The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-07-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS
| -Four boxes govern the world: the
cartridse box, the ballot box, jury box,
and the band box. 8
! Two hundred miles of pathway have
been explored in the Monmouth Cave in
Kentucky -.-
"A GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin, printer girl
recently setf2, 600 ems|ef, solid nonpareil
] In ten hours.
"A lady received among. her we'd
ding presents, three sewing machines
SIX large family Bibles, and ten ice pitch
| ers.
-Foundlings are so plentiful in Quin-
cy, Illinois, that parties go out picking
them as they do huckleberries.
-California beets are so large that
pigs eat tunnels through them without
disturbing the outside" Beat this story
who can
"A lady al. Saratoga came to breakfast
a few mornings ago dressed in a plain
calico dress, with diamond earrings and
necklace. II v
Belgium, a little kingdom of /, 3s2
square miles-about the size of MARYLAND
gives comfortable support to over s.
100000 people, or about 500 to the
square mile.
1t is interesting to summer tourists
to learn that trout has recently been
caught in lake Winnepisseegeo, meas
uring thirty four inches from tip to tip
and weighing twenty and hail
pounds
Miss Smead, teacher at Kalama-
zoo, has experienced fall. She fell
heir to $50, 900. Young men out of
situation may do well to visit Kalama-
zoo.
-Woman's right to the parasol is
usurpered more than ever this sum-
mer, the carrying OF sun umbrellas by
men being very general. White umbrel-
las are especially affected, and their APP
pearance IN mum Der give the effect OF a
bed Of mushrooms
Antony Trollope says: II do not
comprehend the reason for the existence
of so many women although [ suppose
Providence had some wise end in view,
In giving to every man at least eight or
ten women to choose from when he is
about to select wife.
Michigan, as is now well known, is
only corruption of the name of Father
Mike Egan, an Irish Catholic priest, who
lived and toiled, and was finally sacri-
feed by the Indians, on the site of the
present city of Detroit. -PHnchtnelto.
Letters testamentary on the estate
of the late Jerome Napoleon Bona
parte, have been granted in the Orphans
Court OF Baltimore to Charles Joseph
Bonaparte. The estate, amounting to
about $40. 600 of personal and $50, ZOO
of real property, is devised to the widow
and two sons of the deceased.
A lady says engagements are very
unsatisfactory sort of affairs, for if you
are not very polite and attentive, the
gentleman thinks you do not care for
him, and you are afraid to be polite, for
fear the engagement might some time be
broken off, when you would be sorry to
think you had wasted so much sweet
ness ON some other woman's husband.
When the "Great American Trave-
ler, alias Daniel Pratt, was in Pressure
Isle, several years ago, he took rooms"
with Uncle Jerry. After he had chung
round week or so, without mention
ing pay, mine host asked him one after
noon what he did for living. Il tray
ell" he replied. ''Well." said Uncle
Jerry, ''arter supper let's see you trav-
ell"
The last of Commodore Perry's men
is not dead yet. He lives at Pacific City,
Mills county, Iowa. His name is John
Dunkeson. He is seventy four years DID,
He is one Of one hundred men who vol
unteered as marines for the occasion, at
Perry request, from the 9th infantry,
then stationed at Fort Seneca, and was
on board the Niagara, commanded by
Capt. Elliott, and helped TO gain the vic
tory.
"A funny man in Alexandria, Va,
the other evening, babe his wife and
children good bye, telling them that he
was going to kill himself He then jump
edinto the we'll of an old ice house in that
locality, but crawled through dry drain
that opens on the side of hill near by,
and watched with delight the efforts of
large crowd which soon collected to fish
him out of the bottom of the well.
To learn to read the following SO as
TO make good sense is the mystery
thee read see that me,
Love is up will I'll have
But that and you have you
One and down and you if