The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-07-24
MISSING LINKS.

You can get 100 acres of land in
Samoa for Sl.37 and the taxes will be
only 80 cents year.
The money.annually spent for cosmet-
les by the women of this country
would paint IL, 900 houses. allowing so
for each house.
The experiment of treating typhoid
fever by prolonged immersion of the
patient in water has been tried with
gratifying success.
A rattler was killed in Cucamonga
Canyon lately that measured feet 2
inches long by II inches around the
waist. 1t sported twenty-one rattles
with button.
Zenas and George Mayo. at Hancock,
n. Y, married two sisters simultane-
ously. and, just rs simultaneously, the
two sisters obtained divorces from the
brothers for cruel treatment.
A woman at Westerly, Conn.,, who
had rheumatism and neuralgia arose in
the night and daubed herself with lini-
ment. In the morning 1T was found
that she had used ink, and she is not at
home to callers.
Au electric typewriter is being con-
structed which will write letters in New
York as they are transmitted from Dos
ton and vice versa. the communications
being transmitted simultaneously over
four separate wires.
4 Matilda A. Scott, living in North
May street. New York. has a kennel
and Il dog farm, where she raises toy
terriers that net 5000 year, and she
pays all her expenses with the proceeds
of the canine sick ward
The statement is made that at least
seventy letters day miscarrv because
of the similarity of the names of
Oswego and Owego-cities in the State
of New York For this reason each
town wants the other to change its
name.
The largest steam derrick in the
world is used by a shipping company
at Hamburg, Germany. 1t is keps at
the docks and used in lifting immense
weights on and off shipboard. 1t can
pick up ten-wheeled locomotive with
perfect ease.
An accepted authority says the spring
onion is great inducer, and about
equal to quinine for malaria. 1t is kept
out of its useful province by the pre-
judice against the odor. This may be
overcome by hypnotism, and made a
nasal delight.
A novel way of raising money to
build a church has been adopted by a
congregation in an Iowa town. They
borrowed 1920. 900 and gave life insur-
ance on Il number of the members,
which is to be applied Oh the debt as
fast as death ensues.
Murder seems to be the least perilous
of all the felonious pastimes known to
this country. Out of II, 779 murderers
who took human life in the six years
from 1884 to 1889 only 55S paid the
penalty of their crimes byyielding their
own lives to the law.
The kola nut was experimental with
during the German autumn maneuvers
of last year with such evidences of its
ability to enable men to endure i'm
mense physical labor that the German
war office ordered thirty tons of it for
consumption in the army.
Women inventors appear very often
on the patent office records, and one of
them who succeeded in pushing through
an improvement in an eye-glass spring
is said to have made a very comfort
able fortune by the crystallization of
her ideas in practical form.
The most prominent experts in dogs
in this country are firm in the belief
that thoroughbred dogs are less intel
ligent than mongrels. Nearly all the
dogs exhibited on the stage are cross
breeds and dogs of low lineage, if they
can boast known parentage at all.
M. Pedrous, physician at Nantes,
France, has the strange gift of being
able to see the color of sounds He
SAYS that human voices are red, blue,
black, tan. slate and all other colors.
and that the color of some very hand
some women's voices is like butterlnlk.
One of the relics placed in the cor
ner-stOne of the Confederate Soldiers
Home at Atlanta is II spur sent by
General Longstreet. 1t was made from
a Union cannon captured at the first
battle of Bull Run, and was worn by
General Longstreet throughout The
war.
Balzac's old house in Paris is being
pulled down. 1t was built originally
by a rich financier Balzac Obtained it
in time for his marriage with the
Countess Eva de Hanska and furnished
it most luxuriously, thanks to his wifes
handsome fortune. But he only en-
ioyed his luxurious home for a brief
period, dying four months after his
marriage.
ANY law firm in New York with a
really profitable business expends from
500 to $25, coo year for rent, light,
fuel. stenographing and the like. Some
of the older lawyers still refuse to en-
ploy typewriters, and William Allen
Butler astonished some of his younger
brethren at Albany the other day by
presenting a voluminous brief written
out of his own hand.
O. S. Nestergaard a lutheran mis-
sionary. passed through Minneapolis
recently on his way from Norway to
China. lie expects to spend the rest
of his life among the Chinese of the in
terror. He has Il brother who has been
in China for several years, and has
adopted Chinese dress and customs
pigtails and ALL Mr.. Nestergaard will
probably do the same.
Young Paris masherS are now said TO
wear colored shirts-pink, blue or red
in the evening. They are displayed
with the regular low-cut evening waist
goats. and to heighten the contrast they
are fastened by large jet studs. The
demand for such shirts is already SO
great that they cannot be made fast
enough The young prince of Naples
introduced the fashion.
The congressional committee ap-
pointed to investigate the imni grafton
business report the discovery OF Il single
square mile of territory in New York
City where 270 600 people live. which
is S. 900 more human beings thar can
!, fo,,,l JualI,ncy in anu Snrral.s