The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-09-25
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The sweating system is described BY
az English humanitarian as ''pena
serritude on u small salary"
Congressman Reyburn. of Philadel
phia. has bought an island off the coast
of South Carolina. which he intends to
stock with game.
An English tourist has written
letter to newspaper ridiculing the way
we name our food. He was surprised
to find that green corn is yellow.
Professor Boone. of Indiana Uni
versity, says that Of $500 theological
students in the United States less than
one-fourth are college graduates.
Not one island has risen or sunk in
the Pacific ocean for thirty-four years,
and biologists declare that the earth
is resting for some mighty effort in the
future.
A niece of Pope Leo has married
Count Salvatore Solimei. The bride is
a daughter of the Pope's sister. Hei
dowry was e. 400, to which the Pope
contributed Fl, 600.
The telegraph lines at work in India
now extend over $4,000 miles, repre-.
senting no less than 100000 miles OF
wire. Last year the net profit was
nearly 4 IL per cent.
Among the employees in the service
or Queen Victoria is the queens rat
catcher" who receives the modest re-
enumeration of f75 year fer keeping
the palace free of vermin.
Charles Alternately, of Brownstown,
village in Manistee County, Michigan,
has built himself fiddle out of walnut,
oak, beech. maple and cedar, contain.
ing $500 pieces of wood.
The Princess Marie-Leonida Bona
parte, daughter of Prince Charles
Bonaparte. intends, it is said, to marry
a lieutenant of infantry. Her fortune
amounts to 5000, 600 francs.
A prize of 800 was offered by the
Washington Post to the person guess
ing nearest the population of that city,
and remarkable to say, three persons
hit exactly the number, 1896.
The mineral called turfa, or brazo-
lima, recently discovered in Bahia, fur.
nishes an oil akin to petroleum, a
paraffine suitable for the manufacture
of candles. and good lubricating oil.
Female typewriters abound in Wash
ington, and find their profession very
lucrative. One of them refused a ST.
200 clerkship the other day because
she could earn more with her machine.
Experiments prove that the Atlantic
breakers have force of three tons to
no af Il
two square yards sustains a blow from q
heavy Atlantic breaker equal to fifty
four tons.
The most densely populated square
mile in the world is in the city of New
York. 1t is inhabited by 10000 peo-
pie. the larger part of whom are
Italians, who speak only their native
language.
DR.. Frithjof Nansen has been grant
ed SO, 600 by the Swedish government
to pay the expenses of his north pole
expedition, which starts from Christ
iania in February, 1892, and sails
around Asia.
In digging a well on Hyde's ranch,
near Viawest, Tulare County, Cal, a
buffalo horn was found at the depth of
thirtyseven feet. How it got there is
a puzzler, as no buffaloes were known
to have been in that country.
A painter arrested in Litchfeld,
Conn, while at work walked along
quietly for few minutes, when he sud
denly turned and dashed his paint brush
into the sherff's eyes He then es-
capped. The sheriff is badly injured.
The interesting fact may be stated
in q line that New York's new aqueduct
is thirty miles long. 1t cost 500, 000,-
600 and eighty lives were lost in its
construction. 1t brings 31S, 900, 600
gallons of water to New York daily
When the deceased wife's sister act
was passed in Canada, the logical
necessity of its extension to the daugh-
ter of the deceased wife's sister was
overlooked, and a bill has been brought
into the senate to remedy this defect.
The United States government COM
missioner of patents estimates that
from six to seven-eighths of the en-.
tire manufacturing capital of the
United States. or six thousand millions
of dollars, is directly or indirectly
based upon patents.
The French minister of war lately
offered prize for the swiftest bird in
flight from Perigneux to Paris, 80
miles. There were 2,746 entries the
winner doing the distance in seven
hours and thirty-four minutes, or at
forty-three miles an hour.
An extraordinary feat in telephoning
was recently accomplished between ST.
Petersburg and Boulogna, Assistance OF
2, 465 miles; conversation was kept up
Notwithstanding rather high Undue
ton. The Russian engineers propose
to coverse by telephone over distance
of 1860 miles.
Oregon City has darky bootblack
who has seen the world In 1S4S, he
says, he landed in Constantinople as
steward of an American clipper. He
went short distance into the interior,
met a Boston man he knew who was
keeping public house, and made $75
exhibiting himself to the natives, that
were astonished at the sight of colored
man.
The chief of police of Moscow has
issued orders that those who sell papers
or other printed matter in the streets
shall not be allowed to pursue their vo-
cation if they are not dressed in the
proper uniform, or if they do not APP
pear clean and tidy. From the date OF
this order two weeks was allowed the
vendors of newspapers to get their uni
forms into proper shape.
A gentleman who visited quarry ur
in Maine discovered a freak of nature.
1t consisted of a square of white quartz
exactly four inches square with per-
feet corners set level in block OF
black granite. 1t is so perfect that il
looks like block in 4 tesselated pave.
ment. 1t was exhumed the other day
in excavation of stone and must have
laid there for centuries.
Sir Edwin Chadwick, who died
few days ago. was recently asked to