The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-01-13
Eiscetlaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
Happy Virginians get their oysters
at so cents bushel.
An Italian benevolat society has been
organized in Memphis.
| The late Snow caused much suffering
among the cattle in the Southern part OF
Kansas.
The South Bend, Ind, Register has
an illustration of the quail trap used by
Schuyle- Colfax when boy.
| The starch mill at Milan. Maine, has
worked up $4,000 bushels of potatoes
this fall and made lis tons of starch.
Thirty Swiss men and women have
lately reached Terry, Mississippi, and
have gone to work on the adjacent plan
tations.
"A Memphis bride deserted her hus-
band the morning after her marriage, be-
cause he refused to send the breakfast up
to her room.
The wages paid on Mississippi River
steamboats, average For Captains, Sl75
per month pilots, 5000 to $3.50; first
engineers 500, and deck hands, $50 to
$50. .
AT Meare's Bluff, near the city of
Wilmington, N. c., there is being estab-
lished a mandatory for the making of
guano, under the name of the Nayassa
Guano Company.
Two mammoth teeth-one weighing
seven pounds and the other fve-were
lately found three miles north OF Grow
creek, Kansas, eight feet under ground,
by a railroad grading party.
Thomas Gavnor, Of Stamford, Conn,
lately had a piece of dirk knife 81 inches
long cut from the roof of his mouth,
which he had carried in his head since
last My, when he was stabbed IN the
head during fight.
The treasurer of church in Sioux
City was startled, the other night, to find
one of his pew holders come in and join
his party in playing faro. Neither spoke
until No. pushed some chips across the
table and said quietly: "John, just give
me credit for that amount upon my pew
rent -
Experiments made by an English
chemist, some years ago, show how much
food of different kinds it takes to make
pound of flesh. According to his con-
clusions it requires, of milk, % lbs..
turnips, 100; potatoes, So; carrots, 81;
oat meal, 9; barley meal, 7}; beans, 35:
In Ohio there is an excess OF 4O,3 3oo
men, Michigan 10000, and in California
l43, 900. In Massachusetts, on the con-
trary, there are sc, 900 more women than
men, in New Hampshire $500, in Rhode
Island 5000, and in Connecticut $500.
The total excess in New England OF te-
males is 48, 500.
Don Piatt, in the course OF an attack
on the Congressional Globe, says: Il
believe if Congress would pay, as it does
now, its corps of reporters, and furnish
gratis its reports to the New York Irl-
bune, Times, Herald or World, the jour
nal designated would furnish the debates
for half-yes, one fourth the sum We
now expend."
The Texas pecan market is quite
brisk at 1926 per bushel, specie. The
demand for shipment to northern mark
cts seem to be steadily increasing, whilst
the supply is gradually diminishing every
rear, oring to the fact that pecan trees
are being constantly cut for the fruit,
lumber or other purposes. The trees
make tolerably good lumber but the time
will come when they will be worth huli-
dreds Of dollars per acre for the fruit
alone,
The Corinne, (Utah) Reporter says:
"Nsarly every train bound East takes
hence a Urge number of Mormons, mis-
sionaries they call themselves, but we
should call them mysteriousaries. Some
thing is wrong in Zion, sure. Never
were SO many allowed to leave the realm
at any one time before. To be sure there
are a great many going back to their tor,
mer homes and friends, but there is still
larger number going for some other pur-
pose, Our advise to our Eastern breth-
rem is to keep sharp lookout for this
class of people, also for your wives,
daughters and valuables.
"A correspondent of the Springfield
Republican, familiar with pavements IN
England, writes that in Manchester wood
and stone pavements both are used, and
that wood is much the more preferable,
though probably costing more there
Roth are laid in blocks of seven or eight
inches in depth, and six inches to one
foot square on the face. Wood pave
ment probably costs twice as much IN
England as here, and the stone twice as
much here as there but the correspond
ent's experience and observation satisfies
him that the wood pavement Is worth at
Ieast twice as much as the stone Tor all
city use.
At Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as
the gun for reveille and evening roll call
is fred each day, dog belonging to the
post, and known as Artillery. Jack, taxes ts
operation of loading and fireing with the
most assiduous attention, and, when the
match is applied, leaps with yeIp
through the smoke to catch the ball,
which he firmly believes has been dis
charged. This he eagerly hunts for
through the parade ground, and when
disappointed, he runs back to the gun,
looks into the muzzle, hangs his head
and walks away, seemingly puzzled aud
disguised, but not hopeless.