The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-01-14

| DURING the past decade in England,
40. 10000 gold sovereigns and $4,000, 900
/ half soverelgns were coined, which piled
one on the other would make column
thirty five miles high.
t A MANUFACTURER in Berkshire county,
Mass, has offered to give to the ladies in
his town all the cotton cloth they viii
make up for the poor of that town during
the winter. ~
| AN old gentleman on the burning
steamer United States, seeing all hope cut
off, went back to lis stateroom, saying
"Here let me die" A young woman
/ dived straight into the flames to make
short work of it. bf3a
Brazil has standing offer of a prize
of $4,000 in gold to'any one who will in
vent mode of preserving beef so that it
will be suitable for expectation. Four
hundred competitors hsve appeared for
the prize, and still it is not awarded.
TEE total number of arrests made by
the police of st. Louis during the past
year was 1885, males, 9,941 females,
2,S7S. The money stolen and stray pro-
perty received and restored to owners
during the year amounted to $114, 49S.
FIVE libraries in this country contain
each over 100, 900 volumes, of which three
are in Boston and Cambridge. Boston
Public Library contains 5000 volumes,
and the Library of Congress, 175,000.
The others are the Aston, Harvard College
and Boston Athen8um.
| THE ranking privilege of the members
of the Russian Parliament, which the
Government recently abolished as too
heavy burden for the Post Office Depart
ment, it has been ascertained, cost the
public exche ,uer only fifteen hundred
| Prussian dollars year.
HoRATIo SEYMOUR announces that the
fourth annual meeting of the American
Dairymen's Association VIII be held in
Utica, on Jan. 80. "Cooling milk before
cheese is made therefrom has it received
its due attention ?" is the leading subject
announced for the consideration of the
association.
THE weight of a gross of steel pens is
| but few ounces, and it is not difficult to
believe that it would take a good many
boxes to make ton. The largest pen fac
tory in the world, on the French coast,
uses sixty tons of steel month in this
manufacture, and there are dozen other
houses whose product is not very much
smaller.
THE township of Newton, Mass, near
Boston, has seven villages, named respect
lively as follows: Newton Center, Newton
Corner, West Newton, East Newton, New
ton Upper Falls, Newton Lower Falls,
and Newtonville. Visiting parties fire.
quently find themselves in the wrong
"Newton," while letters take their
chances, and pass back and forth indefi-
nitely.
| THERE are 1,113 miles of telegraph line
in South Australia. The rates are low and
| no, OF or
| part of the globe In England the annual
! proportion is one message to every seven
| of the population. In South Australia it
is one to every four. In England there
are 121 letters sent to one telegram, in
| South Australia only 13 letters. The au-
thorities now possess postal telegraph
| system.
EDMUND ABOUT says, in his " Old Time
Recollections," that, in 1S49, he was so
poor that he was about to accept a clerk
| ship in a Lyons silk house and bid fare
well to literature. A timely loan of two
hundred francs, however, enabled him to
finish novel, for which publisher paid
him five hundred francs, and this success
| encouraged him so much that he thought
| he would Try literary life a little longer.
| In the following year, he says, he earned
| one thousand francs with his pen, and
| His income is now never less than fifty
thousand francs year, and he has great
many more orders from publishers than
| he is able to fill. ea-
PAcKARD's Monthly relates The print
ers who formerly stuck type at the side of
! Horace Greeley, have died out of the office.
Horace, himself, though practical print
er, rarely visits the composing room. The
last time the writer saw him at work in the
composing-room was at 8 o'clock in the
morning following President Lincoln's
election, when he ran his eye over the
type of the New York election table on
the editorial page, and suddenly cried out,
Here, Sam, bring me bodkin, some in
fernal fool has spelled Allegany with an
h." And though the pressmen were i'm
patiently changing the bells for the forms,
Horace deliberately drew a jack knife from
his pocket and dug the h out of Allegany
before he would allow the form to go
| down.
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