The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-12-25
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Stanley makes the length of the Nile
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Stanley makes the length of the Nile
4, 100 miles.
Cinnamon generally travel by threes
and fours, and are always chattering.
Twenty million acres of the land of
the United States are held by foreign
erS.
1t is said that there are ID. 600 brass
bands in this country, with 10000 per-
formers.
Adam Monts, of Bigby Fork, Miss,
who is ninety-four years of age, has 400
descendants living.
One Colorado county has 100 arteSian
wells. New ones do not decrease the
flow of the old ones.
The first and only modern windmill
in London is TO be seen ut work on the
top of IA warehouse in City Road. Lon
don.
Il vote aye with big En- exclaimed
a rural mem Der OF the ONO assembly,
as he promptly responded to the roll
call.
Thirty-six years ago the first settler
built his house in Omaha, and the In
dams reluctantly fell back 4 few miles
TO the west.
The horse that General Grant last
used is leading comfortable life on
farm near ST. Louis, where it is tender
ly cared for.
Mrs. Lynn Linton, the English novel
list. is said to be one of the most popular
women in Great Britain, as well as one
of the clevercst.
Jean Charlet, n boy aged IL years, has
succeeded in ascending Mont Blame.
He is the youngest climber to accom-
plish such feat
The Austrian minister of public in
structions requests masters of public
schools to cultivate Il taste for athletics
among their boys.
The number of women who avail
themselves of the co-educational privl-
leges offered by Michigan University is
constantly increasing.
Two of the albums sent to the inter-
national exhibition of postage stamps
at Vienna were insured for t., $50 and
IS, 600 respectively.
| A sensation in New York recently
was Il handsome turnout drawn by two
well-groomed mules, driven by 4 hand
some iiveried coachman.
Half dozen New York ladies are
said to earn a handsome living by hold
ing conversation classes and giving
private lessons in that art.
A correspondent describes ''Ouida"
as "a square. yellow woman" but this,
saws the n Y. World, does not alter
the fact that "Ouida' is largely read.
A young girl rode her horse through
a store door ut Lynchburg, Va, the
| other afternoon, made her purchase,
said good-by and backed gracefully
| out.
The average duration of life is
| greater in Norway than in any other
country in Europe. This attributed to
| the uniform cool temperature of the
| climate.
A drainage and plum bling bill of
| $4,000 is large for one individual to
| settle. but the duke of Portland has re-
Gently completed improvements to that
| amount.
Iron collars for heavy work horses
are coming into use. They weigh less
than seven pounds, and the advantage
| of their use is said TO he immunity from
| sore necks.
| Brazil is larger than the United
States, but in the whole twenty states
which make up the republic there are
not rs many people as we have in New
York and Pennsylvania.
French surveyors have discovered
| northwest of Suez the bed of an ancient
canal running for miles in the direction
of the Red Sea, which it seems to have
connected with the Mediterranean.
Six brothers named Withcrs at Louis
Vile, KY, are said to be over six feet
six inches each in height, and their
average weight is 19l pounds. Their
mother is living at the age of eighty
nine years.
1t was in Italy, after Flanders, that
the manufacture of tapestry attained
the highest position during the six
teenth century. Ferrara appears to
have been the most ancient and most
important mandatory in Italy.
Lord Tennyson has recited The
| Charge of the Light Brigade and the
| lode Oh the Death of the Duke OF
Wellington into monograph. so
| that the sound of his voice may be
| heard 'in summers that we shall not
! see"
Nearly 1000 pounds of altar of roses
were exported from Turkey last year,
worth $3.50 600. Essence of geranium
| has been employed for aduteration,
| I'D 10 rEn,l. ;,I,
forbidden the importation of this es-
| sence.
A curious art imposition has been
discovered in Paris. An ingenious
| person stole bronze and marble busts
| from the cemetery of Montparnesse,
Paris. touched them up and sold them
as effigies of famous heroes, statesmen
and orators.
Graphite has been discovered near
| Santo Espritu. Cuba. and the owners
| of the mine intend to commence work
Immediately in connection with some
| American capitalists, us the mineral,
which is as good as that of Siberia, can
be advantageously disposed of in the
| United States.
The Bradly-Martins. of New York,
| have set Il fashion which will possibly
| find imitatOrs among other rich Ameri-
cans. Instead of spending the winter
in New York or Florida they have Sc.
| cured a palace ut Cairo and will give
some sumptuous entertainments in true
oriental splendor.
Gov. Francis L. Nichols of Louisiana.
who made such tight against the lot
| terry in his state, is dismembered to a
| remarkable extent. He has lost q leo
and an arm and is blind in one eve.
He lost his leg at Charlottesville and
his arm was carried away by cannon
| ball at Winchester