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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20
Why Lace Is Costly.

The finest specimen of Brussels lace
is SO complicated as to require the Ia
Dor OF seven persons on one piece, and
each operative is employed at distinct
features of the work The thread used
is of exquisite fineness, which is spun
in dark underground rooms, where it is
sufficiently moist to keep the thread
from separating. 1t is SO delicate as
scarcely TO be seen, and the room is so
arranged that all the light admitted
shall tall upon the work. 1t is such
material that renders the genuine Brus-
sells ground SO costly. On piece of
Valenciennes not two inches wide,
from two to three hundred bobbins are
sometimes used; and for IA larger width
as many as eight hundred on the same
pillow,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20
Turpentine Production.

The pine forests of Georgia, says the
Atlanta Constitution, must be relied on
to produce the bulk of the turpentine
crop for the next twenty years. Before
1910 the most of the turpentine in use
was produced from the south of France,
and from some of the Northern States.
The supply having fallen short of the
demand, the forests of North and South
Carolina were then drawn on, and are
now about exhausted. The attention
of turpentine men has, therefore, been
turned toward the vast forests of south
west Georgia as the point from which
to draw the supply of the future. The
production Of turpentine from that sec
ton has, we learn, doubled several
times in the past few years, and is get
ting to be very important industry.
Good turpentine lands are being sold
there at fifty cents to 81 an acre, or
rented at s. per 900 trees. At these
rates it is hard to find more lucrative
business. The consequence is that the
turpentine business is rapidly becoming
enormous, and is destined to grow to
still greater proportions. Many Carroll
ma turpentine men are deserving their
old boxes and coming to Georgia,
where they can get plenty of unlocked
trees at mere nominal cost. The
quality of the rosin they get from the
new trees is much better than that
which comes from the old, and the
Georgia trees yield much larger guam
tity.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20
Vanity Punished.

An anecdote Of the Gar of Russia,
when he was boy, shows under what
strict discipline he was kept by Nicho-
fas, his father:
When the present Gar of Russia was
fourteen years old, he was an officer III
the guard, and on one occasion, III 60
ing through the palace, he passed hall
81 which were several persons of high
military rank, who saluted the young
prince as he passed. This mark of re-
gpect greatly pleased the young man,
and he passed and repassed the hall
several times i'll the hope of again re-
ceiving it: but the Generals took no
more notice of him. Annoyed at this,
Alexander went to complain to Nich0-
las, who, instead OF consoling him, Sc
verely reprimanded him for his vanity,
and at once deprived him of the rank
he held until he should prove himself
capable of enduring it honorably.
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% -
The Oldest Meat in the World,

An account III Russian paper of re-
cent explorations III Siberia relates that
one of the travellers, while proceeding
along an estuary of the river Lena,
found pack of wolves devowing the
frozen flesh of a mammoth which had
been exposed by the breaking away of
a cliff, and was apparently in perfect
state of preservation. This is probably
the oldest preserved meat in the world,
compared with which the most ancient
Egyptian mummy IS a recent pOttage.
More mammoths are doubtless buried
in the same locality, and we may YET
live to see the commands of Paris in
dulging their taste for curious dishes
upon ttIet de mammoth, fresh from ST.
IBERIA, after a few score thousand years
of storage in Natures ice cellars.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20
SEA.SQUIRTS.

