The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-19
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ground railway.
NEAR Grobogana, Java. there is
lake of boxing mud.
ONE-FIFTH of the married couples IN
France have no children.
BosroS owes $500 for every man, wom-
an and child of it's population.
ONa-THIRD of the people who go mad
IRE said to recover their senses
A RAILROAD is being built up the Rax
Alp, which is 6, 400 feet in height
THE man who invented angel cake
died leaving fortune of $500, o0o
ABOUT IT'S congregational churches
have adopted the individual commu-
MON cup.
THE telegraph will be extended 1000
miles south of Khartoum by the end OF
the year.
No PERSON in Norway may spend
more than six cents at one visit to
drinking place.
LONDON policeman have been forbid
den to wear tan shoes on the ground
that they are too stylish.
f. MARION CRAWFORD is now in Sici-
" and does not expect to return to
America for at least year
GEORGE BERRY, the English band
master, has retired after 90 years
service with military bands.
A New YORK geneologist traces Adm.
Dewey's ancestry back to King Alfred
the Great through both lines.
DURING the last half year 1875 vessels
aggregating 234, SIT tons, were launched
on the Clyde, beating all record.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE RUSSELL, OF
England is said always to have bet
on every important sporting event
In Madagascar silk is the only fabric
used in the manufacture of clothing
1t is cheaper than linen in Ireland
GERMAN army officers are ordered by
imperial decree to wear reddish brown
dogskin gloves during the maneuvers.
VERDI was knignted and decor
ated with the Order of the Anunciata
on October 10, when he will be Sc years
old.
IT is no usual thing for vessel ply
ing between Japan and London to car
nv 1000, 600 fans as single item of its
cargo.
A SIGN of politeness in Thibet, on
meeting a person, is to hold up the
clasped hands and stick out the
tongue.
SIR THOMAS Upton estimates that
the entire cost of his attempt TO take
the America cup will come to about
$500, 600.
A STEAMER trunk has been patented,
which, being air-tight, may be attached
to the waist belt in an emergency and
used as life preserver.
HIGH heels it is said, owe their
origin to Persia, where they were in
troduced to raise the feet from the
burning sands of that country.
THE worlds births amount to 80,
792 900 every year, 1oo 500 every day,
4. 200 every hour, 70 every minute, and
one and fraction every second.
AT 76 years of age Judge jackson, OF
the United States district court fol-
West Virginia, is still active on the
bench He was appointed by Lincoln
The latest thing in company promot
ing comes from Paris, where dogs
cemetery has been floated, with cap
ital of $40, 900. The promoters arr
ladies'
The latest whim for owners of dog
is to make them wear shoes in thu
house for the purpose of protecting
the polished floors. They are made o
chamois with leather soles.
q iatt n
passed through the British post offic
last year. there were as many as $500,
900 which the officials managed not t
deliver. In those opened at the dea'
letter flee property of the value o
So, 600, 600 was found.
RUNNING horses are unknown in Rus
STA. No one drives there without hav
ing a thin cord with running noos
round the neck of the animal Whel
an animal bolts the cord is pulled, ant
the horse stops as soon as it feels tn
pressure on the windpipe.
A FUND is being collected in Englan
to raise monument to John New bury
the first man to collect and publish tn
immortal melodies of Mother Goose.
lie was a 1rlenu OF GOldSmltn, anu III
grave in st. Thomas's churchyart
Waltham, is almost unmarked.
FROM remote antiquity the taro hs
contributed Importantly to the foo
supply of the natives of southern Ash
portions of Africa and many of tt
island groups of the Pacific. 1t is t.
day one of the plants most commonl
cultivated throug hout the tropics
A SWISS physician, DIR. Otto Naegel
declares that the best way to overcou
insomnia is to initiate the breathing
man who is asleep, and to make ii
head undergo the various movement
to one side and the other which or
occasionally makes while falling asles
in a sitting posture.
MANY flashes of lightning not on
measure themselves, but actual
manufacture the recorder by whit
they are measured. When an electi
meteor strikes bed of sand it plung
downward into it, Transforming sim,
taneously into glass and silica in t
material through which it passes.
PRESIDENT KRUGER, of the Trar
yaal sleeps eight hours each nirl