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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-02
Curious People.

A citizen of Chicago contributes the
following to the Tribune of that city:
Not long since I read en- article in the
AdUance, headed " Strange Freaks" The
writer gives an account of "curious peo-
pie" he has met with in his travels. I
have also met with many curious people,
and will tell you about few of them.
Nearly every one has some notion Or
habit peculiar to himself Indeed, every
one who is really an original character, is
sure to be looked upon as queer person
very likely ne viii be called odd. We
often meet persons who look very much
alike; out when we look 81 them closely,
we find there is little difference in their
looks It is just so with the habits or
notions of mankind. As we ind q little
difference in their looks, we also find q
little difference in their habits and opinions,
I wish at present only to speak of the
marked peculiarities of few | have met
with in my travels around the country.
In the first place / win speak of myself
l have some notions or prejudices which
others have not, while many others have
prejudices that do not trouble me. This
teaches me to be charitable and not con-
denim those who do not think as I do. I
consider that as long as they do not differ
any more from me than do from them,
they have as much right to differ from nv
views as have to differ from theirs. -
Cucumbers are very offensive to me.
Many time have had to leave the table,
and go without my dinner, for no other
reason than that well-sliced cucumbers
were where could Sc. and smell them,
once knew H.:le boy who was yerv
fond Of sugar, and liked his cakes and pies
well sweetened. Anything sweetened
with common brown sugar he ate with
e relish, but the taste Of common sale mo-
lasses would make him vomit, and any
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-02
The New Constitution of New
York. 80 .

The characteristic features of the new
Constitution of New York Ito be voted
on by the people next November) are
thus summarized by an exchange:
The Constitution as finally adopted by
the Convention, differs from the present
New York Constitution in several particu-
lars. The election of the Governor and
other State officers is ordered to take place
ut the same time, instead of in alternate
years, as at present. The number of State
Senators is unchanged, but their term of
service is heightened to four years, and
the number of Assemblynen is enlarged
from 1913 to 139, to be elected by counties
instead OF districts, as now. An effort is
made to secure O better class of men for
the Assembly by fixing the compensation
at $1,000 per Year, with $500 additional
for the Speaker. A two-thirds vote
of the whole Legislature will be neces-
sary to overrule veto upon any bill by
the Governor. the judicial system has
been considerably changed, and the Court
of Appeals the highest Court in the State,
is to consist of a Chief Justice and SIX
Justices, who are to be elected by the peo-
pie for terms of fourteen years, with the
provision that no one is to serve after he
hes reached the age of seventy years.
The present New York judicial system is
very faulty, and one of the principal argu
ments urged in favor Of Convention for
the Adoption of new Constitution was
the necessity of relieving the higher courts
OF vast quantity of cases that find their
way there in consequence of the unfitneas
and lncOmpetency of the Judges of the
lower courts, and the general cumbersome
ness of the entire system of administering
justice. The changes made in this par
ticular cover the whole range of courts,
and the terms of all the Judges are length
encd to fourteen years. A proposition to
establish impartial suffrage is to be sub
mitted separately from the Constitution, so
that those who oppose giving the suffrage
impartiaily to all classes need not vote
against the entire Constitution unless they
choose to-
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BrevitieS and LevftieS.

