The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-08-13

Miscellaneous.

, -llSo Ha,lS, VI havana, eIoppihS fi'
monds valued at over 100000.
The amount of foreign postage on
New York last quarter, was 1906, 1926. 25.
Commodore s Vanderbilt is putting
down tagging stones in front of his new
residence which cost one thousand dollars
each. RR Ma
-Of, the east coast of Newfoundland,
ON the 21st ult, thir ty-five icebergs were
seen from the decks of the steamer City
of Paris. So
There is to be picnic of fat men al
Utica, N. Y, this month No person will
be allowed to participate in the festivities
who weighs under $50 pounds.
There are 276 aIlopathic physicians in
Boston, about one-fourth as many homeo-
pathists go women physicians, and about
200 eclectics, botanic, magnetic, &c.
The oldest tree in the world is in Cal
averas county, California, which is sup
posed, from the number of eccentric cir
cles in the trunk, to be 1866 years old.
1t is said there is man in Connect
cut, 20 years old, who has lived all his life
within fifteen miles of Hartford, yet has
never seen that city.
surance companies will make in the New
Dominion, In compliance with a recent
Canadian law, will amount to half a mil
lion dollars in gold.
The base ball players propose Con-
vention IN October, at which the best play
ers from the United States and Canadas
will be present. Pittsburgh or Cleveland
will probably be the place of meeting.
The number of emigrants arrived at
New York during the year ending July
% was 125, $40. In the same time in 1867
the number was ia 336-a decrease the
present year of 1871.
There is dog in New Albany of the
black and tan species, which is a curiosity.
He weighs fifteen ounces and is most per-
fectly formed. He is active and sprightly,
and can worry rat as large as himself
He sleeps in his masters hat every night
An undertaken in Middletown, Conn,
in opening some coffin trimmings, few
days ago, found wrapped around one of
them the following: "Mary F. Brown
packed this work. If anybody wants
nice wife, let them write to the subscriber,
Mary F. Brown, Attleboro, Mass"
Mrs. Col. Merritt was few days
since forcibly taken from her home by her
brother and put into an insane asylum in
Trenton, N. j., unknown to her husband.
The latter is now endeavoring, by habeas
corpus, to obtain possession of his wife.
sac is said to be perfectly sane.
Hiram Moody, of South Amherst,
Mass, has an apple tree now growing upon
his farm which for several years blossomed
well but bore no fruit. He put stone
into the crotch of the tree, and it has re-
manned there and become completely i'm
Ial IN trao ho hor
over it as smoothly as on any part of the
tree, and since he first placed it there the
tree has borne an abundance of fruit
One Marcus Tourtellotte, of Spring
field, Mass, in order to compel the colored
Methodist church in Loring street to sell
its premises, has built fence round the
church as high as the caves, only eighteen
inches distant on one side and about a yard
on the other. To render it still more
offensive, the fence is painted black on the
side next the church. The church is, of
course, rendered dark in the midst of day,
and the heat on hot Sabbaths is absolutely
sitting The reason assigned for this per-
secution is that the people are noisy.
One OF the most successful of the cry
ing brigade of Cincinnati is little "kid"
of about ten years, and very small of his
age, who plies his vocation on Fourth street
every evening He manages to howl most
piteously, and can even make the tears
trickle down his dirty cheeks His boo
hoo" is either about a failure to sell his
papers or about a lost dime, and he never
ceases it until misguided philanthropy re-
places the currency. His mother requires
him to make thirty cents day, and whips
him soundly if he fails. Such is life.
1.-THE Chemistry of Cigar" is the
title of a long article in late number of
the Boston Journal Of CHEMISTRY, by the
editor. The writer ranks the tobacco
plant among the magistrates, all of which
are powerful narcotic poisons, and says
that it is the greatest robber of the soil
that grows-a ton of tobacco eXhausting
the soil as much as fourteen tons of wheat
and fifteen tons of corn. The statistics of
cigar manufacture show that Great Britain
and her colonies and the United States con-
sumo half the crop of the world, and that
Cuba produces one third of the whole
supply of the world.
The noted travelling hen reached st.
Joseph, Mo, recently, after having been
through nearly all the express offices in
the United States. Last Christmas she
was sent from New York to st. Paul,
Mimi, as a starter, and, the person to
whom she was consigned not being found
there, she has been going ever since, and
is to be sent to California. The box in
which she is placed is covered with express
tags, and pasted over with notices of the
press, and photographs of her henship,-
one taken at Grand Rapids, Mich. She
was quite young when started on her jour
ney, and has certainly seen great deal of
this country for a pullet but as the fol
lowing verse, written on her travelling coop,
would indicate, is determined 10 see it all:
I'm the wonderful travelling hen;
IT there's any place where | haven't been.
Send me along-for out of this pen
l never shall breathe the air again
in America, and also abroad, the tend
ency of literary manifestations, for several
years past, has been towards condensation.
The New York C0nDaerciM Advertiser says
this is notably the case in the newspaper
press, daily and weekly, and it is also dis
playing itself in magazine literature. The
average length of articles has been ma
terially reduced The newspaper, with
short, pungent paragraphs, in which the
that is to be given is boiled
down into the fewest possible words, is al
ways preferred to one which stretches its
articles out into columns of useless adjec-
tlveS. People who want to find out what
Is gong on, prefer to do it in as short
time as possible, and from sheet filled
With scores of condensed paragraphs they
can learn much more than if the same space
Is devoted to small number of lengthy
articles.
A Pittsburgh detective has lust Sic
ceeded IN getting at the mystery of the
great Bennehoff robbery, which took place
on the 10th of January, in the Pennsvl-
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