The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-08-04

Football was fay0rite game among
the Greeks and Romans.
A French soldier can earn shillings
month pocket money
A Philadelphia Chinaman giories in
a pigtail ) feet II inches in length.
The cocoa tree of the Maldiye islands
every month produces q cluster OF
nuts.
Among English people dark brown
hair is more than twice as common as
hair of any other shade.
1t is estimated that about $4,000
horses were ousted from street-car
service last year by electricity.
A chicken ranch in Bellingham Bay,
Puget sound, has 100. 800 fowls. 1t Is
said TO be the largest in the world.
A tropical moth, called the atlas
moth, has wing spread of one foot.
1t is gray in color and flies by night.
At the present day sacred pigs roam
inviolate about the buddhist monas-
teries OF Canton and elsewhere III
China.
A record of 5, 435 immigrants arriv-
ing at a single port in single day
shows that this is pretty good country
to come to.
The largest telephone switchboard
in the world is that in the exchange at
Berlin, where Z, 900 wires are connected
with the main office.
More than fourth of the gold and
more than a third of the silver pro-
duced throughout the world in the
year 1891 was mined in the United
States.
In 1889 fifty Bonapartist journals
fourished in France, but this number
has been now reduced to five, the
others having turned in favor of the
republic.
Musk in its natural state is said to be
| the national perfume of many tribes,
who annually slaughter thousands of
the rats for their musk pouches and
their skins.
People in Japan are called by the
family name first, the individual, or
what we should call the christian name,
next. and then the hOnOritc-thu
smith Peter Mr..
a female physician, DR.. Bissel, points
out the fact that, ~ tennis is one
armed sport, it has tendency to pro-
duee one-sided development. Yet
she approves of cricket
1t is said that in all the forests of the
earth there are no two leaves exactly
| the same. 1t is also said that amid all
peoples of the earth there are no two
faces precisely alike.
1t is not every body who knows that,
besides the ordinary fruits that are
raised in Florida, the pineapple grows
very well there, while the fig, the paw
paw, guava and sapadilla grow finely.
The custom of kissing hands as a
mark of respect is said to be the most
ancient and the most universal From
| the remotest times, through the ages
of Greece and Rome to the present day,
| it has existed.
man in Hagerstown, Md. has an
egg which was laid by a Plymouth
Rock hen which has clearly defined
upon its shell the imprint and letters of
foreign piece of money. The date
| 1922 and the word Constitution" can
easily be deciphered.
| % SIcdJ Has Dctu iHc OtN cIOP L1eHI
| of the petroleum fields in Peru that
| pipe lines have been run from the main
| wells to the coast. The opinion is ex-
pressed that the Peruvian field will
soon be able to supply the demand of
| all-the west coast of South America.
The smallest inhabited island in the
| world is said to be that on which the
| Eddystone lighthouse stands At low
| water it is 80 feet in diameter; at high
| water the lighthouse, whose diameter
at the base is % 81 feet, completely
covers it. 1t is inhabited by three per-
! sons.
In California it is found that peach
| stones burn as well as the best coal
and give out more heat in proportion
| to weight. The stones taken out of
| the fruit that is timed or dried is col
| lected and sold at the rate of SIS ton.
| Apricot stones also burn, but not so
we'll as peach, and do not command so
good Il price.
The harp which was suggested by
| the lutte is aScribed to Jubal, 1915 b.
c., and was King David's favorite in
| strument. The harp was used by the
Welsh and SaXons. and also by the
ancient people of Ireland One of the
| oldest harps in existence is in the
| Dublin College museum, and original
| ly belonged to Brian Borothme, king of
! Ireland.
Numerous instances are related in
NEUROLOGICAL tales of the people of the
sea having carried off human beings,
conveying them to their pearl-lined
grottoes in the depths. Mermen have
III this manner often obtained human
girls for brides, while mermaids not
infrequently seek to secure for hus-
bands good-looking youths from dry
| land.
The foot warmers for cabs in Paris
are chiefly of two kinds; one is the
water pan. the other is the "chauffer-
cite charbon." The former soon
cools; the latter gives off some asphyx-
iating fumes. Hence it is that M.
Norel has combined both systems in
employing the chaufferette outside the
cab to keep the water pan inside the
vehicle always hot.
Tradition says very rich mine was
discovered somewhere near Salt Lake
twenty-five years ago by mormon
and for some reason Brigham Young
forbade the prospector to work the
mine or make its whereabout known.
just before dying the man indicated
the direction in which the mine lay, but
hundreds of miners have vainly sought
the treasure.
One of the old stories is that in the
| year 1919 two councillors of Christian
nf L.. Il
Norway and Sweden, discovered p
norman swimming about with bunch
! of grass on his head. They threw out
a hook and line, bated with slice of
bacon, which the norman seized.
Being caught, he threatened venge-
ance so loudly that he was thrown back
| into the sea.
\ London horse dealer says of our
horses: Personally. thoroughly dis
| like foreign horses. with the exception
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