The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-02-04
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


leatnS IN New YORK lily among GILL
| lren under years old.
New York city ranks high as lover
Of dogs. The sales of dogs for the last
year amounted to about $4,000.
The United States consumes more
| than half Of the worlds production OF
sugar. This means 60O0,0OO,000 pounds
a year.
The greatest monolith of modern
times is the Alexander column in Adj
| miralty Square, st. Petersburg. 1t Is
eighty feet in height and weighs 400
| tons.
Great Britain would like to rid itself
Of rats. Recently deputation from
the incorporated Society for the De
! struction of Vermin, headed by Sir
James Crichton Browne and the Duke
of Bedford waited upon Lord Caring
| ton at the offices of the British Board
Of Agriculture and urged him to ap-
point commission to inquire into
the destruction of crops by rats.
The record complied by the Journal
Of Commerce shows that In the year
now closed there were issued by vari-
Gus corporations Of new bonds, notes
and stocks, to the nominal value of L.
! S1,419, 10000; this is an increase. COM
pared with 1907, Of nearly $4,000
| 600. New securities authorized, though
only partially distributed, amounted to
~, nd
| fifth millions more than In the prev
! ious year.
When the German Emperor was the
| guest of the Archduke Franz Ferdi-
nand at Eckarstan for deer shooting he
! spoke every day to his encourage at
| Berlin over a special telephone line
/ This wire forty miles long, was spe-
! cially laid at great expense to suit the
! kaiser's convenience for a few days
! and because the ordinary wires did not
carry the voice clearly enough. To
| prevent the Kaisers telephone talk be
! ing overheard all other lines were dis
connected before his majesty began to
! speak.
/ Chief among the natura! riches OF
! Asia Minor are the vast forests which
cover the interior mountain ranges Of
the country. In the Viayet of Smyrna,
for example, there are 100000 acres
/ Of valuable woodland. which comprise
nearly one-eighth of the entire vilayet
or province. The kinds of timber con-
I sist chiefly In larch, oak, lockwood,
pine, cypress and cedar. In the vilayet
/ of Adana there are 100000 acres Of
/ forest and there is considerable tim
/ Der, tar and resin explored from the
port of Mersina every year.
Miss Ella G. Wilcox has been elect
ed to the School Board of Maiden,
Mass. This is looked upon as a great
/ triumph by the women of Maiden, as
( both political parties refused to NOM
mate her and she was forced to run
| independently. IN Everett Miss Belle
/ u. Curtis was elected to the same Of
flee without opposition. In Someryille
the regular Republican candidate de-
feated Mrs Mary Il. Brewer on the
4 Citizens, ticket, while in Haverhill
Miss Anne Wheeler was elected by a
handsome majority over her male COM
1 petitors.
Mrs. Jennie l.. Doane of Brockton,
I Mass, has been appointed TO admin
lister the 100000 estate of the late X.
/ " Packard and also is to have COM
plete control of his large shoe fac
/ tory. Mr.. Packard died suddenly with
out making a will. His heirs were a
brother and two sisters, none of whom
/ knew anything about his business Mrs.
DOane had been in the employ of Mr..
I Packard for a number of years and he
had often spoken of her ability to his
relatives, declaring that she had more
brains than any two men of his ac-
/ quaintance. For that reason his heirs
asked to have her appointed and put
in full charge of his business.
The mineral wealth Of Asia Minor is
/ provcrbial. In the Vilayet of Smyrna
there are about sixty mines being
worked under fremans and seventy.
five under licenses. On the shores of
the Black sea the coal fields of Her
aClea form an actual source of vast
potential wealth to the Turkish En-.
pire. The beds extend long the shores
of the Black sea for nearly forty miles
and run inland, coming to an apex at
Angora, distance OF nearly 200 miles
The coal, though lying In very thick
seams, contains too many impurities
for it to compete with English coal
except after being hand picked and
screened.
An Austrian inventor appears to
have solved the problem of the regu
lation of clocks by wireless telegraphy
which has heretofore been rendered
/ difficult because Of the various disturb.
/ ing influences III the atmosphere. The
central clock Of this inventor sends
signal only once every sixty seconds
and the clocks to be controlled are
provided with apparatus which will r.
ceive the IIertZian waves for that sec.
ond only, while for the remaining fifty
nine they are unaffected by any Hert
zian waves In case OF disturbance
during the one second when they are
! in circuit with the receiver, the dis
| turbing wave may set the clock in
correctly, and for the next minute II
will be a fraction of a second fast Nl
| slow. However, this inaccuracy will
hp corrected by the ma Stpr-clpck n min