The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1894-11-29
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The principles of rainfall were first |
correctly set forth by Dalton in 1887,
A New York man has had the same
carpet stolen three times during the
last three months.
The National Toothpick Association
claims an output of tifty-two car loads
of toothpicks annually.
The timber piles under ST. Marks at
Venice are in good condition after car
rying that structure 900 years.
In Spain the tobacco consumption is
but 10 pounds annually TO each 100
Inhabitants. In Austria it is 273.
A grated tree at Monticello, Fla,
annually bears a mixed crop of peaches,
apples, pears, ounces and crabs.
Our knowledge of the Greeks from
historical Greek sources begins with
776 years before the Christian era.
Best steel castings made for the
United States navy has a tenacity of
IS, ZOO to $4,000 pounds to the square
inch.
The highest lighthouse on the Ameri-
can coast is that at Cape Henry, Va. 1t
is 165 feet in height, built wholly of
iron.
The United States has 1904 public
libraries of TO- 900 volumes and upward.
They contain &c, 1915, 357 bound vol
umes.
A citizen of Wilcutt, Fla, has a curl
osity in the shape of COW horn 5 feet
long and Is inches in circumference at
the base.
The "Moliagel" gold nugget. found
at Mount Moliagel, Australia, i'll 1869,
weighed 100 pounds and assayed $40
600 in pure gold.
Data deduced from 100 consecutive
observations made on the apex of the
Eiffel tower prove that the velocity of
the wind at that height is nearly four
times as great as at the surface.
An English dentist, who had collected
from his patients about 80 600 teeth,
died lately and left directions to have
the molars cuspids and bicuspids put
in the coffin with him, which was done.
An authority on cats says that yellow
hairs, no odds how few in number, al
ways indicate that the wearer is fe-
male. He further adds: No male cat
was ever known to have the slightest
tint of yellow.
An Albany, Ga, dame, who tried to
rid her premises of rats by soaking
hominy in arsenic water, says that the
entire tribe of rodents now inhabiting
her place are of snowy whiteness, but
still alive and frisky.
The Westinghouse Electric company
has contracted for glass factory with
| a capacity to turn out bulbs and stop
pers for 80, 900 incandescent lamps "A
| day. The company now receives 5000
bulbs and shoppers per day.
The common council of Steinhubel,
| Silesia, have elected, for the protection
| of the village, night watchwoman.
She is said to be stalwart and resolute
and takes motherly interest in various
small boys who are out o nights.
The prune industry is stated to be at
tracing attention in Idaho. 1t is re-
ported that in the Payette valley, where
| the culture of prunes is one of the lead
| ing industries. there are ranchers who
have made as high as 81, 900 an acre.
At Predimost, in Bohemia, where
many mammoth skeletons have been
unearthed, prehistoric family has
| lately been found. The skeletons of
the man, woman and children are COM
plete, the mans being of enormous size.
A Nebraska man has made arrange
| ments to start farm near Raleigh to
breed French coach horses. A Penn
sylvania man has also started farm
near the same place for the purpose of
lint
Americans import from Japan about
1000, 600 pounds of tea year and
As 600 900 pounds from China. If the
tea market eventually becomes much
disturbed there will be an increase of
interest in the tea-growing experiments
in South Carolina and Florida.
SO far the, feminine corset stay has
proved more reliable bullet-proof
shield than the patents of either Dove
or Lennard. The latest practical dem
onstration of its utility occurred in Ken
lucky, where man fired point blank
at church organist and never touched
her."
Tea drinking is rapidly becoming a
vice among British working women,
and it has recently been shown that the
miserable condition of the workers in
the slate quaIries at Merioneth is very
largely due to the inordinate consump-
ton of tea by the men, as well as the
women, of the district.
There are rumors afioat of a large
Roman Catholic cathedral which is b
be built under the shadow of Westmin-
ster Abbey, London. The site was
purchased by the late Cardinal Man.
ming, and it is proposed that Cardinal
Vaughan shall lay the foundation stone
OF the building some time next spring.
The Russian courts have reversed the
assumption of the American tribunals
that, when a husband and wife are
drowned in the same disaster the wife
dies first. The Russian doctors have |
testified unanimously that the man |
would be the first to die, because the !
woman is more agile and keeps herself |
longer above water.
A goose with remarkable maternal |
instinct has been found near Berry, in |
Harrison county, Kentucky. Her brood |
was recently drowned and an Old SOW, !
with litter of twelve pigs, died about |
the same time. The old mother goose |
has adopted the little orphan pigs and
persists in her attention toward them. |
The family is doing well.
Mr.. Jansen recently exhibited to the
French Academy of Sciences the clock
work that will register the observations
of the instruments placed in the oiserv-
atory on top of Mount Blanc. 1t re-
quires winding up only once in eight
months, and is fabricated with Il mate
rial that has been exposed to cold of
so degrees below zero without freezing.
A foreign scientific journal gives the
results OF some recent experiments up
on the vocal chords which will prove
interesting to singers. A baritone who
wished to become a tenor succeeded by