The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-06-25
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Iceland. letters from that island
state, had Il phenomenal winter, with
never 4 flake of snow or an hour or
frost.
1t is fact worthy of note, that al
though a woman may be elected school
in Missouri. she can not
vote for one.
Mention is made of child born at
Hartford. Conn. which weighed only
two pounds and three ounces when it
was three days old.
The Pope will give life-s.ze statue
of himself to ST. Mary'S Church. in
Hanover, for Il monument ut the tomb
of Dr.. Windthorst.
A Wellington. Kan. couple. who
were married in two weeks after they
met. were separated in just two weeks
after they were married.
One Of the most popular subscrip-
ton books has been Il Scrlpturai his
tory called 'TDe Beautiful Story"
which has sold 800 900 copies.
An itineraut blind fiddler who met
with an accident at Stockton, Cal, aud
had to he taken to hospital. was
found to have 81 2O0 on his person.
In the Crysta! Palace London. there
is Il happy family of twenty il one
cage. 1t includes lions, bears. tigers.
panthcrs, ponies, goats and boar
hounds.
What island WAS discovered by Co.
lumbus on his first American voyage is
still unknown. The popular idea that
Cat Island was the one was exploded
long ago.
A few years ago the great Selkirk
glacier in British Columbia WAS pure
water. Now it is grimy from ashes
scattered by the wanton burning of
forest trees.
1t is mistake 10 suppose that polar
research has cost enormously i'll human
life. Despite ali the great disasters
81 out of every 100 explorers have re-
turned alive.
The number of inhabitants of Brit
ish India by the late census is 220, 600, :
since 1881. The population of all
India amounts to about 2S5, 100000.
English officers are aghast at the
proposition to abolish the cooked hat
and feathers worn by the superior Of
iicers OF the army. Major James, of
the Sixteenth Lancers. started the
idea.
The New York Supreme Court has
decided that II man who abandons his
wife without just cause must still give
her an equitable share of his income,
even if she has plenty of means OF her
own.
The lowest body of water on the
globe is the Caspian Sea. Its level
has been gradually lowering for cen
turtles, aud now it is eighty-live feet
below the level of its ncighbor. the
Black Sea.
Horseshoes are now made out of pa
per that has been soaked in turpentine
and subjected TO hydraulic pressure.
The shoe is said to wear well and is al
ways rough. being thereby adapted to
smooth pavements.
The historical grey coat of Napo-
leon l., which was stolen from muse
UNI, was found recently by the police
in the QUARTER du Temple in Paris.
An old clothes dealer had given the
thief 20 cents for it.
1t is not generally known that Marat
lived in London between 1775 and 1850,
and published a book in England en-.
titled AN Enquiry into Singular
Disease of the Eyes. London, 1776.
The original manuscript is lost.
The following advertisement appears
in German newspaper: Wanted by
Il lady of quality, for adequate remun.
GRAFTON, few well behaved and re-
spectacle dressed children tc amuse a
cat in delicate health two or three
hours day."
All of Mrs. Langtry's household eff
fects in her New York residence have
been forwarded to her London address,
which is regarded as an indication
that she is not soon to return to this
country, although she may still retain
her property here.
Burlington Booth, Commissioner of
the Salvation Army, deemed it neccs-
sary to preface his little talk in Bati-
more by contradiction of the rumor
that he aud his wife eloped. He add
ed. however, that their eight years of
married life had been very happy.
In the Iowa State prison the severeSt
punishment melted out TO refractory
convict is to keep him in II dark cell
for a week or two and reduce his fare
to bread and water. The most obsti-
nate fellow wits at the end of three or
four days, and no one has held out
over ten.
One is never too old to give up a
bad habit. A lady in Islesboro, Me. /.
lightweight years old, who had used
tobacco all her life. discarded the weed
last winter. She hasn't given up
work. though, as she makes it Il rule to
knit dipnet every day besides doing
other work.
The oldest woman minister in the
United States is Rev. lydia Sexton.
who has been preaching for forty-two
years in various portions OF the coun-
try. She is 90 years Of age, but her
memory is excellent and her sight re-
markaby good. Her voice is clear
and melodioUs in the hymns she delights
in singing.
Wooden nutmegs were Yankee
notion, but the manufacture of arti-
fetal coffee beans is German in
dustry. These beans are intended TO
be used in trade for mixing with the
genuine article. so that fastidious Gus
toners may have the whole roasted
and ground before their eyes without
suspecting the fraud.
1t is a mistake to suppose that the
weather is colder the further north one
goes. The northern pole Of greatest
cold is only about three hundred
mile S northeast of Yakutsk, Siberia
where the mean annual temperature is
a little lower than in the highest lati-
tudes reached by Mares and Greeley
1000 miles further north.
Sunday Reflections.
There is more saving grace in a
sound stomach than in l 900 homilies.
Woman's sphere will continue to be
oblate till she can round up the polls.