The fame of the sea-squirts is by no
means of modern date. Aristotle gives
us succinct description of them in his
! History of Animals, under the designa-
ton "Tethea;" and by the same name
Pliny had made the sea-squirts of classic
reputation, since we learn from this latter
author that they were included as articles
| of Importance IN the pharmacopoeia of
the Romans. In their commonest phases
| the sea-squirts appear as little leathery
bags of clear aspect, through the some
what transparent wall of which the in
ternal organs Can be discerned. The
| wlne-skln, as every one knows, was made
of the stomach of some animal. or of the
skin so arranged as to present two oriti-
ces or necks. Thus when we look at a
common sea-squirt We see yertible little
''leather-bottle," meausuring from half
an inch to an inch or more in length,
attached by one extremity to the rock at
low-water mark, or to the shell we have
dredged, and bearing on its upper sur
face two prominent openings, each sup
ported Oh a short neck. The origin of
the common name of ''sea-squirt' is by
no means hard to trace. The incautious
observer who picks up sea-squirt which
has through unpropituous fate been cast
up on the beach after q storm, after q
short survey of the sac-like body, may
possibly be tempted to squeeze it as a
preliminary to further investigation.
On being thus irritated, the animal will
most likely retaliate by forcibly eiecting
Jets of water from the two orifices of the
''bottel,' this procedure possibly result
ing in the REIMBURSEMENT of the sea-
squirt as altogether an unlikely and IN
favorable object for further study.
1t is highly interesting to note the
manner in which the sea-squirt obtains
its food. The nutritive wherewithal
consists of sedimentary matters, such as
minute animals and plants, these sub
stances being drawn into the breathing
sac along with the currents of water
which are continually being taken into
the body. The nutritive sediment is
collected together by certain folds of the
lining membrane of the breathing cham
Der, and is thus transferred to to the
mouth opening below The breathing
chambers of the sea-squirts, it may be
noted in passing, frequently afford lodg-
ment to tiny dwellers in the shape of
little pea-crabs. The writer has noticed
these little dodgers to issue forth at night
from the mouth of the sea-squirts, when
the latter have been kept in an aquarium,
in order to pick up particles of food on
the floor of their abode. The crabs re-
treated to their shelter on the slightest
alarm; and this case of companionship
presents one of those curious instances
of animal association which at present
we are wholly unable to explain.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20
Pine Apple Leaves.

at Singapore, in the East Indies,
there is quite thrifty branch of busi-
ness in preparing the fbres of pine ap-
pie leaves for expectation to China,
where they are manufactured into cloth.
The process of extracting and bleaching
the fibres is exceedingly simple. The
first step is to remove the fieshy or sue
culent side of the leaf. A Chinese,
aStride on narrow stool, extends on it
in front of him pine apple leaf, one
end Of which is kept firm, being packed
beneath a small bundle of cloth on
which he sits. He then, with kind of
two-handled plane of bamboo, removes
the succulent matter. Another man re-
ceives the leaves as they are planned, and
with his thumb nail loosens and gath
ers the fbres about the middle of the
leaf, which enables him by one effort to
detach the whole of them from the
outer skin. The fibres are next stepped
in water for some time, after which
they are washed III order to free them
from the matter that still adheres and
binds them together. They are now
laid out to dry and bleach on rude
frames Of split bamboo. The process
of sleeping, washing and exposing to
the sun is repeated for some days until
the fibres are considered to be properly
bleached. Without further preparation
they are sent into town for expectation
to China. Nearly all the islands near
Singapore are more or less planted with
pine apples, which, at rough estimate
cover an extent of two thousand acres
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20
Domestic Recipes.

Ginger Cookies. Stake two cups OF
good molasses syrup will not do and
stir into it a large tablespoonful of sal
eratus; stir the two till they are thor
oughly mixed; add one cup of fried pork
fat, melted with one cup of boiling wa
ter; stir in with the -four a spoonful OF
ginger, and IF you prefer snaps to
cookieS) d little alum, grated fine, will
make them brittle. Do not mix them
hard; use just -four enough.
Washington Cake.-Stir together till
quite white a pound of sugar, three
quarters Of a pound of butter, adding
four beaten eggs. Stir in gradually a
pound and half of flour, three table
spoonsful of baking powder, and one
large cup of milk. Flavor with orange.
Sauce Hollandaise.-To one ounce
of melted butter add half a spoonful of
flour; stir over the fire, and when turn
ing yellow, add half pint of broth and
cook one minute; then add four sprigs
of parsley and four mushrooms, finely
chopped, and a glass of port or cherry
wine Boil ten minutes and serve.
A Good Way to Cook Onions.-It is
good plan TO boil onions. in milk and
water; it diminishes the strong taste Of
that vegetable. 1t is an excellent way
of serving up onions to put them in a
stew pan with a little milk, butter, salt
and pepper, and let them stand about
fifteen minutes. This gives a fine fla
yor, and they can be served up very
hot.
Yankee Cake.-One and one-half cup
of sugar; one egg; bit of butter the size
of an egg; one cup Of sweet milk; one
teaspoonful of soda and two of cream
of-tartar; one pint Of flour; flavor to
taste. Bake in four-quart pan.
A Use for Stale Bread.-Beat two
eggs and add cupful of sweet milk,
mix well, cut the bread in slices and
soak in the milk and egg, fry to light
brown, in two parts lard and one part
butter; when done put on dish and
sprinkle with sugar; or put in deep
dish, put one cupful of raisins and cur
rants, one-half cupful sugar and enough
wine to soak through it all; the first
way makes good lunch dish and the
other way good desert.
Pork Cake.-A pork cake is made az
follows: One pound Of fresh fat pork,
chopped fine, one pint Of boiling water,
one pint mOlasses, two cups of brown
sugar, one pound each of raisins and
currants, half a pound of blanched al
monds, chopped, one ounce of mixed
spices, heaping teaspoonful of soda, one
glass of brandy and flour enough to
make stiff.
Graham Bread.-Put brown unbOltcd
| flour in vessel for rising, make hole
in the center, pour i'll fresh yeast, salt
and dissolve a tablespoonful of lard IN
water, blood-warm only; mix all to-
| gether thinner than white bread; leave
to rise over night and when light pour
into creased pans tWo-thirds full,
Brown bread requires more time to
| bake than white. A little sugar or mo-
lasses may be added for those who pre-
| fer ii SWeetened.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20

