The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1893-04-13
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Thirteen hens in Niles, Mich. laid
,159 eggs last year.
The United States chewed eighty-tive
tons of tobacco last year.
/ Printing in raised characters for the
blind was invented in 1927.
The progeny of two rabbits will
amount in two years to 70,000,000.
There are over seventy miles of tun-
nels cut in the solid rock of Gibraltar.
A signal passes through the Atlantic
cable, 1900 miles in 31-100 of a second.
There are fourteen canneries on the
Columbia river and twenty-three in
the state of Oregon.
The famous dish of Vitellius was OF
| pheasants' brains, nightingales'
tongues and fish liver.
British India has 10,417 shops
| licensed for the sale of opium. They
supply population of 22S, ,000,0
Jerusalem is still supplied with
water from Solomon's pools through
an aqueduct built by the crusaders.
Three fresh recruits in the garrison
| at Strasburg committed suicide rather
than serve in the German army.
| In the southern provinces of Russia
j drink resembling brandy is obtainsd
| by distilling the juice Of watermelons.
A wedding notice in Maine paper
the other day ended with the words:
NO cards, no cake, nobody's busi-
| ness"
Pole-axes were first used in the
ninth century; the short, heavy-headed
battle ak was employed in very early
times.
Kentucky will try the experiment Of
permitting three-fourths of a jury in
civil cases (nine jurors) to render a
verdict.
The blood of dogs fatigued by long
racing, when injected into other dogs,
makes them exhibit all the symptoms
of fatigue.
An Englishman has invented neE
system of electric mains whereby one
wire of the present three-wire system
can be saved.
A young woman in England has been
convicted of administering pins to
baby under her charge. The culprit's
name was, Cushion.
The Simplon road, from Switzerland
to Italy, was built by Napoleon's en-
gineerS in 1897. Over Al, 900 workm
were employed at one time.
The cocoon of well-fed silkworm,it
is said, will often yield thread 1000
yaras long, and one has been produced
which contained 1926 yards.
An acre grows 500 mulberry trees;
each tree has twenty pounds of leaves,
from twenty pounds of leaves one
pound of cocoons is produced.
Daring the eleventh century a
fashion of embroidering the initials of
the name and the family arms on the
garments began in Italy and spread all
over Europe.
1t has been discovered that manu-
factory of "relcs" has been in opera
tion in Edinburgh, Scotland, for some
time. Relics of Burns were the staple
product.
One of the largest meteorites in ex-
istence was found some years ago at
Bacubirite, Mexico. It's slength is 65
feet, height 20 feet, width 4.35 feet,
weight 25 tons.
1t is claimed for the new magnesium
flash light for lighthouses, introduced
experimentally in Germany, that its
ability to penetrate almost Opaque at
mosphere exceeds that of any other
known light.
The distance of the earth from the
sun is about 92.000.000 miles. The
average distance of the moon from the
earth is about 240. 003 miles. The sun
is, therefore, nearly 40O times as far
from lis as the moon.
In 1869 our product of hardware was
valued at 500, 900; in 1888 at $780,
900, 900. The annual addition to the
output was $4,000, 900 a year between
1S4O and 1860, and $25, 000, 900 a year
between 1869 and 1888.
Little Dot-Mamma is gong to take
me with her when she visits Aunt Jen-
ny. Little. Dick-She's going to take
me, too. "Did she say SOP" "No."
"Then how do you know?" "She will
never leave me here with that closet
full of jam. food NeaD5.
Little Ethel-Regie Rex and I are
going to be married when we grow up.
Nurse---I thought you didn't like Re-
gle. Little Ethel don't; but mar
ried men is never at home, and I'd
rather have him away all the time than
any boy know yet.-G00d NetOs.
Il understand young briefess is
about to marry the daughter of old
Bonds, the millionaire" Yes, so |
am told" "Will he give up the law
| businesS?" Yes; he will give up the
law business and 60 into the son-in-
law business. s.-Ieras Sittings.
She-As we are to be married in
June, don't you think you ought to
begin to economize? He--O, I've
begun already. That very thought
occurred to me this evening as / was
coming here. She-What did YOU
do? He = Passed the candy store
without stopping.-N. !. Weekiy.
Collector have called six times for
the amount that is due from you, and
have never been able to get it. X
Dear me! dear me! How sorry | am
that you should have been put to so
much trouble. Now I'll tell YOU what