The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-10-17
SCRAPS.


some than fresh, except in the case OF
bacon and ham.
The chief sources Of tobacco in
Europe are Germany, Holland, Saloni-
ca, Hungary and Russia.
An industrial Christian mission is TO
be established just above the first ra-
pids on the Livingstone River in At
RIGA.
A San Francisco clergyman adver
tised a sermon entitled The Boss
Devil of America" meaning intemper-
ance.
Charitable lady: "Poor man! if IL
were. possible to procure work, what
situation would suit you best?" Tramp:
Ladies companion, num-"
The word NAVY is derived from nav
gator, an epithet applied to the labor
ers who made the canals for inland
navigation in Lincolnshire.
Janus Crossett, of Waterbury, Vt,
made in twenty-three hours, with an
evaporation, $50 pounds of maple syrup.
Or about sixty-eight gallons.
The authorities of Porto Rico have
issued an order prohibiting the intro
duction of potatoes from Holland, Ger
many and all parts of America.
/ c. p. Mattocks, of Portland, has
bronze turkeys, one year old, that weigh
thirty-eight pounds. Portland is not
very good place for raising in either.
A girl working at the Georgia House,
at Deshler, Ohio, ate fifty raw eggs in
fifty minutes, a few days ago, for
wager of calico dress and the payment
OF the eggs.
A well-known English naturalist says
that it is one of t he old vulgar errors to
suppose that kin taken from a live
animal is more glossy than that taken
! from dead one.
When person becomes sick in Afri-
ca it is believed that he or she is be-
witched, and some one has to be killed
for doing it! Ignorance and supersti-
ton rule supreme.
The question whether man can swim
i'll oil was lately solved at Nice, where
! a first-class swimmer fell into an oil
vat, and was only saved from drowning
by the aid of friend.
A convict in charge or the office Of
the State prison in San Quentin, CAL,
is said to preside with the lofty hau
teur and jewel elegance Of
seven-story hotel clerk"
One pound of corn Is equal as food
to about three and three-quarters
pc nds of potatoes, or eight and one
half pounds of cabbage, or to eleven
and one half pounds of white turnips.
No people are such thorough nm-
sances as those who are perpetually
meddling with the business of their
neighbors, who are always on the alert
for anything suspicious-always ready
to believe the worst of everybody.
"Hann ah." said landlady to her
new servant, when there's any bad
news, always let the boarders know it
before dinner; such little things make
a great difference in the eating in the
course Of the YEAR"
Chemists tell us that single grain OF
the substance called iodine will impart
color to seven thousand times it's
weight Of water. 1t is so in matters Of
graver concern-one companion, one
book, one habit may color the whole OF
lie and character.
The renewal Of bicycle riding IS ex.
tending throughout New England. The
students of Harvard and Yale have
taken to the sport with much enthuSi-
asm. The machines have very large
wheels, and are said to run faster and
easier than those formerly used.
Scene in horse-car-seats all occu-
pied. Lady enters. Elderly gentleman
rises. Lady-"Don trise, l beg of you.
l much prefer you should keep your
seat, Sir" Elderly Gentleman
should be very happy to accommo.
date you, madam, bat want to get out
here"
Mackinaw is a great resort for hay
fever patients. As soon us til. fatal
August day arrives victims rush to this
most sacred of Indian islands. Here
the distemper at once disappears, and
the patient stays in delightful rlla'
quarantine until the first frost strik
the place he left.
Waiter Scott, when boy, was asked
by his teacher: What part of speech is
The word, WITH" "A noun," said
Walter. You young blockhead. "said
The pedagogue, what example can you
give of such a thing?" There's a
verse, sir, in the Bible, which says:
They bound Sampson with acidtS.'"
Stars twinkle on account of their
light reaching us through various heat
ed and moving currents of air. Hence
much twinkling of the stars foretells
bad weather, because it denotes that
there are various aerial currents of diff
ferent temperature and densities, pro-
ducing atmospheric disturbance.
A band of young, empty divinity STU
dents paid a visit to manse; a flocl. of
turkeys followed them to the door.
Sir" said one of the probationers, do
you allow the turkeys to come into
your house?' sometimes" replied
the minister; ''but l will not permit
/ them at this time, for l never suffer
J turkeys and geese TO enter at the same
time "
| a boy riding horse with the usual
| sign on its head, piece of paper indi
eating the animal for sale, was accost-
ed in a consequential manner by one of
our casual visitors: why, Jack, The
/ horse you're riding is badly; look what
a white face he's got on.' Hey" said
the boy, IAN you'd hey a white face,