The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-03-09
MISCELLANEOUS.


rich, entered no less than 243 divorce
suits in the courts of that city during
the past seven months.
The value of advertising was real
lied by a rural New York merchant who
advertised for a small boy, when his wife
presented him with two.
An old man in Saybrook, Conn,
lives on a farm that was never bought or
sold, it having come from his ancest-
ors, who obtained it from the In
dams.
A CHAPTER OF ABsURDTIEs.
To desire to have men sober,
and vote a license to make them
drunk.
TO mourn over drunkards, and vote
license to make more.
TO pity drunkard's family
and vote for the chief means of their
misery.
TO think that authorizing business
will discourage it.
TO expect that making the sale of
intoxicating drinks legal will not make it
respectable, in the estimation of most
people.
To think that drinking Intoxicating
liquors in orderly houses will not promote
intemperence.
TO profess benevolence to our fell
low men, and vote for the cause of idle
ness, Quarreling, poverty, and misery
among them.
To pray for blessing on our neigh
bors with our lips, and seek curse with
our votes.
"A government instituted and sus-
tanned for the good of the people, licens-
ing trade that brings evil upon them.
Northern Ladependent
The Marine losses of the United
States for 1870 amount to $50 vessels,
valued with their cargoes at S19,657,-
960. The last three mouths of 1870 are
charged with the loss of 2O4 vessels,
valued at 81, $50, 500. The total marine
losses throughout the world, as returned
to the British Lloyds, from January l.
to December 10, 1870, amounted to l 1887
| vessels.
Thirteen thousand ancient Roman
coins, dating from the time of the Empe-
ror~Hadrian, Antonius, and Commodus,
were recently discovered by Bavarian
! Al.
ube.
England derived revenue of G295-
900 last year by taxing dogs. TIE num-
Der exceeded eleven hundred thousand
Ireland, with one quarter as many in:
habtants. supported more than half a
million dogs.
Why don't the great men Of France
stir? why do they remain motionless
and cold while our bleeding country is
ruined? asked an orator in Paris the
other day. because they ar cast in bronze
answered voice from the gallery.
Miss Garrett, the heroine of 43, 900
majority as member of the London
School Board, is but twenty four or
twenty-five, is about middle height, has
a GRACEFUL figure, "a soft low voice." a
TASTEFUL dress, and altogether, is a
neat, trim, and prepossessing doctor,
who brings sunshine into the sick
room.
An Indianapolis paper thus sums
up the divorce market: Brisk compcti.
ton among the lawyers has brought
down the price of divorces very low IN
this market. We quote: Common
separation, SIS; small alimony, $25 ;
large alimony, $50 TO $500. There are
but few of the latter in the market
General business good and increas
ing.
-Brassy, the English railroad con-
tractor, whose death has been announced,
began his life as day laberer, and died
worth 81 100000. He was a partner
at one time of Sir NJ rton Peto. but
managed to escape from his failure.
Two of his sons are in Parliament, in
dustrlous and capable men, and his
third son recently married the daughter
OF Lord Clanmorris, an Irish peer.
There were $4,000 arrests in Bos-
ton last year. nearly half of them for
drunkenness. B esides the police
''helped home" $500 drunkards of the
respectable ~ Class
"A bill to make the reading of the
Bible in the public schools unlawful has
been introduced in the Ohio House of
Representatives, and voted down by a