The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-08-27
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Rabbits are damaging crops in Schley
County. GA.
| New York City employs S,543 pub
lie school teachers.
ure about New York.
| Some genius has discovered that
the ordinary watch gives 116, IA, 900
ticks a year.
The citizens of Green Cove Springs,
| Fla. raised a subscription and pur-
| chased hearse.
At Birmingham, Ala. there is an old
hen which kills sparrows. She coaxeS
them up with bait.
| IF the Mediterranean were lowered
| geo feet Italy would be joined to At
RIGA and three separate seas would re-
main.
| The Queens head piper, William
Ross died recently in Windsor, aged
60 He had piped for Her Majesty
| since 1854.
Richard Tells, who lives near Cliff
ford, Mich. served in thirty-sx en-
| gagements during the war and never
| lost drop of blood.
The limited mail on the Pennsyl-
vania Line between Columbus. Ohio.
| and indianapolis is said to be the fast
est railroad train in America.
The explosion of dynamite car
fridge 10 blow up an old ship near
Mobile sent to the surface fish that
weighed more than two hundred
pounds.
| The church of England is turning
out curates three times as fast as 1t IS
| forming new cures, and there has been
society formed TO promote the use
| of additional curates.
King Humbert'S son. the Crown
| Prince, threatens TO upset all royal
conventionalities and marry the girl
of his heart. the daughter of an English
clergyman who is living in Italy.
1t is said that in Munich, which con-
sumes mores beer than any other Ger
man city, the family allowance of The
amber fluid amounts to 565 quarts
year for every man, woman and child.
Generosity is national trait of the
Chilians. and the American tramps
who drift into Santiago are reputed to
make from ten to twenty dollars a day
by begging ut the doors of the wealthy.
Electric light has been employed add
vantageously on board of West In
dian steamer crossing the ocean to
keep alive and furnishing certain
plants which were being transported
for acclimatization.
Two Milwaukee girls in their teens
climbed by means of outside ladders to
the top of the tallest chimney in that
city, waved their handkerchefs to the
crowd and descended Oh the ladders.
The chimney is 225 feet tall
In the towns and cities of Chill all
the shopping of any consequence is
done in the evening. In Santiago the
stores are open till midnight, and dur
ing the hot afternoons. when everybody
takes siesta. they are locked up.
A Fort Worth CTex.) man says that
he has the largest maidstone in the
world. 1t is nearly as large as Il hens
egg and was taken. he says. by his IA
Their from the stomach of white deer
found dead in the Ozark Mountains.
John London Macadam the inventor
of the road that bears his name. la
bored for years to perfect his ideas.
and, although the English Parliament
voted him $50. 600, it hardly covered
his outlay. His monument is the
roads of England"
There are two young women stu
dents in the law department of the
National University OF Chill at Santi-
ago but as such independence and
Il
upon with disfavor there the position
Of the senorltas is not entirely envi-
able.
1t has been calculated lately that
the electromotive force of bolt OF
lightning is about $500. 900 volts, the
current about IA 100000 amperes and
the time TO be about 1-20. 900 part Of a
second. In such bolt there is an
energy of 9. 450, 900 watts or 3, 284 16l
horse power
The Oldtown Indians in Maine have
law that forbids palefaces to be on
their island later than n certain hour
IN the evening A white man who re-
manned until past the hour recently
took swim in his clothes to the main
land rather than fall into the cluches
of the red constable.
The smallest ''moonshne" distllery
ever captured by the revenue officers
was found recently i'll Atlanta Ga.,
and sent to Washington as a curiosity
Its capacity is about three gallons, it
Is constructed SO as to be operated on
an ordinary cooking stove and it is
complete in every detail.
The painting of the burial of Christ,
discovered in little church at Tint
zuntzan, Mexico. last year, aud sup
posed to be a Titan. has been pro-
nounced the work of Bathasar de
Echave by DR.. Nicholas Leon. director
of the Michoacan Museum. Several
American artists went to see it.
John Kolp, of Linfield, Pa, having
been dismissed by his sweetheart. Mary
Detweiler gave her a gumdrop on the
occasion of his farewell visit She did
not eat the candy. but showed it to a
physician. who said it was loaded with
a deadly poison. Then she caused the
issue of warrant for Johns arrest.
A 10-year-old boy in an Arkansas
town has been detected 10 stealing let
tiers from the post-o1ice box by means
of a string and a grasshopper. The
grasshopper was tied to the string and
let down into the box through the
aperture. When the insect got let
ter in its pinches, he hauled it up aud
took the letter.
j. w. DoddS, of Melton, Ga, is six
ty-oue years old and has been using
the same razor strop forty-three years
1t is the only one he ever owned. and
it is almost rs good rs new. never hav-