The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-09-18


printed with blue ink.
Until 1875 cotton spinning WAS per-
formed by the handspinningwheel.
Germany manufactures over 81, 000.-
600 worth of children's toys every year.
To salute with the left hand is 4
deadly insult to Mohammedans in the
East.
The natives pronounce Newfound-
land '.Nuffonlonn - with the accent
hard on the last syllable.
The veteran Dan Rice is going into
the show business again with an old
fashioned one-ring circus.
Constantinople is believed to have
founded the first hospital in the world,
as we now understand hospital.
A machine has been invented for
holes, heretofore found impossible.
The average width of the path of de-
struction with tornadoes is said to be a
little more than one thousand feet.
About T. 800 species of wild bees are
known. of wasps l,100, of which 40
dHu ~ fCo opcNli'Ciy NV ~ ii''ih'
According to the Wilmington Every
Ecening nail was found in the heart
of a COW that died near there recently.
An Owosso (Mich.) firm advertises IA
job-lot of tombstones, and advises peo-
pie to hurry up because there are only
a few of them left.
Mrs Eva B. Hart, who died near
Syracuse. n. Y. recently at the reputed
age of l13, smoked as far back as her
children can remember.
Seattle. the Indian chief after whom
the Washington city was named, is to
have monument erected TO him by
the whites. He died in 1866.
The Portuguese nation is said TO be
one of the least instructed in Europe
the illiterate inhabitants being official
ly stated at 80 per cent. of the total
population.
One of the heavist wagers ever laid
was that of the Marquis of Hastings
who bet $500, 900 on single horse race
and lost. The Marquis and his money
We're soon parted.
Few ladies consider that they carry
some forty or fifty miles of hair on
their head; the fairhaired may even
have to dress seventy miles of threads
of gold every morning.
1t is said that woman in Missouri
had her husbands name put down on
the census enumerator's report as
lunatic because he had sold out two
years ago and left Kansas.
Professor Daniel Willard Fiske, who
won the 81, 800, 900 lawsuit brought bv
Cornell University, is abroad at pres
ent. He is noted for his Icelandic
scholarship and his bsg lawsuit.
Justice Stephen j. Field is the poor
est man-in dollars and cents-on the
Supreme Bench, and yet he is several
removes from being hard up. His re-
sidence is one of the finest in Washing
ton.
1t costs the English Government 81
962, 600 annually to support Queen
Victoria and her immediate family.
Whenever the Queen visits Balmoral
Castle it takes 50, GOO to defray the
railroad expenses of the journey.
As soon as the horse cars from Cairo
to the pyramids are completed and
the work is nearly done, an elevator
will be made to the tops of the vener-
able piles SO that ascent may be made
quickly and comfortably to the modern
traveller.
Samuel Dey, of Wesley, Me-, is one
of the greatest bear hunters of his
time. During his life he has killed
22O bears and cubs, receiving over 81
900 in bounties therefor. He must
have gone around pretty well loaded
all the time.
Ralph Woodman, workman, Of
Auburn, Me-, snatched Il 3-year-old
child from in front of railroad train
and had such narrow escape himself
that the cow-catchGr of the locomotive
knocked off his hat, and it was carried
under the wheels.
The French mint will soon replace
the copper sous with nickels. Singular
Iy enough the ) and 10 centime pieces
will be perforated in the center after
the manner of Chinese coin. This
or handled with great ease.
David Dudley Field says that he re-
mem bers hearing Mrs. Fannie Kemble
say some years ago, of the 1,200, 000
people then inhabiting Massachusetts
that taking them all in all, she thought
they were the foremost 1,200, 600 peo-
PIE living together IL the world.
John Rose Ward, the British Admiral
whose death was recorded recently,
organized the working department of
the National Life-Boat Institution, and
during his thirty-one years of service
rs General Inspector of Life-Boats
that institution saved more than 20, 900
lives.
A German of Detroit tried to figure
the height of 100, 100000 silver dollars
if placed one on top of the other, and
because he couldn't get it within foot
or two he jumped off wharf with
suicidal intent. Although he has never
had a pile a foot high he wanted to be
exact about other peoples money.
American naval officers who have
adopted the cholera belt in the tropics
find it so beneficial that they often re-
tain it in all latitudes. 1t is simply a
broad band of flannel worn night and
day the year around tight about the
waist, so as to protect the stomach
from sudden changes of temperature.
1t is an excellent preventive of
stomachic disorders.
A very influential committee has
been organized in New York, with Dr.
A. l.. Loomis as president. to preserve
the Adirondacks from further destruc-
ton by reckless tree cutting. 1t is
hoped that the state may b. induced
to purchase al rights. and 10 convert
this beautiful region, which is highly
spoken of by New York physicians for
its health-giying climate, into state
forest park"
Herr Schmidt relates that one dav
when Chancellor (then Lieutenant)
yon Caprivi was at military school
three volunteers were summoned to
give evidence against sergeant. APP