerably to their value.
Four students at an Iowa college rob-
bed beehive, but were so badly stung
in the operation that detection of the
theft and expulsion from college quickly
| followed.
Medical men the world over will be
interested to learn that Japan has been
mapped out into six divisions. and that
a medical college is TO be established in
each division.
The employment OF women under
| ground is prohibited in Great Britain,
but the British Factory Inspector reports
that 4,45S are at work in mining opera
tons above ground.
The entire area of forest country under
| the charge of the Forestry Department
of the Government of British India,
| Is over $4,000 square miles, larger than
all the New England States together.
The Democratic widows of Bridge
| port, Conn, are gleeful. When Aaron
Somers died in that town recently, it
| was learned that he had left all his
money to them; and now the Probate
Court sustains the will.
There is an ex-vice president alive, it
seems, whom everybody has forgotten
| for many years-David r. Atchison, of
Missouri, who, in 1858, was chosen by
! the senate to fill the place of Vice Presi-
dent William r. King.
Congressman Morrison stands about
| five feet ten inches in height, and has a
bushy gray beard. He seldom wears an
overcoat. He carries his right hand in
his trousers pocket as he walks, and his
dress, while neat, shows its wearer's in
difference to style.
That the Duke of Cumberland is in
| something more than easy circumstances
may be gathered from the fact that the
gold and silver plate which he has in
herited from the late King of Hanover
and the Duke of Brunswick weighs up
wards of eight tons.
Out West this winter it is sort of
craze for the young women to shoulder
parlor rifles ano tramp, in martial drill
up and down some big hall But the
young women are failures as minions of
old Mars, since they cannot look fierce
and bite their moustaches, to save 'em.
The following are some anatomical
localities newly mentioned in current
literature: He kissed her upon her
| appearance" ''She whipped him upon
his return" They seated themselves
upon his entering" HE kissed her
back" She sat down on his invita-
| ton"
King Milan, of Servia, who spent the
greater part Of his youth in Paris. is an
| earnest student Of French literature. His
two favorite authors are Theophile eau
tier and Napoleon III. The latter's
Life of Caesar is his bedside book, as
inseparable from him as Homer from
Alexander the Great.
SIN the mountains above Chico saws
| the Tombstone CA. T.) Iom5StOne 1.-The
residents along a lumber iume have a
novel way of getting their mail 1t is
| started on a raft from the head of the
flume at regular dates, and the people
below watch for it, take out what be-
longs to them, and then send the raft,
| with its precious cargo, on its way"
A Berlin surgeon lately took out a
quantity of dead bone from man s
arm. Immediately afterward he ampu-
tated the leg of another man for an in
jury. Then he took a large piece of
bone from the amputated leg and put it
in the place of the dead bone of the arm.
| The bone became firmly attached, and
so the surgeon made very successful
operation.
THAT High-Priestess of dress, the
Princess of Wales" says the JeaOelers'
Circular, Ibid the American women a
favor when she encircled her own fair
| throat with band of velvet ribbon held
closely in place by little diamond or
nament in the form of a buckle, and
thereby gave the precedent for some sort
OF collaret to shorten the effect of q long,
thin neck
1t is said that Longfellow and Fields
were making short pedestrian tour
some years ago, when, to their surprise,
! an angry bull stood in the pathway,
evidently determined to demolish both
poet and publisher. II think" said
Fields, that it will be prudent to give
this reviewer wide margin" Yes
replied the poet, lit appears to be dis
puted passage"
The most curious article in the
memorial hall at Deerfield," says the
Boston Journal, lis an oblong flask
with round hole in the top Just large
enough to admit the small end of a
goblet. After various theories proposed
it has been proved that the purpose of
the flask was to keep the minister's glass
OF toddy warm while he was preaching
Sunday morning"
There died in Wallingford, Conn,
lately spinster who remained one on
account OF curious prenuptial quarrel.
The day had been fixed for the wedding
and she and her intended husband be-
| gan to put down carpets in the house
| they were to occupy. She wanted them
laid one way, he another. They quar-
relied and separated. He died shortly
afterward, and the lady never married.
The great river Euphrates is in dan
ger of disappearing altogether. OF late
years the banks below Babylon have
been giving way so that the stream
spread out into marsh. until steamers
could not pass, and only a narrow cham
mel remained for native boats. Now
this passage is becoming obliterated,
and there is danger that the famous
river will be swallowed up by the
desert
| 1t is estimated that there are 100, OO0,-
| 600 acres of land on the Pacific coast
that are especially adapted to wheat cul-
ture. Of this California has 25.0G0, 900,
or one-fourth OF the whole; Oregon has
| $4,000, 900 acres, Washington Territory
| has 100000 acres. Colorado and Idaho
| 100000 each, Montana Utah and
| Wyoming 100000 each. and the great