The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-09-24
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ordered at restaurant unless you
eat it.
A Maine farmer who believes in a
strict observance of the Sabbath went
out and killed lamb which persisted
in bleating on a recent Sunday alter
noon.
A wren built a nest on machine IL
the shops of a Dawson (Ga.) Manufac-
turing Company that made about 5000
revolutions minute and raised four
birds.
A Partisan electrician has succeeded
in forcing violets by the aid of his bat
terry, and recently sent a bunch of
these fiedglings only four hours old to
the Empress Eugene.
Tie 8altiest piece of water upon
earth is Lake Urumia, Persia, more
than four thousand feet above the sea
level. 1t is very shallow. and no liv-
ing thing can exist in it,
Boston means to have a statue of
Theodore Parker before long, but rs
vet has not decided where to erect it.
1t wants the memorial placed In ii busy
place, and not n secluded one.
The Adrian Mich Times suggests
the idea of dynamite in criminal exc
cutions. is the condemned would not
know what hurt them, and 1t would
save burial expenses and coroners' III
quests.
Considerable British Indignation has
been aroused by fancy dress ball in
India, in which officers dressed rs
tiends with horns and tails, danced
quadrille with eight ladies costumed as
reluctant angels"
Butter made from cocOanutS are rap
! idly taking the place of ordinary but
| ter in Germany and Switzerland. 1t
is said to be healthful easily digested,
as palataDle rs butter made from the
milk of cows and much cheaper.
When the Mosque of st. Sophia, in
| Constantinoplc WAS built, more than
one thousand yeas ago. the stones and
| bricks were laid in mortar mixed with
| a solution of musk, and the building
has been fragrant with the odor ever
! since.
The other day in Northamptonshire
! Eng, curious wedding took place.
The groom was Sc and the bride 70.
The bans had been pronounced in
church lifty-siX years ago, but they
separated and married different
| people.
A cubic foot of aluminium weighs
157 pounds. \ cubic foot of copper
weighs 55S pounds. A sheet of alum
mum, twelve inches square and one
inch thick. weighs fourteen pounds. A
| bar of aluminium, one inch square and
twelve inches long, will weigh LIZ
pounds.
Z, NJ. Haskell was buried in North
| field Mimi, twGnty-threc years ago.
When his body was eXhumed recently
a beard twenty-three inches long was
found growing from his face. The
Scientific american has investigated
the case and voucheS for the truth OF
the statement.
Captain Malctts, of the bark q. c.
Goss, vouches for the story that one OF
his sailors, japanese, fell overheard
and was swallowed by whale in the
Pacific Ocean, but was presently eject
cd-cast on deck in fact. Il petroleum
covered oil suit the sailor wore proving
too much for the whale.
Mr.. Labouchcrc says that if a war
took place between Germany and
France over the AIsace-Lorraime ques.
ton, the sympathies of the Englisi
would be rwhelmingly with France,
and would turn out amy ministry thai
sought TO interfere. directly or indi-
rectlv, in behalf of Germany.
A novel method of beating" the
Post Office Department has been de
tectcd at Los Angeles Cal. y young
man rented Il box. taking two keys,
one of which he gave to a lady friend
and they exchanged letters through
the box. The letters have been hclC
for postage, aud one key has beer
taken up.
Our esteemed cotemporarY The
ZeHuag der DcucSchrg EiScR6uhnCc1,
WdttHRgcH, says that the largest loco
motive Yet built in Europe is forty-si,
feet over all with Il total weight o
cighty-four tons. On 4 gradient o
one in forty the engine can, by eXcr
clsing lis full traction power, move 20,
tons. 1t was built at the Hirschal
works in Munich.
Stephen COlCridge, son of the Eng
llsh Chief Justice. is IN artist. and hi.
views Of lake scenery are said 10 bC
very fine. Some of his choicest bit.
have been found around Grassmore
Windermcre and Ullswater, and in tn,
beautiful spots which surround the cot
tage where Coleridge, the poet, livet
and gathered around him the kindred
INF IL, IL, I L
of poetry.
Sir William Gordon Cummings rela
tives and friends are being socially os
tracised for their loyalty to him. LORD
and Lady Middleton. the latter his sis
ter, who chapcroncd Miss Garner hen
she became Lady Gordon Cumming
were left out ut the Marlboro House
garden party; also Sir Edward Clarke.
who defended him. and Lord and Lady
! 1hurlow, his stuunch friends through.
out the trial.
This year the population of London
has increased in somewhat lower
ratio than that of England and Wales
as whole, the first time that such cir
cumstance has occurred. The popula-
tons of the ten largest English coun-
ties are rs follows: Lancashire. 5. 926.-
19S; MiddicseN ), 720. S7l; Kent. l. 142,-
PSI; Staffordshire. l. 0S3. 273: Durham.
LOG 40; Warwick shire. SO4 O7O; Es-
sex, Ioj, 399; Cheshire. 73O,052.
Two widows of Revolutionary sol
diers are living in Pennsylvania and
drawing pensions fer services rendered
IN the field by their husbands. One,
who was the third wife of soldier OF
10 summers and bore him three chill
dren, is now 81 years old. hops up and
down stairs with the liveliness of a
cricket, and declared Der Willingness
TO marry again, pension or no pension,
II the right sort of II man presents
! himself.
The trailing dresses now fashionable
have engaged the attention of the Su-
/ preme Sanitary Board of Vienna. The
District Police Commissioners were
asked officially whether dresses sweep
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