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

! Young girl, before you elope, be sure
your mother knows your route.
General Grant, while abroad, maintains
q constant correspondence with General
Sherman.
\ New York auctioneer sold lately
1896, 900 of the state of Georgia war
bonds for S11S.4 40
The cost of killing Indians at Govern
ment expense is Sl1, 47S.25 and thirteen
white soldiers apiece.
The monument TO Stephen \. Douglas
is nearly completed, and viii be placed
upon his grave within the next SIX weeks.
The annual consumption of sugar in
this country IS about 900 900, 0O0pounds
the revenue from which amounts to sl6,.
900, 5000 annually.
A Macon Ga man has invented a
thfee-toothed saw that turns ont the lum-
Der perfectly planed and ready for the
carpenter and painter.
Dan Augustin Edwards, q Yankee who
has just died in Chill, left fortune of
$4,000, 900. He had monopoly of the
copper mines of the country.
Lands in Mclean county, Pennsylvania
which few years ago sold for s. per
acre, are now commanding ready sale at
S125 per acre. Oil has done this.
The value of the fruit crop in theUnited
States is estimated by the Government
statistician at $4,000, 600 annually.
or about one half the value of the wheat
crop.
A sailing car is used for pleasure on
the Kansas Pacific Railroad. 1t is sloop-
rugged, has four wheels, and will run
forty miles an hour when The wind is fla.
vorable.
Horace Greeley once defined a good
newspaper as follows: 1T is outspoken
and hOnest-not just what you wish,
but yet paper you cannot do well with
out"
In France ninety-five per cent of the
murders are committed for money; in
Spain ninety eight CT every hundred
murders are inspired by motives Of jeal-
ousy on love.
When New Hampshire miser found
that his time had arrived, he ordered a
800 gold plate for his coffin, and made
contracts for S. 1000 funeral. The law
yers of the neighborhood are aghast.
In one of the mean, narrow streets of
Paris, excavations have been made for
widening, and there have been found
skeletons and other signs which show
that here ran the old Roman military
road.
"What' S the meaning of backbiter 2"
asked gentleman at a Sunday school
examination. This was a puzzler. 1t
went down the class until it came to a
simple urchin, who said perhaps it is
a flea
At least three-fourths Of the rice that
forms the export trade of the world is
exported from British India. Bengal
rice finds its Way wherever coolies emil
CRATE, and no other rice seems able to
compete with it in the markets of Eu-
rope.
Iron is quoted at its lowest figure In
the American market. Since January,
'73, the decline in prices has been as fol-
lows: On pig iron, 50 per cent. on refin-
ed bar, SO per cent; on Bessemer steel
rails, go per cent.
Engraving on glass is now done with
the aid of electricity. The glass is first
covered with concentrated solution OF
potassium nitrate, and the design is trac-
ed with fine platinum point connected
with one pole of battery.
A gentleman from Glenmore says that
his town will beat any town in Brown
county for heavy women, especially four.
They are as follows: Mrs. Lawrence
Heber, weight $50; d. J. L. Murphy's
daughter, 325; Mrs J. Moran, $50. Total
weight, 1000 pounds.
a young woman from the rural dis
tricts entered dry goods store the
other day, and asked for pair of stock
ings. The clerk politely asked her
what number size wore. "NVhy, two,
you fool. Doyou think | am cent?
pede, or that have a wooden leg?"
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ably as when at maturity, having plenty
of heart wood. The timber is seldom
of much value until the tree is 100 years
old. The ash, on the contrary, can be
profitably cut at forty years of age;
elms should not be cut until eighty or
one hundred years old.
The average production of beet root
Is twelve tons per acre, yielding a frac-
ton over one ton of sugar. In Ger
many the average proportion extracted
is 8. Per cent. In the United States.
except California, about 5 per cent. is
the highest amount extracted in the
factory.
\ scotch minister, meeting one Of his
parishioners, asked her if she was
| pleased with the sermon that he had
preached the previous day. On recGiv-
ing a reply in the affirmative, he in
quired if she understood it all. "Eh,
| mon" exclaimed the lady, would hae
the presoomtion?
In the course of his researches into
the habits of insects, it was found by
Lubbock that an ant, which has a large
number of Larvae to carry from one
place to another, goes and fetches sew
eral other ants to help in the work,
while, if there are only small number
of Larvae but few helpers are called.
Pity is the sense of our own mISfor-
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