DULL BUSINESS lately drove q Chilli
cothe merchant for pastme, to hugging the kitchen
girl. and his wife has kicked mp rumpus about It.
II he had only invested few dollars in advertis-
ing, the local paper says, he would have had
enough business to keep him out of mischief.
Moral-n you don't want to hug the girls, and get
caught at 1t, advertise.
A CHILD of five years having seen her
father for the first time, he having been absent In
California. was much astOnished that he should
claim any authority over her, and on occasion Of
cried ont: wish you had never marie into our
faulty
HUSBAND AND WIFI.
:" My dear, what makes you always yawnfi'
The wife exclaimed, her temper gone
{" Is home SO dull and dreary?"
a me sa wife are o love gna
Ii And, wne2 alone. I'm weary" =
/, AMAzONIAN.-k terrific combat between
two females delighted crowd at Cheyenne on the
9th Inst Says the Argus; THE fight terminated
one OF the hens. The fight was succees-the
crow was not
THE FRIENDS of wit expressed some
surprise that with his age and his fondnees for the
bottle ne shouid have tho aght # worth while to
began to say that drank too much for single
man"
A BoARnER at one Of the hotels was re.
Gently observed to shed tears when the cheese
was passed. Upon beinf asked the cause OF this
agitation. he replied that ~the cheese was 4 very
moving sight" - -
a FRENCH author says, When lost
my wife. every family In town offered me another
SIr When ne1 ost my horse no one offered to make
IF burglar should get into Brigham
scare EN- scene. Gr ~
II Is said that when q Russian husband
uexleots TO Beat his WITH for month d two, she
oe91s to be alarmed al his Indifference.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-02

Hovey 4 Nichols, Emporfum.

Hovey Il NichoIss Emporium.
The establishment of business that
combines the useful and beautiful, the
works Of art aud the productions Of near
" all chimes, is no longer an exp ariment
The metropolitan character of Chicago is
in no way better proven than in the sue
cess of Messrs. Hovey. s. Nichols, at No.
81 State street. They opened in Novem-
Der stock of ornamental goods for the
house, garden and lawn, horticultural inn
plements of every kind, seeds, etc, and
added thereto an art gallery for the exhi-
bition and sale of the best works. of
European and American artists. Mr..
Hovey is web known in the West as q
scotsman of the highest and most reliable
character, and his old stand at 1874 Lake
street was familiar spot. Mr.. Nichols,
formerly of Boston, during recent So
journ in Europe of some two years. con-
ceived the idea of opening, by direct
Importation, q stock of fancy and orna-
mental goods, which are manufactured
principally in Switzerland, Germany and
France. Combining these with MIR. Ho-
vey's business, and adding the art gallery
and lawn and garden ornaments, has made
q most attractive and useful collection.
The trade has grown rapidly, and the
expectations of the enterprisins proprie-
tors are more than realized. At this time
Of the year their stock of seeds is unusually
complete, from the leading producers and
nurserymen of America and Europe, and
offers the best opportunity in Chicago for
those who wish to purchase. In every
other branch the stock is complete, and
the art gallery has lately received some
most valuable acccssions No store in the
city has SO ayr. cable combination, and
none claim greater admiration from WIS.,
itors. All who come to the city should
visit it to look and buy, and those who
wish seeds for their garden, or to sell,
ornaments for their house or lawn, or
PAINTINGS for their parlors, should call on
or address them. a beautifully printed
catalogue may be had on application.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-02

