The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-09-26
MISSING LINKS.

There are no fewer than %, 729
known thieves over sixteen years of
age in England.
A new agricultural machine dis
tributes manures and insecticides, and
sows grain by means of an air blast.
The deepest artesian well in Russia
opens with depth of 1000 feet. The
sinking operations took two years.
w. Shelly, of Milford Square, has
Newfoundland dog ponderous enough
to do all the family washing by a
tread-power.
The income of the Free Church of
Scotland this year is t63S, $50, being
an increase of f46,000 as compared
with last year.
The latest railway signal indicates
automatically the time that has elaps-
ed, up to twenty minutes, since the
last train passed it.
The newest English umbrellas have
knobs with broad, fat tops, upon
which designs are worked out in gold
and silver and platinum.
The flood dumped fully 100000
worth of lumber which cannot be iden-
tilted on a farm near Milton, Pa.
Many poor men have thus been en-
riched.
1t is said that 10000 rifles purcnas-
ed IN America for the Corean army
are stored at Nagasaki. Corea' treas
ury being empty they have not been
delivered.
Between $1,000 and 900 children
are lost In London every year, but
nearly 90 per cent of them are restor-
ed to their parents through the aid of
the police.
A number of young women in Cush-
bert, Ca, have organized an anti
kissing society. Those who have seen
the members say that such a precau-
ton was not necessary.
A political ''healer" in New York
CITY says he can hire 1000 men at 81
each to remain away from the polls at
| an election. Of what use, then, would
voting machines be?
| The Union Pacific Road offers 3d..
900 cash to any passenger on any train
| that will shoot a train robber, and
many parties are making frequent
trips in hopes to get shot.
Reduce your gas bills IS per cent.
Secret for ST." read an advertisement
He received this terse reply by return
| of mail Burn kerosene.
1t appears that the most of the mem
bers of the upper and middle classes
of England. including the members of
the royal family, are tattooed, and the
fashion is said to be gaining in favor.
A gorilla in the Bombay geological
gardens takes bar of iron two inches
thick and bends it doublein his hands,
and with one bite of his teeth he shiv-
ers a mahogany knot into match
| wood.
In sixteen page love letter exhib-
tied in court in Providence the other
day the word darling" occurred
| thirty-seven times, and yet the girl in
the case said it was ''cold, unfeeling
epistle."
Frank Morse, of Battle, Me-, died
recently of catarrhal pneumonia, in.
duced by excessive cigarette smoking,
after short illness, aged nineteen.
This is another warning to cigarette
smokers.
A painting of the Madonna, dated
| 1884. has been discovered in the village
of Messembria, an old Greek colony,
! near BOurgas. 1t has been removed
to Sophia, where it will be placed in
| the National Museum.
Elberton, Ga, has a curiosity in the
| form OF colored boy. His advan'
tage lies in the unusual size Of his
mouth. He can put large base bal
in this organ and then have room fol
his hands to pull it cut.
The grandmother of the Emperor OF
China is eighty-nine years old, blind
deaf and a cripple, and the other day
her loving grandson presented hel
with POS singing birds, 200 silk dresses,
and 100 musical instruments.
A wealthy and eccentric old man a,
Tyler, Texas, without relatives, who
died recently, directed that his proper.
ty be divided among all persons living
| in the southern states who were born
on his birthday. March 9, 1888.
The Cherokee Indians support over
one hundred common schools, with an
aggregate of 4,059 pupils. and high
school for boys with 211 students.
They are just completing a seminary
that will accommodate 165 students.
Australia has remarkable form OF
earthworm which would hardly make
a good bait for trout. They are one
and quarter inches in diameter and
six feet in length, and exhale strong
odor analogous to that of creosote.
The largest ferryboat in the world
is the Solano, used in carrying trains
across the straits of Corquinez, between
Belnicia and Porta Costa. 1t is ACC
feet long, and has capacity of forty
eight freight cars and two locomo.
tiyes.
| A Connecticut woman is suing her
neighbor for damages for putting up
| fly screens. She claims that the flies
which cannot get into the neighbor's
| house on this account will come into
hers, and she will thereby have double
the usual number.
A Florida cracker assigned as a
reason for raising thin hogs that can
60 through crack in a fence that
| while the fat hog was much better ex-
| perience had shown that "it amt any
use to raise hog here that can't run
faster than niger kim"
The Pittsburg Dispatch has received
a subscription for the Sunday Dispatch
for one year, the paper to be address,
ed as follows: Josiah Wigley, Nome
heya, Nqwamkwe Post, Fingoland,
South Africa. There must be a great
many cases of lockjaw in that vicinity.
Sir William Gull comes to the de-
Tense of higher education for women
| with the statements that a university
education. such as girls get at Newn-
ham and Girton, makes them and their
children healthier, and that the per-
| centage of cbildless marriages is less
| with educated women.
1t has been calculated that the rail-
roads of the world are worth $500, 0O0,-
C00,0OO, or about one-tenth of the
wealth of the civilized nations, or