The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-09
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Detroit has opened a woman's school
Of journalism.

To show great politeness, advance one
step and bow; to show the reverse sem
ument, draw back step and bow.
Important platinum discoveries have
been made in Maricopa County, Ari-
zsna The ore yields 10 per cent,
which is perhaps the largest in the
| world
The population of Canada is less
than that of the state of New York
and vet while New York has debt of
only about s7,0O0,O00s Canada has a
debt of nearly s240,00O,000.
William Dandy, free man of color
down in Georgia, rests his hope of
| fame upon the fact that he can kill
pick and clean chicken in the incest
possible way inside of thirty-three
seconds.
The trustees Of Cornell University
have decided to build one of the larg-
est and finest library buildings in the
country. 1t will cost nearly $3.50, 900,
and is to accommodate 400,0 900 vol
| umes.
A doctor in Algeria stood before a
guillotine and caught the head of Il
criminal as it fell from the AK and
spoke to it. 1t is said that move
ments of the eyes and mouth showed
that he was understood.
The Bishop of London has risen to
be a wit. As he was taking leave of a
parishioner with a very large family,
the lady said: But you haven't seen
my last baby" No" he quickly re-
piled, land never expect tor
Small amounts OF the old postal cur
rency still continue to be offered for
redemption at the New York Sub
Treasury. The amount still unre-
deemed is $4,000, 900, but most of it is
doubtless worn out or destroyed.
There was exhibited in the window
of store in Charleston, \. c., the
other day the skull of a noted Seminole
Indian chief of the early days. A col
lector for the firm had become pos
sesSed of it while travelling in Florida.
Realism attains its climax in Mr..
Henry Irving's performance of Robert
Macaire. Real water is now an old
feature, but Irving jumps through a
window of real glass. The fifty or
sixty small panes have to be reset every
night.
The oldest house in Indiana. the old
Moore mansion, situated on the Utica
pike, near -Four Mile Springs, has re-
Gently been torn down. 1t was built
in 1900, Of stone and brick, and for
many years past has had the reputa-
ton of being haunted.
In recent French murder trial the
bones of the murdered man were
brought into court and placed before
the accused. The man turned pale,
but over the ghastly relics reiterated
his prOtestations of innocence, never
theless he was convicted.
A Biddleford, Me, man while wash
ing the outside of his own windows
with the hose thought he would do a
neighborly kindness for the lady who
lived in the tenement overhead. He
meant well, but as the deceptive scenic
screens failed to show him that the
windows were wide open, the effect
was not just what he expected.
Ethel Jones, Of China, Me, had just
been set out doors by her mother VIXEN
she was heard to scream. Running
quickly, her mother saw Il large roost-
er pecking at her head. and the blood
Eunnin2 down ever her face. She
found three large holes dented into
her head, made by his spurs, and thinks
he would have killed the child if she
had not rescued her.
Captain Parr, of Oconee, Ga, tells
us of a case of petritication to be found
near the bridge at the Appalachee
River. He says it is the most perfect
specimen he ever saw. being very hard
aud of granite form. The substance
petritied was the body of a tree. He
says the ringlets Of the tree can be
clearly discerned, also the heart and
sap of the tree. Mr.. Parr speaks of
sending it the National Museum.
Poison for some animals is food for
others. Hogs can eat henbane or hy-
ocvamus, which is fatal to dogs and
most other animals. Dogs and horses
are not easily poisoned with arsenic.
Goats eat water hcmlOck with impun-
ity; pheasantS, strdmonium; rabbits,
belladonna; and morphia is said to be
innocuous to pigeons. There is some
truth in the old saying that ''What is
one mans meat is another mans pOis-
on" This is due TO habits and idioSyn-
cEacics.
If the alligator hunters keep up the
vigorous warfare they have lately in
augurated in the vicinity of Panasoff-
kee, Fla, against the reptiles the
streams Whereabouts will be bereft of
them. When the business first COM
menced some time ago, they were only
two or three at it, but now their name
is legion, and they find it no longer
profitable to hunt on the lake and out
let and are gradually going farther
down the river. The business is pay
ing, as two men get on an average 10
to 20 caters a night, and the hides
bring from so cents to $1.25 each, ac-
cording to length.
At Canton. China, some 10000 peo-
pie live continually upon boats and
many never step foot on shore from
one years end TO another. The young
children have a habit of continually
falling overheard and thus cause a
great deal of trouble in effecting a res
cue, while in many instances this is
impossible and a child is drowned.
China is an oyer-populated country
and the Chinese have profted hy this
drowning procliyity in reducing the
surplus population. They attach floats
to the male children so that they can
be fshed out when they tumble into
the river The females are without
such protection and are usually left to
drown.
Queen Victoria has of late fallen in
to the habit of taking little ''catnapsn
in her chair, even when visitors are
present. AT such times the roval lady
goes through the same routine followed
by the most humble of her subjects.
Her head falls little forward, sway
ing slightly from side to side: then she
sits bolt upright, opens her eyes wide,
and assumes an appearance OF great
intelligence and alertness.
They were outside the garden wall.
well" calculated Eve. who. woman
like. gave her alleged husband the
greater share nf the bIap,a IT l,o,,o