The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-08-20
NO. 14OS.
GLEANINGS.
As regards rank among vegetables
the onion comes first.

the onion comes first.
A Philadelphia man is said to hav,
| lost Sl,OO0,O0O in business speculation:
the past year.
In the last twenty-five years tn.
Methodists increased the value of theil
church property about 500, 10000
A Georgia man tried to cut the cord.
in the feet of his daughter so that she
could not imperil her soul by dancing.
The Roman Catholic cathedral il
the City of Mexico is said to be the
finest church building on the cont
nent.
Dr.. Oliver Wendell Holmes is of the
opinion that ''bad air, bad whisky,
and irregular habits keep the doctors
alive"
The Vassar girls are all learning the
art OF photography, and one dude in
the town has ''sot'' $50 times to ac-
commodate the cameras
Fifteen tons of grasshopperS, COM
prising, it is estimated, $4,000, 900 sep
arate insects, were captured at the
Natoma Vineyard, near Folsom, Cal,
by drowning in the irrigating bitches.
Mrs: A. L. Stewart has suit OF
eight rooms at the Grand Union Hotel,
Saratoga. At dinner the table is al
ways set for eighteen in her private
dlning-room in anticipation of possible
company.
In Massachusetts, 800, 900 depositors
have $3.50 600, 900 in the savings banks
In New York the savings institutions
hold 1915, ,000,00 of small deposits
In the South such a thing as real saw
ings bank is not known.
1t is contemplated to use the electric
light in Algiers for night work during
harvest time, in order to escape the
heat, which is almost murderous for
Europeans, and is an obstacle to their
carrying on agricultural work.
A bridge at Lyons, France, has a
stone parapet, pierced at intervals for
light, forming passage, which plays
the part of a gigantic flute. The rush
of the air currents through the OPEN
ings produces loud and very dismal
sound.
Dutch treating" is the fashion at
Washington. Ladies and gentlemen
their own car-fare, or if it be ques-
ton of picnics the ladies furnish the
solid and the gentlemen the liquid re-
freShments.
Storing farm products for higher
prices is not always the best method
A lot of 200 bales of hops of the year
1882 were lately sold at sheriff's sale,
at Schenevus, n. Y, at from to Z
cents pound. The ye,r they were
harvested they could have been sold
for 81 per pound.
When the Chattanooga Cadets visit
ed Dalton, Ga, one Of the gayly ca
parisoned young warriors sat down on
the umbrella OF an old lady, to the de-
light of his comrades. The old lady
enveloped his neck with her right
wing, cut him off from his supports,
ana Dy d mastery Hank movement got
him over her knee, where she fell upon
his unguarded rear with the fragments
OF the umbrella and routed him.
Its an interesting fact that MANY
American men of letters are not col
lege graduates. Wait Whitman, Whip
pie, Trow bridge, Field, Parton, Bav-
ard Taylor, Eggleston, Hart, Howelis.
James, Aldrich, Lathrop, Stockton.
Piatt, Cable, Crawford, Fawcett, Gil
der, Harris, Carleton, Mark Twain"
Stoddart, and Burroughs, it is said,
have gained all their knowledge and
culture outside of college walls.
A peculiar custom in the Cape Verde
Islands is noted by a recent visitor
there. His hostess was smokiur
when suddenly she. drew it
from her lips and offered it to him.
Though somewhat startled, he accent
ed it with the best grace that he could
command, and upon subsequent in
quiry found that it was considered
among the islanders one of the GREAT
est compliments lady could pay
gentleman.
Recently l sat next the Baroness and |
Mr.. Burdett-Coutts at place of en-
5ertainment. Her ladyship was SUI
oerbly apparcled, and, on appearing |
among the audience. was presented bV |
young girl, dressed in black, with a |
arge white bouquet, all lilies and |
uberoses, trimmed with white lace. |
Mr. Burdett-Coutts seems to be en-
lowed by nature with the most envi-
lble OF all gifts, a mirthful disposition.
lie has laughing mouth and "a splen-
I'D set of white teeth. He is a iolly.
handsome man, and l don't wonder
us wife likes him. There has been a
,reat deal of comment made about
his match, but, for my part, / see no
more reason why lady of 65 NAV not
marry man Of 80, if both are willing,
han that 4 man OF 80, like Sir Jules |
'encdlct, should marry girl in her
Wenties, as L believe Lady Benedict
till is.-Oltce LOgGn'S Letter.
A traveller pictures the guano coast
t South America as the most desolate
egion on earth. On one side is the
', s'otit1 0ceam, WIFI II iss greaL sWe!ls
egular and constant as the throbbings
f the human pulse. On the other
ide the impenetrable Andes rise in
range whose altitude averages $4,000
Get, and whose peaks tower 10000
nd 22,000 feet above the sea. Between
lie ocean and the mountains for 1000
niles, with q varying width from
wenty to fifty miles, lies a strip of
drifting sand which no river waters
md where rain never falls. There is
lot well or spring along the coast,
md drinking water is an article of
like ice or flour, costing
cents gallon to the consumer.
A correspondent asks: where does |
he locust come from? Please tell me |
OF its habits" The locust |
spends most of its life as grub under |
ground. In May or June perfect in
;ects emerge, and, after pairing. the
female deposits four or five hundred
eggs in the bark of trees, and then
soon dies. The eggs are hatched in a
few weeks and the young larvae fall to
the ground and burrow into it Their
larvae life is believed to last nearly
seventeen years, and then they Under
go the change into fully developed in
sects, mate, lay their eggs, and die.
Of course, if the number of ''locusts,"
or more properly speaking, the cica-
das, is very large in any place this
year, larger number of eggs will be
laid. and we may expect an unusually
large number of the insects, in the