The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

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coal to form cubic foot of water at 81
| degrees into steam at23O degrees. The
same can be performed by the use of
| 20 pounds dry pine wood, or L pounds
/ dry oak wood, or 81 pounds of peat, or
6 pounds of olive oil, or 8 pounds of
coke.
I According to recent estimates wine
I is annually consumed as follows. per
| head: Spain, $50 htr5s; France, lis;
Italy. 109: Portugal, JOS; Greece, 81;
| Austria, s.; Switzerland, %; Great Bri-
tain, S; Russia, 4; Prussia, 4; Sweden.
.; Norway, Il. The litre is a little less
| than quart.
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Notwithstanding on his arm, with
her head almost touching his shoulder,
she said: Mr.. b., l know what makes
| you catch cold SO easily" What is
| it, -" Because SO much of your
body is on the ground,a Mr.. Il. at
| once returned TO his clearinghouse,
and ordered new shoes.
Leadcol0red paint is composed of
white lead ground in oil seyenty-Gve
parts, lampblack one part, boiled lin
seed oil twentythree parts, litharge
one-half part, Japan varnish one-half
part, and spirits turpentine two and
one-half parts. The turpentine and
varnish are added as the paint is re-
| CURED for use or transportation.
The magnificent new buildings at
Keble College, Oxford, may be said to
| have come out of the manure heap.
| They were the gift Of two members of
a family named Gibbs, who had for
many years the contract with the PERU
Wan Government for guanO, and made
out of it fortune, which now helps to
commemorate the author of The
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The simultaneous experiments of NJ.
Cailletet and N. Pictel, III liquefying
oxygen gas, adds another instance TO
the curious list of important scientific
discoveries made at the same or nearly
the same time, by persons who had no
knowledge of each others researches.
/ Each sent an account of his discovery
to the French Academy, and both COM
munications were read on Dec. "a.
Zinc was first discovered in 1880, by
no less parsonage than TheOphrastus
| AureOlus BOmbaStes ParacelSus, the
wild, fantastic hero of Brown!ng's cele-
brated dramatic poem. 1t will, per-
Laps, be new 10 most people to lie III
formed that the very word ''bombast''
took its original meaning in the great
and swelling words of vanity" uttered
by this singular genius.
Miss Nellie-'Yes, the letter is all
right, Bridget; but don't wait any
longer. If you go down the road you
are sure to meet mamma, and then you
tell her yourself what your mother
says" Bridget-.Sh ure, an that true
for ye, Miss Nellie; but what shall tell
her if | don't meet herr"
General Wolfe happening to oYerhear
a young officer talk of him in very
familiar manner, as ''WoIfe and drank
q bottle of wine together" and so on,
appeared and said: Il think you might
say General Wolfe" No" replied
the subaltern, with a happy presence
of mind, did you ever hear of General
Achilles, or General Julius Cesar?"
According TO DR.. FleiSchmann, the
access 10 milk of dust from the chaff
Of smutty grain caused it to turn sour.
In milk thus spoiled, he has discovered
fungoid spores, and therefore recon-
mends that food IN this condition be
steamed or boiled, or allowed to fer
ment, SO as to insure the destruction
of the frIgus.
White paint for outside work should
be made up in the proportion of 80partS
white lead ground in oil, AZ parts Of
boiled oil and parts spirits turpen-
tine. For outside work the proportion
should be changed to S0parts white lead
ground in oil, parts boiled oil, 9parts
raw oil and parts spirits turpentine.
In a case tried ut the Old BaileJ,
London, late eminent Judge deter
mined that the test of criminalty,
where II man is killed in wrestling.
should be whether the struggle took
place in anger. But Mr. Justice Lopes.
in recent case at Liverpool, held that
to cause the death of another even in a
perfectly amicable wrestling match is
manSlaughter.
Il teacher in Bangor, Me-, upbraided
a little girl because she did not hold up
her hand with the rest Of the delin-
quents when, at the close of the day,
all those who had lost their places in
their classes were called upon TO do so
But she, with ready wit, responped:
please, mum, didn't lose my place.
an how could when Pm at the foot:'
Spent I've, from soap manufactures,
is valuable for mingling with muck to
make good compost for application
to land. 1t neutralizes the acid of the
muck, renders it more soluble and adds
valuable heterogeneous substances TO it.
A large amount of this spent I've is
wasted about the soap manufactures,
Which ought to be saved and used for
muck cOmpoSts.