The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-12-08
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Car nation. people.
"A Strong Case.-One made of iron
Tho First Wager on Record.-Tht
alpha bet.
Dead Reckoning. An undertaken
account.
--Stage-driyers look upon rainy days
as peculiarly fare weather.
What relation does tenant bear te
his landlord ?. A da-rent-al relation.
When is the moon in bad financial
condltioa2 When she is in her last
quarter.
The preachers fee at fashionable
wedding in New York ranges from $5C
to $500.
Thirteen millions worth of pianos
and cabinet organs are annually sold In
this country.
Texas has over seventy millions acres
of unoccupied land.
in Portsmouth, N. H., they have an
elm tree 200 years old.
Iron bridges are built cheaper In
Kansas than wooden ones.
"A goat is good as mixer, Blu. sue
ceeds better as butter.
-Beecher lately got $500 for ten min
utes work IN marrying couple.
Apples are selling at ten cents per
bushel in some parts Of Pennsylvania.
The attempt to introduce horse beef
into the New York market has failed.
1t would take you three months to
count million dollars in one dollar bills.
A man In New jersey has invented
a stove which will consume its own smoke.
The new liquor law of Massachu-
sets fines a man fifty dollars for getting
drunk.
New Hampshire has had fifteen
county school houses burned this year by
Incehdlarism.
A Saratoga tannery turns out about
six hundred dozen sheep skins for book
binding week.
The Bavarian mitrailleures FIRE 500
bullets minute, and are fatal at 1000
PAGES distance.
The Government viii not hereafter
ger nit the use of blue or colored inks In
the departments.
1t is advisable always to eat salt with
nuts, as that is necessary to produce their
easy digestion.
--George Jessup. of Pulaski county.
Ind. was scratched by nail, recently,
and died few days after Of lockjaw.
1t is limited to certain ladies of New
England that the best way to contribute
to the worlds peace, is to hold theirs.
General Sherman has been presented
with gold medal By the associated vet
.eraus Of the Mexican war, of California.
Prussia his nj ght teiegyapi., which,
by the use Of rockets Of different colors
can corey information twenty miles
away.
An old lady's advice to young girls
-, for them never to believe a mau is In
love with them until he actually offers
himself.
A Maryland farmer refused the use
% his horse for funeral, and the indig
nat friends Of the deceased, tarred and
feathered him.
A fashionable young lady in New
York is under the care of physician
for lead-paralysis. caused by the use of a
well known cosmetic.
When man add woman are made
one, the question is, which one ? Some
times there is long struggle between
them before the matter is settled.
The one hundred and sixteen pound
Nugget, of apparently pure copper, re-
Gently fseked up in Cedar township,
Monroe cexnty, Iowa, is now declared to
be an ;erolite.
The silver mine in Sterling. Mass,
which was worked before the revolution
and its ore carried to England, has been
leased ay Fitchbusg parties, and is to be
ct onece reopened.
There is an old Bible in the family
of Joseph A. Phlbrick. of Hampton, n
H., printed in London, in 1888, contain
ing 1900 pages, and weighing twenty>
seven pounds.
clare that France is suffering the penalty
sent from Heaves for not embracing the
Mormon religion, and that other nations
will be punished in turn.
Fulton county, Ind, has musical
prodigy in the person of boy four years
cid, who plays difficult operate selections
on the piano, and is addicted to marvel
Gus performances on the violin.
The last of s70G,' was the vale
dictory written by New Orleans chap
on the back of bill before he passed it
for drinks.
Since the opening of the present
century, eighty-six English patents, and
twcnty-three French ones, for perpetual
motion, have been granted or applied for.