DONE BRowN.-It seems incredible
that man born and raised in Annisquam,
Massachusetts, should have been done SO
concededly brown as the particular Caleb
described to the Drawer, as follows, by
a lady:
A well-to-do resident of the village,
Captain W, wished to employ Caleb
to saw some wood, three cords and o
half in all, and promised to pay him 80
fifty cents a day. Caleb owned no saw,
but as the captain had a good one, it was
agreed that Caleb should hireit, and pay
for the use of it at the rate of ninepence
cord. At early dawn the next morning
it was in Juiy-Caleb was at work.
Those were the days of wide replaces,
and each log needed to be sawed but
once. Before night he had finished the
job, and went into Captain VS. house
to settle.
''Let's see," said the captain; "you
were to have fifty cents day; We'll call
it day, though it isn't shutdown yet.
That's fifty cents for You. And you were
to pay me ninepence cord for the use
of the saw: there's forty-three and three
cents due me. I say, Caleb, you don't
seem to have much coming"
Caleb looked dubious. He scratched
his head thoughtfully, but presently
light seemed to break in upon his mind.
"How unfortnit," said he, ''that you did
not have half cord more, for then ace
could a come oahjust square. t'-Har-
per's Magazine.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20
Cut Flowers in Vases.

A correspondent of the Gardeners
Magazine says: st is Il common expe-
rlence that flowers in vases soon perish,
and the subject appears worthy of note
III the interest Of those of your readers
who find 1t difficult to keep their table
and mantel piece flowers in good con-
ditlon. For my everyday enjoyment,
l keep filled a pair Of large vases. l
used to change the water, and also
used to put Jumps of charcoal in it, and
yet my flowers soon fell to pieces. OF
late years, have found it sufficient to
replenlSh once week all the winter,
and twice week all the summer, and
my flowers keep well. On occasions
when have left home, / have found
them still bearable, if not brilliant.
after from fifteen to twenty days; but
in hot summer weather they would not,
of course, last so long. If they last, as
rule, a week. think it sufficient. for.
after all, freshness is everything in re-
Spect to flowers.
linus uucn Dy way Oh preface TO
practical remark to this effect, that the
secret of keeping flowers in good
condition is not to disturb them in anv
way after they are once put up. To
give fresh water, to cut off the stalks.
and the like, is really waste of time: for
although they will look a little better if
carefully touched up and re-arranged,
they soon after fall to pieces. AS to
the use of charcoal, it is quite super
huous. Ii the water sinks too low. as
it will in summer, carefully pour some
in by opening the flowers gently with
the hand. III keeping cut flowers,
therefore, the less that is done to them
the BETTER"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20

