The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1894-07-26
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ton OF foreign make, and Its secret IS
jealousy guarded.
The Ainu women in Japan tattoo their
faces to give them the appearance Of
men with whiskers.
Smokeless powder said to be supe-
rior TO any vet i'll use has been invented
by an American.
In Scotland it was for long time not
unusual to place on mans tombstone
the symbols of his trade.
At the end of each hair of a cats
whiskers IS a bulb of nervous substance
which converts the hairs into extremely
delicate feelers.
A bear weighing 800 pounds, with an
old rusty 25-pound trap attached to one
LEG, was recently captured at Mount
Pleasant, Mich.
a Paris physician who lived to the age
of 10Y ascribed his longevity to placing
his bed so that it stood north and south,
in the direction of the great magnetic
currents.
Visitors to the Mammoth Cave of
Kentucky are less in number now than
they We're ten years ago. although the
cave has been explored to a depth of
eleven miles
The wonderful Chinese encyclopedia
comprises ), 1920 volumes. \ perfect set
only one in Europe-is about to be
placed i'll the library of the British Mu
scum. The work is very rare, and even
in China there are not more than five
copies of this edition.
Antonio ZanardO, an Italian marble
cutter, Of New York, has invented a
stone carving machine. The tool may
be given any required angle to produce
a desired undercut, and may be regu-
lated to carve various embossed or in
tagliO figures upon the same or differ
ent planes.
Bessemer, Ala, owes its origin to the
fact that in the immediate vicinity there
is a vein Of iron ore from five to twenty
feet thick and inexhaustible The ore
can be delivered at the five furnaces for
80 a cents a ton. Within twenty-five
miles there are 600, 600 acres of coal
fields.
The capitol at Washington has cost
more than $50 900, 900. 1t covers three
and a half acres. the dome is 307 feet
high and 135 in diameter and is exceed
ed in size only by St. Peters in Rome,
St. Paul's in London the Invalides in
Paris and st. Isaac's i'll St. Petersburg.
Louisville, Ky. has the largest to-
bacco warehouse in the world. Ii can
store 1000 hOgsheads. 1t has also the
greatest handle factory. where handles
of axes, hammers and all sorts OF tools
are made of the best hickory, and are
shipped by millions TO all parts of the
world.
New York is the first manufacturing
city in the country. 1t has 1000 fact
cries. which make every year 500 OO0,-
600 worth OF goods, including $50 QOO,-
600 of clothing. SO. coo. 600 of books
and papers and $4,000, 900 Of cigars.
Central Park covers So acres and cost
SO, 900 600.
NO~el uses said to have been found
for aluminium are for a folding pocket
scale one meter long: Il uecktie made of
metal. frosted or otherwise Ornamcntcd,
i'll various shapes. initiating the ordi-
nary silk or satin article, which isrec-
commended for summer wear. and mill
tary helmets.
San Francisco is the most cosmopoli-
tan city i'll the world. The holidays of
every nation are COMMUNICATED by
public palades. Every civilized Ian
guage may be heard and the ships of
every maritime nation from the British
man Of war to the Maltese felucca and
the Chinese junk are seen in the bay.
The rare instance OF the coming OF
age of 4 whole trio of tripIets was ceIe-
brated recently at Whitemast, neal
bennington, England. Generally in
ease of triplcts the children die soon
after birth, but occasionally they sur
VlVe and reach maturity. One case Is
on record OF quadruplets, all of whom
were reared.
The state, war and navy departments
at Washington occupy an enormous
structure, erected at cost of so. 300
600, covering four acres Of ground and
having twenty acres of floor space. The
treasury building cost $4,000, 600 The
interior department buildings cover two
large blocks of ground and its buildings
cost -, 200. 900
Ocean steamship lines report that the
number of immigrants booked by them
this season is 90 per cent less than at
this time last year. and official figures
show that the number entering the port
of New York during the past three
months was H. 167 less than in the cor
responding period of last year. Dull
times and strictness in enforcing the
immigration laws are credited with this
decline.
The old loghouSe on the Dent farm.
near St Louis, where Mrs L. : Graut
passed her early life, and where some
of her children were born, has been so
well taken care of that when she visited
it recently she discovered no changes
worth mentioning. Mrs. Grant took
fond look of farewell at the old house
when her train left the station, remark
ing as she did so: Il do not expect ever
TO see it again"
1t is surprising in how high ATTITUDES
are to be found animals that live on
heritage. thriving as though pasturage
were abundant The musk OK. rein
deer and hare belong to this order. and
are found a far north as explorers have
vet gone. These creatures have to feed
under the snow for 4 large part of the
year. They remove the covering with
the hoof or paw and feed over large
patches of ground even when the snow
is several inches in depth.
The supply OF platinum, owing to its
free use in electrical enterprise. is be-
coming. it is said, unequal to the con-
stantly increasing demand, The prin-
cipal source of supply IS the Ural Noun
tain deposit. These some Years ago were
said to be inexhaustible, but the state
ment was made with no cognizance of
its future heavy demand in electrical
service. These mines are at present
being worked to their fullest capacity.
with orders and contracts two years
ahead of delivery.