The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-01-20

wvou1Ne has 700 women voters.

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every voter. T-t.-s.o7-rl .s.fr5,s.li,t
BosroN now has dominion over 9,aS7
acres of land. sr -..-.s re, .-5T -
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, did not lose dol
lar by fire last year. $500 f--.,.---.,-,g-
Four prominent English magazines are
edited by women. g n fra-ee.eF .a,rs
| ONLY four deaths from smallpox oc-
CURED in Boston last year,. = is.l5z.,.r
HoaAcE GREELEY says he has not drank =
| drop of liquor since 1924. s7sU ia
A FoRTY-oNE-PoUND turkey was lately
brought to Philadelphia market
In less than two years the Coroner of
Memphis, Tenn, has held 800 inquests.
NEARLY a million acres of public lands
| were taken up in Dakota last year.
A ST. LOUIS woman has taken a $12 900
contract for macadamizing street in that
city. .r3 strf7 sG aa. 5. J.
THE people of Saratoga Springs send
away 10000 tons of mineral waters each
year.
1T is said that there are now four times
as many cattle in Texas as there were be-
fore the war.
IT is reported that the English Ian
guage is to be universally adopted by tele
graph companies. re .asas $50, ssf =,
A QUARTER of million of dollars was 3
expended in Sacramento in the purchase
of Christmas gifts. uer WI ai.f7fisi
In San Francisco there were 6,90S sales
of real estate made in 1863, of the total
value of $s9,937,71 1851 1ts-ia hHa laaHls
THE thirty-seven savings banks in
Maine had, last year, 39,527 depositors,
and $10,S39,995 of deposits fI.f II ~
DURING 1860, the amount of internal
revenue collected in New York city was
$29, 1900, 1852. 49,
THIEVES broke into church at Auburn
one night recently, and carried away the
empty contribution boxes. rs- -
THE prettiest girl in California rises
every morning at 6 O'Clock, and milks
three cows before breakfast. 4- cee
MCDONALD CLARK, the "Mad Poet
once said that "any expression of thought,
SO arranged as to make a man fight or cry,
is poetry. l'es l3lf ftf0 a.
IT is computed that 10O, 1000 men in New
York city receive wages for labor and
spends 6,720,000s year for rum and to-
bacco. p tl - -
ST. ALBANs, vt, has shipped in the
way of freight the past year 2,S75,000
pounds of butter, ,92O pounds of
cheese, and 1895 boxes of mineral water.
THE number of failures in the United
States during 1869 were 2,799, with liabil-"
tiles amounting to $75,054,000; while in
1868 there were 2,608, with liabilities
amounting to S63,T74,00O.
THERE are great number of workmen
out of employment at Montreal The
houses of industry and refuge are full,
and there are numerous applicants for
charity.
SINCE 1880 one hundred and sixty-one
vessels have been lost from the Gloucester .
Mass. fishing fleet, and ninety ght lives.
Last year sixty seven lives and sixteen
vessels were lost. tom .-.-- -ts b :.
Four hundred letters were recently dis
covered by an agent of the Postofice De-
partment at hotel in Boston, addressed
to guests but never delivered. He sent
them to the dead-letter Office,
THE Pittsburgh Commercial proposes the
division of Pennsylvania into Two States,
with Philadelphia as the capital of the p
capital of the State of Allegheny. T q"
THE convicts at the Bagne of Toulon .
are no longer logged for infractions of the
rules, but deprived of food for two or
three days. They are said to dread that
mode of punishment by far more than the
lash.
THERE was painful scene in the court
room at Hartford, a few days ago. A girl,
only 13 years of age, was brought up as a
common drunkard Efforts have been
made to save her, but the taste for liquor
has got such hold of the child that she
cannot be kept from the use of strong
drinks The Judge sent her to the reform
school for girls, at Middletown. ass
THE large Court House of Navarro
county, Texas, is said to have been COW
cred with shingles made from single
cedar tree. The oaks, pecans and cedars
of that section of the country attain an
immense size A pecan tree in Navarro
county, on the banks of the Trinity,
measured twenty three feet in clrcumfer-
ence. The cedars are often more than 100
feet high. III -. -..-,-
ACCORDING to the very accurate OBJ
servations of M. Marie Dayy, just, an.
nounced, the heat derived from the caloric.
rays Of the moon is not sufficient to raise,
the temperature Of an exceedingly sensi-..
tive Thermometer the millionth of a s-
degree. This result, it may be added, is
in direct variance with that deduced by
Lord Rose, in his investigation Of the 4
same subject. fi-. -,r.f .,s.s-rr .r-..s.
THE greatest storm on record in Eng
land occurred on November 26 and 81,
1903, when 5000 people were drowned in
the rivers and on the coasts. Twelve
men-of-war were lost, beside an immense rr
number of smaller vessels, and 1 200 trees
were torn up in Kent alone. 1t was
during this gale that the Eddystone light
house and its architect were swept away a
together. .ufsfr zGi7 at 90 li.
THE total cost of maintaining the Sing
Sing prison for the last year was $377, 152.- -
55, and the total ceipts were 1854, l53.0S,
leaving deficiency of Sos, 999.47 to be-
provided for by the State. The average
cost of keeping each male convict per day
is 70 $40 cents; females, 81 cents. On +.
the 9Th inst there were in prison total
of 1898 convicts-1, JIG males, and 122
females. la nEa1 -J' -ai Gf. sa6 lra
A NEW explosive, of asserted great
power, is announced by English Journals,
under the name of ammonia powder.
Analysis shows merely substitution of
nitrate of ammonia for nitrate of potash
in ordinary gunpowder; the change add
ing immensely to the explosive force. The
salt being quite deliquescent, the old
adage, keep your powder dTy, would
lose its significance, should the powder
come into general use. t2a< $40.
a REMARKABLE case of suicide is re-
ported from Hanover. On the 25th of
November the wife of day laborer of
Linden, near Ebsdorf, As years old, and
the mother of five children, seated her
self in cauldron of boiling water which
had been prepared for scalding pig just
killed She had been reading the pre-
vious evening about the martyrdom OF
Huss, and had said that burning was not
so fearful after all. She is supposed 10
have been insane @
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