The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-05-23
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There is graveyard of royal dogs
connected with Windsor Castle
1t would take a snail exactly fourteen
days five hours TO travel mile.
The wheat yield estimate is placed at
400. 600 600 bushels for the season.
The African ostrich has but two toes
on each foot, and one of them has no
claw.
The Onchidium. species of shelless
snail (slug) has innumerabfe eyes on its
back.
The product of the wax tree of the
Andes cannot be distinguished from
beeswaX.
Birch bark, tackled on with brass
nails, makes fine wall paper foc sum-
mer house.
EXAMINATION says that the earth is
cooling very rapidly. Europe has lost
five degrees this century.
The two fields of Waterloo and Lin
den are each covered with a crop Of
cs'issseA psppsss every ysss.
The power of herculire, a new eX-
plosiye, is almost beyond belief. \
half pound of 1t will move thirty tons of
stone.
The swords of the ancient Mexicans
were composed of bits of flint or obsi-
dian, set in stick about the length of
an ordinary saber.
A plug OF tobacco furnishes an excel
lent indication of an approaching change
in the weather. When it is damp the
air is moist and rain is probable.
Rural labor in some regions is Sc
cheap in winter that a farmer with q
small crop of grain can have it Hailed
out cheaper than he can have it thrashed
by steam.
The Jewesses of St. Louis have form
ed the SisterhoOd for Personal Service,
charitable organization which will
care for the poor of their own denomi-
nation and educate their children.
The new churches in the new town of
Euid, 0. T., have no bells yet, and the
town fire bell is rung every Sunday to
announce the hour of religious SER
vices. This must be very suggestive to
sinners.
The population Of London is said to
be 5.94S. 800, and increasing at the rate
of l05, 900 q year. The city, therefore,
has a population of about million and "A
half more than Scotland and a million
more than Ireland.
When an Armenian maiden attains
her 18th year and is not engaged to be
married she must undergo strange
punishment. She is forced to fast three
days, then for twenty-four hours her
food is salt fish and she is not permitted
to quench her thirst.
A combined letter card with case
for silver coins, made of muslin, the
whole inclosed in Il proper envelope, is
a novelty lately brought out in Eng
land. The coins do not rattle in their
Enclosure and the device is the best in
its line that has yet been invented.
A new project for the sanitation OF
the sewers Of the City of Mexico, at a
cost of about $50, 600, calls for the build
ing of some twenty-five windmills in
different parts of the city, to rotate
paddle wheels in the sewers and quick
en- the current to one metre per second.
The patent office has received a val
liable acquisition to its museum in a
fac-simile copy of the first patent of an
invention issued in America. II was
granted by the general court in Boston
! on March 6, 1916. Joseph Jenkes was
the patentee, and his invention a wa
ter wheel.
A Frenchman has constructed an
electric walking stick, of which the
knob contains a small electric lamp in a
thick glass bulb, the battery being two
cells of peculiar shape down the cane
itself The lamp gives sufficient light
TO read newspaper in train or TO
hght oneself upstairs al night,
A bread and butter tree from the
French settlement on the Gaboon was
rsssstIy s6Dt TO 4 professor n Aapc y to
analyze. The tree yields a fatty sub
stance called cay-cay, resembling bus-
ter, and grain containing so per cent
| Of fatty matter, from which very nOur-
ishing bread is made. The tree is an
Irvingia.
1t is proposed TO make the port of
Bristol England, accessible to transat-
lantic vessels at all times by damming
| the River Avon at its mouth and using
locks. According to the plans of the
engineers a constant depth of 80 feet
| can be obtained, and the necessary
docks and breakwaters constructed for
$11, 900, 900.
There is in New York City police
man who has managed on pay never
| exceeding 1920 a year, and without
opportunity for unlawful gains, to put
one son through famous college and to
graduate him in medicine; to get an
other a commission in the navy, and to
send two daughters to one of the best
women's colleges.
1t has recently been said by the cars
consul general at New York that there
are about 26, 900 Russians, other than
Jews, living in that city. They are by
far the least prominent element of the
city's population and seem never to
hold assemblages or make any kind of
public demonstration. The greater part
OF them are engaged in the Russian
American trade.
Numerous correspondents have re-
Gently been writing to the London
Times, pointing out that no originality
should be claimed for the kaleidoscope,
as it is only an improved zoetrope, and
one writes to say that he saw a similar
toy seventy years ago. Edison's repre-
sentative in London has finished the
discussion by acknowledging that the
fundamental principal is the same.
There is tree in western Australia
called the jarrah tree, the wood Of
which is said to be almost everlasting.
The natives make nearly every thing Of
this timber = pianos, work boxes,
wharves, buildings and ships. 1t has
never been known to decay and is pois-
onous to all insects. 1t does not burn
freely. but only chars, which makes it
specially valuable for building pur-
poses.
The San Franciscans are apprehensive
tat the commercial supremacy of their
city will ere long be challenged by the
ely of Los Angeles which is growing
rapidly, In the first nine months OF