The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-11-13

More than five thousand men in New
/ York do business under the protection
: of their wives names.
Mother Seton OF the New York Con-
/ vent of Mercy is the oldest Sister of
! Mercy in America. She is over 80.
The MAYOR of Boston receives from
! the West End Street Railway Company
/ .. 600 free tickets weekly for charitable
/ uses.
\ Genesee, Mich, supervisor sends
! in his resort to the county clerk OF
person diving OF Information of the
! brain.
! Gurus w Fled raises an acre of cul-
! iiratcd suniipwer> on his estate Arasley
/ near Tarrytnwn. on the HUDSON, for
| chicken feed.
Rider Haggar,ls first book was a
conn;etr failure. 1t was 'Cetewayo
and His White Neighbor." He made
/ tlO on his second. 'Dawa.n
Prince Albert Victor is the only son
! of Il Prince of Wales who has taken his
seat IN the House of Lords before his
| fathers accession 10 the throne.
| Mrs Jacob Benton. of Lancaster. n.
| H., has learned five languages while an
| invalid in the last five wears. She
speaks and writes Nolapuk tluently.
Trees do not suffer from electric
lights. as has been supposed. DR..
Siemens is said to have proved that the
electric light really aids vegetation.
1t is said that the hop vine is the best
substitute for rags in the manufacture
Of paper The vine pulp possesses
great length, strength, hexibility, and
delicacy.
Observations at the Berlin postoilice
show that underground wires are much
! less liable than overhead lines to dis
turhance on account OF magnetic
storms.
Herr krupp. the great gun manu-
facturer of Essen. has submitted a plan
to the Austrian government for pac-
inc the city of Vienna i'll connection
with the Danube by canal
An inventor is trying to prevent
railway collisions by constructing an
apparatus that will give warning to
locomotive engineers when their trains
get too near one to the Their.
|
well of the employees of his brewery,
gave months salary to each of the
clerks and weeks pay to each of the
other hands in the establishment.
Death from seasickness is so very
rare that the case of Mrs. James Price,
of Toronto, attracts attention. She has
never recovered from the nausea in
duced by trip on the great lakes.
A Cobbville, GA, man tells of pig
which has been adopted by an old cat.
She had four kittens besides, and the
old cat was as much attached to the
pig as if it had been one of her kittens.
Blackening the nose and cheeks
under the eyes has been found an eff
fectual preventive of snow blindness or
the injurious effect of the glare from
| illuminated snow to eyes unaccustomed
to it.
William Riley, whose family has
mourned him as dead for many years.
and for whom stone is erected in a
bingham (Mass.) cemetery has written
from Maine in regard to getting out
pension papers.
J. H. Spangler of Fontano. Lebanon
County, Pa, three years ago brought
sprout of banana tree from Florida
and planted it. 1t has grown 10 a
height of twelve feet and has leaves
five feet long.
| 1t is not often men enter suit for
holes, but three Taunton Me. citizens
have managed to collect $1,000 by that
process from a telephone company that
| put eight postholes without permission
on their land.
4 scientist computes that with the
aid Of machine constructed on the
principle Of the boring, drilling and
pumping apparatus of the mosquito,
hole could be bored to the center of the
.arth in less than a day.
| Mrs. Penschower, of Cloverdale,
Cal, has raised sunflower that breaks
all records. The stalk is inches in
diameter at the ground, it stands II
feet high, and the flower measures 9
feet around the outer edge.
Nelly Thorpe, of Santa Maria Val
ley, Cal, is an expert with the rifle.
| She brought down Il large eagle recent
ly that was lowering over her chicken
yard, and her latest trophy is the pelt
| Va d jlhpc "iitCdt IlIil WAS SUedklDp OH
the same plan for chicken salad.
The Russian government has ordered
that all medical and pharmaceutical
students shall be henceforth accustomed
to the decimal system of weights and
| measures, with the view to making
this system the only legal one for pre-
scriptions to be written in after the
lapse of five years.
| The Rev. DR.. c. H. Parkhust of New
York recently distinguished himself bv
scaling the Matterhorn. the most dam
gerous peak of the Alps. This feat is
seldom performed. IN fact, the Mat
terhorn was not scaled by man until
1865, and of the company which
climbed to the top three were killed.
1t is not generally known that sim
gle mouse turned loose in grocery
window will catch more flies in single
evening than fly paper catches all day.
And, besides, he eats them and don't
leave them lying around loose. Don't
grudge the mouse his little mischief;
he is a good fly and roach extermina-
| tor
At the General Grant cottage at
Mount McGregor is kept register of
| visitors, and among those who have
| within the past few days affixed their
| sign manual miy be seen globe-trotters
| from Engla nj. Scotland, Sweden, Bel
GUM. Egypt. France. Germany, Hun
gary, Canada. Mexico. Brazil and
southern Africa.
A day or two ago gentleman who
was visiting his laboratory. and whose
son was about To enter upon his first
employment. asked Edison 10 give him
n motto for the boy. so that he might
have it as stimulus AMI guide. Mr..
Edison laughed little ut the novel re-
quest, then said: wv ell. Eli give him
this: Never look ut the clock.m
The Lord Mavor of London is given
an allowance equal to the salary of the
President OF the United States. but so
costly is the duty of maintaining the