The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-09
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Art and RcfAncA.

that ocean Sleam naVG0uOn was an I'M
possibility; and Theirs. in 1889, said rail
roads would never be useful or successful
The warm skate is made as fol-
lows: In slot in the skate-stock is insert
ed square bit Of soapstone, made red-hot
in the fire. 1t retains warmth for some
hours, and keeps the skaters foot in COM
| Portable conditions sort OF portable stove
which Is handy and effective.
The american Artisan says that if
pegged boots are occasionally dressed with
petroleum between the soles and the upper
| leather they will not rip. If the soles are
dressed with petroleum they will resist
wet and wear well. The pegs are not af-
fected by dryness after being well oiled.
Some time ago, when number of
workmen were fitting tire on wheel at
the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, England, it
was found necessary 10 give bevel to the
tire of about three eighths' of an inch
One of the men suggested that the bevel
could be given by heating the tire red hot
and then iIHmersing it one half its depth
in cold water. This was tried and found
| to answer perfectly, the part which was
out of the water being reduced in dame
ter. The tire was three inches wide,
halfinch thick, and four feet two inches
in diameter.
Soft water is great desideratum, out
sometimes, and especially during such
seasons as the past summer, q hard thing
to get One of the most common methods
of precipitating the lime from hard or
well water is the old housewife scheme of
adding wood ashes, and thus neutralizing
the lime with alkali. A correspondent of
the Scientific american gives q simpler
remedy, which, if true, is valuable. It is,
| for every ten gallons of water take quart
of bran, tie it up in stout bag and boil
in the water The lime will rise to the top,
and can be skinned Off
We are informed on good authority
| that nothing is better for withdrawing the.
frost without injury to frozen ears, cheeks
| and fingers than the immediate application
of bling it on gently few
| times. In one instance both cheeks were
| frozen, and this remedy produced imme-
(, date relief without the usual inflammation.
The same person repeated the application
at another time with equal success. In
another case the remedy was applied to
| badly frozen car, which, as in the other
| instances, it cured without Inflammation.
| 1t is Indispensable that the application be
made before thawing. This remedy is the
more valuable because it is always at hand
| in every house.-C Country Gentleman.
| The best riders in the world ride with
short stirrups The seat maintained by
one of our city cavaliers with his straight
| legs and toes resting in narrow strip of
metal in lieu of stirrup, would not serve
him safely in the rough work of a cavalry
campaign. He could not swing sword,
hurl lance, or throw lasso from this
| feeble foothold thus maintained with any
more effect than q child or woman. The
| Cossacks, Bedouins, Mexicans and Conan
ches, all ride with short, very short STIR
rups. And the stirrups of some Mexican
hy1rr 6ar1f ovrrI,-
ing several pounds. The saddle is equally
heavy, as it had need be when its pommel
sustains the strain OF bulls whole weight
| and strength on the lasso that is fastened
to it.
1t is stated that German glass-maKer
| has lately made q remarkable discovery.
He has invented a telescope, or magnify
ing glass, by means OF which the most in
trinsic nerves and vessels inside the body
may be seen from the outside. In fact, the
whole arrangement and action of the inte-
riOr organs may, by means of the glass, be
distinguished. The discovery will prOba-
bly, be of immense benefit to mankind, as
by means of it, physicians will be able to
determine with unvarying accuracy the
nature of any particular disease, and the
proper manner for treating the same. The
name of the inventor. who will probably
realize a fortune from his discovery, is
Cotlieb Juntz. He is very poor, but a well
read. and a highly intelligent man. He
has an aged mother, al invalid wife and
six children, and blind sister, dependent
upon him for support. HIS mother was
well acquainted with the poet Goeth, and
| it was probably her many anecdotes of this
illustriOus person which first inspired her
son with a desire to do something to win
the respect ard esteem of his fellow men.
By means of this invention he has already
nearly cured his wife. Six months ago a
well known doctor said she could not live,
and pronounced her disease to be an affec-
ton of the heart. Juntz however, has
now proven to him with the aid of the
wonderful microscope that he was entirely
mistaken the stomach alone being the
part affected.
A HORRIBLE DEATH. For several years
past there has lived in the town of Hull,
England, a respected fisherman named
| William Pope. He was Industrious and
and was kind man. A few days
ago he entered his boat and proceeded to a
well known spot in the bay, where his eff
forts as a fisherman had frequently been
rewarded. During his stay there he was
Overtaken by dense fog, which shut out
from his sight the shore and all other OBJ
jects not very near him. He took his oars
and started, as he supposed, in a direct
course for home; but he made miscaicu-
lation, and ere long his boat became stuck
in mud bank, from which his strength
was inadequate to relieve her. Be-
ing in shallow water, and rightly
supposing he was not far from shore, he,
as last resort, got out of his boat and
attempted to wade to dry land. But the
mud which had fastened So rigidly to
his skif now took earnest hold of his
limbs, and he soon found that he was q
prisoner, and powerless to move either to
the shore or return to his boat. In this
strait he did what any man with q voice
would have done-shouted for assistance.
His cries, strong and earnest and anon
piteOus, were heard on land, but as the
fog was dense and impenetrable, he could
not be seen, and no aid came to him. And
there the poor man stood for many long
hours, his neart undoubtedly filed with
agonizing despair, surrounded on every
side by the chilling watery waste, which,
with the incoming tide, gradually
crept upwards, growing deeper and
deeper, until it submerged and drowned
him. His body was found next day stand
ing erect where he had met his fate, rigid
in death, with his garments, icy and stiff,
inclosing him. s.
| DISTRESS IN MIss1ssIPPL-The Cincin-
natl Gazette has the following account of
the deplorable condition Of affairs in Mis-
sissippi: "The state Of things is appalling.
Distress, want and misery are even now
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