The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-03-31
FACTS AND FIGURES.

TOLEDO has 426 licensed retail liquor
shops.
THERE are twelve thousand varieties of
roses.
Boston has fined man SO for attempt
to kiss lady in the street
THERE are more Jews in the city of
New York than in the Holy Land.
THE Brooklyn retail grocers lose ST.
100000 year by the credit system.
THE blood of healthy, full-grown
average man weighs twenty pounds.
THE highest point reached by man,
| without the aid of balloon, is 10, 900 feet
A BOY in Trenton, who killed "valu-
able" dog which bit him, has been fined
| $25.
Mr. BURLINGAME intended to settle in
| California after his mission for China had
closed.
IN New Hampshire, judges cannot serve
after attaining the age of 10; but they can
go to the Legislature.
THE annual expenditure in the British
Consular Service in Greece is 1000; and
in the United States, $4,000.
THE cranberry crop at Harwich, Mass,
amounted, during the past year, to 3,761
| barrels, which were sold for $4,000.
NEW YORK in 1860, with population
| of 3,6S07S5, produced only 1851, 105
| bushels of wheat; or about two and a half
| bushels to each inhabltant.
AMHERST College claims the honor of
| being the first of the New England edG-
| cational institutions to admit women to
study and graduate on the same terms as
men.
| MEMBERS of a family named Wood
IaJ 81 Off Of Do ric C1orly niJc
| bury parish, England, for $50 years sue
| cessively. They began in 1891, and ended
| in 1889.
A CoLoRED woman known as Aunt Jen-
ME died recently in Nashville, Tenn, at
| the advanced age of 10. She had been d
slave up to the issuance of President Lin
| coins proclamation of freedom.
REV. DR. DOWNING, of New York,
| thinks that all bachelors above thirty
should be compelled to marry, or else con-
tribute one-fourth Of their earnings to the
support of needy spinsters
THE model girl of the period lives in
! Lafayette, Ind. She wears with pride
| and just pride, too-a dress made up of
material woven by her own fair hands.
| She is still unmarried.
| A GENTLEMAN of Columbus, Ca, the
other day, who has great patience and is
| fond of making minute observations,
timed the pace of snail. 1t made 70
| inches in 60 minutes.
| A FEMALE physician has been arrested
in Philadelphia on the charge of evading
| the special internal revenue tax, but
claims exemption on the ground that she
| is not allowed to vote.
A WRITER in the Fond du Lac Journal
| figures out that, with a capital of about
| "a 900 md a W ayY,anfit,1ra of = hn,Jt
| 100000, an annual income of some $780,
coo may be realized in the beet sugar bust
! ness.
| THERE are two lovely young ladies in
| May g Rogers paper mill at Lee, Mass,
| who have worked within ten feet of each
| other fifteen months and have not spoken
| together mad as March hares all the
| while.
| THE female teachers of San Francisco
are married off more rapidly than their
| places can be properly supplied. Out of
| sixteen teachers in the Lincoln school
| thirteen have been married within five
| years, and the other three were already
| married.
AN old lady in Alabama, not long ago,
agreed TO dispose of her estate to young
man, after her death, for 1000, and the
young man Immediately insured her life
in short time, whereupoQ he collected
the policy and paid for the property.
PHILADELPHIA has novel will case.
1t appears that man and his wife each
made will in favor of the other at the
same time, BUT by some blunder the man
signed his wife's will and the wife signed
her husbands. Not until after the death
of the husband was the mistake discov-
cred.
THE Louisville Conmercial says: {" We
have heard that, within few days past
one of our cotton spectators made ovel
one hundred thousand dollars in a single
transaction with New York broker
without the exchange of 50 much as a
pound of the ex-kingly staple
THERE is woman in Dexter, Me, who
has been married twenty-five years, is the
mother of nine children, mostly boys, and
has done her own work with the aid o.
members of her own family. She has, III
that period, manufactured eleven and 8
tons of butter and thirty five and 9
tons of cheese.
RESPECTABLE looking man presented
d pistol at ticket agent at Elizabeth, N
J.. and demanded ticket to New York
1t was given him, and he jumped on 6
train, leaving the revolver. In the even
ing he returned and apologized, saying
that important business called him tt
New York, and having left his pocket
book at home, he YVES bound to get 6
ticket. He paid for his ticket, got bach
his revolver, and, thanking the agent, de
| parted.
In 1894, a Hungarian Countess, named
: Elizabeth, enticed young girls into he
, palace on various preteXts and then coolly
| murdered them for the purpose of bath
/ ing in their blood. The spectacle of hu
( man suffering at last became such de
light to her that she would apply will
e her own hands the most eXcruclatlng tor
7 lures, keenly reishing the shrieks Of he
: victims. In this way she is said to hav'
3 murdered $50 persons before her caree
I was brought to an end.
| CHAMBERS JOURNAL gives some stats
;, tics of the business within square mile
| in London. Ten thousand vehicles passeC
| Blackfriar's bridge in twelve hours, IL ,0O(
e at Fleet street and 10000 at Londoi
!, bridge. One day of twenty -four hours
S not extraordinary, $4,000 vehicles passe(
$ over the Thames. In nine hours of on,
day in 1S49, $4,000 people entered tn
: city, and during one day in 1860, 707, 00
people entered the city, three-fourths O
l whom were on foot; $4,000 people en-
tered and passed out of the eight princi
5 pal arteries of London in one day.
ONCE an accomplished young American
woman had the honor to dine with tn
Car of Russia. During the entertain
ment a plate of grapes was passed. Th'
young lady saw the golden knife on thu
basket, but as the fruit came to her frs
: She had no way of learning its use; 81
she did just as she would have done IL
America reached out her dainty fingers
: end lifted from the dish whole stem o
grapes. What was her CONSERVATION t.
see the next person, as well as all tn