The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1893-11-16
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feet.
The greatest university is Oxford.
1t has twenty-one colleges and h7e
halle.
The highest falls in the world are
the Ribbon falls of the Yosemitc-S,-
800 feet.
Sixteen ounces of gold are sufficient
to gid wire that would encircie the
earth.
OF 1000 deaths in Europe, sixteen
are by violence, in the United States
fortv-one.
The cuckoo never makes nest, but
lays solitary egg in the nest OF some
other bird.
The pulsation of an infant is from
l30 to lao beats q minute; of an old
man rs to 80.
In all the wars in which Britain has
taken part she has won 81 per cent OF
the battles.
In Norway the average length OF
life is greater than in any other coun-
try on the globe
The average weight of the male in
FAINT at birth is seven pounds; OF the
female six and one-half.
A convict in the Vermont state
prison received $4,000 for piece OF
real estate a few days ago.
a cow at Audrain county, Missouri,
has been giving eleven gallons OF milk
daily for the past two years.
The most wonderful vegetable in
the world is the truffle; It mas neither
roots, stem, leaves, flowers nor seeds.
The honeycOmb presents solution
of the greatest possible strength and
space with the least possible material.
The highest inhabited place in the
world is the custom house of Ancom-
area, in Peru, 5000 feet above the
sea.
A Thousand millions of the animal
cul;p found i'll stagnant water do not
collectively equal the size of grain
of sand.
The smallest bird is the West India
humming bird. Its body is less than
an inch long. and weighs only 20
grains.
A cloth of very fine texture is made
from the bark of the paper tree, a
mulberry growing in the south sea
| islands.
The canon of the Colorado is 800
miles long, and the cliffs on either
side arc from 5000 to 5000 feet above
| the water.
Tho oldest statue in the world is OF
the shiek of an Egyptian village. 1t
| is believed to be not less than 5000
years old.
A Russian immigrant arrived the
from the skins of more than 1908
| Russian mice.
A writer calculates that it takes
eight times the strength to 90 upstairs
that is required for the same distance
| or the level.
! The amount of air that a man will
inhale in twenty-four hours will I'LL
seventy-three hogsheads and weigh
tfty-three pounds.
| The nautilus is genuine sailor,
having a membrane for a sail, a per
| fectly formed boat and set of atenna
for paddles and rudder.
A flea is provided with a genuine
lancet, the knife inclosed in case in
the head of the insect, the case open
ing sideways. like that of razor.
Near Tranguebar, on the southeast
ern coast of India, there is a species
of fish which not only is able to walk
on level ground but can climb trees.
The largest cut stones in the world
are in the Temple of the Sun at Baal-
bee. Many are more than 90 feet
long, 20 feet broad and of unknown
depth.
The Literary Ladies" of England,
whose annual banquet is one of the
events of the London season, have
properly changed their official name
to the "Women Writer'S"
1t has been estimated that a bell OF
common size, whose sound would pen
citrate a distance of three to five miles
on shore, could, if submerged in the
sea, be heard over sixty miles.
! Near Liskeard, in Cornwell, is I
strange natural phenomenon. pie
of rock 80 feet high, shaped like top
is balanced on the smaller end. 1t Il
quite immovable, though apparently
very slight effort would upset its equi
librium.
The Domesday Book, written o,
, vellum and preserved in the British
museum, is one of the oldest and mos
curious books possessed by any ma
ton. 1t is a complete record OF Eng
, lish landowners and OF their estates
stocks and other property.
The Adersbach rocks, in Bohamis
cover some fifteen square miles. The
are formed of sandstone, and are II
terspersed with n perfect maze OF pa'
sages shut in by smooth walls of sue
similarity that to keep ones bearln
is no easy matter.
e There are actually horse marines
/ the service of the United States, bl
S these are merely those officers who al
+ entitled by rank to ride. If they
E on shipboard they do not take the
: horses with them. Majors, lieutcnai
= colonies and coloncls III the corps hay
n horses.
One of the paying professions
q Paris is said TO I've that of trur
e packer. In many of the little trur
shops Won can hire man who w
~ pack your trunks artisticSliy, foidiI
. expensive gowns and other carmen
: in tissue paper. and slowing awi
= delicate bric-a-brac in the safest wa
le A professional acrobat finds emplo
, meut at tie zinc mines in Ogdensbur
Is n. J. Ills services are required
4 getting out snarls and removing O
a structions from the cables and electl
Is wires used about the orc cars. viii
OF are run on steep grades. He can wa
Ve on tight rope when necessary.
Crinoline dates from the days
or Queen Elizabeth and survived un
to the commonwealth. Itappeared aga
in III and was enlarged in 1744 a
continued to the end of the centul
1t was abolished by George ". Fro
1856 to 1866 it fiourished again in