The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-08-20
CLIPPINGS AND oss!!'PrE'Nes.
Miscellaneous.

free public baths in Boston.
Overland mail time from San Fran
cisco has been shortened two days within
a month.
1t is estimated that to repair the streets
and rebuild the bridges in Baltimore viii
cost $215,000
-Workmen in Brooklyn sewer have
lately found gold watches, jewelry and
silver coin of large amount.
"A theatrical manager at Louisville,
KY, was recently cowhided by one of his
actors, for not paying him his wages.
The Oldest inhabitant of Schenectady
says that it has rained in that city, on
the 25th of July, for the last twenty-five
years.
Baltimore has removed about 10000
carloads of mud and sand, which the
late visiting waters deposited on her
streets
Sherman, the highest point on the
Union Pacific Railroad, is $500 feet above
the level Of the sea, and 1922 feet above
Omaha
During racing week at Saratoga, the
glove shops are stripped of their contents
by sporting ladies for the purpose of pay
ing bets.
The steamer Daniel Drew ran from
Hudson to CatskiIl, on the Hudson, dis
lance of nearly six miles, in eleven and a
half minutes.
The old and unfinished rebel ram
Texas, captured at Richmond, is now en-
ployed in bringing ice from the Kennebec
river to Boston.
The Scientific american says that the
military telegraph system now used by
the United States is probably the most
perfect in the world.
Geo. B. Smyth has resigned the Presi-
dency Of the Des MONIES Valley Road, and
D. W. Kilbourne, of Keokuk, has been
appointed in his stead.
The President has appointed ex-Gov
Bigler, of California, United States Com
missioner to examine the Central Pacific
Railroad gjce L. d. Smith, resigned.
The work of dredging the channel at
the entrance of the Chicago harbor is in
progress. The river has already been, and
is now being, deepened at different points
At Peterboro, n. Y, there is a base
ball club of girls. Mamie Miller, a
granddaughter Of Gerrit Smith, is the
CAPTAIN, and handles the bat with a grace
and strength worthy of notice.
in the window of Boston jeweler is
on exhibition q diamond weighing over
ten carats and imported from Turkey at a
cost of $4,000 1t is owned by a resident
Of that city.
According to the recently issued Reg
lister of the United States Navy it appears
that we have now in the navy two hun
bred and twenty vessels, of which fifty
two are iron-clad
Mary Ann Schultz recently took a
prize for rife shooting at Philadelphia
Tier name should have complimentary
change by adding "well;" for it seems
that Mary Ann Schultz well.
The managers Of the late Schuetzen-
fest in New York find themselves about
$4,000 out of pocket, so they have resolved
to hold another festival in September, less
expensive, but as attractive as the first, to
make up the balance.
1t is reported that the Baltimore &
Potomac Railroad Company has secured a
loan of So, 000,000, and that it will be en-
tirely completed by September of next
year Work is now progressing on the
lines to Acquia Creek and to Washing
ton.
The Revolution gives these excellent
directions for visiting a newspaper office:
If you call to see the proprietors, see them.
If the editors, see them. If a clerk, see
him Cor herr. See the party interested.
Transact your business in as few words
and minutes as possible, and retire, never
forgetting that time is much more than
money.
There is a divorce case pending in the
New York Supreme Court between par
ties who have been married twenty eight
years, of which they have lived together
only six years. Twelve years they lived
apart by mutual agreement, and the di-
yorce suit has been ON trial the other ten
years, and VIII probably last year or
two longer.
We see it stated in an exchange that
children afflicted with the whooping- cough
can be cured by exposure to air impreg-
mated with common coal gas. Carbonate
of lime placed in their sleeping rooms, in
quantities sufficient to produce a moder-
ately strong odor, viii also effect cure.
1t is about as cheap as chloride Of lime,
and much better disinfectant
-McCoole, in a letter 10 Frank Queen,
objects to having the stakes for the late
frustrated fight given up, and insists that
the fight must take place. He con-
siders that his making an appearance at
the appointed time won the money, but
will waive that for another appointment.
He is content to leave the money in Mr..
Queens hands.
Among the interesting sights at Sara
toga, few attract more attention than
Canadian woman who has three girls born
at once. They are about 10 or 10 months
old, and look exactly alike. She has
carriage in which she draws them about,
and whenever she stops for a short time
she is sure to be surrounded by crowd.
who admire her family and occasionally
make her presents.
Mention was made some time since of
the resident of WATERFOWL, n. Y, who
wheeled his wife on a wheelbarrow from
that place to Saratoga. The trip was I'M
dertaken, on the advice of physician, for
the benefit of the wife's health. Recently
the couple passed through Utica on their
way home, the woman restored to health,
and walking beside her husband, who
wheeled the empty barrow.
The Detroit Post, Sth inst, reports
that meteor, so brilliant that objects in
its light cast distinct shadows, although the
moon was shining brightly at the time,
was observed in that city to pass across
the western sky shortly before 3 o'clock
Friday morning. The nucleus of the fiery
body appeared two or three times the size |
OF the moon, and was followed by train
of considerable length, tapering like the
flame of a candle.
At the end of 1866, Sos, s7o,71a had
been expended on railways in British In
dia. In the year ending with June, 1866, |
5,452 miles were open, and 10,120,910 pas
sengers We're conveyed; the years re-
ceipts were e4607,236, and the working |
s., 1925, 995; 1880 miles of Gov |
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