The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-05-26


vantage.
Nearly all of the cities and towns of
Venezuela are now lighted by cleo
tricity.
The price of Nevada range cattle
has increased SO per cent in the past
two years.
a Litchfeld man. who is looked up
to, stands seven feet seven inches IN
his slippers.
The oak and elm have figured in lit
erature more frequently than any
other of the native forest trees.
The English tailor has conquered
Paris, on no less authority than Figaro.
His material and cut are now standard.
An Industrious hive of Andrew
county. Missouri. bees made a record
OF twelve pounds of honey in twelve
hours.
The past year was a profitable one
at Monte Carlo. the total receipts from
the gaming tables having amounted
to S4.200,0O0.
Rigid examination of the applicants
for certificates to teach i'll Willis, Tex,
has resulted in the idleness of half the
schools of the county.
1t is probably not a matter of gen.
eral information that the finest, purFt
and most nutritious animal jelly
known is made from elephants tusks.
The purchase Of 5000 Texas cattle
in seventeen train loads cost Dave
Rankin, the cattle king of Tarkio, Mo-,
/ 1922, 900, besides the freight expense
of $4,000.
Tacoma, Wash, has a well 100 feet
deep from which the wind blows con-
tinually As there is fifty feet Of wa
ter in the well the source of the wind
is a mystery.
The newest anasthetic is named
"pental." discovered by Prof. Won Mer-
ing in Halle. 1t is preparation OF
tertiary amyl-aloohol, and is for small
operations only.
The telephone between Paris and
London has proved to be a great sue
cess. the circuit working clearly and
| perfectly. The tariff is 81 for three
minutes use of the wire.
OF the once powerful tribe of Ton
kowa Indians only Seventy-eight mem
bers remain. They occupy the reser-
walton that was once the home of the
| Nez Perces, embracing 10000 acres.
1t has been calculated that the
right hand of a good compositor in
| taking type from the frame to the
stick while setting up 5000. ems in
EIGHT hours covers distance of 80, 00J
| feet.
Mrs. Lucy Evans, of Independence,
| jackson county, Mo, Il native of Cook
| county, Tenn, is los years of age, and,
| with her faculties we'll preserved, is
| still able to attend to light household
duties.
In the Georgian bay, the north eX-
| tension of Lake Huron, there are thou
sands of small islands on which the
Huron Indians took refuge when their
enemies, the IroquoiS, Overcame them
| in 1919.
By novel device of reflection on a
| screen at their rear, heavy guns can
now be aimed and fired with the great
est accuracy without the gunners be-
| inc exposed or even seeing the object
| to be fired at.
The eats whiskers," the long hairs
on the side of the eats face, are organs
| Of touch. They are connected with
| the nerves of the lip. and their slight
est contact with any object is dis
| tinctly felt by the animal.
There is a farmer in Ventura county,
California. whose name is Stubblefield
and another named Haymaker. Los
Angeles, Cal, has still another honest
granger who bears the euphonious
name of John Beanblossom.
Vermont has become famous for her
spruce gum, the gathering and selling
OF winch have grown to be more than
an infant industry. The champion
| gum-picker of the state is said to be
Alinzah Bishop, of Woodford.
Bartholdi's studio is crowded with
| new works in various stages of com.
| pletlon. His latest production is a
group for a monument that is to con-
stitutc the offering of wealthy citi-
| zen OF Strasburg to the republic of
Switzerland.
A Bay City, Mich, family were
taken with alarming symptoms after
eating quantity of English walnuts.
| The physician called said that they
had been poisoned with minute parti-
cles of prussic acid, which had formed
| in the kernels.
Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi is a
robust built, keen eyed man of mid
ding height, with broad, high fore
| head and tersely trimmed iron grey
| beard, and is 80. He is Louisianian
by birth, and entered the navy as a
midshipman when only II years old.
The famous trousseau shops of Paris
are tiny places devoted to Il single
! sort of garment. In one nothing but
| handkerchiefs are sold, in another
nothing but nightgowns. Some of the
| smallest European shops accommodate
| but one customer at time, and in
/ many it is almost impossible to dis
! play goods to advantage
\ concession has been granted for
! the building of railroad from Haifa
| to Damascus, Syria. One of its ter
! mini will be under the shadow of Car
mel and the other by the gates of
! Damascus. The whistle of its locomo-
| yves VIII be heard in Nazareth and on
/ the shores of Galilee, and its bridges
will be flung over the kishon, the Jor-
dan and the Pharpar.
According to The PRESBYTERIAN and
| RJorncd RGriclc the total number of
| distinct words in the New Testament.
| excluding proper Iames and their de-
rivatives, is 1929. a few comparisons
may be interesting. The vocabulary
OF the Old Testament is larger. Ges-
MUS Lexicon" emitting proper
names and obsolete roots, contains s.
| Sl0 words, of which 642 are marked
"Chald.' The "Iliad" and the "Odvs-
| sey" together contain 5000 words.
Shakespeare uses 1900 and Milton
| 1900.
The Danes do not require the max
ers of oleomargarine to stamp the kegs
in which 1t is packed. but they do re-
! quire that it be nearly white in order
! tD DISTINGUISH If from, brt+ar A..