The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-03-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A RAW clam poultce is the latest anna
teur medical p-raw-clamation in cases of
diphtheria.
HERE'S another doughmestic difficult
fy," said a Brooklyn woman as she found
her bread heavy.
THERE is transcendent power in eX-
ample. We reform others unconSciously
when we walk uprightly.
A TOT CHING obituary: He knew the
value of an editors time and never tres
passed long upon it." Peace to his
ashes.
HAPPY he who has done nothing to
make himself famous" says the New
York Tribune. In these days of gossip
obscurity is actually delicious"
THE best way to avoid water-pipes
freezing and bursting is to have cock
in the cellar, by which the water can be
turn ed off from the entire house.
To m ke silk which has been wrinkled
appear like new, sponge on the surface
with weak solution of gum arabic or
white glue, and iron on the wrong side.
THAT you may eat your cake ami have
it is shown in Rhode Island sending last
year to New York ard Boston II 900
geese with no diminution of population.
-Erclalge.
SINCE that St. Louis dentist broke a
woman's jaw the St. Louis husband,
generally, insists that his wife shall go
down and get a new set of teeth and have
the old ones removed.
IN reply to young writer who wished
10 know which magazine will give me
the highest position quickest" a cuntem-
porary advises "a powder magazine, if
you contribute fiery article"
THE ancient way of wearing deep linen
cuffs outside the Gress-sleeve is reviving
They are cut with deep point on the
back, are short in front, and are closed
with three linen buttons on the point.
HANDKERCHIEFs with colored borders,
either solid or striped, are considered
correct for morning and promenade
toilets, though they are never in so good
taste as the simple hemstitched square of
linen.
ARURAL New England moralist says {:
"C-ve your son good education and a
settled purpose in life and when he is a
man he viii not be content to sit back of
grocery stove and crack his finger
joints"
A NEW trifle for overdresses and drap-
cry is tulle so closely covered with silver
spaDgles that it looks like a fairy fabric
spun from silver threads. 1t is pretty
and costly and perishable- consequently
il will be popular.-Chtcago Tribune Cor
resp0ndence.
Wells are now made OF bits OF white
tulle trimmed with narrow Valenciennes
or Mechlin edging. They are bad for the
eyes, seldom becoming save to the fresh
est of faces and rarely live through half
a dozen wearings. Therefore they can
hardly be considered profitable.
Two confiding old ladies of Baltimore
boarded stingy old curmudgeon Of
means for twenty-seven long years, never
presenting him with bill, but relying
upon his assurance that he would remem-
ber them in his will. The old man died
lately, forgetting all about the matter,
and now his former landladies have en-
tered suit against the administrator of
the estate for the amount of their board
bill.
In Aldernach, on the Rhine, practi-
cal, if homely and unscientitic, method
of cleansing the pipes which supply that
picturesque town with water baS lately
been adopted. An army of water scav-
engers, in the shape of GELS, is collected
in the reservoirs and driven through the
pipes. 1t is reported that the eels come
to sight again in the most edifying foul
condition, bringing with them all the i'm
pulities which had collected in the pipes.
SOME HOUSEHOLD WoRDs.-Stop your
noise! Shut up this minute! I'll box
your ears! Hold your tonguel Let me
be! Get out! Behave yourself! |
WON'T You shalt Never mind You'll
catch it. | don't carei Put away those
thingsl You'll kill yourself, Mind your
own business! I'll tell ma! You mean
thing. There, told you so. will have
it! Oh, look what you have done!
Twas you! Won't you catch it, though
It's my house! Who's afraid of yous
Go out of this room directly! Do you
hear me: Dear mel / never did see
such thing in all my born days!
THE attention of many chemists and
physicians of late has been called to The
action of prussic (hydrocyanicl acid. 1t
has been asserted that the person who
died from the action of this powerful
poison did so from paralysis OF important
nerves that control the action of the
heart. 1t was also asserfed that atropine
was an antidote for the poison Careful
experiments lately made show that these
conclusions are probably incorrect. The
animals experimental upon after large
dose could not he affected by the admin
istration of atropine but became asphyx
lated. The heart continued 10 beat for
twenty minutes after the animal was
seemingly dead; when moderate doses
were given, though they were large
enough to destroy life, yet they did not
seem to have utterly paralyzed the
motor nerves. This was shown by the
fact that if artificial respiration was en-
p,oyed until the lungs began to recover
Their power the animal always recovered
Dealh by hydrocyanic acid seems 10 be
rather from asphyxia than by action