The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

a law IN lrglnla mas Hldue 1t ms
demeanor for one person to pay the
polltax for another in order that he NAV
vote.
There need be noidlers in the United
States; 400, 900 will not crowd this
territory as much as 100000 dc
France or England.
The best time to cut Hungarian grass
is when in blossom. before the seeds
are formed; then it makes good feed
for horses and COWS.
Three dinner dresses, two morning
costumes, two walking costumes, and
possibly ball dress, are essential for
three days visit in an English country
house.
Well-fattened swine's flesh is about
thirty-eight per cent water, ten per cent
lean mean meat, fifty per cent fat and
one and one-half per cent salines, leav-
ing slight waste.
When you hear country church
choir singing, 'There'll be no More
Sorrow There" you conclude at once
that either the aforesaid choir will not
be there, or they will not be permitted
to sing.
HAYES is tougher than the old darkey
who was struck by lightning. and who
merely shook himself and said: "Dat
makes three times Use been hit, and now
| shouldn't wonder if it huff me alone"
According to the pastoral addresses
of successive Protestant Episcopal Con-
ventions, gaming" horse RACING"
"public balls and theatres have
been declared by that church to be OBJ
jectionable, and have been forbidden to
communicates.
Milk is an article of diet most neces-
sary for the young, and of value for all.
Ii portion of the enormous sum now
annually wasted in alcoholic drinks
were spent in the purchase of pure milk,
1t would greatly improve the health
and stamina of our people.
The man who lets his sheep wander
at out the pastures without seeing that
they are all alive and well at least once
in every two days is pretty sure to pay
heavily for his shiftlessness. A better
way is to get them up every night, es-
pecially if they are dropping their
lambs.
There are twenty-eight saw-mills
within radius Of six miles in Muske-
gon, Michigan, which, during 1877, cut
about 375,OO0,O00 feet of lnmber. The
cut for 1873 will he about los, OOO, 900 feet
less,
BROWN tried to quarrel with his moth
er-in-law the other evening. He mar
ried the eldest of seven girls. Said she,
Brown, my boy, I'm not gong to
ruin my reputation by quarreling with
you. Wait till all the girls are married.
At present, as mother-in-law, I'm only
an amateur"
To remove freckles, let young ladies
battle the face with Cologne water after
tea, and about 10 p. m. brush both cheeks,
the forehead and chin with a carefully
selected mustache. If this does not re-
move the freckles it will, ander ordinary
| circumstances, cause them to be for
gotten.
SN1PKINs refuses to get his wife new
hat, and soon after his little girl came in
and said: Mamma, won't you buy me
monkey to play with when you go down
town." ''No my darling. wait till you
are older, and then marry one as L did"
replied the grief-stricken wife, with her
tears bursting forth afresh.
THE king of Dahomey has got hold OF
national Idea, and thinks it is a
great discovery. He owes England three
hundred puncheons of oil, and he pro-
poses to pay her with three hundred
pieces of paper, each marked "This is
puncheon of OIL" All that is needed on
the part of England is confidence. If
she will only believe that paper to be oil
she will be just as well satisfied.
A DANBURY man recently went to see
friend in an insane retreat. He stood
moment before a fine looking man he
had seen before at the institution, and
inquired his name. Julius Cesar, sir"
said the lunatie. "Why you were Alex
ander when l was here before, were you
nota' ooh. why, yes, but that was by a
former wife," said the crazy man, not at
all disconnected.
PERHAPS the meanest thing, speaking
artistically, is the way they run the gum
department at Vassar college. Gum,
for reasons best known to the faculty, is
left off the catalogue, and so the girls
have to chew it all over the twenty-four
hours. In the history class, for instance.
just as the girls all get the gum soft on
the molars, along comes the question,
''what year was America discovered"
And then comes the distressing answer
from the whole class, "Ajum, whaium,
oigh, ech, wah." This is gum for 1892.
Cut Flowers in Vases.