The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-01-08
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English importation.
Glue from whale refnss is a new
article of commert; 10 Russia.
At Frankfort Gerpszy. 500 horse
power is transmitted By electricity to
a distance of 40 miles.
According to Chauncey II. Depew,
more than a million dollars is spent
in New York annually for public BAN
quets.
Corporal Tanner is said to have
made 1897, 600 since leaving the pen
sion bureau in fees out of pension cases
he has handled.
Tsheng- Ki-Tong. the Chinese gen.
eraI. has published in French book
that is said to be an imitStion OF the
modern French ncse.
Robert g. Ingarsoil denies that he
made the prediction attributed to him
that about this time two theaters would
be built to one church.
During the last academical year at
Cambridge 1. 024 students matriculated
and /. 546 degrees were conferred both
being the largest Numbers on record.
on on His HliICtiCtH Dll
day, was asked how young he would
like to be- about So answered he,
the vision of youth rising to his minds
eye.
The submarine war boat has led to
the flying of balloons from war ships.
A balloon lowering over a ship can de-
tect every movement OF submarine
boat cOminp to the attack
The city gas works of Berlin brought
81. $50, 600 clear profit into the treasury
during the last financial year despite
the unusually heavy expenditures for
new gas house and conductors.
A Connecticut boy is famous just
now because he has Il tin whistle one
ana half inches in diameter and
several inches long in his stomach. He
swallowed the toy while playing on it,
There are few such common-sense
proverbs rs every man Is the archi-
tect Of his own fortune" Appius
Ciaudus. a Roman censor, used it in a
speech delivered by him 40 years be-
fore the christian era.
Birds are the only animals besides
man which can be taught distinctly to
articulate and utter sentences, which,
though of course not understood by the
birds themselves, are none the less sur
pEsing to listen to.
1t is an old remedy for the hiccough
to hold ones breath, aud if that fails
then to gargle with little water and
if tie hiccough still continues to tickle
the nose to the point of sneezing once
or twice, when the hiccough is sure to
90.
The Panama Canal works are
wrecked; even traces of the excaya-
tons are vanishing aud the construct
i've machinery is worthless. This en-
terprise, in which 800, 600, 900 has
been sunk will figure as the monument.
al failure of the age.
In the discussion lately carried on in
Europe as to the distance at which
large objects on the earth's surface are
visible, it was stated that the Himalaya
Mountains have appeared to view from
the great distance of 224 miles, and
Mont Blanc 210 miles.
According to Weismann, every
character possessed by every animal is
due to the preservation in the struggle
for life of minute accidental variations
in the molecular structure of germ
plasm, which alone has adapted every
being to its environment.
Bones are necessarily more or less
heavy structures but the bones of most
birds, while their solid substance is ex-
ceedlngly strong, are wonderfully
lightened by the details of their ar
rangement, and still more by the fact
that most of them contain not marrow,
but warm (and therefore light air.
Birds stand between beasts and
reptiles. but are widely distinct from
both. all beasts possess, as We
possess, warm blood, but the blood of
a bird is warmer still, and thus birds
differ greatly from reptiles, in spite of
their possessing certain structural
characters in common with that cold
blooded class.
1t is told of Able List that on one
of his concert tours through Germany
he was rendered Il banquet at a small
town by his admirers. When it was
found that thirteen were seated at the
table the general embarrassment was
checked by List remarking: DO not
be alarmed at such Il trihe. l can eat
for two persons
So careful is the packing process in
birds that the parts that grind the food
and act as teeth are placed, not in the
jaws, but in the center of the body-in
the gizzard. These parts consist of
small stones, which most birds swallow
for this purpose-all those, that is
which feed on grain and other SUBJ
stances that require grinding.
Baron Nathaniel Rothschild of
Vienna can be seen walking about the
village of Waereshofen, near Munich.
barefooted, undergoing the nerve-cure
OF the Roman Catholic priest, Father
Kneip. This doctor makes his patients
60 barefooted most of the time. take a
plunge every morning into icy cold
water. and eschew all meats and in
toxicating drinks.
Any vessel causing a disaster at her
launch is regarded by the japanese as
doomed to il-fortune for her whole
career. At Osaka lately a vessel cap
sized while being launched several
persons being drowned, and her own
ers determined to destroy her at once
before the unlucky craft produced a
further catastrophe. The destruction
was carried out by night with much
ceremony.
10 Howard says of Henry Ward
Beecher: Il have seen him hundreds
of times take his letters from the post
office. open them as he walked along
the street. continue opening them in
houses where he called. and, in other
words. attend to his own business
That Mrs. Beecher opened some of his
letters is quite likely, but to say
that it was the regular procedure, she
determining what to answer and what
to throw away, is simply silly"
The late French author, Alphonse
Karr, had one of the most caustic of
pens, which sometimes brought him in
to trouble. Ga one occasion he pub
lished 4 few satirical verses upon a