ALEXANDER HI. STEPHENS has written
to the Chairman of the Democratic Elk
ecutive Committee of the Eight Con-
gressional District of Georgia, in which
he says he shall neither seek nor decline
nomination at the hands of the conven-
ton soon to meet, but if, he says, "the
convention should repudiate me as on
unfit representative of Democratic prin-
ciples, and shall attempt to rule me out
of the Democratic party because of any
thing connected with my recent public
acts or sentiments, then [ say to YOU and
to them, plainly and distinctly, that I
shall regard their edit as but q bautum
fulmen issued by the irresponsible faction
of tricksters, and the question whether
or they are sound in the faith of the
fathers shall be left for the true Dem
ocracy of the district, to be settled at the
polls. II this shall produce any division
or dissension in the party, then the re-
sponsibility for the consequences must
rest upon those who have so assailed and
so grossly misrepresented me.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20
The Wise Indian

Nova was an Indian chief who lived
n few years ago in the great western
country. lie said "he didn't like
whiskey, because it made the men look
so foolish, and he wouldn't have it for
his braves" The red man was wiser
than many OF our white men, think.
He went on journey, and was quite
amazed at the railway horse" He
said, 1T gave Il snort, and away it went
with all the little houses after" He
liked the white men and wanted to
learn and do all they could do, except
telling lies and drinking whiskey."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20
THE AGIATIONIN GERMANY.
Preparations for the Approaching
EleetfOnS-The Liberal War Cry.

BERLIN, June 1.-THE subject of the
approaching Congress of the Powers in
this city attracts, relatively, less public
attention than the internal crisis, which
is kept prominently in view by the activ
ity of the police and the partisan prepar
atoms for the approaching elections.
The leaders of the National Liberal
party are here for consultation, and to
determine on course of action. They
believe that Bismarck had determined
upon the dissolution of the Reichstag
even before Nobeling's attempt to kill the
Emperor, or that he would at least have
reconvened the Reichstag, and ascertain
ed the disposition of that body. Their
war cry will be like that of the French
Republicans In the contest with the De
Broglie Ministry-the return of the pres
ent Liberal members.
Prince Frederick William, replying to
an address of the municipality of Berlin,
declared that his faith in the loyalty OF
an overwhelming majority of the nation
was mistaken.
The condition of Dr. Modelling is SO
much improved that it is thought likely
he will recover. The recovery of the
Emperor is progressing wonderfully.
To-day he celebrates the forty ninth an-
niversary Of his marriage. Arrests for
reasonable utterances among the classes
infested with socialism continue to be
very frequent. The Federal Council, it
Is expected, will certainly consent to the
dissolution of the Reichstag to-day. The
elections will be appointed for the second
half of July.
A bulletin issued at 1890 A. NJ. says;
"The Emperor continues to improve.
His wounds have all healed. The right
arm is still SWOLLEN, but is less suscept-
ible."
LONDON, June ga letter to a prom
lnent German house in this city gives
summary of what purports to be the
report made by the chief of the secret
police to Prince Bismarck, summing up
the results of all the discoveries that had
been made concerning the Modelling con-
spiracy. The facts as thus related bear
out the statements already made as to
the widespread nature of the plot. The
condition of Modelling has never been so
dangerous as was reported, and he will
live to meet his fate at the hands of the
executioner. The state of the public
feeling, however, begins to show evil
dence of reaction from the fervid 10y
atty that marked everything last week,
and the police either really fear, or pre-
tend to fear, that further trouble is at
hand. Extraordinary precautions are
everywhere taken, the army is carefully
kept in hand, and arrests continue to be
made.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20

1t is often said that if anything ais a
hog, he Will surely die, because nothing
can be given him. Nothing is further
from the fact. Indeed, there is no ami
NAL on the farm TO whom medicine can
be administered with SO much safety
Turn the animal on his back, and he
will invariably open his mouth, and
then is the time to turn in the medicine.
Too much must not be turned in at
once, or the animal may draw it into
his lungs, and expire almost instantly.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20

A stupidlooling countryman halted
before a blacksmith's shop, the proprie
tor of which was forging a shoe, and
eyed the performance with much inter-
est. The brawny smith, dissatisfied
with the mans curiosity, held the red
hot iron suddenly under his nose, hop
ing to make him beat a hasty retreat.
"If you give me siXpence l will lick
it, said the countryman. I'M stop the
braggart's jaw thought the smith, us
he took from his pocket sixpence. and
held it out. The oountryman quickly
grabbed the coin, licked it, and walked
away whistling, Did you ever catch a
weasel asleepY
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20
The excrements of domestic poultry

The eXcrements Of domestic poultry
are the most highly concentrated of any
on the farm, and are computed as be-
ing half the worth of guano. The in
gradients are nearly the same as the
urate, or the dried urine of animals,
since the urine of fowls is voided in
solid form with the other matters eject
ed from the bowels. The value, as a
manure, depends upon the food that is
consumed. If fed on meat, blood and
fish, the dung might be equal to guano
as fertilizer; if on vegetable food, the
manure is less valuable.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20
Come, Happy Night
by r. Z. STILLHAS.

