The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-03-24
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THURSDAY. MARCH a, 1892.
MISSING LINKS.

Cricket was DIZZY en- uhtiCI the udHe
OF club BALI us early as the four
teenth century.
In Austria women are employed as
bod carriers and are paid at the rate
of % cents day.
Tiger bones are used as medicine
in China, where they are supposed to
possess tonic qualities.
The greatest plague ever known visit
Ell Naples in 1856 and carried off $780,,
600. people in twen,y-eight weeks.
The Irish parliament existed for
over 800 years. 1t was extinguished
in 1901 at the time Of the union with
Great Britain.
There is strong low of natural gas
in the Ventura River. When lighted,
it is said the flames extend over a
space eight feet wide.
American travellers nave become so
numerous in Portugal that some of the
shopkeepers in the cities display this
sign in their windows: American
Spoken here.
London contains about 2200 600 for
eignerS. The Germans number 81. 900.
Americans 30 600 Frenci 10000.
Dutch ID 900. Poles Il 900. Italians
5000 and Swiss D 0OO
The total number Of clergy of the
church OF England is about $4,000. If
we include the Clergy in the colonies
and those engaged in missionary fields
the total is swelled to y 900.
Australian butterflies battle. One
u.
which it backs until the whole Of the
body is submerged. the fore legs alone
retaining their hold on dry land. In
moment it will fly away, apparently
refreshed.
February, in 1900. will not contain
twenty-nine days. although it will be
leap year February, in 100. also
contained only twenty-eight days.
There is Slight error in the GREGG
rian calendar. but it will only amount
to one day in 3. 325 years.
During the months of August and
September in the city and vicinity of
Voronezh more than five thousand
horses were killed for their hides be-
cause their owners had no food for
them. The slaughtcring of good horses
has continued " even a larger rate
since that time.
A japanese doctor never dreams of
asking poor patient for a fee. There
is Il proverb among the medical fra
terniiy Of Japan: when the twin
enemies, poverty and disease, invade
home, then he who takes aught from
that home even though it be given
him, is Il robber."
II the new works of the PiGus-Athens
railway station the marble head of
woman has been found, of good work
manship. 1t wears diadem and the
features are very finely carved. 1t is
thought to belong to a headless statue
found on this site in the city little time
ago.
The latest fad in the West is n shoe
party. They stretch n sheet across the
room and the ladies stand behind it and
stick their feet under it so you can
only sec their shoes. Then you 90
along and pick out Il pair of shoes and
the lady who is in them you take down
10 supper.
The Burmese women are great per-
sonages and play Il great part in their
households. They choose their own
husbands and divorce them when they
like, retaining their own property and
all that they have earned. They are
ut liberty to marry again, whether as
widows or Divorces.
The New Alpine railway the Bren-
Rothhornbahu, is the highest railway
in the world. and commands magnfi-
cent views. 1t is > SOL meters 7,S36
feeD high 1T the summit level, and
ascends L. S2 meters g, COG feet) or
GA meters (223 feeO higher than the
Pilatus Railway. The journey occupies
l 1-2 hours.
There are 1000 Italians in London
who serve in the Italian cafes and
restaurants. In some of these they
have to pay for the privilege, and in
others they receive nothing in direct
wages, but they are fed ut the cost of
the proprietor and recoup themselves
in the tips. A smart man in a we'll
frequented street earns about $40 a
week.
The municipal commissioner of
Baroda has published pamphlet in
which he advocates the incubation of
the blood serum of the common weasel
as cure of snake bite. This animal
is. he contends. proof against the
poison of snake bites, from which it
never suffers in the slightest degree.
and attacks aud kills any snake it
comes across.
There is a strong dislike to the bat
among the peasants of south Germany.
A feeling of disgust and fear takes
possession of the farmer who finds
bats in his chimney. not only because
he believes the creatures will feed up
on his pork that hangs in the smoke.
but because bats are regarded as I'M
lucky and bring poverty and misfor-
tune.
One of the most ingenious methods
practiced by poachers for the purpose
of netting pheasants is that in which
game cock is fitted with artificial spurs.
and then carried 10 the preserves
Then the game bird crows, one or two
more of the cock pheasants immedi-
ately respond and advance to fight
In this way sometimes five or six
pheaSants are taken, while the game
cock remains unhurt.
lSuI pOIdIN lGSIuGul Oh D1It9S.
Texas, has had a wide experience
He has travelled for fourteen years.
crossed the county from New York to
San Francisco. worked his way through
South America and has been fireman.
policeman aud railroad man, a
sport. drummer and soldier. He
says that the world has used him
pretty we'll so far and that he intends
TO wander around until he dies.
The authorities of the city of Tam
boy have printed check books contain
Ing each ten to twenty checks. Every
baker in the city gives for every check /
pound of bread. for which it charges
the city two kopeeks. The residents
of the city were notified not to deal
out any money to mendicants. for such
money is in most eases spent on drink.
but to bug checks at the city hall and
TO distribute them among the poor