The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-08-22
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10 albumen, $40 gum, go starchy fibre.
An Italian colonization society is to
be formed for the purpose of founding
a colony in Shoa, in the southern part
Of Abyssinia.
Ants avoid light, and as 10 colors,
they prefer red, and show marked
aversion to blue or violet. They live
sometimes five years.
''Oh, ma" said little girl who had
been to the Geological Gardens. I've
saen the elephant; and he walks back
wards, and eats with his tall
Lime trees sometimes attain an i'm
menSe size. One which was planted in
Switzerland in l4l0 existed in 1870, and
was thirty-six feet in circumference.
The first German vineyards were
planted by the Emperor Probus, in A.
D. $50, in the Rhine and Mosel valleys.
Forty-three varieties were cultivated.
The NINA is small green parrot,
very common in India, and great
many of them are taught to say the
first verse of the Mohammeden prayer
or creed.
Peas and beans contain nearly double
the tiesh-forming matters that are
found in wheat, corn, oats or barley,
but far less starchy and beat-giying
matters, or fat.
Farmers, as rule, are too modest
and unassuming in the assertion of
their rights. 1t is unwise and impoli-
tic to let few talking men" govern
whole communities.
Year after year there is reported
from the Patent Office an excess of
receipts over total expenditures until
a surplus of considerably over $780,
600 has accumulated.
The health and vigor of full-grown
OK depend greatly upon the food and
care it receives when young. If badly
reared it cannot be expected to become
a profitable beast.
Cream is composed of 81 per cent.
flesh forming matters, 26.7 per cent.
fatty matter, IS per cent. lactin, 1.8
per cent. saline matter and 66 per cent.
water.
Mr.. CroZier, the distinguished Long
Island farmer. has invented mixer
that works perfectly. A visitor states
that boy years old MIXED two COWS
at a time with it in his presence.
A gentleman who has travelled very
extensively over the west, states that
Dakota has the finest soil to be found
in the entire country. 1t is as rich as
any Illinois prairie and much more
easily worked.
The gamebook of Prince Adolphus
Schwarzenburg, the largest proprietor
in the Austrian dominion, records last
season 65, 491 head Of game killed, OF
which 81 1925 are good for food.
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Immediately after weaving, young
pigs must be fed often, say six times a
day, tile number of feeds being gradu-
ally diminished TO three, which latter
is the proper number for stores and
fattening pigs.
Austrians smoke more and more. In
| 1879 the whole amount paid for tobacco
was 100000 tiOrinS, against $1,000
| 600 last year. Increas ed taxation has
had no effect in diminishing the con-
sumption.
| The best farmers are those who pay
the greatest attention TO cultivation;
who investigate new processes, and
take advantage of what is good. Ii
other words, who keep up with the pro-
gresS of the times.
A market for lean cattle from the
United States has been opened up with
Schleswig- Holstein, Germany, that Sec
ton being prolific with excellent graz
ing districts, of sweet grass, and with
out animals to Craze them down.
A Dartmouth student rendered five
cent pieces in payment for his tuition.
last year, having received them from
his father, a milkman. The treasurer
refused them. This year he offers
three-cent pieces, and refuses to give
anything else.
The immense quantities of cut flow
ers sent from foreign countries to Ber-
lin is stirring up the activity and in
genuity of German florists, who very
naturally think they should be pre-
pared to meet this demand from home
products.
81 see you are in black; are you in
mourning for friend?" was pro-
pounded by one friend to another in
the streets the other day. mo, l am
in mourning for my SINS 81 never
heard that you lost any," was the in
slant and keen reply.
James Welsh, a painter in Hamilton,
Ont, attempted to improve the appear
ance of a negro boy by painting his
face white and his hair red. The cOlors
were put on in oil, and allowed to dry,
the lad being securely tied. Walsh
was fined s. by Police Justice.
May they always live in peace and
harmony" was the way in which an
editor wound up a notice of the mar
rage of a couple of friends; and it
came ont in his paper the next morn
ing: MAY they always live on peas
and hominy."
Ayoun. minister was preaching in
Seabrook, n. T., from 81 am the light
of the world" and made poor work of
it, stammering and suffering, and al
most stopping, when an indignant hue
kleberry peddler, a sort of masculine
wppnan Shaufal ont. ssIf Won arc Tho