The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-03-12
Miscellaneous srsucs,

Louisville had twelve snow storms the
past winter.
The Syracuse salt mines have yielded
100000 pounds of salt since their dis
coVery IN 1907.
I'm 1S49 Chicago railroads earned
twenty seven thousand dollars; IN 1867,
forty seven millions.
Two pretty women had duel in Kan
sas, the other day, and one was shot dead.
Il lover was the cause.
BY the time Western game is sold in
New York, it is said, 9G0 DER cent is added
to the cost of purchasers
The Chippewa CWis) Union says
during g cold snap there, water in wells 40
feet deen was frozen over.
-Suhstract your age from eighty and
two-thirds of the result will give you the
probable duration OF your life.
The first building in Cory, Pa, was
erected in August, 1861. The town now
has population Of over 5000.
An English magazine estimates the
Wall street money business at between
$4,000, 100000 and S16,000,000,00 a year
The Frontier Iade1 says that the head.
quarters Of the U. P. r. r. Engineer
Department have been established at Fort
Sanders.
"A company of eastern capitalists
with capital of $4,000, coo, arc endeavor
ing to purchase the Southwest Pacific
Railroad to Missouri.
Between eighty and ninety million
pins can be made in 3 day of ten hours by
machine lately completed. So the Con
necticut papers say.
More that $30000 of which Hartford
has contributed $4,000, has been raised
in Connecticut toward the foundation
Of g Slate industrial school for vagrant
girls.
The total acres of land granted by
Government to Iowa to aid in the con-
struetion of railroads, Is 5,0097S4 The
total miles of road now built in that State
are ,325.
Mr.. VIM. Fraser, an amateur skater
of Chicago, recently wagered $500 thai
he could skate 100 miles in "a consecutive
hours. He won the money and had Is
minutes to spare.
San Jose, California, has gone into silk
culture, with a company having capital
of 100000, The machinery has arriv ed
the foundation of the building is laid, an6
the worms are at work.
I'm the United States there are one
hundred and eighty theaters, museums
opera and concert halls, which paid last
year tax of two per cent. on their gross
receipts, amounting to S194,O39.
New York has had nearly one hun.
dred days OF sleighing the past winter, &C
cording to one Of its journals. Three
months of snow before the close of Feb
ruary makes pretty long winter.
The Hanover, York County, penn
Spectator, says that g strange and fatal
disease has made its appearance among
cattle In that county, and that many farm
ers have lost some of their valuable cows.
An irrepressible Yankee is boring a
hole in the Black Hills to furnish Chey-
enne with volcano to be far superior to
Nesuvlus in every respect. 1t will be illu-
minated by natural means on every Fourth
of July.
In New York plan has been broached
to receive from all the prominent points of
the West quotations of the labor market,
SO that emigrants may be sent at once to
the points where their services will be
most in demand.
1t costs seventy pounds sterling q
week to keepthe Great Eastern. The Chair.
man OF the Company, at a recent meet
ing, advised patience as other cables must
be laid, and the Great Eastern is the only
vessel to accomplish it successfully.
"A lacy who had carried two common
pigeons from their home in Missouri, dis
lance of two hundred miles, keeping them
In close box, lately missed them, and has
received letter from Missouri saying tina,
they had returned to their old haunts.
The Union Pacific (E. d. has 33s
miles of the track in running order reach
ing to the town of Cayote. The severe
weather on the plains has retarded
work on the road of late, bat large force
will be put to labor early this month.
The Hudson River, New York Cen
trail, Hsrlem and Erie Railroads, now pro