The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-05-23
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Tobacco seeds are so minute that II Is
said thimbleful will furnish enough
plants for an acre of ground.
1t costs four times as much to gov
ern American cities as is spent for the
same purpose in English cities.
Rubber heels are TO be attached TO the
shoes worn by French soldiers. 1t is
claimed that they decrease the fatigue
of marching.
1t is illegal to erect in Washington,
ID. c., on business streets a building
residential streets.
Boo. the exclamation used to brighten
children, is a corruption of Bah, the
name of a famous Gothic general. 1t
has been used as terror word for CEN
turtles.
The sending of message and reply
between Manchester, England, and
ninety seconds. The total distance by
wire, out and return, is $4,000 miles.
1t is said that the pay of locomotive
engineers is sometimes so much above
that Of minor administrative officers,
technically their superiors, that the
amount is not permitted to appear on
the payroll.
A 1+year-old girl at Beecher Bay,
B. c., killed with Winchester the 9th
er day big panther which her dog had
freed; and another girl, II years old,
of Benton, Oregon, killed cougar
which was making off with young
pig.
The maxim murder will out" is dis
proved by statistics. In the ten years
ending with 1886 there were l, 766 muir
ders committed in England and Wales,
and in l ,094 of these cases no trace OF
the criminal was ever found that led to
his apprehension.
There were 1,O73 assertions from the
United States army during the year
ending June 80 last, as compared with
1927 IN the year ending June 80, 1854
This Improvement is attributable to bet
ter rations, better barracks and better
chances for promotion.
There is a breed of cats little known
outside of Maine, and designated in that
state as coon" cats. Animals of this
species are tortoise shell in color, and
the fur is remarkably thick and long
and the tail being SO bushy as to sug-
geSt that of a young fox.
The reason why red infuriates MEM
bers of the OK family is because red is
the complementary color of green, and
the eyes of cattle being long fixed on
heritage while feeding, when they espy
anything red it impresses their sight
with greatly increased intensity.
One of the queer customs of Russia is
shown in the recent death of the car.
When the disease of Alexander at
Livadia was announced the people
made merry over the accession of the
new ruler, and after the festivities were
concluded they began mourning for the
- march
1t is said that heat holidays have now
been established by law in the public
schools of Switzerland. Recognizing
the well-knOw fact that the brain can
not work properly when the heat is ex-
cessive, the children are dismissed from
their tasks whenever the thermometer
goes above a certain point.
Two women in Baker county. Ore,
| own silver mines and are running them
| in person. They do not actually ham
| die shoyels and work the dirt but they
| superintend the working of their prop
erty, and while they admit the business
| has rough sides for woman they are
making money and propose to hold on.
An attempt to propagate blue points
| and other noted varieties of eastern Oys-
| tiers on the Pacific coast is soon to be
made by the United States fish commits
| sion. A car load of oysters from the
east are to be planted in Willapa Bay,
| Washington, inst above the mouth Of
the Columbia River, where there are ex-
tensive oyster fisheries.
The latest advertising device is to dec
| crate shop windows with what appear
to be big cracks in the plate glass. This
is called decoration advisedly, for it is
put on with French chalk and paint.
Gray or blush lines, radiating from a
center, have a surprising likeness to a
break, and the device serves its pur-
pose of causing people to stop and look.
The value of the electric light as a
saver of time is strikingly illustrated in
a return just made of the average time
occupied by ships in passing through
the Suez Canal. With the electric light
the journey is accomplished in eight
minutes under twenty-four hours With
out the light thirty-one hours and TWEEN
ty-four minutes is the time usually re-
CURED.
One of the oldest publications is the
pamphlet on cooking issued by the de-
partment of agriculture. 1t contains
an Introductory essay on the nutritive
value of common food followed by an
elaborate presentation by Edward At
kinson of his theory as to the proper
cooking of foods. 1t is the first time
that Mr.. Atkinson's plan of cooking has
received official sanction.
The skeleton Of man with a rusty
pair of handouts clasped about the wrists
was found in the Creek country of the
Indian Territory by a deputy sheriff a
few days ago. The bones of the skele-
ton were broken and strewn about. evil
IDENTIFY by wild animals. The grew
some relic undoubtedly told the story of
some prisoner who had escaped from
his guards onl y to perish in the woods.
ASIOlulIlS W OllG VI our COuSuIS Amer
lean artificial limbs would have a great
sale in Germany where there agencies
established there by the manufacturers.
The German makers of artificial limbs
are less ingenious than their brethren
in America the limbs are heavier less
convenient and not more durable Odd
ly enough, not a single American man
ufacturer of such things has sought to
introduce his goods into Germany.
West Virginia's mountaineers have
been as little disturbed ia their Businesses
as any body of Caucasians in the United
States. Many of them watched with
Indifference from their percbes the
progress of the civil war. aud some of
them are still neglectful Of politics A
belief in the right to make and drink
and sell untaxed whisky is part of their
creed as to personal liberty and they
are singularly trustful of the stranger
once they know he is not revenue Of