The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-09-05

occurring, there Is Il RAPID decline IN
wages, and the works advertised for
sale are found occupying considerable
space in many papers of the kingdom.
Iron World
Such is the rage for wearing natural
flowers for ornaments, that Partisan
bellies insert the stems OF beautiful cut
tings i'll little glass bouquet holders
filled with water, and hide the glass
among the labyrinths OF hair. The in
veutlve genius Of Americans would
suggest rubber as substitute for glass.
After telegraph-pole had fallen on
Savannah negro's head, he threw up his
handsand shouted, Don't hit me again
wild yer club, Mr.. Plicenan. 1t wasn't
me that stole der chickens. 1t was Dea-
con Henry" Then he looked, saw what
hit him, and walked OF, saying, Golly,
Use in luck dis mOrnin'. | 'spectei dat
de pliceman had me shuah dat time"
Notwithstanding the many works
published concerning the volcanoes,
especially of Italy, the cause Of their
activity, and of the phenomena gener-
ally is mere conjecture. 1t is highly
probable that they are intimately con-
nected with the water of the sea, near
which all of the principal volcanoes are
situated.
Irishman who had been sick long
time was one day met by the parish
priest, when the following conversation
took place: Wei, Patrick, | am glad
you have recovered. Were you not
afraid to meet your God?' "Oh, no,
your reverence 1t was meeting the
other party that L was afearn Nv % re-
piled Pat.
One of the School Board Inspectors
asked a small pupil of what the surface
Of the earth consists, ard was promptly
answered, Land and water" lie va
ried the question slightly that the fact
might be impressed on the boys mind,
and asked, "What then do land and
water make ?''-to which came the i'm
mediate response, Mud"
A man Noted for his close-fsted pro-
pensities was showing an old coin to a
neighbOr, when the latter asked,
where did you get it?'' Il dug it out
of my garden was the reply. 1T is a
pity you didn't find it in the cemetery"
said the neighb0r. why so?" asked
the coin owner?" because you could
have saved the hole to be buried in"
Vermont was not admitted into the
COnfederacy during the Revolution on
account of conflicting claims upon it,
but itperformed its part in that struggle
nevertheless. Both New Hampshire
and New y ork had claims on the ter
ritOry, which were not settled until
1890, when New Y ork was paid $50 900.
Vermont was admitted into the Union
in 1871.
4 cow that costs $50 may only pay fol
her feed and care, while one that costs
$40 or $50 may give profit Of $25 UO
$50 year. The Short-sighted man, in
trying to economiZe, will buy the one
that costs the least money, but his more
intelligent neighbOr gives the higher
price and realizes the more profit. The
same principle holds good in regard to
all kinds of improved stock.
The total exports of agricultural pro-
duce from the United States, for the
year 1876, amounted to $40 1863, 40. OF
this immense sum grain and flour ag-
gregated $l32, 10 and meats of al
kinds $50, 156,233 Cotton amounted 10
$lS7 So, 425. This is certainly an en-
cOuraging exhibit, and the indications
are that the demand for all agricultural
products now sent abroad will increase.
A correspondent writes to the british
Medical Journal as follows: The best
remedy for bugs iii hospitals is a bug
trap made by boring series of holes in
q piece Of weed with a gimlet, and
placing this under the mattress of each
cot. The piece Of wood is to be placed
periodically into basin of boiling
water. This is an Indian hospital
plan" And may be good one to prac-
tice in families.
Three and half pounds of milk art
equal to one pound of meat and only
estimate a cow to give 1900 pounds OF
milk in a year, this would make the
cows product i'll milk equal in food
value to 1000 pounds of meat, and this
1000 pounds of meat would require g
steer, under ordinary feeding, foul
duces as much return fl I'm her food il
ore year as steer in four.
1t has often been attempted to mea.
sure the speed of the electric current.
The return Of the current, iii an expert
ment, to the very place whence il
started, having been to Persia and back,
a distance Of 1850 miles, was instantane-
Qua. Electricians have endeavored to
give Il measure TO the speed OF the cleo
tric current 8rid the best thing that they
have been able to do is to say that. ii
.euSt. it travels at the rate Of 2O0>009
mills q SecOni.
When the transatlantic eahle was
laid, not only Were the depths of the sea
taken, but specimen, of the oceans bed
in ditfere"t places, which were found to
be uLconsolidated chalk; that is, eighty
five per cent. was shells, or chalk mate
rial, and the chalk beds now worked
were formed just rs similar beds are
formed to-dayin the depths of the north
Atlantic. These chalk beds We're formed
by the skeletons Of microscopic animals
e5 minute us the finest dust.
Everybody that travels has expert.
enccd the annoyance. of having his eurs
deafened on board a steamboat by the
roar of escaping steam. Sometimes ac-
cidents have occurred during the racket
Of " blowing OF " simply because tie
captain cannot make his orders heard,
and everything has to be done in dumb
show Willie the disturbance lasts. Hap
pilv an invention al1la1 fha c,,i,-,l ~,