Go down the west unto thy rest,
Oh, sun, with red eye burning!
Sink deep and deep Ia arms OF sleep,
Glad day, with nights returning!
Then upward fly through eastern sky
Oh, moon, with silver simmer!
With golden light thro' shades OF night,
star eyes look out and glimmer.
So softly low, so softly blow,
on. breeze. and lull to sleeping;
Hush, birding. rest within thy nest,
Thy mother watch is keeping.
Come, sleeping scenes, come happy dreams
Oh, love. come in my dreaming!
The deep night-hush will hide thy blush,
Maiden, with eyes cleaning!
Come to my heart-come TO thy heart =
Oh, heart. thou art her keeping!
Love, thou art mine, and | am thine
Dear love, come in my sleeping.
Past, fast away, day after day,
Oh, time, thy steps are fleeing;
But not too fast you bring at last,
DUH time, our fond hearts meeting.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20

Pauperism IN ireland is terribly on
the increase. Out of a population of
100000, nearly 100000 are supported
by public relief, and the number Of
paupers, we are told, is increasing at
the rate of 1880 a month. To support
this vast army of paupers the labor OF
Ireland is taxed 100000. OF this sum
the salaries of work-houSe officials and
the cost of the pauper prisons eat up
nearly $1,000, coo.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20

1t is we'll known that ferment or
yeast is, in a great measure, made up
of a cellular plant, and it would appear
that the germs Of this plant abound in
the atmosphere, and when they find
solution of albumen, tibrin and the like,
grow in it. In so doing they excite
decomposition Of the fibrin, which being
communicated to the sugar, causes it
to ferment.
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He had proposed 10 her, and now
with fear and trembling waited for her
answer. Only one word, he said, IF
but to keep alive the fires of hope with
in my BOSOM She looked at him ten
derby, nay, lovingly, and her lips moved
in accents that went to the depth of his
soul. She had asked him how much he
earned d week.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-20
Attention has been drawn to n Or;

Attention has been drawn to pra.
tice prevalent in some parts of the
country, which appears to illustrate the
power possessed by milk Of absorbing
atmospheric impurities. 1t is that of
placing a saucer or pan of new milk in
a larder, TO preserve meat or game from
faint. 1t is said that not only does it
answer that purpose, but that the milk,
after few hours, becomes SO bad that
no animal will touch it.
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They were sitting together, and he
was arduously thinking Whist to say,
when he finally burst out III this man
ner: "In this land of noble achieve
ments and urdying glory, why is it that
women do not come to the front and
climb the ladder of fame?" Il sup
pose" said she biting her apron strings,
Its on account of their pull-backs."
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\ queer case came before French
court not long ago. A peasant haG
agreed to pay five hundred francs for
cow, and had placed on bench twenty
20-franc coins, and a 100-franc bill,
when the COW made snatch at the lat
ter and swallowed it. The question
arose, who was the rightful loser, and
the Judge decided that the buyer, who
had held the COW by the halter when it
devoured the bill, had not taken proper
PRECAUTIONS and must pay over again.
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A London policeman aged twenty
two. lately reported seven fires within
thirty hours. Such amazing activity
excited suspicion that he had originat-
ed the calamities himself for the in
formant's reward, and this being prov
ed to the satisfaction of a jury he has
gone to penal seryitude for fifteen
wears.
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Outside the meetin' house-Deacon
Norwood Ito Elder Tompkins): Yes,
sir; a man with hope and without no
faith is just like young man in row
boat, who Amt got only one oar, and
rows round and round in a circle and
don't get nowhere" Small boy (at a
safe distance): If he warn't a darned
fool he'd Scull."