The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-04-25
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Acrophobia is a new term used to de.
scribe an exaggerated condition of fear
when in high places.
1t is said that intemperance has
greatly increased among the Indians
since they were placed on reservations.
The Connecticut senate has passed
bill making it misdemeanor to tap
telegraph or telephone wire for de-
tective purposes.
Editor Grady of the Atlanta Consti-
tuition is to write history of the South
from its settlement to date. The book
will be volume of about 900 pages.
Gen. Tracy, the new Secretary of
Navy, was to a large extent the crea-
tor of our internal revenue system,
which has been copied by many foreign
countries.
A new watch factory has just been
built at Otay, ten miles down the bay
from San Diego. Twenty watch
makers and their families were shipped
from the East.
An enterprising editor in Nebraska,
wanting to boom the matrimonial
market, offers to send his paper free
for SIX months to every couple getting
married in the county.
Guns are now being made so power
full that the objects which their missiles
are intended to strike will be out of
sight. Consequently the guns can
only be directed by the map.
The question of female physicians
has been settled in Russia in the af-
tirmative, with the stipulation. that
ladies shall only attend on adults of
their own sex and on children of both
sexes.
w. Won der Wettern, a Baltimore
sportsman, has a collection of deer
horns that are valued at $4,000 The
finest specimen is from black-tailed
deer killed in Colorado. 1t has fifteen
| prongs.
A bill has been presented to the
| Prussian parliament for extending and
improving the railway system of the
| monarchy at an estimated total cost of
| nearly one hundred and ffty-seven
| million marks.
The clergyman in an English town,
| having published the bans of matri-
| luOHN DClNCC WV pClSoDS, w lOIs
lowed by the clerk, reading the hymn
| beginning with these words: Mistaken
souls, who dream of heaven"
Empress Frederick's income is esti-
mated at 100000. OF this 100000
comes from the State and the remain
der from her private fortune. She has
| Just inherited 5000, 900 francs from the
| estate of the Duchess of Gailiera.
About one hundred years ago a man
named Droz made very curious clock.
Upon the top sat negro, shepherd
and dog. When the clock struck
the negro played six tunes upon a
flute, and the dog moved toward him
as though glad to see him.
The expression 'by hook or by
crook" originated in an old custom in
regard to gathering wood in forests.
The wood gatherer was permitted to
have all the wood fallen on the ground
and all that he could reach with his
crook from the branches of trees.
w. j. Doris, of New Haven, Conn.,,
has an African boa constructor twenty
two years old. 1t is thirty feet long
and weighs 27S pounds The snakes
appetite doesn't trouble it only four
times year, but at each meal it is fed
at least fifteen chickens or rabbits.
John G. Whittier writes: 1T is
scarcely necessary for me to stamp the
rumor of an intended visit to Europe
as utterly without foundation. The
time has long passed when such trip
would have been practicable or desira-
| bic. At my age one travels easiest by
proxy"
Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire
! iron-founder, says that he began his
business career by sweeping out an
office, and that his fellow sweepers
were David McCargo, now President
of the Allegheny Valley Railroad; Rob
ert Pitcairn, Superintendent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad; and Mr.. More
land, City Attorney of Pittsburg.
At weddings among Germans in the
| southern colonies $50 years ago the
| groomsmen attended in their beautiful
| embroidered white aprons. Their duty
her slipper stolen from her foot. II
any one succeeded in capturing it the
| groomsman paid bottle of wine fol-
the loss, rs the brides dancing depend
ed upon it.
The king of Wurtemburg has fancy
| to ascertain whether the moon is in
habited by causing photographs to be
taken of that luminary and then mag
| nifying the negative a hundred thou
sand fold. The pictures produced by
| this process show nebun with little
] dots, and the king declares the dots to
| be men and women. He hopes event
ually to get some of them into distinct
| shape.
The Ohio poultry raiser has made a
curious discovery. He says that if YOU
| go out to feed flock of chickens and
will cause them to wait, they will in
variably, as they crowd about you,
begin circuit around you from left
to right, in front, and continue this
revolution as long as you stand there
| No amount of interruption or maneuv-
| ering can confuse them or compel
them TO take the contrary direction at
any time.
In Brazil there is a tribe called
Cafusos, which has sprung into exist
ence by marriage between the long.
stitf-haired natives and the imported
negro slaves. As might be expected
from the admixture of these extremes,
this people possess hair of a very ex.
traordinary kind. 1t rises perpendicu-
larly from the head in thick. curly
masses, and forms a wig of such enor.
nous dimensions that the possessors
must stoop low when entering their
| huts.
At the royal powder factory of Wet.
teren, in Belgium. new gunpowder
is being made. They call it poudre-
papier, or paper powder. and it is said
that charge of two and halt
grammes (thirty-nine grains) gives, in
rifle of small caliber, an initial We
locity of eco yards to the ball. This