The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1894-03-01
MISSING LINKS.

About one-third of the houses in this
country are lighted by gas.
One-half of the population of Mex
| leo are full-blooded Indians.
Rats avoid house wherein a guinea
| pig is permitted to roam at will.
The waters of the ocean compose /
| l7o6th part of the weight of the world.
The first American counterfeiter, so
far as known, was one William Buel,
of Vermont.
The Aztecs filled quills with gold
dust, sealed them and passed them
| from hand to hand as coin.
The tao, or knife coins, of China.
made current B. c. 2453, were of iron,
in the shape of daggers.
The Swiss postoffice conveys any,
thing from postal card to barrels of
wine, scythes and bundles of old iron.
Chinese burglars wear not scrap of
clothing and artfully braid their pig
tails full of fish hooks for obvious rea-
sons.
There are at the present moment
eleven pretenders to the various
thrones of Europe trying to make good
their claims.
The Honorable Artillery company of
the City of London. which dates from
the time of Henry VII, is the oldest
volunteer corps in England.
Augustus was not the public bene-
factor he is represented. He was the
most eXacting tax collector the Roman
world had up to his time ever seen.
A noted physician says that the most
prolific cause of woman's nervous dis
eases, Mysteries, spinal diseases and
sick headaches is highheeled boots.
Columbus did not foretell an eclipse
of the moon to frighten the natives of
Jamaica into rendering him assistance.
There was no eclipse of the moon at
that time.
The desideratum of printing photo
graphs on marble has now been real
lied TO such a degree as to insure a
genuine artistic result, and this by
process both simple and economical
The drill of the Roman soldier was
exceedingly severe. 1t comprised not
only the use of weapons, but running,
jumping, climbing, wrestling. swim
ming, both naked and in full armor.
A suit over the burglary of $11 in
the court at Centerville, n. Y, has al
ready cost the county and the several
parties in the suit over a hundred
times the amount of the original loss.
A Greek army was composed of the
hoplite, or heavy armed infantry; the
thetes, or light infantry; an interme-
diate class, the peltastae and bodies
of mercenary singers and bowmen.
The equipments and arms of all
modern armies are substantially the
same, with differences in material and
workmanship, the English. French and
American arms being deemed the best.
A church at Fostoria, Ohio, has de-
cided to purchase 400 little wine glass
es, that each communicate may re-
ceive the wine out of glass no other
person has used, in order TO avoid
microbes.
Alexander the Great did not weep
for other worlds to conquer. There is
reason to suspect that his army met
with serious reverse in India. a fact
that induced him to retrace his steps.
The immense burning glasses with
which Archimedes burned the ships of
the besiegers of Syracuse at ten miles
distance was never manufactured, and
it is now known that thev could not
be-
A Montana man has Just completed
and applied for a patent on an auto
matte machine that bids fair to revolu-
tionize the cutting of precious stones.
This machine can do the work of at
least twelve men.
War chariots appeared for the last
time during the Persian invasion of
Hreeee. They were abandoned then
because the horses got frightened, and
running away, often threw large bodies
of troops into confusion.
The fintlock was invented about
1910 and before the end of the century
was in general use. Firing, however,
was still very slow, and rarely more
than twenty-five shots were fired by a
soldier in the course of day.
The existence Of the Colossus of
Rhodes is considered by some histori-
ans as extremely doubtful. There is
no evidence that the ancients were
able to cast pieces of metal of such
size as must have entered into it's COM
position.
Some Il hes of North American In
dians punished matricides by hanging
them by their hands to the limb of a
tree, at height just sufficient to per-
nit the wolves to reach them from
the ground. They were left to be eat
en- alive.
Columbus did not make an egg stand
on end to confuse his opponents. The
feat was performed by BrunelSchi, the
architect, to silence critics who asked
him how he was going to support the
dome of the Cathedral of Florence.
Some of the beekeepers in Skagit
county, Washington, will take 100
pounds from each of quite a number
of their colonies this season. This
means 500 per swarm, gross, which is
regarded as better than 100 per cent
interest on the investment.
The Chinese doctors lot is not who'll
ly happy one. Four members of the
Imperial College of Physicians at Pekin
failed recently to make a proper dag
nosis of the emperor's indispOsition
and were punished by being fined
years salary.
Kerosene oil is rapidly growing in
favor as cheap illuminant in China.
The consumption which was s, S,256, 900
gallons in 1892. had risen to 40, 34S, 900
in 1891. OF this amount so per cent
was imported from America and 20
per cent from Russia.
Among the degenerated Romans
from A. ID. 100 to A. ID. SOD titles were
graded with almost mathematical ex-
actness, and men of different social
rank insisted on being addressed rs Il
lustres. Specta biles Claris>imi. Per-
fectissimi, Egregii, and SO on, accord
ing to their position.
The kings of Sardinia formerly de-