The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1893-04-06
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under the laws of Scotland.
Nearly 100 different machines have
been invented for boring rock.
The Egyptians kneaded their bread
in wooden bowl with their feet.
The first French newspaper was the
4Nercure Francois, published in 1908.
The rice crop in the south this year
is estimated to be 225, 100000 pounds.
The anthracite coal fields produce
more than 100000 tons of coal
year.
The city of New York cares for 49,
900 lunatics at a cost of 1925, 900 d
year.
Intoxicating liquors have been made
from the sap of the birch, the willow,
the poplar and the sycamore.
Unbroken 4-year-old colts, suitable
for military purposes, can be bought
in the Australian colonies at from $50
to S75 each.
A confectioner, being curious as to
the weight of 500 pennies, placed them
in a paper bag on a confectioner's
scales and found that they weighed
three pounds five and a quarter
ounces.
A San Francisco exchange raises the
alarm that California is suffering "a
famine" In every large town in that
state, with the exception of Alameda
there is a lamentabie paucity of the
gentler sex.
A study OF German map, on which
is plotted the stations of the troops in
| their huge army, shows that the
majority are SO placed as to be con-
veniently moved in sections to the
French frontier.
The Athenian Archaeological society
| has carried out some excavations on
the site of ancient Corinth which have
resulted III the discovery of a consider
able building belonging to the fifth or
sixth century Is. c.
A resident of DAYTON, Pa, was sur
| prised the other morning when he went
to milk his cow to find placard at
tached to her horns, which bore the
| following inscription: 60 down and
pay for the cabbage l devoured last
night"
| Bavaria continues to take the lead
in Germany in beer drinking, the con-
sumption during 1S90-91 having been
! over 26O quarts per inhabitant. Posen
| heads the list in schnapps drinking
about twenty-five quarts per inhab-
liant
The superiority of tea over brandy
in many cases is beyond question.
| The idea still fingers that alcohol keeps
out the cold. As a matter of fact
mountaineers have found by repeated
| experience lnaU Inc Opposite VI III,
| holds true.
Among the superstitious natives of
Bulgaria the prophet Elijah is believed
| to control the elements. During heavy
| thundcrstorms the women fall on their
faces and pray. Dear Lord Elijah,
| do not drive so fast with your fiery
| horses"
Vanilla is an orchid, which, in the
West Indies, creeps over trees and
walls like ivy. A substance called
| "salep," somewhat resem bling arrow
| root or sago, is obtained from the
| tubers of a variety that grows in Tur-
| KEY and Persia, where it is highly
| esteemed.
Recent studies of cancer not only in
dicate that it is an organic growth, but
| almost certainly prove that it is itself
| liable to the attack of another parasite.
| Better acquaintance with the relations
of these parasites may possibly bring
| the long-sought method of arresting
| cancer.
Senator Don Cameron has seeded 103
acres of his Donegal farm, near Mariet-
| Ia, with Kentucky bluegrass, which he
believes will do as we'll Oh his ground
as it does on the historic soil where it
is indigenous. He intends to put the
nutritious pasturage to the use of fancy
blooded stock.
There are two fixed rules for proper
tioning the human form; just two.
They are that eight heads Chat is,
skull lengths) make the total height Of
the figure and that the invariable GEN.
ter of the total length of the whole
| figure should be the front termination
of the lowest part of the pelvis.
The Erie's old broad gauge No. IA
was regarded as the most unlucky
engine that ever ran on the road. 1t
was used in the Susquchanna yards
and is said to have killed thirty-nine
| persons, including four women and
three children. In addition to this
seventy men were crippled by this
engine.
4 new luminous fungus has been
forwarded from Tahiti 10 Europe. 1t
is said to emit at night light resemb-
ling that of the glowworn. which it re-
tains for a period of twenty-four hours
after having been gathered. 1t is used
by the native women in bouquets OF
flowers for personal adornment in the
hair and dress.
| During the campaign in Dahomey
the French soldiers found the Daho-
meyan women much more redou bta bic
than the men. and what amazed them
most was that the amazons not only
carried repeating rifles, but also had
cords around their waists for the pur-
pose of binding any Frenchmen who
fell into their hands.
There are sixty-four countries where
an invention can claim protection, OF
rather where patent fees may be paid
Sixteen of these are in Europe, eight in
Africa, four in Asia, twenty-seyen IL
America and nine in Oceanica. The
total price of these sixty-four officia
scraps of paper amount to the nice lit
tie sum of S14, $50.
About $40, 000.000 is paid every yeal
in Germany for The creation and pre-
seryation OF forests 2)0,0 families arr
supported for them. while something
like 5, 100000 find employment in th'
various wood industries of the empire
The total revenue from the forests
amounts to S14, ,500, 091 and the currlG
expenses are IS, $40, 900.
1t is the ambition of every Turkisl
official to get his daughter into tht
sultan's harem. each occupant of which
receives the title OF princess. together
with large dover, a staff of tel
servants, Il carriage and four aud las
but not least the possibility of gaining