The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-11-07
MISSING LINKS.
An excellent quality of brown pape
can be produced from peat fiber.

Talleyrand laid great stress on o
knowledge of whist as Indispensable to
happy old age.
| A former teacher of Latin in one of
| the high schools in Indiana is now
driving dirt cart in Wichita.
A canal $50 miles long is to be built
| for navigating purposes in New Mex
ico 1t will be thirty feet wide.
The mummy market is now so over
| stocked that lovers of the antique can
obtain specimens for less than 800.
The English royal hounds viii be
abolished after this season, and the
hunting establishments at Ascot broken
up.
Mrs. Bert Hector, of Macon county,
H., the mother of twelve children.
gave birth the other day to a sixteen
pound boy.
Mr.. Duthie, botanical director for
northern India, advocates the use OF the
flowers of the Calligonum for food in
| northern India.
The California grape crop this season
was dried and made into brandy chief
| ", the supply of wine being already
greater than the demand.
John Common, of Sault Ste. Marie,
has cat which has seven legs and
eight paws, with one head, three dis
tinct jaws, and to complete the combi-
nation it has two tails.
The range of the Mannlicher rifle was
proved again in startling manner the
other day when an Austrian soldier was
killed by one at target practice at a
reputed range of over two miles and a
half.
The phylloxera has attacked the
| Grecian currant, Greece's great staple,
threatening grave disaster to Greek
finance, as the export on the currant IS
one of the most important elements in
| the revenue,
Thomas Patton, of Deep Creek Val
| ley, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania,
owns the largest raccoon in that Vi
cinity. If tramp attempts to enter
the premises CLEAN of the animals
teeth is enough to dissuade him.
Edmund Crosse declares in the
| Forum that Herbert Spencer's books
| do not cover the cost of their publica-
| ton, to say nothing of leaving a profit
for the philosopher himself Neither
| does Mr.. Swinburne nor Leslie Stephen
derive any considerable profit from their
writings.
Professor Lexis, of the University of
Gottingen, has published a work in
which he proves by statistics that the
German universities have twice as
| many students as can possibly hope to
make living by the respective pro-
LESSONS for which they are preparing,
The consequence is, he argues, large
annual increase of the learned and
most dangerous proletarian class.
The new dock at Halifax was sub
| sidized by the city of Halifax, and the
Canadian and British goyrnments, to
| the merry tune of 5000, 600. 1t cost q
million. and being COL feet in length,
can dock the longest steamship atloat,
1t holds 100000 gallons of water and
can be emptiad in three and a half
hours. The greater part of this dock
was blasted out of the solid rock.
There are fortv-eight geological gar
| dens in the world six of them being in
the United States, located as follows:
| Philadelphia, New York, Cincinnati,
| Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco.
| These institutions are supported by the
| cities or by local enterprise, instead of
| the national government, but in Eu-
rope there is an entirely different state
of affairs, nearly every nation support
ing its own garden or park, and some
of them support several.
From the British board of trade re-
turns it appears that every few days
throughout the year vessel carrying
the British flag leaves port never more
| to be heard of. In the year ending
| June, 1888. the number of vessels I'M
der the British flag to which accidents
| happened of various kinds was Z, 724,
involving the loss Of 2,534 lives. This
is melancholy record, but is less than
| the average for ten years of about fifty
| lives. There were 906 total losses of
which nearly one-third are reported as
missing.
Vital statistics continue to show
| steady decline in the number of births
| in France from year to year. The Of
| fetal figures for 1888 show that the ex-
| cess of births over deaths in that year
| was only 44,422, against 56, $50 in 1887
| In 1881 there were 937 ,55S births: in
| 1885, 924, 75S births or - 200 less; in
1886, 912,83S births, or Is, 505 less; in
1888, So, 629 births, or IS, 704 less. At
| this rate of decline it is easy to see that
| the number of deaths in France will
| soon exceed the births.
The value to Scotland of the oppor-
| tunities for sports is very large. The
deer forests, of which there 100. covering
5000 square miles Of land useless for
agriculture. rent for G100, 600 annually;
t12, 500 of this goes to the local taxes
If any forest fails to be rented, the
whole neighborhood feels it greatly in
| the diminished amount of money cX-
pended there. The grouse moors rent
for f440, 600, and pay f55, 900 in taxes.
Most salmon rivers are let with the
| moOrs, but some are rented alone, and
add a considerable sum to the total al
ready given.
Byron Island. one of the Magdalen
group on the Canadian coast. is still
held by a feudal tenure. The ancestor
of one Captain Coffin received by royal
favor in the early times, when little
value attached to the gift, title to the
whole domain. The landlord lives
| abroad and manages his estate by a
resident agent. The rents are small
and often uncollectable. Evictions are
not common and there is no serious
quarrel over the land question, but the
fact that the occupants of the soil can
not own their homes is a serious him
drance to enterprise and improvement
in developing the resources of the
island.
a queer phase of railway industry is
a railway tie nursery near the town of
Darlington, Kan, in the southern part
OF the state 1t is the largest artificial
plantation of forest trees in North
America and is owned by the Southern
Pacific. The different sections have
been planted with the alianthus. the
rest with catalpas and a few white ash
Those first planted are about twenty
five feet in height, the last about
twelve. Some of the taller are about
seven inches through the STEM There