The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1894-09-06
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heard a mile distant.
The longest clock pendulum ever
made is that of Eiffel tower-377 feet
Boiled alligator flesh tastes very
much like veal. 1t is much eaten in
India
South American monkeys are the
only lower animals that can recognize
the meaning of picture.
Skins of fruit should never be eaten.
owing TO the danger of microbes having
penetrated the covering.
The German parliament-ho was
built with the money extorted from
France after the war of 1871.
There is a tree in Nevada so luminous
from eNuding phosphoreseeht matter
that one can read by its light.
Golf" is properly pronounced
"gOwtf, according to the editorial au-
thority of the London Daily Ne1es.
At Corunna, Spain. is the oldest
lighthouse i'll the world. 1t was built
nearly eighteen hundred years ago.
Steel barrels, made from sheets rang
ing in thickness from one-sixteenth to
quarter OF au inch, are coming into
use.
The brain in the largest apes aver
ages only sixteen ounces: in the lowest
type of men it is about thirtv-nine
ounces.
1t is unlawful in Turkey to seize 4
mans residence for debt, and sufficient
land to support him is also exempt from
seizure.
An electric rock rests on the summit
of Alpine peak, California. 1t is 50
full of electricity that it is perilous to
touch it.
In Dion, France there is a poplar
tree which nourished in the year ~
Its height is l22 feet and its circumfer-
ence 40 feet.
Gen" Booth, commander-in-chief of
the Salvation army, says, and says it
| emphatically, that he never reads the
newspapers.
The fastest shorthand writer in the
world is young Dublin gentleman,
George Bunbary. lie can write 25O
words in a minute.
Wire hairpins were first used in 1915
and were invented in England. Before
that time the hair was held in place by
| little wooden skewers.
1t is about thirty miles across town in
London, and for that entire distance
| there is said to be an unbroken line Of
residences and stores.
Railway employees in England are
now instructed i'll first aid to the in
jured under the auspices of the St
Johns Ambulance Association.
Powdered charcoal, if laid thick on a
| burn, causes the immediate abatement
of the pain. A superficial burn can
thus be healed in about an hour.
When stung by bee always remove
| the sting. which is left in the wound.
and over it squeeze the juice of red
onion or apply little hartshorn.
Partisan restaurant keepers mix lit
tie honey with their butter. This gives
it an agreeable taste and flavor and
makes inferior butter more palatable.
A man i'll Bethlehem. Pa, was too
poor to buy a grave for his dead child;
SO ne stole into a cemetery, dug the
| grave, buried the infant, and was az
| rested.
| Nearly one-tifth of the deaths in Val
paraiso are from pneumonia. In Bonn
bay the deaths from the same disease
are in the ratio of only twenty-siX in
| 10 600.
There are more ducks in China. and
| more are eaten, than in all the rest of
| the world. At some of the duck farms
in that country $4,000 are annually
hatched.
A cab shaped like bathtub, in which
the passengers either sit or recline as if
in bed, is in use in Berlin. 1t has
three wheels and is propelled by a
naphtha motor.
1t costs Great Britain $4,000 to
scrape the barnacies off the bottom of
| one OF its big men-o'-war and repaint
| It, and this has to he done twice year
IN the case Of nearly every vessel.
One of the ways of telling whether
the temperature is rising is to watch a
| girls front hair. When it begins to
| lose It's curl and grow straight it is Il
sure sign OF chicago of temperature.
The silk of the great spider of NADIA
| gascar Is fine, strong and elastic. 1t i
used by the natives to fasten flowers 10
sunshades. y single female spider has
been known to spin two miles of it in
twenty-seven days.
A baby carriage designed especially
for the use of those who live in flats.
looks Just like any other baby carriage
when it is in use, but it can be folded
together so that one person can handily
carry it up and downstairs
In Nebraska man was convicted of
theft and sentenced to a years impris-
onment. A new trial was asked for.
but the man had served his time and
been discharged before the supreme
court decided he was entitled to a new
trial.
The most expensive thermometer in
the world is in use at Johns Hopkins
University. 1t is an absolutely correct
instrument, with graduatons on the
glass so fine that it is necessary to use a
microscope to read them. 1t is valued
at $4,000
A good many enthusiastic Britishers
who enlist to serve their country seem
to find the conditions OF service unsatis-
factory, for nearly $50, 600 was paid
last year by recruits to purchase their
discharge before they had been in the
army three months.
DR.. Guthrie of Edinburgh, after car
rying on ragged schools in that city for
number of years. sent invitations to a
dinner TO boys who had found a bless
ing in the schools. Two hundred and
fifty responded, one gentleman travel
ing 500. miles to be present.
The paper for Bank of England notes
Is always made from new white linen
never from rags or anything that has
been used before. So carefully is the
paper prepared that even the number
of dips into the pulp made by each
workman IS registered on an automatic
dial.
The capitalized wealth of Great Brit