The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-08-25
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ticle of diet with the Hlndoos, who use
it in all kinds of buildings.
More than a million dozen pairs of
gloves, valued at 81, 10000 are made
in Grenoble, in France, every year.
A carrier pigeon alighted in an ex-
hausted condition on transatlantic
steamer recently, many miles at sea.
A university in Cairo, Egypt, is said
to have II, 900 students, more than at
tend any other two universities in the
world.
English army nurses are paid 5000
a year, and this is increased $50 TOR
every year of service until it reaches
$1,000.
A school of buddhism has been
founded in Paris. and its limited ac-
commodations are already overrun
with pupils.
Carbon is so good conductor OF
electricity that, in the form of coke, it
is used to make an earth connection
for lightning rods.
Germany's railroads have trackage
of 24,S43 miles, 5000 miles more than
exist in Great Britain and Ireland, the
early home of the railway.
A shoemaker in Berlin has invented
an artificial sole of stone for use in
shoes. 1t is elastic and easy on the
feet, and is calculated to last for years.
The greatest fishway in the world is
in the course of construction on the
Potomac at the Great Falls. When it
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vertical fall of seventy-two feet.
The London women who make shirts
are no better off now than they were
when Hood wrote his Song of the
Shirt" for them. They are paid 4 cents
for each shirt they make and they av-
erage SIX in seventeen hours.
Last week copy of Audubon's
Birds of America" was sold in London
for f345. This is work which is
steadily rising in value, for it rarely
comes into market, and the last copy
which had changed hands realized
$500.
A curious Mashona custom is re-
corded by DIR. Knight-Bruce in the
journals of the Mashonaland mission
just published. 1t appears that when
twin babies are born both are drowned.
Why or wherefore he does not eX-
plain.
There are doubtless scores and hun
dreds of bodies that are larger than
the sun among the so-called fixed stars
visible to the naked eye. Certainly
Capella, Arcturus. Sirius. Vega and
Aldebaran are each immensely larger
than the sun.
The Schenectady EUening Star says
that a letter was received in the post
office of that town bearing a Texas
postmark and addressed as follows in
German: "Mr. Rev. G.. w. Drees, Ser
want of God, Learned man of Scrip
ture, Preacher over the Sheep, Bucks
and netherlands of the Congregation
of God"
Our national library contains 100000
bound volumes and 200, 900 pamphlets,
The yearly increase is from Is, 900 to
10000 volumes. No wonder Mr.. Spot
ford asks whittier are we drifting?
The new building, which it will take
four years to complete, will cover
three acres and will hold 100000
volumes.
Many readers will be much surprised
to learn that at the battle of Leipsic
the Russians brought into the field
numbers of Baskir Tartars who were
armed only with bows and arrows.
So we read in General Marbot's me-
moirs, written by himself and lately
published. The general was himself
wounded by an arrow in the battle.
Nothing varies so much in value as
pearls. With them fashion affects the
market constantly. Sometimes white
ones are sought, while other tints at
intervals are In demand. For SONIC
years past black pearls have been the
rage. A fine specimen, worth 5000
will fetch $1,000, perhaps, if another
can be got to match it perfectly.
Diamond is used to cut diarhond,
and with regard to the first process of
cutting two diamonds are mounted on
sticks or holders. The operator, TAX
ing one in each hand. uses an angle
of one gem to cut off or reduce the
angles of the other, and in this way
the natural angles of the stones are
removed, the dust being caught up for
subsequent use.
The crown prince of Rou ania is q
HohenZollern, and therefore a mem Der
of the house of the German emperor
He is q and the kingdom over which,
in the natural order of events, he will
reign, is only eleven years old. The
Roumanian crown is made of metal,
from the cannon taken by the Rou-
manians from the Turks at Plevna in
1877.
Bangor fishermen who catch big sal
mon and send them to New York are
surprised and rather annoyed to have
the fish referred to as "Kennebec sal
mon" New Workers may not know
1T, but there is no such thing as Ken
nebec salmon. Salmon will not 90
near the kennebec, but they thrive in
the PenobScot, which is to the Ken
nebec as stream compared to q
puddle.
A snake has been found in Ireland
at last. A Belfast newspaper SAYS that
a snake 1-2 feet long and nearly z
inches in circumference has been killed
at Nora's Glen. 1t was taken to a
contractors yard in the town, where
the reptile was inspected by large
number of people. The solitary snake
of Ireland will be preserved in a glass
case for the inspection of future gen.
erations.
Galignani reports that rather Curl
Gus ceremony has taken place near
Poitiers. The electric light has just
been laid on in the parish of ST. Philo-
men, and the bishop of the diocese SOL
EMMY blessed the dynamos. A special
ritual had been composed for the cere-
mony.
The new Bombay water works,
which have been in course of construc-
ton seven years, cost ID, 000. 900 rupees
(about IS. 250, 0o0). The water is drawn
from Tansa lake, an artificial body
formed by a dam in the valley, and
having superficial area of eight or
nine square miles.
According to the theosophists We
have still some 427 0Ol wears left he