The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-01-28
FACTS AND FIGURES.

| RerCnleIS.
THE salt mines of Austria are worked
by million miners.
WHY is hen immortal? Because hel
son never sets.
SUNDAY evening sittings in Rev 81. w
Beecher's church are advertised at SIT
each. yearly.
VELoCIPEDEs are prohibited in New
York Central Park, because they will
Brighten the horses.
A BOY of fourteen was recently mar
RED at Holly Springs, Miss, to a woman
of thirty-two.
THE Rev. David Winters, of Dayton,
Ohio, has married over 1000 people during
his ministry. r5@,5, ~. .'.--..-...
ST.. LOUIS had thirty-three murders,
thirty suicides and five fatal coal oil explo-
sions in 1858.
THE hair of James Ferguson, of Buffalo,
a worker in copper, has, it is said, turned
perfectly green. - ~ 9i
| THERE are twelve churches on Erie
street, Cleveland, Ohio within space of
less than mile.
| A FIVE thousand dollar monument is to
be erected over Sam Houston's now name
less grave, at Huntsville, Texas
| AUDUBON and his wife made their bridal
trip in 1903 down the Ohio, from Pitts
burgh to Louisville, on flat boat.
| PHILADELPHIA has, three hundred and
| eighty-five churches, which will not nearly
give sitting room to all its people.
| THERE'S promising young giant in
Cheshire, Mass, only sixteen years old,
and already six feet and three inches in
height. a.ta'strs- :l.fg=
Two HUNDRED and eighty-four wives
| and one hundred and seventy six husbands
| filed petitions for divorce in Chicago last
year.
JOHN B. COUGH was born in SYNDICATE,
England, In 1917. His father was a
Peninsular soldier, and his mother school
| teacher.
SIX new postoffices have been named
Norwood" since the publication of
Henry Ward Beecher's story in the New
| York Ledger.
| DURING the past year there were 295
commercial failures in New York; 63 in
| Philadelphia SO in Boston; 81 in Ba- IL
more, and % in Chicago.
| = OF the six last elected Pennsylvania
| Senators -Buckalew, Cameron, Cowan,
| BrOdhead, Bigler and Scott-none have
ever served in the lower House
| WHITTIER says that in the name MAUD
l
so as to rhyme with duller. He SAYS that
is the New England pronun citation of the
name.
| A CALIFORNIAN speaks of 1900 acres
| as a " small farm" Two hundred acres OF
wheat is small patch" Some farmers
have as many as 5000 acres devoted to
| wheat in one season.
A MACHINE has been invented and put
into operation in California, which il is
said has cut, thrashed, cleaned and sacked
the wheat from twenty acres in ten hours,
With only three men to work it.
The town of Wells, Vt, has citizen
| who married at II. His first child was a
a daughter, who married at IS, and
| eighteen months afterward made her
father a grandfather, at the early age OF
81 years.
SOME one versed has calculated that il
| will take fifty men, working twelve hours
a day, seven years, four months and thir-
teen days, to read through all the public
| documents issued in the United States
! every three months.
| IT is now seen that cotton has not ex-
hausted the cotton fields Of the South, but
bad tillage. A bale of 500 pounds OF
| cotton, when burned, leaves but four
| pounds of ashes ALI the rest goes into
|
| In the amusement world the following
| are among the dead of 1863 Rossini,
Samuel Lover. Sterling Coyne, Mary Gan.
non, Julia Dean Hayne, Menken, Helen
Western, Anna Lacoste, G. nj. Walcott,
Sr.; John Seton, Charles Kean, George
Jameson, VIM. Hanlon, Ronzini, Salvador
Tagiiona, VIM. Harrison, George Christy
TIE annual incomes of the various
| English Bishops range from $4,000 to
about $4,000. Canterbury enjoys the
latter and Sodor the former amount.
London and Windsor have each an in
come of $4,000 a year, and Durham
| $4,000. The other Bishoprics are worth
from $4,000 to $4,000 year.
ONE of the most productive taxes in
the city OF Berlin is On dogs, amounting
to three thalers on every animal. The
number has increased about 1000 in four
years, and is at present 20,950, of which
1900 are useful, Generally used in draw
ing truck. This duty produces every
year for the municipality about 10000
thalers.
THE Protestant Episcopal Almanac for
1859 gives the following general summary
of statistics of that church in the United
States; Bishops, A.; Bishop elect, 1;
clergy, 1926; baptisms, 80, 5s5; csnfrma-
| lions, IS, 406 communicates, 157, 1884 +;
| marriages, 1856; burials, il, 454; ordin a.
tions, deacons, IS; presby teries, 90 can
| didates for orders, $50; Sunday-sc
teachers, 1880; contributions, $3,443,
1887
ORANGES were frozen solid on the trees,
at Augustine, Fla, on Christmas day. The
| weather was the coolest known in that
locality since 1865. The thermometer at
daylight stood at twenty degrees above
zero. 1t afterwards touched seventeen de,
grees. In climate where even white
| frosts are unusual, this was very severe.
Last year, at the same time, the Florida
ladies were dressed in lawns.
A WRITER to the Waco (Texas) Regi ster,
gives summary of the profit of his farm
operations during the past year. He has
had $50 acres under cultivation-43O in
| cotton, and 159 in corn From this, with
the labor of forty-two freedmen, he has
raised 800 bales of cotton, and nearly
10000 bushels of corn. He has sold his
cotton on the ground for $24,675, and
| reckoning his corn at the going rates
| thirty cents per bushel-that would
| amount to $4,000, making the entire value
| of his crop $27,675. To offset this, there
is the cost of labor of his hands, $8,225
provisions for same, $1,8S7; incidentals,
| 81, 1900; making the entire cost of pro-
| ducing this crop, $12, 312. This leaves q
nice little profit Of $15,3S8 as the result
of one years farming.
How Some Joint Stock Companies are
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