CANADIAN PosTAGE.-After the LIST of
April next a change of postal rates be-
tween the United States and Canada, goes
INTO effect. Under the new arrangement,
partments of the United States and the
Dominion of CANADA, the single rate OF
postage on international letters will be
reduced on and after the LIST of April, 1868,
from ten to six cents, If prepaid In the
Office Of mailing in either country; but il
posted unpaid, or insnf1ciently prepaid,
they will be subject to a postage charge of
ten cents per single rate in the country OF
destination. The authorized weight of a
single letter will be fifteen grammes by the
metrical scales. and half an ounce in the
Dominion of Canada. Postmasters will
levy postage aocordingly, On and after the
list Of Anil. 1853. -E gs5s sFT sz /,
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The New York printers are organ
izing mutual life insurance company.
The Texas grasshoppers are frighten-
ing the farmers from sowing their crops
There are 81, 1896 lawyers in the Unit
ed States. They average about 100 clients
apiece.
The dentists of New York, proper
tionately, return larger incomes than the
doctors.
Some New York landlords have
marked down their rent rates five, ten and
even fifteen per cent. on last years rates.
"A company in Lawrence county, Ark,
have taken out 1000 pound chunk of
zinc after sinking their shaft only few
feet.
The Washington monument has
reached the height of 174 feet, at cost of
$40 200, and is to be further elevated 374
feet.
1t is said that the whole amount of
grain raised in New England each year
would not supply its Inhabitants with food
for six weeks.
-Thirty-eight colored men who served
in the army have brought suit against the
city of Louisville to recover $11, &c &c .pss.:d
as bounty to their former masters.
1t is stated that the shad fisheries along
VIZ DSAcs W oAO oAC eAA C6tcuC0 viii UcSLTUC-
ton by petroleum and other refuse matter
running into the river, which give to the
fish an offensive taste
-Pittsfeld, Mass, is sure that it has
big thing" on silver mine A speci-
men has been analysed and found to Weld
at the rate of 1854 to the ton, beside $45
worth of lead.
The largest pendulum in existence is
said to be that which regulates q new
clock at st. Georges church, New York.
IL Is 80 feet long, and yibrates in three sec
onds. The weight on it is $50 pounds.
In 164S, piece of land in New York.
known as the Talman estate, was offered
lor sale by its then owner for Sc, 500, with
out , nndlng purchaser. Recently it was
sold by auction in lots, and realized
$1,240, 800. Ao"AAN'o
.-Connecticut is said to be, In pronor.
ton to Its population, the richest State in
the Union the average property of every
inhabitant is over $500. which is ahont
$1U0 higher than the average 10 the STATE
next highest Island.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-02

The supply Of prairie fu1 wiz be
smaller than usual this year. The buffalo
robe i" crop" has been only one half the
quantity that is generally hunted up Tor
down) for the market The catch Of rats
and minks only shows an increase this
season.
AT place on the river Thames, about
two and q half miles below Norwich,
Conn, a party of men recently hauled in
n seine in which were 5000 pounds of
perch. and eighty-three large bass-the
whole making about three tons of fish,
valued at 500.
The work Of rebuilding the Douglas
Linen Mills at Kankakee, ILL.,, burned
some weeks ago, has been commenced.
The new structure will be 4S by 100 feet,
three stories high, and of Kankakee cut
stone. The citizens Of Kankakee, by =
vote of 4OS to 50, have donated 5000 to
the company.
The steam man" that has made so
much talk is now denounced by Newark
man, who seems to understand the case,
as an unmitigated humbug. 1t never has
walked step since it was made. It was
carried from the shop where it was made
to an ice cream garden; then it was
propped up, so that its feet did not touch
the ground, and set agoing; its legs
swung back AMI forth in the empty air !;
but thai was all. It vas announced 20
walk over to Bsrnum's, but it convenient
ly got out of repair, and, what is worse,
the ice cream man has got an attachment
for the wonderful humbug that will not let
it walk. The financial obstacle may be
only shsm. but the physical difficulties
are real It will tumble over as fast as it
can be set up.
The demand for cheap shoes has been
SO pressing of late years, says the Lynn Re-
porter, that it has induced the most rigid
economy in the manufacture Hardly q
scrap of leather is allowed to go to waste.
The wagon loads of odds and ends made
in cutting, the refuse of splitting machines
are all worked up again into that kind of
leather known as pancake" This is
made by FASTING and pressing together the
scraps of which we have spoken. This
being rolled and dried, is made to do ser
vice, in the cheapest grades of shoes. as
inner sole leather, or as lifts for heels.
So sklllful are these operations performed
that sometimes the substitute is, for some
purposes, almost as good as the genuine
article. Some firms do large business in
the manufacture Of "pancake," which is
accomplished by powerful machinery driv-
en- by steam. -.- ----
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Religious and Educational.

