The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-23

A lady passenger being frightened by the
waves, asked him, " if people were ever
Loot BY these boats?" He gave the encour-
aging reply, .sNot often ma'am, we gen.
orally find them afterwards by dragging
the river"
In California the first newspaper was
published twenty years ago. The total
Pacific press now comprises 214 papers.
The advertisements paid for in San Fran
cisco exceed 100000 per annum. The
weekly circulation of all the San Francis
co papers exceed 225, 600 copies.
"A Bangor (Maine) correspondent says
that there has not been q winter for many
years, not even during the war, in which
there was so much actual suffering for the
want of food and fuel, in that city, as there
is at the present time This is caused by
lack of employment and the high price
of provisions. ila =
During the late bathing season, q pom.
pous individual walked up to the Office of
seaside hotel, and with a considerable
flourish signed the register, exclaiming In
loud voice: "Pm Lieutenant Governor
of -" "That doesn't make any diff
ference" said the landlord, "you'n be
treated just as well as the others"
"A letter was addressed to Mrs. Rupe,
in Centerville, Iowa, the other day, and on
its back was penciled this inscription
4" There is ten dollar bill folded in this
letter, and if you wan. It worse than my
mother does, take it." Strange as it may
seem, the letter went through all right, and
was safely delivered to Mrs. Rupe.
Some real estate operators In New
Jersey are occasionally realizing hand
some profits in the sale of cranberry lands
Fifty acres in Burlington county were re-
Gently sold for $15, 900 the original cost of
which was only 80 cents an acre, or $25.
A "bog" of 176 acres, partially improved,
in the same vicinity, is held at still
greater price. rlG
There were SO, 722, 292 bushels of grain
received at Chicago during the past year,
and 1874, 900 barrels of flour. Of the
grain received, 10 100000 bushels were
wheat, and 100000 corn. The number
65S; pounds of hides, %. $4,000; pounds
of wool, 100000, and of lumber, $685.
100000 feet.
Last year Philadelphis built /, 149 two.
story dwellings, 1874 three story and 81
four-story-total, 1914, which is largely in
excess of any previous year. The CHER
structures erected were as follows -
Churches. 10; chapels, Q; public halls, Q;
hotels, Q; banks, B; school houses, %
factories, "a; foundries, o; depots, 8;
warehouses, s stOrehOuses, IS; stores, SO
police stations, q breweries, a; soldiers
homes, 1; stables, IA.
"A Cincinnati newspaper says when
the first pioneers landed where Cincinnati
now stands, in December, 1888, they made
small hut from the boards and timbers
of their boats. After few years the hut
was torn down and the same stuff used to
erect house not far from the corner of
Ludlow and Front streets This, in turn,
few years since, was demolished, and the
lumber used in q house still standing on
Cutter street, north of Court.
Some Quaker philanthropists have
established a loom in one of the rooms of
the Indian Bureau, at Washington, which
is worked by squaws, and manufactures
blankets of colors gay enough to attract
the attention Of the Indian chiefs who will
arrive in that city this winter to negotiate
| and ratify treaties with the Government.
1t is expected that by this means the
| aborigines will be seduced into industry of
more profitable kind than bead work.
The factory of the Pawtucket, R. l.,
hair cloth company is the only one of its
1861 The building is 200 feet long. so
wide and four stories high, with dye
house, 50 by 40, attached. The machinery,
which was invented by Isaac Lindsey, is
driven by water power. The factory has
room for 500 looms, but only 337 are now
in operation, each turning out five yards
of hair cloth per day. The number of
hands employed is $50, and the annual
consumption of rough hair is 10000
pouAds-all of which is imported at cost
Of 70 to rs cents per pound.