The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-09-22
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The next president of the United
| States will receive about 1000. .000
| votes.
A turtle with the initials of IN. B.
1888" on its shell has been found at
High Point, n. c.
Kansas has four cities in which the
vote of the women is larger than that
| of the men. One entire set of council
men" is women.
The smallest bear ever seen is a
stuffed ornament in the parlor of Mark
Remission, at Philips. Me. 1t is three
inches high.
Mexican bricklayers, it is said. can
only lay 500 bricks in day of eleven
| hours, while an American can lay 2,50O
in Il day of nine hours.
4 woman by the name of Mary
Evans, living in Harlem, New York
city, is licensed captain of ship OF
which her husband is chief engineer.
The discovery of an ice cave in the
state of Washington and mine of ice
in Montana are among the interesting
| features of the news of the hot season.
Louisville, Ky. sold more tobacco
| last year than ever before-154 91S
hogsheads. Cincinnati is the next
| largest market, with sales of lis, ,504
hogsheads.
Miles Darden, who was living in the
state of Tennessee in 1857, was the
| largest man known to history. Clad
in thin summer clothes he weighed
1887 pounds.
There has been tremendous in
| crease of drunkenness in France since
the destruction of the vines by the
phIloNera. Bad wine is thought to be
largely to blame.
A Lancaster county farmer owns a
pair of horses which are so well broken
that they will pull a harrow regularly
across field from morning until night
without driver.
Railway managers of Holland have
found it impossible to get men to work
the switches who can be depended upon
to let liquor alone, and have therefore
substituted women.
The annual salary of the president
of the United States was $25, ,000 up to
1873, when it was doubled, taking eff
:ect on March of that year, at the be-
ginning OF Grants second term.
Card playing was favorite diversion
as far back rs Shakspeare's time. The
principal games then played are now
unknown, such as primers" "gleek, +"
"maw," ruff" and "knave out of
DOORS"
Frederick Schwatka, tee traveller,
once experienced temperate of II de-
grees below zero in the Arctic regions,
near Burke's Great Fish river. 1t is
said to be the coldest ever endured by
man.
A recent estimate places the number
OF women acting as postmistresses in
the United States at 6,335, of which
number 463 are in Pennsylvania and
400 in Virginia. North Carolina stands
third with 322.
Shakspeare's expression, "False as
dicers' oaths," bears strictly in his own
time. At the period of the restoration
false dice were called fulhams from
having been manufactured in a town
of that name.
A stream near Tucson. Arizona,
DCbI AiIto an SOII SdDSluitCG I'LL ON III Ill u
it. 1t is in the great Colorado potato
beetle belt and at the time of their
migratiDns thousands of them strike
the water and are converted into solid
stone.
A gold coin passes from one to
another 1000, 900 900 times before the
stamp or impression upon it becomes
obliterated by friction, while q silver
coin changes between $3.50, 600, 900
times before it becomes entirely ef-
faced.
A lock on the door of house in
Plymouth, England. on being taken to
pieces for repairs, was found TO con-
tain an inscription stating that it was
formerly on the door OF the chamber at
St. Helena in which Napoleon breathed
his last.
The clouds vary in height, according
to class. The nimbus clouds, from which
rain comes, are usually the lowest,
and range in height from a few hun
dred yards to a mile, or therea bouts.
The cirrus clouds, which are leathery
in appearance, are ordinarily the high
est, and are sometimes six or eight
mics high.
A curiosity was lately found in
boatload of Holsters brought from New
Brunswick waters. The strange
crustacean was of bluish-w white-one of
the rare and remarkable albino lob
sters. 1t was sent to Washington, where
it is to become part of the exhibit of
the United States Fish commission.
Only one other white lobster has been
taken in these or any other waters.
Among the other great things IL
this country the number of its high
mountains is remarkai lie feature.
There arc 500 mountains in the United
States, each exceeding 10000 feet in
height. The greatest number are
found in Colorado and Utah In Alaska
there are five which each exceed 5000
feet, and Mount Elias, 1875 feet high.
is the loftiest peak in the United States
territory.
A careful woman dwells in Canter-
bury, n. II. She has had a lamp
chimney in constant use for twenty
years, and it is still without flaw
Another careful woman has her home
in Port Richmond, Staten Island. She
was married sixteen years ago. and be-
gan her married life with two rows of
pins. She has thirty-seyen of them yet.
and would be happy if she could find
the three missing pins.
A great rarity, in the shape of an
Epyornis egg, has been exhibited at
the Geological society, London. This
huge egg Is rs nearly as possible foot
long, and the specimen in question is
valued at about 500. SO that it rivals
the egg of the great aux, which fetches
such fancy prices. The eggs are occa-
sionally found in Madagascar, but only
a few of them have ever turned UP.
The bird which laid them is only inn
perfectly known, from fragments.
In the western part OF South Dakota