The Hartford courts have decided that
to clear sidewalks of snow on Sunday is
work of necessity and mercy.
BY vote of the trustees of Shurtieff
College, at Alton, Ill, two negro men have
been admitted to the course of instruction
DIR. .Arbuthnot computed the burden
in Noah's ark at 62,062 tons, more than
three times the tonnage Of the Great
Eastern
Over two hundred and forty persons
have joined the Methodist Church at JEFF
fersonville, KY, and still the work of re-
vival is undated.
William E. Dodge, Of New York, has
just given $4,000 to the fund for the cree
ton Of the new theological hall of Yale
College. ia
"A Boston deacon objects to the contri-
button of cigar stumps in the contents of
the plate at the Friday evening meetings
They are not legal tender in any sense, and
cannot be considered currency.
Recent statistics show that the in
crease of the Baptist denomination in this
country, during the last twenty five years,
has been sixty-seven per cent. in churches,
seventy-seven per cent. in ministers, and
ninety eight per cent in members.
-Sixty-four publishing houses in the
United States are engaged in the publica-
ton OF school books, and there are 2,7OO
different text books in the market. Their
average cost is $152. The school popula-
ton Of the United States is five millions,
and they consume twenty millions of vol
umes year The annual expenditure for
these books is stated at SIS 755, GOO.
Wheaton College asks $4,000 to erect
q new college building. 1t is designed to
erect four story building, with front of
235 feet. The wings are to contain labora-
tories, a cabinet, gymnasium, dormitories,
and domestic nall The center building
is to contain chapel for religious exer-
cises, and rooms for lectures and recitation.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-02

The Commissioners and Superintendent
Of the work on the Hoosac Tunnel have
made their report to the Massachusetts,
Legislature. Some curious facts are re-
vealed in this document. One of these is
statement to the effect that had railway
been laid for eight miles only up Deerfield
River, TO vast lumber region at that
point, the saving in cost Of lumber and
supplies thus made would have paid the
whole cost of the road. The progress in
boring last year with the Burleigh machine
was highly satisfactory. With the aid of
nitro glycerine one hundred and fifty feet
per month may be accomplished. The
work on the central shaft, recently des-
troyed by IRE, has not been resumed, and
the Chief Engeneer says "more trouble is
anticipated from water at the west end.
On the first of last November the heading
had reached total Of 4S2 feet from the
east opening, and ,004 feet In the western
shaft. On the whole there is confidence
in the future rapid progress of the tunnel.
in spite of past obstacles and delays.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-02
CLIPPINGS ARD DRlPPntes.

Personal and Literary.
ADEILNA PATTI is quarter of q century
old. ~ s.
Sw1nnuRNE, the poet, is twenty-five
years old.
Rev. DR.. B1seELL has been elected
Bishop of Vermont.
BARNUM announces that he has aban-
dOned the show business.
AUBER keeps the original of all his COM
positions, neatly bound.
THE new Kentucky Senator. McCreery,
is distant relative of Henry Clay.
New YORK boast a physician whose in
come is rarely under $4,000 year.
Boston is to have great musical festival
from the 18th to the 10th OF May.
THERE are one thousand one hundred
John Smiths in New York city.
WV B. AsToR is building new palace
in Madison avenue, New York.
LoTTA is going to throw herself away
on young BaltimOrean, 1t Is eald.
MARX TWAIN sailed for San Francisco
on the 18th. He returns in June.
THE Postmaster at Van Buren,, Maine,
receives an annual salary of two dollars.
THE mother of p. T. Barnum, aged 81
years, died at Bethel, Conn, on the 18th
inst
Elk CONGRESSMAN Henry G. DeminR,
of Hartford, is writing a life of General
Grant. .--
AUGUST BELMONT, of New York, is re-
ported to have paid over $4O0, 900 for the
works of art in his private gallery.
THERE has just been exhumed poem
of Pope's, written when he was eighteen.
It is a lampoon on a clerk of whom he
was jealous.
A NEW lot of Artemus Wards unpub-
ished productions are soon to be given to
the world by the proprietor of the Bidde-
ford (Me.) Democrat
Mr. FAULKNER, gentleman of so years,
Ohio, and back, because he thought 1t was
dangerous 10 ride in the cars"
THE. Aston Library has 100, 600 volumes,
the British Museum Library $4,000, the
Royal, at Munich, $4,000, and the I'M
perial Library, at Paris, 1.084, 600.
A. T. STEWART fills most OF his first
class mercantile positions with broken
down merchants He finds the best mate
rial in those who have been unfortunate.
JOHN LEE, of Vernon, VT, died recently
st the great age of ninety seven years. His
wife. to whom he had been married seven
~ Col ., oO- WV CO ltuA III HCl ulucty uISb
year, and was able 10 attend his remains
to the grave.
Mrs STOWE, in her book, says of her
brother, Henry Ward Beecher, that he
went to her school when eleven years of
age, but, that after about six months
Henry was returned to his parents with
the reputation of being an inveterate joker
and an Indifferent scholar"
THEY don't rotate out of Office very
rapidly down in the Green Mountain State.
Hiram Barton, of SALISBURY, was
recently elected Town Clerk for the
forty fourth consecutive time. His prede-
cessor was crowded out after his forty
fourth year in the same berth.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-02

