The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-02-06

shall be entered in this list opposite each
valuation.
Sections 43 and Al provide for the col
lectio, of this tax,
| The remaining sections require the town
clerks to make up and transmit to clerks
of the boards of supervisors an abstract
of the assessment rolls, which the last
named clerks shall certify to transmit to
the Secretary Of State. The penalties
upon officers who shall refuse or neglect
their duties are, to be punished by line
or imprisonment, or by both, IN the dis
ofetion of the court trying them.
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Science.
BLACK PEPPER. The black pepper
tree has been brought ID bearing MATURE
ty In California.
VOLCANIC FLAMES. Jansen, by spec
troscope analysis, has found that the
flames of the volcano at Santorin give evil
dence of the presence Of sodium, hydro
gen, copper, chlorine, and carbon.
MOTHER OF PEARL CARDS -The sale
of these beautiful visiting cards has been
Forbidden by the municipal authorities of
Munich, it having been shown by chem
ical analysis that they contain soluble
salt of lead, which, being poisonous and
sweet, would be dangerous in the hands
of children.
RECOVERING TNnTGo FROM RAGs,-A
French inventors process consists in plac-
ing rags In boiler provided with dou
BILE bottom and saturatIng them with a
solution of caustic soda of the strength
Indicated by 10 Baume. The rags are
then subjected to the action of steam at
45 pounds pressure to reduce and dis
solvo the Indigo, which is afterward pre-
cipitated from the soda solution and col
lected III pure state.
IODINE AND Picnic ACID-Dr Percy
Boulton has removed the objection to the
external application u solution OF lod-
Inc as a cure, on account Of the dlscolOra
ton of the skin, by adding to it a few
drops Of carbonic or picnic acid, one OF
the most efficient disinfecting agents now
known. This mixture is colorless, and is
said to be sovereign remedy for the
sore throat and similar bainfui diseases.
PoNDERABLE MATTER THE ONLY Me-
DUN OF ELECTRICITY Alyergniat
of Paris has constructed a new apparatus
for proving that electricity cannot pass
through an absolute vacuum. Two plan
tinum wires are inserted into tube SO
that their free ends are within about an
eigth Of an inch Of each other. The air
is shen exhausted from the tube by means
of mercurial column, after which the
electric spark will not pass from one plat
mum, wire to the other.
DEATH FROM MARSH GAS.-Dr. B. ".
Richardson has made some experiments
with light carbutted hydrogen, known
among miners as fire-damp to ascertain
what percentage in air would be fatal to
the animal breathing it. He found that
pigeons could live about half an hour in
air containing 50 per cent OF that gas.
The dininution Of circulation and resplr-
alton was 50 gradual that it was difficult
to determine The exact time when death
ensued
PARHELIA. The Inhabitants of Lee
County, Va, were lately quite excited at
the simultaneous appearance of three us
ing suns, which some Of the more lgno-
rant regarded as an omen Of coming evil.
The true sun was surrounded by beau
tiIGi colored halo above this tr,is anoth-
er partially developed halo, beneath which
two mock suns were visible for a short
time The phenomena OF coIOred haiOs
are due to the refraction Of light by tr0Z-
Ell particles floating in the atmosphere at
a great hight, while the white or uncolor
Cd parhelic circles arise from reducji0.iS.
They are never seen unless the ciI37ts or
cj1r0-stsutUs cloud interyeneS between the
sun and the observer.