The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-04-07

1t Il a common sight among the Is
quimauX. according to a travellers
story, to see nursing infant with
quid of tobacco in its mouth.
In the last seven and twenty years
the number of students attending
Scotch universities has more than
doubled; for in 1890 it was 1909 odd
Venezuela has fifty-six HOLIDAYS
every year. On these occasions the
people close their stores. and enjoy
themselves in chicken fights and other
tropical amuSementS.
The giraffe is now threatened with
permanent extinction. Ten years ago
herds of seventy and eighty could be
found where thirteen would be an cx-
ceptionally large herd.
The mother of Kansas CITY. No.
baby is sixteen years old. its grand
mother thirty-thrce. and its great
grandmother Is but tifty-two years old.
y II reside in the same house.
The low volcanic island which rose
SO suddenly out of the sea near Paler-
mo, and from which fire was emitted.
has entirely disappeared even the water
that covers it having ceased to boil.
The largest gas meter in the world
belongs to the South Metropolitan Gas
Company, of Salisbury. England. 1t
is about 256 feet in diameter and is
capable of holding S,00O,000 cubic feet
of gas.
When a Missouri cabbage was cut
open it was found that the outer coat
ing contained twenty-eight perfectly
developed little heads in a cluster,
about the size of a walnut and nearly
as hard.
At communion service in a Han
well pa.lper school little girl who had
charge of the chalice dropped it, and
some of the wine was spilled on her
pinafore. The chaplain ordered the
pinafore to be burned.
A fine deposit of asbestos has been
discovered in Jackson County, Oregon.
1t Is pronounced by eastern experts to
be OF the very best quality. The ma
chin-ry for cleaning, baling and ship
ping will soon be put in.
The new emigrants to Palestine are
worthy Germans and Jews. The
former cOntine themselves to cultivat-
ing the soil: the latter get the fella-
heen to do their farm work and take
life easy under the shade trees
A healthy girl Of seventeen who de-
votes herself to hospital work will die
twenty-four and one-half years sooner
than Il girl of the same age in the gen
eral population. This is supposed to
be due to her liability to tuberculosis.
The following advertisement appears
in several leading papers of Georgia:
Wanted-A young lady for clerk of the
County Court of Ebert County; it will
be necessary for her to marry the
county Judge. Address County Judge,
ElbertOn, Ga.
There is grim humor in one clause
in the will of the late Solomon Abra-
hams, of Boston. After making a num-
Der of charitable requests the testator
remarks: Il remember all my cous-
ins, aunts, uncles and grandfathers,
but | give them nothing"
Florida is probably the best timber
ed state in the union. Out of about
3S,O)O,0)0 acres only some 5000, 900
are included in farms, the rest, nine
teen-twentieths, exclusive of the area
covered by lakes and rivers, being
covered with heavy forests.
1t would seem that the ladies of the
harem possess n wonderful capacity
for disposing of sweet things. France
alone last year exported to Turkey
and Egypt for the harems 1,O00.000
francs (f64, O00) worth of fondants,
pralines and marrons glaceS.
(Which succeeds better. the city or
the country boy?' is said to be
fayorite question for discussion in
country debating societies. The gen
eral trend of opinion seems to be that
the country boy succeeds better, but
only after he becomes city boy.
\ North Carolinian of a timid nature
tried to run away from his wife whose
sharp tongue kept the poor fellow, as
he expressed it. Ion tenter hooks" but
he lost his way in the woods, got badly
frightened. and returned as soon as he
could get his bearings to captivity.
A California prune grower has re-
fused an offer from Bordeaux firm
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would of course be repacked and ship
ped as French prunes But the Cali
fornian means to improve his style of
packing and make the profit himself.
One of the missionaries of the Sea-
mems Mission in England has during
the year visited 5000 vessels and read
the Scriptures in English. Danish and
Norwegian. He has distributed 1900
New Testaments and 700 gospels to
English and foreign seamen and emil
grants.
The timber cut in one year in Florida
averages a lite short of 300. 900, 900
feet, which is over 3 per cent of the
whole amount of mercantile timber
standing in her forests. At this rate
in about thirty years Florida would be
cleared of her timber if there was no
natural increase.
Recently girl in one of the public
schools of a neighboring city was ask
ed by her teacher to explain the differ
ence between the words balance and
remainder. Her answer was: You
can say A man lost his balance and
fell, but you cannot say A man lost
his remainder and fell. :"
The conductors of all the street cars
omnibuSeS and other vehicles for public
accommodation in Warsaw. Russia. in
that part of the city between Noyaya
Pra@a and the suburb of Brudno. are
women. and are said to fulfill their
duties more accurately and to the bet
ter satisfaction of the public than men.
Outside passengers by one of the
London road car services were recent
" aStonished to find fixed to their
seats a funnel containing an umbrella
which might be used without extra
charge on wet days. The only con-
dition attached to its employment was
the modest request that it should be
replaced.
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