The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-06-27
SCRAPS.

I StRAPS.
The fruit crop for the United States
of 1877 amounted in value to $4,000,
or about one-half of the outcome from
cereals.
| In 1850 the United States raised 3, 1877
| 020 pounds of hops; in 1850. 1891 1886
pounds, while in 1870 the total was 25,-
456,669 pounds.
Marriage is becoming very common
among the Catholic priests in Germany.
1t may not be generally known that the
civil law protects them.
| a New York truckman bears away
! the palm, in announcing in his adver-
tisement that he is prepared 10 move
| furniture SO that it will show to the
best advantage"
| Alaska is reported to abound in sill
yer and gold mines, and experienced
miners predict that the territory will
eventually yield more ecious metals
/ than both California and Nevada.
| a Florentine friar has constructed a
| good time-keeping watch only Il quar-,
/ ter of an inch in diameter. 1t has
many indicators. besides simple hours
and minutes, such as days of the week
| and month.
Plenary indulgences are advertised
by the priests of nearly every church in
Italy. In Genoa there are signs Oh the
church doors, offering them for sale at
|
religion!
A little girl who was spending a few
days with farmer uncle, visited the
barnyard, and while looking at the we'll
fed cows, remarked, why, uncle, just
see! all the cows are chewing gum,
nent they?"
A capital of S2,750,0o0 besides the
leather and hides, is invested in East
ern Maine tanneries, which employ 500
men, use $1,000 cords of bark, and
manufacture 5000 tons Of leather an
nually.
! Lime has been used for apple Or
chards with great benefit at the rate of
twenty bushels per acre. One who has
tried it for many years deems it very
beneficial, as his trees have been very
productive.
Gardeners and farmers should, as far
as possible raise their own seed, wheth-
er for the farm or the garden. Good
seed planted in we'll titled icamy soil,
with moisture and mild temperature,
| will o,,cnra uOod plaOtS
A leading New York journal humor-
Ously says that Culver asserts that the
| female corset contains IL large number
| of bones which are not found in men,
| for the simple reason that men have no
| such organ as the corset"
Aroostook county, Maine, has six
teen starch factories. They used, last
fall, from twenty thousand to one hun
| bred thousand bushels of potatoes each,
ut price at the factory ranging from
| twenty to twenty-five cents bushel.
| The end crowns the work. Laura
! with novel;: "Oh, il this tale were only
| true, and were the heroiner' Kate:
"What! with her prosecutions, her
misery" Laura: All, but then, dear,
remember she does get husband after
ALP
! Professor Henry, who is now eighty
years old, is i'll SONS what feeble health.
| His two daughters sre described as so
| learned as to be perfect encyclopedias
| of knowledge. Small talk cllrls up in
their presence like caterpillar on
| hot shovel"
| She asked the clerk if lie was positive
Thoroughly convinced the eggs were
fresh. 'Oh, yes" said the young phi
losopher, Il know they are; why, the
| farmer said none of his hens were more
than a year Old" She bought bas-
ketful on the spot,
Browns wife went to the; dentist,
lately, and took gas. The new set of
| teethis not ready, nor is she ready; and
SO there has been peace i'll the Brown
| family for several days. AS Brown
| joyfully remarked, "IIer mouth is
closed for repairs"
What beautiful example of simple
ity in dress is shown some of the fol-
lowers of fashion by that domestic an
lmal, the cat, which rises in the morn
ing, washes its face with its right hand,
gives its tail three jerks, and is ready
blessed for the day.
A new industry is said to be extend
ing rapidly in France. 1t consists in
the manufacture Of cloth five times
lighter and three times warmer than
wool, from the feathers of domestic and
other birds. The material is water
proof and takes dye readily.
The rOotlets thrown out from malt
during termination and afterwards
separated from the grain contain from
twenty Jour to thirty per cent of al
bumen, and 100 bushels of sprouts
(l,2Oo pounds) are, therefore, as ICED,
equal to 4,62S pounds of hay.
The utmost strength of good hemp
rope is 6 400 pounds to the square inch:
iii practice it should not be subjected to
more than half that strain. Itstretches
from one-fifth to one-seventh. while its
diameter is diminished from one-quar
ter to one seventh before breaking
Air will support creature much
heavier than itself, but water will only |
support a fish of about equal weight. |
bulk for bulk. \ fish bearing the same |
proportional weight to its elemental |
medium as the bird does to the atmos .
phere. would be heavier than platinum. /
Two female tramps entered resi- !
dence In Merrimac, n. III. during the /
absence of the family, took possession
OF the guest chamber and retired to ,
bed. Their presence was first known
by their appearance in the dining hall /
the next morning demanding break
fast. (