The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-12-10
MISSING LINKS.

250 feet above the sea level.
Birds are disappearing from France.
Their nests have been destroyed and
they are migrating elsewhere.
The oldest church in continental
Europe is the church of STA. Maria in
Rome. 1t WAS erected in 22l and re-
paired in 1889
In India hoteikeeper has had
printed on his bill of fare: In this
hotel the wines leave the travellers
nothing to nope for"
Rev. w. II. Qniilian. of the English
church, in Liverpool. has embraced
mohammcdanisn There is moslem
institute in Liverpool.
The Car of Russia has given ST.
800, 900 out of his private purse in aid
of tie famine fund for the relief of the
starving people Of his empire.
Japan wants reciprocity or some
other sort of closer trade relations with
China. and the native newspapers are
agitatng and advocating the matter
Sir Edwin Arnold greatly admires
Emerson. Longfellow. and Walt Whit
man. but he does not want to talk for
publication about younger American
poets.
1t took two sailors who were wreck
ed in the South Sea five months to
reach Honolulu in an open boat. They
touched at several islands. obtaining
supplies aud food.
There are six tunnels in the world
which have length exceeding II, 900
feet-St. Gothard. Mont Gents. Hoosac,
Severn, Nochistongs and Suits, the
shortest. is q, 120 feet
Frances f. Willard is inclined to be
modest. She repudiates the Boston
idea of knee-high walking dresses, in
sisting that they should reach to half
way between knee and ankle.
One of Washington's venerable law
vers is Gen. J. F. Farnsworth. In the
DAYS from 1857 to 1865 he represented
Chicago in Congress. when it was en-
titled to only one Congressman.
In Africa there are 500 missionaries
and 400, 900 converts. An average OF
25, 900 year become converted and in
five wears more than two hundred
martyrs have lost their lives there.
In computing Il mans age Cinnamon
always reckon two years back from
the day when he celebrated his first
birthday; or, in other words, as though
he were a year old at the time of his
birth.
A late writer on Social affairs in Ice
land says there is not single prison
on the island; that such things as
locks, bolts and bars are unknown, and
that there are neither watchmen nor
policemen.
Blood travels from the heart through
the arteries, ordinarily, at the rate OF
about twelve inches per second; its
speed through the capiIlaries is at the
rate of three -huudredthS of an inch
per second.
The most noted woman novelist of
Austria is Baroness Marie Won Elmer
Escheuboch. She is IL woman of 81
years, the mother of seven children,
and for twenty years She has been writ
ing works of fiction.
Colonel William r. Holloway. once
on Governor Morton's staff. and thus
well known to all Hoosier soldiers. will
become the editor of the 44perica,l
Tribune, of indianapolis Il paper de-
voted to the interests of veterans.
Charles Stewart Parnell's grandpa
Their committed suicide. aud so did two
other members of his family. There
are also two persons of unsound mind
among the immediate relations of the
dead leader. Genius is allied to iu-
sanity.
Miss Mary Redmond has modelled a
bust of Mr.. Gladstone which is so sue
cessful that Lady Aberdeen has order
ed . large number of small copies to
present a gifts 10 her fr;vahs. Miss
Redmond i an Irish woman. and re-
sides in DIth'in.
or One-tenth of the entire population.
Among these the Belgians lead with
10, 900; next the Germans, $1,000; then
the Swiss, %, 600. and Ital ians, u 900.
Then comes Luxembourg, and next
Great Britain with IS 900.
Professor Kohl ranch, who has been
making some curious experiments with
lightning. finds that the amount of
electricity in an ordinary flash is so
small that it would require thirty-sev-
en- flashes TO keep common incandes-
cent lamp burning one hour.
Ex-Gov. Waller of Connecticut can
dash off letters at fifty words TO the
minute and ut the same time keep ND
running conversation with any body
lie wishes to talk 10. His law practice
Is something enormous since he re-
turned from London us Consul.
Miss Lizzie Z. ID. Thayer. the train
dispatcher of the New London North
ern Railroad. is the only woman in the
country who holds similar position.
She is young. pretty and smart. and is
as attentive to her duties us she is nat
'y III dress and charming in manner.
Erastus Wiman. DR.. William b.
Meany. and others. of New York, are
reported to be arranging for the estab-
lishment of an Anglo American bank,
with offices in London and Chicago
The capital stock, it is said, will be
s., 600. 900. and London and South
American syndicate will be the hackers
of the concern.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, widow of the'late
Senator from California, has endowed
NV FoOo oShoidi SUI )o lOt Souup WOn1-
en- at the State University. Candidates
for these scholarships are to be recon-
mended by the County Superintendent
of Schools. but the scholarships are not
to be given as prizes for honors in the
entrance examination.
Miss Cresswell, the postmistress of
Gibraltar. is an official who has very
important part to play in the regular
business of the colony. She is the Su-
perintendent of the Governments tele-
graph office. and for five wears has
ha': sole control of the post office. with
large staff under her. and branches
at Tangier. Maezagan and other towns
of Morocco. Siss CreswclI gets 81. 800
> year.
A new invention that will doubtless
go next summer when The swim
ming season sets in again is Il webbed
rubber glove for use in the water.
L Dung swimmers find that one of the