The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-11-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
France used war balloons In 1874.
Brussels is full Of French refugees.

Toronto has a fashionable blonde con-
idence operator.
They sell grapes in Chautauqua coun-
y by the ton this year.
The patent Office issued patents on five
mob handles last month.
Buffalo claims to have had an earth
quake thirteen years ago.
Western Missouri is bothered with
wolves and wildcats.
The Cabinet makers arc hard at work
in Washington.
A band Of Swedes have settled down
in the vicinity of Austin, Texas.
1t is estimated that only about 800
Americans remain in Paris.
Washington Territory raises forty
bushels Of corn to $he acre.
In California they manufacture service
able rope from wildwood.
Prepared chalk, it is said, is the best
thing to use on the face to whiten 1t.
A young man says that the new
ladies bonnets look like an upset soup
plate.
The brewers of New York are about to
form a Vat Mems Association.
Bangor, Maine, was first settled one
hundred and one years ago.
Stokes county, North Carolina, has
forty-two tobacco factories.
A piece of calico a mile long has been
made at New England mill
a Chicago expressman stole corpse
which he was hired to carry from one de
pot to another.
The fall sown wheat is said to be I'M
usually promising throughout Missouri.
The Italians in San Francisco on Sat
urday celebrated the occupation of Rome
by banquet.
y Maryland paper notices that kero-
sene is very popular hair OIL in that
section.
A million dollars is Mobiles estimate
of her loss by the yellow fever. There
have been ] 81 deaths.
A crawfsh two feet long and cover
ed all over with moss, has been caught
in Texas.
Canada has a paper shinplaster frac
tlonal currency according to cores
podent.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Iron Company
recently shipped ten car loads Of spike;
to Mississippi.
1t is said that the best ana most ex.
tensive deposit Of slate in the United
States is in Polk county, Georgia.
An absent-minded man attempted tc
whistle his valise out Of a baggage car al
st. Joseph, Mo-, the other day.
1t is not good taste for gentleman to
stay after ten o'clock when he is visiting
young lady in the evening.
The Rocky Mountain Herald predict:
that the buffalo will be extinct in twenty
years.
There was a visible rise aud fall in rea
estate last week on account Of the earth
quake.
A boy committed suicide at Hannibal
Mo, because his father had received the
Democratic nomination for Congress.
The people of Quincy, Mo, took the
aurora borealis for distant fire, and the
engines turned out to a man.
Among the noted arrivals at New
York last week was the entrance of run.
away horse into the Fifth Avenue Hotel
The recent earthquake seems to have
resulted In but one death-that ola man
in Quebec, who was killed by the falling
OF a chimney.
A fifteen year old Virginian went after
negroes with an old musket. the other
day. and bagged seven at one shot.
Dat West, when man is sent to jail
for misdemeanor, they say he has de-
parted for another cline.
Twenty seven corns on one foot is the
extraordinary crop Of which Richmond
gentleman boasts.
1t said an earthquake took a halfhour'
run from the Middle States to Upper
Canada. 1t is a shaky story.
Inventive genius has as yet done but
little TO improve buttons, though 1t has
brought continents within speaking dis
lance.
1t is said that the British authorities
have decided to introduce the Gatlng
small bore mitrailleuse into the service
Why should a common soldier who
has been liz the ranks long time be
afraid to meet an excise officer. Because
he's a private still.
Some one in New Orleans beer sa
loon set the waterfalls OF Que fthe wait
er girls on FIRE, and there Was almost u
catastrophe.
Al a recent political convention a gen
tleman declined q nomination on the
ground that he had not lived IA the
State long enough. 80, never mind
that, said the chairman; you viii live
quite long enough by the time you are
elected The nominee Was completely
overcome.
Single ladies. in general, 10 not ap-
prove OF the rcmarrlage of widows \
young lady, who was approaching the
middle ages, was in lie habit of saying,
whenever she heard Of widows mar
rage, There now that woman has got
one Of my husbands 7
It is vain to stick your finger in the
water, and, pulling it out, iook for hole;
and equally vain to suppose that, how
ever large space you occupy, the world
will miss you when you have passed on.
\ cloth saturated with carbonic acid
hung in a room will destroy flies or mos
qpitoes.
N0IsELEss SMoKJNG.-A burly Teu-
ton, whose taste for beer could not be
disputed. entered an omnibus one day
with huge mcerschaum in his mouth,
and taking the only vacant scat, proceed
ed to roll forth full volumes of smoke
The conductor, seeing this violation of
rules, STEPPED up to him. and said, No
smoking allowed The Dutchman, taking
his pipe from his mouth with an air
of astonishment, thas replied to tie
polite conductor: / don't make 70
noise ven | schmokes.
Hon. BISuOP HENNL This venerable
Catholic prelate. who has been liz atten-
ianca ~ Tho En1rr,nn1innl fl,r,,,c;l L.