The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-02-20
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considered imminent.
A wine company in California recent
" received an order from England for
80, 600 gallons of sweet wine.
The prominent tailors of St Louis
now hire professional dressers for the
purpose of introducing new styles.
The deepest bored hole in the world
is in Schladenbach-5 13I feet. Ittook
i diamond drill three years and a half
to reach the bottom.
In 1888 nearly 5000 600. 900 bricks
were manufactured in twelve cities Of
the United States. About $4,000, 600
were made in Pittsburg.
The manufacture Of oil of roses IS to
begin on IA large scale in the Crimea,
where the roses grow IN great pro-
fusion in the mountains.
At White Haven gunner fired four
teen shots at d duck before he found
out that it was decoy placed on the
water by two schoolboys.
The scientists at Harvard University
are engaged in experiments which they
are confident will result in determining
the exact location Of the north pole.
As Peter Baur of Pottsville, was
opening a large oyster strange fish
dipped out. It had eaten part OF the
oyster. 1t had the head Of a catfish
There is in Windsor Castle gold
punch bowl and ladIe for which George
". paid 10, 090 guineas, hut in which
there has never been Il drop Of punch
made.
Up in the Northwest Scandinavian
journalism is having quite Il boom.
They have better Swedish newspaper
in Minnesota than they have in Sweden,
ii is said.
The girls will be sorry to hear that
the spruce gum supply OF northern
Maine is giving out, an. that in regions
usually prolific it cannot now be bought
at any price.
Professor John 5. NewbcrTy, in n
lecture at Columbia College recently,
on the Geological History OF Man,
said that there are signs that man lived
50, 1000 years ago.
4 jackson County, Missouri, man is
suing for a divorce IRON the woman he
welded thirty-eight years ago. He
SAYS his wife made him do the washing
and the general houseworh.
4 great influx OF immigrants is ex-
pected soon and the railroads are al
ready arranging for Il division of the
labor Of CARVING the newly-arrived
hordes to their homes III the West.
Cigarettes for ladies smoking" are
sold in London provided with specially
prepared mouthpicce5. They are per-
tuned with Musk and violet, and they
are enjoying very extensive sale.
In the stock yards at Kansas City "a
mule and Il horse engaged in Il kicking
match, and the niue was outkicked.
The attendants had to turn the hose on
the combatants III order to separate
them.
A fearful widow at Charleston, W.
Va, obtained IN order for 81 worth of
groceries from the poor commission
ers. Next day the provisions were
spread rs the refreshments ut her we'd
ding banquet.
The Sandwich Islanders pipe is
made Of virgin cork lined with meer-
pattern on the cork maize by the in
sect5 that feed on the trees. 1t is like
delicate lace work.
Says .he Bedford, Pa, Gdzetie: Over
in York County there is horse suffer-
ING with ossiucation OF the joints 1t
takes half a day to walk a mile. 1t will
probably be entered in the trotting race
1T the next Bedford County fair.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Navigation Company owns iieet OF
seyenty-two steamships OF 1913. go tons
and $50. 9o0 horsepower. In the past
year the fleet had steamed $500, 600
miles without accident or delavn
While the increase in marriages be-
tween English people in Great Britain
has not kept pace with the population,
being only / per cent in nine years,
marriages among the Jewish inhabi-
tants have grown no less than Co per
cent.
Here are few definitions given by
pupils of the Gardiner. Me. grammar
school at recent examinations: Exile,
a part Of wagon; hyword. a word
that has gone by; mermaid, kind of a
maid; turmoil, il kind of oil; repast. to
pass by"
The British boat Brisk has giyea the
most conclusive proof that Il torpedo
may be effective. She fired one Of hers
at Il buoy which had been lowed out
rs a target b. her steam cutter, and.
missing the baoy hit the cutter and
sank her
Indian jim, captain of the Washoe
band IN Sierra Valley, California, laid
III 100 pounds of flour and a can OF balI-
ing powder for his winter supply. lie
then killed 1000 rabbits for fresh meat
and settled down in his camp with a
light heart.
In Georgia. when You ask man
how far it i TO the next plantation, he
will answer that it is "A peep and a
right smart screech." He means that
ii is n far Is YOU can see from where
yoa stand and then rs much further rs a
strong voice can be heard.
\ company has been organized at
Tacoma, Wash, to build 4 fiume to
huge glacier on Mount Rainier. and to
Slide ice to that city. The glacier is
zoo feet thick. Of the purest quality of
ice, aud the expense of building the
tlume is estimated ri So, 600
4 Beaver Falls man SAYS he caught a
rat by placing an apple-core with a
string tied to it near the rodents hole.
Then he waited and watched until the
rat came out and swallowed the core.
string and all. The man then pulled
on the string and Killed the rat
A ST. Louis brewery has erected the
largest brick chimney west of Boston.
II Is 236 feet in hcight-amost. twice rs
high Is the water tower-aud covers
l,6Sl square feet at the base. Tie
walls II the base are ) feet thick. taper-
ing gradually to Is inches At the top.
This i the age OF discovery. In the
back Of an old laol,ing-glaSs a deed was
found which viii make the owner the
proprietor of biz slice OF the State %
New York. And ROW 200 letters writ
ten by the mother Of Goethe To her son
have come 70 light in library at Well
mar.