The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1894-10-18

expert bear hunters in Benton. county,
Oregon.
The spring and autumn maneuvers
of European armies cost annually SlO,-
900, 600
Three-tenths of the earnings of Belly
ian convict are set aside for his benefit
on release.
Last year Australia produced gold to
the value of 1000 900 in excess of any
other country.
A Parisian book collector has 700 vol
umes not larger than one inch wide and
two inches tall.
Boiled water tastes flat and insfpid
because the gases it contained have
been driven off by heat.
The porcupine is called so because
his name comes from two Latin words
meaning a thorny pig.
Soap bubbles are round because ev-
cry part of their surface is equally press
ed by the atmosphere.
The roar of Niagara has been phono-
graphed and may be heard in any part
of America for small fee.
A st. Louis man lost his life recently
while attempting to save drowning
dog. The brute was saved.
The discovery of leaven is attributed
to the Egyptians, and it was from them
that the Hebrews learned it.
Fanny Crosby, the blind Methodist
| hymn writer, has written 5000 Sunday
school hymns, many of which are wide
ly known.
A man has thirty times greater chance
| of life if he live in a four-rOOm house
than if he is only able to rent a single
! chamber.
In France the wife whose husband OBJ
| iects seriously to her going on the stage
| makes herself liable to divorce by per-
sisting in her desire.
The piles which served as the founda-
ton for Trajan's bridge over the Dan
ube A. ID. 105, are said to be still visi-
bic at low stages of water.
| LOayes in antiquity were fiat and so
prepared that there was no necessity of
| cutting them. From this fact arises the
expression ito break bread"
A South American paper says there is
a wide difference of opinion among i'm
porters as to whether it pays better in
the long run to bride the officers or pay
the duties.
The population of the City of Buenos
Ayres is estimated at $50, 900. The
birth rate is high, but - per cent are
out of wedlock. Immigration added
Is, 600 last year.
The Province of Buenos Ayres is in
solvent; it is being sued for debt of
$50, 600, which has been owing for four
years. The budget of 1898 has been
put in force for 1894.
The largest collection in existence of
| the smallest books in the world is said
to be that owned by NJ. Georges Salo-
mon, a Partisan amateur, of whose 700
little VOLUMES none is larger than / inch
wide by 3 high.
South American ants have bees known
| to construct a tunnel three miles in
length, la or for them proportionate
to that which would be required fol
men to tunnel under the Atlantic from
| New York to London
An honest Pennsylvania farmer re,
Gently saw an advertisement in Il paper
| saying that for $50 the advertiser would
tell how to keep butter from getting
strong. The farmer promptly sent the
money and at once received the reply:
Eat it."
| There is a growing practice in col
| lege towns for lawyers TO collect debt>
due by graduates by attaching their di-
plomas. The young men jHst turned
| out after a long intellectual struggle
are generally brought to terms by this
unique process.
| In health and during exercise the
| average man has about twenty respira-
tons minute and forty cubic inches
are inhaled 1T each respiration. In an
| hour As 900 cubic inches of air will be
inspired; in twenty-four hours, l, 1872
900 cubic inches.
A writer in the american 1rchHec!
| shows by giving figures that govern
| ment buildings cost between so and &C
| per cent more than the same class OF
private work, and that the average time
taken upon government buildings is
more than three times rs long.
The bee works harder than most peo-
| pie would believe. There are about
sixty flower tubes in every he'll OF
clover, and only tiny morsel of honey
III each. In order to get enough sugar
for load, the bee must visit about 6,
| 600 different flowers, and each bee must
| make, on an average, twenty trips 4
day.
In regard to the mammoth remains OF
L l.. / 4 NJ 7
notes that in the northwestern part of
| the continent they are abundant in. if
not confined to. the limits of a great I'M
| glaciatcd area there, comprising nearly
all Alaska and part OF the adjacent
| Yukon district of Canada. No masto-
| don bones have been reported from this
| region.
The raft spider" found in Terra del
| Fuego, is a most extraordinary insect
| 1t derives its name from the fact that it
| constructs n raft of matted leaves and
| pieces OF wood. which it uses to pursue
| its prey on the water. Raft spiders
| travel in tours. They make their oars
out of twigs and generally row thirty
| two stroke, although they have been
| known at times to increase the speed to
| thirty-siX.
Little shops ape the ways of the big
ones sometimes with absurd results
| One sees nos and then Il tiny 10 by II
shop fairly hidden beneath hysterical
| declaration that Il great stock must be
| sacrificed. Sometimes a shop that
could by no possibility hold more than
a few hundred dollars worth of goods
announces great clearing sale, when
a half-hours' rush such as the big shops
occasionally have would leave the place
| as bare a. Mother Hubbard's cupboard.
Amounted to the Same Thing.
Customer-Haye you a copy of the
| Fifteen Decisive Battles?'
Bookseler-No we're all out. But