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

How to prevent sea sickness-Keep on
shore
A CURIOUS contradiction-tb reign of
snow,
IF industry is no more than habit, it is
at least an excellent one
LADY PALMERsToN, although over sew
enty, was sprightly enough to electioneer
for her son.
THE last illness Of Sir Richard Mayne
was the first for the forty years he had
been Chief of the London police.
TEXANS believe that the story of the
cattle plague was put up thing to reduce
the price of their beef.
THE man who attempted to hang him
self with a cord of wood abandoned the
enterprise, because It was too expensive.
ROMAN MAXIMs.-1. Never work with
in doors when there is anything to be
done without. 2. Never do in fair wealth
er what may be done in wet.
A LITTLE girl, on Christmas eve, seeing
the sun setting, said: " Mamma, know
what makes it so red, over there; Santa
Claus is baking"
A Boston artist painted a bottle of
spruce beer so naturally that the cork flew
out before he could paint the string to
fasten it. Wonder what became of the
beeri
AN American gentleman writes from
London that common American corn
cobs are sold in the streets of that city
as "patent fire lighters-eight for a
penny"
THE Pope bought a pretty cottage for
the widow of Monti, executed for attempt
ing to blow up a Zouaye barrack, in Rome,
but she scornfully refused the Gift and
then fed the city in diguise .-
Two AMERICAN students at Gottingen
fought q duel last month, in which one of
them, the son of a Philadelphia banker,
was severely wounded. A quarrel about
Grant ard Seymour had given rise to a
challenge, which was promptly accepted
The duel was fought with pistols at fifteen
yards distance.
IT is said that the only infallible way to
ascertain that death has taken place, with
the exception of decomposition, is by
holding a candle to a part of the body.
If the blister on being punctured gives
forth fluid substance, death has not
taken place. If air is emitted, death las
occurred.
"BoBBY," said Uncle Peter, as he ex-
anlined the points of the beast, az don't
see but one reason why that mare cannot
trOt her mile in three minutes" They
gathered round to hear this oracular
opinion, and one inquired, "What is it ?"
"Why," he replied, "the distance is too
great for so short time"
A POOR laborer in Manchester, England,
had such an infatuation for attending
prize fights, that frequently he would walk
fifty miles to witness one, when he could
not afford to ride. His last journey was
fatal He had no money to pay ferry
man on the River Mersey and attempted
| to swim across. He was drowned in the
| effort
| DEACON SAMUEL M. ANDREWS, since
| his arrival at the State Prison at Charles
| town, has manifested the same calmness
and tractability of demeanor which has
usually characterized his conduct. AS he
| had had some experience of the machin-
cry of cotton-mill, he has been set to
| work in a machine shop. He seems to
work with good humor and with q fair
amount of diligence.
| SIX Waterbury, Conn, sportsmen went
Dickerel fishing one bitter cold night, re-
| Gently, on mill-pond number of miles
| from that town. After they had cut sew
| for several hours without a bite they were
| told by small boy that the owrer of the
| pond had drawn it off few Gays before
and captured all the fish.
AN old gentleman in Ridgefeld, Con
necticut, who is fond of buckwheat cakes,
and who cooks them himself every morn
ing the other day prevailed or lis son to
| try them. Son thought thsy had a queer
| taste; father thought so too What could
be the matter? After breakfast, one of the
neighbours girls came in to wash the dishes,
stir up more cakes, and put the house in
order. On stirring up the buckwheat, she
fished up a huge rat from the bottom of
the dish, and, on stirring again, fished up
four more in succession.
THE common artificial lights vitiate the
atmosphere in two ways-by removing its
oxygen, which is indispensable to respira-
ton, and by producing carbonic acid gas
A six foot burner will produce as large a
| quantity of this poisonous gas as would
| be expired by eight or nine persons in a
| state of quietude and it would abstract
more oxygen from the air than they
| would absorb during the same time. Ven
tilation, therefore, should be carefully Sc
cured after the gas or lamps are lighted
at night, and particularly where they are
to be burned all night.
ALTHOUGH enlightened men generally