The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-10-22
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

The COW tree of Venezuela is nat
ural dairy. Its sap is very similar to
milk and is used as such by the ma
tiyes
The transient hotel population Of
New York is figured at 100000 people
day. The hotel properties are valued
at over SSO,000OOO
There is a great demand in China for
lead 1t is used in several Chinese
manufactures, but chiefly for lining tea
chests for export
Caleb Watts. of Lily Pad. Pa. who
raises frogs for the market, gets the
best results by feeding them on liver
corn meal and flies.
Great Britain imports over $50. 0OO,-
ooo worth OF eggs Il year from Russia,
Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Canada
and the United States
Mrs. a. b. Enright. of East Concord,
Vt, Is county supervisor of schools and
SAID to be one of the busiest women in
the State. Besides her school work she
performs all the duties that fall to the
lot of the wife of a Methodist pastor
of two large parishes,
Professor Jowett's comments on the
young men Of Balliol, Oxford, often
took the form Of crushing sarcasms.
The college, Mr.. Y. thinks highly of
you he once said: perhaps too high
ly; but not half so highly, l am sure,
as you think Of Yourself
China is buying lumber from British
Columbia. 1t is largely needed for
railway construction American lumber
is shipped to Shanghai. On one day Of
his recent visit four full cargoes OF
Oregon pine arrived there, says the
Canadian trade commissioner at YokO-
hama.
Miss Selma LagerlOf besides being
the most popular writer in Sweden has
just received an honorary degree from
the University Of Upsala. She is the
first woman in Sweden 10 receive this
distinction, and it is said to be only
matter OF time when she Will get the
Nobel prize
Mrs. Emma Barry, Of San Francisco
has just returned from a trip to the
Arctic Circle, during which, it IS assert
ed, she went farther north than any
other white woman. She accompanied
her husband prospecting Coz gold, and
after she lays in certain supplies she
will rejoin him in Alaska.
Mrs. c. Meyer is responsible for the
monument that has just been erected
at Port Elizabeth. South Africa, to the
memory Of the horses that died during
the Boer war 1t cost upward Of $4,000
and is in the shape of stone water
ing trough. on the top of which is the
figure of . bronze cayalryman givins
drink to his horse.
When Sir Robert Walpole retired to
private life time hung heavily on his
hands and Horace vAerted himself 10
amuse his father. one day he offered
to read to him. "What will you read.
child?" asked Sir Robert, YEARLY. Hor-
ace suggested history. NO, no replied
the veteran statesman; mot history,
Horace; that can't be true"
British South Africa imports over
100000 worth of lumber, mainly
from Sweden and the United States,
says the trade commissioner of Canada
at Cape Town. The chief demand is for
pine, spruce, ash and poplar Tee duty
is 8 per cent ad yalorem on manufaC-
turcd woods American shipments con-
sist chiefly of Oregon ANA Southern
hard pine,
The State Of North Carolina IS one
o, the most notable in the Union for
the production of gems, particularly
diamonds. emeraldS rubies, aquamar-
ines, beryls hiddenite, Thodolite ameth-
ysto and remarkable rock crystals.
These gems awe been found mainly
IN the couts4 of mining operations. al
though few systematic searches for
them have been made and two com
oanies are now engaged exclusively in
such work.
Count Won zeppelin, the aeronaut,
was born in 1888, ana devoted what
are for most men the best years Of life
to military service. Retiring in 1880
with the rank of general, he turned
with a boyish enthusiasm to the pur-
suit of his hobby, aerial navigation.
To the solution of the problem which
had baAel the investigators OF two ecu
turtles he sacrificed his fortune, with
little apparent progress toward the
goal! Poverty spurred him to greater
eXcrtion. In 1892 he made 4 success
FIJI balloon journey from Rerne to Lu-
cerne, but his work was lightly esteem
ed until 1900, when the surprising sue
cess of the first dirigible caused a gem
zine sensation. Since that time his
progress has been easier.
AS long ago as 1895 q Leipsic house
nublished German novel illustrated
by something closely resembling a
Roertgen picture The story tells OF
Tho Countess Abillinia, who gave her
hear. to the knight Gibello. The knight
IL lover was thoughtless enough to kill
his lady loves father, her affection
turned to hatred, she vowed to kill him.
In n dream she saw the man who had
fascinated her, and she stood, ready to
slay him, when suddenly the form
changed, and before her stood a grin
ming skeleton Saying, Il have already
been punished This scene is Illus
trated in the old book, and the picture