The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-03-10
MISCELLANEOUS,

MISCELLANEOUS
The Pope is Sc, geo, 600 in debt.
The Gar is again on the sick list.
Queen Victoria has nine children.
The relapsing fever has reached Bos-
ton.
There are 1lS, 459 buildings in Phil
idelphia
The cholera is spreading throughout
Russia.
New York has sixteen saloons to
every church.
Heavy rains throughout California
are reported.
-Brazlilan troops are served with ra-
tons OF dogmeat.
The average level of Iowa above the
sea is 500 feet
Chattanooga, Tenn, enjoyed three
inches Of snow on Feb. H.
Renting houses by auction has been
introduced into Boston.
--Oysters are regularly imported into
England from New York
Egyptian women have asked per-
mission to appear unTailed in public.
The Illinois river was frozen over its
entire length IN the late cold snap.
-Four Western State Legislatures
have elected women as enrolling clerks.
"A factory has been established in
Brooklyn for the making of potato sugar
"A Schenectady firm wants to ex-
change 800 velocipedes for Confederate
bonds.
They are talking of connecting Sta
ten Island with the main la I'D by bridge
The 99, O0Oth patent was issued from
the Patent Office at Washington last
week.
German papers say the emigration
to America will be larger this year than
ever.
A New Yorker named Fox has died
and left 100000 to help pay off the
national debt.
The Chinese have distracted from
the wealth of California SOS, 900, 900 in
coin, since 1855.
The average depth of the Atlantic
Ocean has been found to be twelve thou
sand feet
Two hundred of the gentleman at
recent Tuileries court ball wore hired
court suits.
New York estimates the worth of
meat consumed In that city every year at
S62, 900. 600.
"A single firm N Paris has sold two
hundred thousand photographs Of the
murderer Trauppman.
Cologne Cathedral, which has been
building for some 600 or 700 years will
be finished in 1875.
"A Gettingen professor has discovered
some very minute diamonds in a speci-
men of Oregon platinum.
There are in the United States $50
Young Mems Christian Associations, with
over l00,00 members.
American newspapers have now a
much larger circulation on the European
continent than British journals.
j. G. Shawn, son Of the great Nor
gan county H., farmer and stock raiser
returns an income for 1869, of ST. 900
rs farm profits.
1t is said that new description Of
lava Is being thrown from the crater of
Nesuvius since the last eruption, con
sisting of crystalized salt.
The great rock near Ismalia has
been removed from the bed of the Suez
Canal. The minimum depth of the water
now is about % feet.
How long did Adam remain in
Paiadise before he sinned?' said an
amiable spouse to her husband It'll
he got wife, was the calm reply.
The Emperor of Austria has given
the Mikado of Japan piano forte, and
the Mlkado' s wife is taking lessons of the
wife of the British Minister
The present Freshman class in
Dartmouth College. plumbers ninety seven,
being the largest since the foundation OF
the institution hundred years ago.
1t is estimated that the seven hun
dred families dwelling in Fifth Avenue,
New York, eSpend not less than $l7,-
100000 Tor house rent and family ex-
penses.
A new spouting mineral spring has
been accidentally developed near Sarato-
ga, N. I. Ii throws water several feet
high. similar to the Geysers of Iceland
and California.
The health authorities of New York
have decided to furnish the reporters no
further information Of the spread of the
small pox or relapsing fever in that city
ne last steamer which arrived at
San Francisco from Japan brought
large number of tea plants of different
varieties, portion of them for the
japanese colony in I'll Dorado county,
The New York Express gives this
rule for testing Christian: ''Set him to
putting up an old matched stove
pipe, and keep him at it an hour. If he
don swear he's seasoned"
The estimated cost of the new Ro-
man Catholic Cathedral now In the pro-
Cess Of erection on Fifty-third street, near
Fifth Avenue, New York, is $4,000, 900
of which 5000, 900 have already been ex-
pended, and the whole work will be
completed In 1872
Says the Toronto Leader 'sLake
Ontario, strange to say, was frozen over
on Feb. IS from Canada to the American
shore, and as far east and west as the eye
could reach. This is the first time that
this great lake has been lce-b bound within
the memory of the oldest inhabitant.
The u S. Steamer Oneida Sunk.
WASHINGTON, Feb. IS.