The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-02-17
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
"A sour-iaced wife is the liquor deal
ers friend
philadelphia has 500 professional
gamblers.
Spirits paid s377, 900 tax in Chicago
during January.
a negro has just died in Brazil at
the age Of $50 years.
The onnosltion party in Utah. are
callee. the Godbeites
Is a man who gets notion in his
head likely to die of dropSy.
-Glycerine is said to be extensively
used in the manufacture of wine.
-Oberlin College, Ohio. wants a do
nation of $4,000 from Congress.
The mercury went to l4o below zero
at Lewiston. Maine, on the 4th inst.
-Dartmouth College has raised the
salaries Of her Professors from $1,000 TO
$1,000.
A grey eagle measuring nine feet
from tip to tip, vas killed in Arkansas
the other day
Two aeacons in Florida recently rode
fifteen miles at night, and stole the iibra-
II OF rival church.
A machine has been invented bv
which crude petroleum IS converted to
purposes OF fuel and motive power.
The School of the Mines. of Columbia
college, has been presented with val
liable collection of minerals by the Gar
Why are your nose and your hand
kerchlef like deadly enemies? Because
they never meet but they come to blows.
A Cheyenne paper says that birds
are soaring around there, but thew are
Jai!-birds, and soar at the limb end Of
rope.
Small carriages, drawn by goats, are
Hereafter to be provided for the use Of
Children visiting the New York Central
Park,
The standard height for candidates
Tor admission to the London police force
has been raised from Eve feet eight.
No less than 7S3, 10 tons of coal
were shipped from Wyoming, Lackawan-
ma, and Lehigh Valley mines during the
week ending Jan. D.
They are trying to get a biIlthrough
the Legislature at Albany, compeling
railroad companies to partition of with
arms the seats in their cars.
"A frightened horse in Port Hone.
Can, recently successfully crossed via
duct 4 quarter OF mile long and sixty
feet high on single plank, at iull
speed.
"A crazy rascal from Chicago, named
Miller, has been quilting the people of
Omaha. He purchased three hotels
before his true character was known,
Prof. Gamgee proposes to kill ami
mails by inhaling oarbonic acid, then
bleed, and ice them. Bodies so cured,
will, he says, keep from ten to twelve
months. ~
A thousand dollars worth of CHG
mons, waterfalls, rats, braids, crimps,
rolls, switches, wigs. etc, were stolen
FROM Brooklyn, n. Y, fashionable
store recently.
A New Hampshire man has, this
winter, raised full sized green peas on
vines grown IN his sitting room, fed with
water and air entirely, having no soil on
which TO root.
a German in St. Louis was choked
to death the other day by attempting to
swallow 4 piece of bacon about tIree
inches in length, one and a half inches
broad, and an inch thick
NO ice has. been gathering around
Richmond, Va, this winter. An enter
pllsing gentlemen of Lynchburg is max
ing ARRANGEMENTS to manufacture sup
ply BY artificial process.
The Times says: ''The latest
dodge OF the confidence operators at
the Chicago board Of trade when present
ed with u bin is to give a man a check
payable to the latter's order and then
oil the back Of it SO that he cannot en-
dorse it.