The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-01-22
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through the forest like the stroke of
hammer on an anvil.
Louis Janvier. Haytian negro. has
lately published in Paris a novel which
is said to show considerable ability and
undoubted originality.
Sir John Lubbock kept a queen bee
for fifteen years test proving her
eggs to be just as fertile at that age as
they were twelve years before.
Montfancon notices a very ancient
book of eight linden leaves, which on
the back had rings fastened by a small
linden rod to keep them together.
Thew are now raising English wal
nuts out in California. and single trees
yield $50 worth of nuts which is far
better than can be done in England.
An Indianapolis man has construct
ed bicycle of steel tubing and alumi
mum, which though exceptionally light,
is claimed to be practically unbreak-
able.
Bodemanche and John Davenport,
two Indians of the Ceur dAlene,
Washington, reservation, last season
raised and sold for cash 1000 bushels
of oats.
Fireworks were not known to an
tiquity. They are Il modern invention.
If ever the ancients employed fires at
their festivals it was only for religious
purposes.
OF 700 boys and girls who drew
books from the library of the College
Settlement in Rivington street. New
York, last year only two had Ameri-
can parents.
A BROOKLYN mantua maker has hit
upon new idea for attracting at
tention. She has swung out a sign
board on which she calls herself Mrs.
-, Dress Builder"
Some WAC recently started the story
that Mrs. Stanley is about to write a
book entitled How | found Stanley
and she is receiving letters from peo-
pie who think it is true.
Assistant Postmaster General Clark
son said recently. The State of
Washington has more coal than Penn
svlvania. more pine than Maine and
more fish than Massachusetts.
The speech of Claudius, engraved
on plates of bronze. is yet preserved in
the town hall o; Lyons, France. 1t
was discovered in 1923 on the heights
of St. Sebastian above the town.
A man who hit on the idea of pop
ping corn is an attractive stall in the
busiest part of Fulton street, New
York, in full view of the shopping
crowds, Is making lots of money.
The use of holly, in particular, dates
back at least to the founding of the
Roman saturnalia. tor the plant was
dedicated to Saturn and regarded as
an emblem of peace and good will.
A Boston paper tells us that the
latest thing is 10 drop the m in the abb
breviation Il. M. and p. III. As for in
stance: Rev. Phillips Brooks will
preach next Sunday ut II a. and 4:30 p.
A girl at Norristown, Pa. attacked
with toothache, left the theatre, and
going to a neighboring dentist had the
offending molar extracted. after which
she returned to see the rest of the
play.
In the Pacific coast states at least,
the potato crop has not been a falu: G.
In some parts of southern Oregon
from 80, 900 to 10000 pounds of pota-
toes have been raised from single
acre.
After being chased couple of miles
by hunters and pack of selected
hounds, Georgia wolf showed up,
lunched off the leader of the pack, dis
abled several others and retired in fine
shape.
From the latest times of pagunism
to the early ages of christianity we can
but rarely quote instances of fire light
ed up for other purposes in public
form than for the ceremonies of re-
ligion.
ServIus, one OF the seven kings of
Rome, commanded a great fire of
straw to be kindled in the public place
of every town in Italy to consecrate
for repose a certain day in seedtime or
sowing.
Fishermen over large part of Eu-
rope always kill the fish as soon as
they take them out of the water, and
do SO upon the ground that it is better
for the flesh of the fish that it be killed
at once.
The monkey wrench is not called so
on account of its fancied or actual re-
semblance to a monkey. or because it
is a handy tool to monkey" with. but
simply because it is the invention of
Charles Monckay, of Kings County,
n. Y.
The question of what shows the real
gentleman is under discussion in the
society journals But the old, terse
| definition of the Kentuckian still abides,
| viz: "A gentleman is the man who
| turns his back while his guest pourS
out the whisky"
The story from Southern town that
| the Indian chief Red Cloud is really
white man is very vigorously denied
| by people who know the savage. He
| is magnificent specimen of the Sioux
warrior, and there is no cloud on his
title to the reddest of red Indian blood.
Vctoren Sardou, the French play
wright, is entering his Goth year in ro-
| bust and vigorous health. He has nev-
er been ill, and attributes his i'm
| muuity from disease to the fact that he
| takes eight hours sleep every night
and is never bothered by his digestion.
G. f. Ryckman of Brockton, n. Y.
| has beat the record in grape culture.
| last year. and it wasn't good year for
grapes either. From half an acre of
ground he has picked y, Cos pounds IF
| Niagaras, which he sold for 81. 266. 80.
OF this sum, probably $1,000 was clear
| profit
Can we look forward to time when
| the chemist will manufacture our SUI
| gar, when the sugar cane and the beet
root will cease to be planted because
their products can be more cheaply
| manufactured from coal or wood? Re-
suits apparently as improbable have
happened.
Among historic rings is one said to
be Shakspearc's signet. Upon the
| seal. entwined with true lovers knot.
are the initials W. S. 1t was lost be-
| fore his death and found many years
after by laborers wife, near STRAIT
ford Churchyard. This is the only au-