"A young man named Spencer, from
Hartford, CT, who had been clerking at
Albion, n. Y, walked into Buffalo gun
shop. on the 18th, examined pistol, caused
it to be loaded, and shot himself dead in
the presence of the astonished proprietor
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A New Monetary SYSTEM:

THE ONLY MEANf, OF SECURING THE RESPECT
I'VE RICHTe ~ LABOR AND PROPERTY. AND
OF ROTEU1ING THE PUBLIC FROM FINAN-
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BIZ EpwARD KELLOGG.
% 1t presents acute analysis OF the functions OF
money, and abounds In singularly suggestive ideas
which cannot fail to awaken the Interest OF the rea
der"-fN- Y. Tribune Jan n
THE author lays the the root OF tie evils of oup
currency and financial ystem. We are inst
now In Transition state with regard currency bank
ing, national finance, and all subject and We are
In position to strike out into any or original
course that may ne sound IN theory that may prom
pubic men might ind valuable suggestions in the WoYS
before us."-lN. 7, Herald, Jan. 26 ~ wa
Sent postpaid, on receipt Of price, by
A. n. KELLOGG.
z01 Washington St., Hfcrss. 3
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y
between eighty and ninety, fourteen be-
tween seventy and eighty, and one over
ninety, who walked upward of mile and
back, and was the first to come and among
the last to go.
in San Francisco suicide has assumed
an epidemic form; in fact, for several
months suicides have been very numerous.
no less than 700 bodies have been found
floating in the bay, and in each case inves-
tigatiOn has indicated suicide as the cause
OF drowning. During the same time there
have been found dead in their beds six per-
SONS, most of whom were suicides.
The Clark county (Ky.) Democrat
says: eve met lady in town the other
day, q blood relation OF ours and wife of q
minister in this county, who has eaten
nothing for five years. She takes no nour-
ishment whatever unless it be in fluid
form, and very little then. 1t would take
her ali day to swallow cup of coffee, and
at times she does not consume TEASPOON
full in twenty four hours. She is in the
enjoyment of good health, and attends to
her household affairs as do other women"
The Cleveland Pzaindealer says a lad
about sixteen years Of age, on the Goth, met
with extraordinary good fortune He was
engaged in the task of walking from Erie
to Chicago; being venturesome lad and
having some vague plan of seeking his
fortune in the latter city. Between Euclid
and Cleveland, he picked up large wallet,
tightly tied with piece OF red tape Upon
opening the wallet, 5000 in greenbacks
were disclosed to the glistening eyes of the
boy, who had not expected to find his for
tune in so short time after leaving home.
There were no papers in the wallet. indi-
eating to whom it belonged, and it is posi-
tNYS how
session Of the money. The wallet had
been exposed to the weather, and was con-
siderably damaged !; some of the green
backs, too. were somewhat injured from
wet, but not enough to affect the value of
any Of them.