The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-30
VOL. XVI mo. "a.
FACTS AND FIGURES.

BRIGHAM You've weighs two hundred
and forty pounds avoirdupois.
IT is said that operate singers eat an
early breakfast on the day they are going
to sing.
The late Henry Keep left four million
dollars, which will be fine keep sake for
the heirs.
F. PROFESSOR JUDAH DANA, of Rutland
VT, has copy of Virgil printed over
three hundred years ago.
THE first newspaper published in Vir-
GINA, a weekly issue, in 1880, was $50 a
year subscription.
HARRY SCHMIDT, newsboy on the
Kentucky Central Railroad, has fallen heir
TO fortune in Germany of $13S, 900.
1T costs eight hundred dollars wear to
clothe the hand of the Empress Eugene
with appropriate gloves.
A FRENCH lady was detected, the other
day, in trying to smugele through the New
DIRK Custom House six poodles, slowed
in her pockets.
A STORY is told Of a belle at White
Sulphur Springs who, according to VOW,
accepted the one hundredth man who pro-
posed to her.
THE largest tannery in the world is at
Kane, Pa. 1t is not yet finished, but has
600 watts in operation, and consumes $4,000
tons OF hemlock bark per year.
REV. JAMES DURBoRow, an Episcopal
clergyman in Philadelphia, recently sol
emnized his 1,000th marriage ceremony
during a fourteen years pastorate.
SOME one has sent to Postmaster-Gen-
eral Creswell $500 for the widow and
children of Secretary Rawlins, with the
request that his name shall not be men
toned in connection with the matter.
THERE is letter in the Postoffice at
Richmond, postmarked Savannah, Ga, di-
rected as follows: "To Mr.. Porter, a
young man in Richmond, Va, whose first
name | have forgotten"
THE Brooklyn Mercantile library is a
vigorous and fiourishing institution. 1t
has on its list $4,000 books The member
ship is about {, 900. Thirteen thousand dol
lars are to be expended annually in the
purchase of new volumes.
THE largest mandatory of gas fixtures
in the world is in Philadelphia. They
have built the largest chandelier in the
world for the Philadelphia Academy of
MUSCLE feet in diameter, % feet long,
with $50 burners.
A MARRIED couple in the Palatinate were
about to make a journey by cars from
Germersheim to Durkheim, and missed the
train; the man began to abuse his wife
she returned his abuse with interest, which
exasperated him so much that he pulled
out pocket pistol and shot his wife and
himself
THE Young Mems Christian Association
OF this country has a membership of 90
600, having property to the value of So
10000. Nearly $500 conversions are at
tributable to their efforts. There are T.
100000 of young men in our land, and
only 250,0O0 profess to be Christians.
THE full strength of our navy actually
on duty, IN ships and guns, is stated to be
as follows: North Atlantic squadron, 10
ships 69 guns; South Atlantic, ships, 43
guns; European fleet, 5 ships, 66 guns !;
Pacific, II ships, II guns; Asiatic, 9 ships,
80 guns; or special duty, 8 Ships 36 guns.
This force could be trebled at short no.
tice.
JOHN COFFIN, of Chichester, N. H, re-
Gently seized by the tail a black snake
which had taken refuge under rock
Coffin held on at one end and the snake
at the other, and the result was that the
snake parted, breaking open in the mid
die. The two pieces, when put together,
measured six feet in length.
A FRENCH Canadian girl, aged nineteen
years, was killed a few days ago, at the
st. Alexandra Station, near Riviere du
LOup, in attempting to cross in front of
an engine. Her mother demonstrated,
and said the train was too near, but the
father said, Go, you can do it, if you're
smart" The girl was crushed beneath
the engine wheels.
The entire cost of the SHez Canal to
be opened next December, has been about
$S1,O00,000. But to include improve
ments, which will be applied as experience
may suggest, we may safely set the sum at
$S5,000,000. 1t is estimated by some au-
thorities that the annual business Of the
canal will amount to 100000 tons, and
that its gross receipts will be $20,000,000.
THE Hottentots living in Cape Colony,
South Africa, number in all 1896 Many
of them are rising in the scale of educa-
ton, civilization and religion. In one Of
their towns, having a population of over
1000, they have lately built Christian
chapel which will accommodate about
900 hearers, and it is generally crowded
with sober and attentive worshipers.
THERE is straight forward, broad
shouldered, honest drayman standing
every day with his team at the corner Of
Third avenue and Twenty third street,
who once lived where Mr.. Field now re-
SUES Ill Oralnmercy Idrk, anu whose
father owned all of what is now Union
Square, and much of the neigboring land
He bears his downward turn of fortune
quite bravely.-Neao York Null.
AT Jamaica, L. l., few day ago. Lewis
Carter, a colored man, descended into
well to take out the tube of an iron pump
AT halfpast 3 the earth and stones fell
upon him, and he remained thirty-seven
feet below the surface until extIicated the
following night at half past H. He was
inferred thirty-twO hours. Heavy stones
lodged on his shoulders and pressed against
his sides, and he was unable to move He
was entirely without light, but air reached
him through crannies between the stones.
He experienced no bodily pain, and his
mental sensations were not distressing, in
aSmucn as The sounds above gave him as
surance Of rescue. After working the
whole of the first night, the iaborers were
gratified at daybreak to hear the mans
voice His head was uncovered in the
him, but it required six hours more to re-
lease his body. When drawn up he was
weak from bruises, but perfectly able to
walk to bis home, leaning on the arm of
a friend. Beyond being stiff and sore
from the Commissions received, he was in no
way injured.
HORSE RACING AMONG THE INDIANS
'Redlander,' New Orleans correspondent OF the
I,J, F1<Ld and Farm, tells the following story of
a race in the Creek nation where the racing author
tiles believed that weight objection if it
were well placed, and that it was an advantage to