The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-05-19
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


-Four and half million gross boxes
Of matches are used in London in
year
A watch ticks 157. 6S0,00O times in a
year, and the wheels travel 3.558a
miles.
AS general rule, mans hair
turns gray five years earlier than a
woman's.
During the year 1909 the London
dog-catchers caught $4,000 and dis
patched 1883.
More women marry between the
ages of twenty and twenty-five than at
any other time of life.
A rosebush in a garden at Freiburg
covers ninety-nine square yards and
bears ten thousand buds.
1t is estimated that the coal mines
already developed contain enough coal
to supply the world for thousand
years.
The natives of Korea carry visiting
cards which measure about twelve
inches square, and when their use is
required they are merely shown.
Bahia Blanca, Argentina is now the
largest wheat shipping port in South
America. 1t has a population of forty
thousand and is growing rapidly.
The Farthing Gazette, probably the
cheapest daily newspaper in existence,
has been started in Moscow, and has
already considerable circulation
There was to be an attack by night.
The darkness was impenetrable. A
tergeant addressed his section as fol-
lows: Nov, pay attention, No. . sec
ton. We are going to do a night at
tack; therell be no talking or smok.
ing, if there are any orders to be
passed down l will just tip yJu the
wink"
knut Angstrom, professor OF physics
at the University of Upsala, who died
last month, was distinguished as an
investigator of solar radiation. and de.
vised the instrument adopted by in.
ternational agreement as the standard
for measuring this element. viz, the
Angstrom electric compensation pyri-
heliometer.
Peter the Great, Russia's famous
czar, when he was staying in England
had particular liking for the com
partnership of HALEY, after whom the
romet is named. After carousing with
him at Deptford one evening, Peter
wheeled the astronomer in a barrow
through yew hedge and did such dam.
Rge that he had to pay handsomely to
John Evelyn, the owner.
Edward FITZGERALD, the translator OF
the Persian poet, Omar Khayyam. was
h more or less genial opponent of mat
rimony as a state. One day he said to
his friend. Miss Ellen Churchyard OF
Woodbridge: 40 you know, Nell,
what marriage is?" Miss Churchyard
thought not. Then I'll tell you"
said he, Marriage is standing at ones
desk, nicely settled to work, when a
great big bonnet pushes in at the door
and asks you to 20 for a walk with
it"
1t is proposed to establish a wireless
telegraph station at the meteorologi
cal observatory on Mt. Mirador, in the
Philippines, to give warning Of ty-
phoons to vessels in the China sea and
points along the China coast A sim.
liar station will probably be cstab
lished later at Santo Domingo de
Basco, on the island Of Batan for com
municating information OF the pres
ence Of typhoons in that vicinity to
the headquarters of the Philippine
weather bureau at Manila.
Tin holds chief place in Slams
metal resources and Is found through.
out the Siamese portion of the Malay
peninsula. The average annual pro.
duction is about 5,l75 tons. valued at
$4,110,000 English mining companies
and the Chinese are the chief workers
for tin. Gold stands second to tin in
the cOuntry's mineral resources. but
thus far its working has not proved
profitable. Copper and lead mines have
also proved a failure Transportation
cost is enormous, but railways are be-
ing extended north and south.
When the British square at the bat
tie of Abu Klca. in the Nubian desert,
was penetrated by the dervishes one
of them attempted to spear a gunner
who was in the act Of ramming home
Il charge. The Briton Drained the
Sudanese. but the rammer head split
-.
gunner was sent for. Mstaking the
reason. and knowing from experience
that soldiers are charged for govern
ment property which they break, he
led off: please, sir, Pm very sorry
broke the hammer. but never
thought the fellows head could be so
hard I'll pay for the rammer so as
to hear no more Of the case"
1t is a somewhat curious fact, II II
IS a fact, that the last of the terrcs.
trial continents to be explored is the
largest mass of raised land in the
world The concentration OF attention
upon the South pole since Commander
Peary landed the other end of our axis
makes it highly probable that the
antarctic antlp0dcs will soon be dang
ling from some explorers belt Incl
dentally, the south polar continent
will be opened, II not to the settler, at
least TO the mapmaker We already
know something Of It's fringe at few
points. and Lieutenant Shackleton
pushed into it south OF Mounts Erebus
and Terror for several hundred miles.
Int the ereater portiOn OF It's surfacn