The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-29
MIST tE:.EANE0GS.

: On every lSfln III AlleIlctt, NLcie
even ten head of cattle are kept, it
I would prove n good investment to pro-
vide water in the yard both for Winter
and Summer use. Do not fail TO ar
range an aqueduct, pump, cistern, or
| some means of meeting this want.
A far-sighted miss of seventeen sum-
| mers has concluded 10 marry a big
man for her first husband, and Il little
/ one for her second, so that she can cut
/ the clothes of the first down, and make
/ them over to fit his successor. Thus
( the hard times force home lessons OF
/ rigid economy and practical sense up
! on tender girlhood.
/ When man casually sits down on Il
/ lOwly humble bees nest, reason urges
| him to sit there till he has sQuashed
| the animation out of the vindictiye oc-
| cupant, but instinct warns him to keep
/ an important engagement elsewhere.
This is one of those engagements when
| instinct invariably gets the better of
| reason.
Good authority asserts that one
| pound of leans will support life in ac-
| ton as long as four pounds of rice.
Two pounds of beans will help to do
more muscular work than three pounds
| of wheat. The reason why beans re-
quire stronger powers Of digestion than
wheat is that they contain casein in
cad of gluten.
The railway bridge across the river
Douro, near OpGrto, Portugal, is ,l50
feet i'll length, with one arch go feet
wide, and height from low-water crown
! l9S feet, being 80 feet higher than the
Falls of Niagara. This bridge was
made in Paris and shipped to Portugal
in separate parts, and was finished in
little over two years.
The flesh OF the domestic fowl is one
OF the most wholesome and nutritious
substances. The flesh Of fatten2d
fowls contains 70 per cent water, 20 of
| albumen, and Z of gelatin. With 81
parts OF nutritive matters, it is the
most nutritious of all animal foods,
next to mutton, exceeding beef as 27 TO
26, pork as 27 to 2i, while inferior to
mutton as q to %.
Same interesting experiments have
recently been made in Germany with
The con mon nettle, which bids fair to
make tat modest weed an article of
considerable Importance. They con-
sisted in working 1t i'll the same man
ner as hemp, and the fibres obtained
were as fine us silk, while they yielded
nothing to hemp iibres as regards dura-
b lily. A considerable area has now
boon planted with nettles in that To-
cas,.y
English authority claim that iig-trees
and cedars are rarely struck by light
ming: the beech, larch, fir and chestnut
are obnoxious to it: but the trees which
attract it most are the oak, yew and
Lombardy poplar; hence it follows that
the last named are the trees most prop
er 10 be placed neawa building, since
they viii act as 50 many lightning con-
ductOrs to it. Again, the electric fluid
attacks in preference such trees as are
verging to decay by reason of age or
disease,
The OK is mentioned in Egypt $50
Years before the notice Of the horse,
being presented to Abraham by Pha-
roah, tie king of that country. The
records of profane history confirm the
account of the early domesticatiOn of
the OK, for it was venerated by the
Indians and worshipped by the Egyp-
tians. The Celtic or northern nations
enrol the COW among the earliest pro-
| ductioNs, and represent it as kind Of
divinity.
In Scotland the greater part of the
| cereals are sOwn broadcast. In Eng
| land. on the other hand. they are fire.
quently sown by drilling machines; in
deed, in the eastern counties they are
almost all sown by machinery. EXpe-
rience has hitherto seemed to show
that the benefits of drilling are more
marked inpoor soils than rich, on light
rather than heavy land, in dry climates
| than in moist. Drilling is less adyan-
/ tageous in the case of late-sOwn crops,
which grow up more rapidly and keep
| down the weeds.
Cattle are much used for dTaught by
| the Dutch farmers Of South Africa.
Besides the continual transport of pro-
duce ,ong distances to market, an in
stance of the great demand for car
riage is afforded in the fact that at the
quarterly religious gathering OF the
| Dutch at Graham's Town from 800 to
400 wagons are usually present. each
bringing it's freight of seven or eight
persons, mostly from long dis ances.
A colonial wagon and span of oxen
costs from $3.50 TO 81 200.