The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-05-23
1t is when dry goods clerk of nine

IL Is Wnen dry goods clerk or nlne-
ty-seven pounds weight attempts to
help from farm wagon farmers wife
of 20S pound weight, that the reporter
seats himself contentedly on the curb
stone and waits for the catastrophe.
An Aberdeen man was telling his
symptoms-which appeared to himself
of course dreadful-t0 Scotch medical
friend, who, at each new item of disor-
der, exclaimed, Charming! Delightful,
Pray go on" And when he had finish
ed the doctor said, with the utmost plea
sure, ''do you know, my dear sir, you
have got complaint which has been
for some time supposed to be extinct?
am 80 glad"
1t is surprising what mere training
will do in developing talent in children.
There are those who have no aptitude
for music, but persistent cultivation of
the voice and ear does very often make
paSSable musicians of those who SEEM
ingly had no talent in that direction.
The same is true of drawing and paint
drawing because he has no liking for
the task. Of course, if one loves music,
or mathematics, or geography, he will
make easy and rapid progress in these
studies; but the fact that he does not
like them constitutes no reason why he
should not become more or less promi-
nent i'll them.
1t seems to be the ambition of ali
young wives to look well when any one
calls. Yesterday. says the Oil City
Derrick, a South Side bride heard a ring
at the front door. The maid was out,
and she rushed up stairs to fix up"
little before admitting the caller. There
was a moment of lightning work before
the dressing-case. Quicker than it
takes us to tell it, a ribbon was fastened
at her throat, flower stabbed into her
hair, flash of powder on her face, and
she was at the door, all smiles and
bushes. The gentleman said he had
walked from Memphis, and couldn' re-
member that he had tasted food since
he left Cincinnati.
If good English hay be taken as the
standard of comparison, then to yield
the same amount of nouriShment as 10
pounds of hay, would require, of clover
hay, s to 10 pounds; green clover, As to
50poundS: wheat straw, 40 to 90 pounds;
barley straw, 20to 40pounds; pea straw,
10 to Is pounds; potatoes, 20 pounds;
carrots, 25 to 40 pounds; mangel-wurzel,
50 pounds; turnips, so pounds; cabbage,
20 to 80 pounds; peas and beans, to 5
pounds; wheat, 10 6 pounds; barley, 5
to E pounds; oats, 4 to pounds; Indian
corn, 4 to 5 pounds, and oilcake, 2 to 4
pounds. OF course these are approxi-
mate results, which various conditions
control to a greater or less extent.
There is only one way at present
known to test the butter quality of milk,
and this is the making Of butter from,
known quantity of milk. 1t may be sat
Isfactory to claim forty percen of cream
fromsmilll, but is it useful? The uuan-
hty OF cream given quantity of milk
Will yield is of Importance to the sellerof
cream. 1t does not indicate the butter
yield Of cow. Per cent of cream and
per cent of butter are two entirely diff
ferent matters when used to express the
richness of a cows milk A quart of
milk which throws up four per cent of
cream, may make more butter than a
quart of milk which throws up ten per
cent of cream.
The other night at Oshkosh, Wis.
three fellows laid plan to clean out a
fourth at poker. The victim was dealt
four aces, to induce him to bet, but was
given, six cards, so as to make a mis-
deal. But ''greeny" backed his four for
all he was worth and won; and his op-
ponent charged him with having an
other card secreted about his person.
a search revealed nothing. and he de-
parted with his winnings. Itwas after
ward found out that he had slipped the
extra card into a sandwich which he
was eating While the play was going on.
and had actually eaten up the paste
board!
Among the various methods of pre-
serving the ends of telegraph poles,
fence posts, and other wooden objects
inserted in the ground, are charring
and coating with coal or other forms of
tar; but it is said that while neither
mode of treatment alone is sufficient,
the two combined answer every pur-
pose, the tar filling up the pores Of the
charred surface, which in itself is inde-
structible, and prevents the absorption
of moisture from the ground into the
interior unaltered portion of the wood.
in time the tar is converted into kind
ofresin which is very durable.
The Roman Catholic view Of hell is
stated by an Albany, New York, priest
to be as follows: Every Catholic
must believe three things concerning
he'll as Of divine faith: First, that there
is hell where torments await the wick
ed. Second, that the souls of the wick
ed descend to these torments immedi-
ately after death. Third. that these tor
ments are eternal, unending." Whether
or not he'll IS q place of fire, and if so,
where located, has never been determin-
ed by the church, and latitude of opin-
ion is admissible.
In the brentwood of Culloden, Scot
land, there is a remarkable tree About
forty years ago large tree of the forest
was blown down in a storm and fell
across a deep gully, which it completely
spanned, and the top branches took root
On the opposite side. From the parent
stem no less than fifteen trees grew up
perpendicularly, all in row; and there
they still flourish in all their splendor,
while the parent stem eyinces no token
of decay. Several of the trees are not
less than thirty feet high. The tree is