The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-12-17
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


uary to August, 1908, declined AZ per
cent, compared with the same period
last year
Exhaustive tests have proved the
new torpedo nets of the navy able to
withstand the attacks of torpcdoes fired
at the highest speed YET reached.
Some hospital physicians are urging
that horsefiesh be more freely used as
being not only cheaper than beef, but
more tender and digcstible If dried
and reduced to a powder it becomes
almost tasteless.
! The Hon. w. S. Fielding, Canadian
minister of finance, raises and spends
S1O0,O0O,0OO a year on Il $1,000 sal
airy. Mr.. Fielding is the only promi-
nent member left of the old cabinet
, that gathered about Sir Wilfrid Laurier
in 1896, having held his position twelve
years.
Lead. when reduced to a very low
temperature in liquid air. is said to act
much as steel at ordinary temperatures,
1t will serve as heicaI spring, for
example Just as iron is soft and in
elastic at a high red color. SO lead is
dull and soft at ordinary temperatures,
for it is then already We'll ON its way
to be melted.
Robins bust of Whistler is almost
ready. The sculptor is Ia have $500
for his work. The bust has given the
Mt cot iSfo it p1 vic
so that a replica is to be subscribed for
New York. Whistler was an American,
but he once. on oath, in a court Of jus
tice, declared that he was born in st.
/ Petersburg.
4 curious disease which has done
much damage to the tea crops of north
est India is known as red rust An
account of the species of alga (Cepa-
| leuros viresccns), which causes it, is
given by &. NJ Hutchinson in the Me-
noirs of the Agricultural Department
of India 1t attacks the leaves and
stems of the tea plant, forming yellow
patches, 1t is propagatcl by two kinds
Of spores, one carried by water and the
other by air.
Francis Cation, who Is now Sc years
old, studied surgery in the old days
before chloroform was used, and says
Of the birmingham hospital: "The cries
Of the poor fellows who were operated
on were very Characteristic; in fact,
each class of operation seemed to evoke
some peculiar form of them. All this
was terrible. but only at first. 1t seem
ed after while as though the cries
were somehow disconnected with the
operation, upon which the whole atten-
ton became fixed
At luncheon given by the Lord
Mayor of Manchester Dean Weldon sat
next to Beerbohm Tree. "Wcll. Mr..
Tree. what have YOU been doing to-
day." he asked. Il went for n long
motor ride this morning and lost
bet replied the famous actor. In
deed said the dean, land may | ask
what the bet was?" 81 made bet that
we would pass through 400 different
odors and we only encountered 800"
All" replied DR. Weldon promptly,
you missed the odor of sanctity''-
Mainly About People.
An interesting experiment has been
made by a Mr.. Simpson of Port Eliza
beth, Cape Colony. in order to prove
that there is room for a new industry
in South Africa. Mr. Simpson has be
come impressed with the fact that pa
p2r might be- chcaply manufactured
from the aloe, ana To support his tho
DRY he has made a large sheet Of paper.
lie had no machinery, and therefore
the paper is somewhat loose grained
But it is strong and of sufficiently good
quality to suggest that Mr.. Simpson is
right in his contention.
The number of cremations in Great
Britain in lVNG was 80 an increase
of l3S as compared with the previous
year. In 1901 there were 100. The
number of crcmatories is thirteen, Of
which six are municipal. Cremation In
Great Britain Is almost wholly confined
to persons Of some intellectual distinc-
ton. The average citizen is still held
in the letters of custom, Many persons
live in fear of being buried alive and
make provision in their wills that
doctor shall divide main artery or
thrust a knife through the heart
Women in the province of Shima. on
the southern coast of Japan, are the
steruer sex. They do most of the field
work and are also employed as divers
They enter the water at all seasons ex-
ccpt during the coolest months of the
winter. They remain under water some
times for more than a minute. and
bring up shclsh and tenguSa, kind
of seawccd, which they place in Il small
net carried by each diver at the girdle.
These women divers are extremely
hardy, but rs theirs is a trying life
the constant exposure causes them to
age quickly.
DR. G. W. Andrews OF the geological
Of the British Museum has
started on Il scientific expedition to
Christmas island, in the Indian ocean.
Ten years ago the island was uum-
habited. Since then 1t has been opened
up, owing TO its guano deposits, and
there are row a number Of persons
there The object Of the present visit is
to ascertain what effect the agency Of
man has had on native fauna and
fora. 1t Is believed, for instance, that