The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-05-23
MISCELLANEOUS.
American palace cars are now to be
found the world over.

! American palace ears are now to be
found the world over.
There is nothing "goes against the
grain more than millstones.
The Davenport glucose works Use
FIVE hundred bushels of corn day.
The present cost of living in Paris is
said to be twice what it used TO be.
England raises food enough to feed
but thirty-two per cent of her popula-
ton.
England gets along with killing one
passenger in every ,256, 000 OH her rail-
roads.
"Oh! Edith, won't you kiss DR.. Nc
Cluskie?'' "I'm so shy, manual You
kiss him first
/ The prefecture of police, Paris, gives
employment in all departments to 80,
0I0 persons.
/ 1t is fact that Maryland realizes
more from her oyster crop than from
! her grain crop.
-Four million dead letters were re-
ceiyed at the General Postoflice, Wash
ington. last year.
There are ships afoat in Europe the
hulls of which are entirely built of Hon
duras mahogany.
"Sambo, why am de dogs de most in
telligent folks in de worldl'' Because
dey nose eberything."
Times are so flush in San Antonio
that Saloonkeeper has TO hire a brass
band TO blow up customers for free
/ lunch.
1t is stated by California papers that
the cost of working the Comstock mines
aggregates, per annum, over So, 800 eco.
Yet it pays
| What will temperance reformers say
to the statement that Germany has dis
covered way to make brandy out of
wood shavings?
| Nothing recalls to the mind of mar
ried man the joys of his single life so
wildly rs to find that the baby has been
eating crackers in bed.
| A pair of splendid Clydesdale mares
aged eight and ten years respectively,
recently sold in London at the high
price Of $1,000 for the pair
WHO is your warmest frieni?" asked
the teacher. my mother" yelled one
Of the boys. "Your mother?n Eyes,
she warns me every day!n
The best cure for "a cold in the head is
to blow it out. If there are no handker-
| chiefs IN the house, pistol or shot
gun will answer the purpose.
The Chinese are aGulterating their
tea which is packed for expectation.
| They have always done SO, but are over
doing it just now, we are told
| When the Constitution was adopted,
there were seventy five poStoilices in
the United States; now there are over
Al 900, and increasing monthly.
'Digby, viii You take some of this
! butter!' Thank you, ma am, belong
to the temperance society-can't take
anything strong" replied Digby.
The ground upon which the city of
Cincinnati stands, was purchased by
Mr.. J. c. Symmes, about ninety years
ago, for siXty-seyen cents per acre,
a boy of Is and girl of were mar
ried, with the approval Of their parents,
in Kentucky. Then they were sent off
to separate schools for three years
Ninety nine men out of a hundred
would rather face a mother-in- law in
the hall at 2 O'Clock A. NJ. than climb
into dentists chair for five minutes.
No less than 2,5s9, 1921 ,s20 grains of
opium are brought into this country
annually. There are supposed to be
over 200, 900 opium eaters i'll the United
! States.
"Iou are writing my bill on very
| rough paper" said client to his attor-
ney." 'Never mind,' said the lawyer:
| cit has to be filed before it comes into
| court"
Where there is too much heat without
a proper exposure to light, the plants
| will spindle up, making feeble, sickly
| growth, and if any, the flowers will be
weak and pale.
| The fossil tioras Of France, England,
| Germany and Scandinavia exhibit ferns
nearly fifty feet high, and with branch
es three feet in diameter, or nine feet III
circumference.
Experiment proves that a dog dies if
fed on white bread alone, while its
health does not suffer at all if its feed
| consists of brown bread, or bread made
of unbolted flour.
Germany now claims to have invent
ed the telephone. Gives Philip Refs as
| the inventors name, and the govern
ment has hunted up his instrument and
put it in a museum.
at is not right to spoil a golden we'd
ding" was the ground on which Mis-
| souri, judge recently refused divorce,
in case where the parties had lived
together forty nine years.
Enigrants from England to the South
Sea Islands are murdered and eaten by
the natives. The natives Of the New
Hebridas group have always been adj
dicted to roasting white men.
In hot countries and dry seasons the
Quantity of milk yielded is less, but the
quality is richer. Cold favorS the pro-
duction Of cheese, while hot weather
augments the amount of butter.
An Eastern editor throws up the
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