The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-02-09
sUNDR1Es.

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mile is $3.50 feet, or 1.760 yards. "A
| league is three miles. A fathom is six
feet. A hand, horse measure. is four
inches. A palm is three inches. A pace is
three feet.
THE population of the globe, as re
Gently estimated, is l,22S, 900, 900 souls,
divided among the races, as follows :
Monaghan, $50, 600. 900; Caucasian. 800,
900, 600; Ethiopian, 190,OOO,OOO; Ma,
lay, 10000, 900; american, 1000
600.
THE big tree in California through
the hollow trunk Of which men rode on
horseback, and on the stump of which q
quadrille of four sets was danced. grew
in Calaveras Co.. twelve miles north OF
"Murphy's Diggings"
| THE great bell on Notre Dame Church
at Montreal, Canada, is the largest
on this continent, and the largest but
one in the world It weighs over
10, 500 pounds and can be heard forty
miles
THE yearly mortality of the globe is
variously estimated at from $4,000, 900
to 81, 100000.
A young lady having read about a
man having invented stove which will
consume its own smoke, hopes he will
next devise method whereby tobacco
smokers can be run on the same econo-
mical principle.
There was deal of pith and point in
the comment ofthe African preacher on
the text, 1T is more blessed to give
than to receive Said he: 81 have
known many church to die cause it
dldn' t give enough, but [ never knowed
a church to die cause it gave too much
Dey don die dat way. Brederen, has
any Of you knowed church to die
cause 1t gave too much? IF you do just
let me know, and L make pilgrimage
to dat church, and | Il climb by tie soft
light of the moon to its moss covered
roof and I'll stand and lift my hands to
heaven and say, Blessed am de dead
dat die in de Lo'd.
LOVES "other name is subject to
photographic. mutations. Before mar
rlage 1t Is affection, afterward it be-
comes IA Fiction.
The iron clad feet of England is val
ued at $40,SS5, 600 in gold.
RUSSIA has C67 cotton factories with
$50, 600 operatives.
AN Illinois candidate denounces the
administration for taking the tax off on
planners wot we don't use, and keep:n
1t on whisky, wot We do
THE Office of the City Chamberlain in
New 9ork is said to be worth $3.50, 900
aycar $42. 200 of which he gets for the
trouble of drawing one check.
A bright little fellow was travelling in
crowded stage coach, ard had been
taken on the lap of a fellow passenger.
The conversation was turned on pick
pockets and their great skill. All!
m, fine fellow said the gentleman who
had the little one on his knee, ''How
easily [ could pick your pocket" as it
lay open near his hand. No, YOU
couldn't neither said the boy, with
twinkle in his eyes, cause I've been
looking out for you all the way
ONE evening near the first of last
month several gentlemen at the Virgin
iasMiitary Institute saw strange flight
Of butterflies. The column was fifty
yards wide, and stretched across the hor
Izon as far as the eye could reach. They
were of the largebroad wing kind. They
seemed weary, and several lighted on
the buildings, rested. and then resumed
their journey. This brilliant bow of
winged flowers. spanning tie evening
sky, attracted much attention and com
ment from the wondering specta-
tors.
MANCHESTER, England. is wild with
rage about the introduction of what it
profansly calls the American devil"
the article being that favorite musical
instrument of steamboatneu and rail-
readers In this country, the steam whis-
ties. 1t is now used by the Manchester
factories to arouse their work people in
the morning: a work which it accom-
pli,hes with unerring CT tainty. The
objection seems to be that i, also awak-
ems everybody else in the place.
IT is true that it might be considered
By some SOOTHING denagogues slight
''sarcasSum, but we suggest to treasu-
rer Spinner that better method of ac-
knowledging the Savior than incorpora-
ting religious article in the Constitu-
ton, where few would ever see it, would
be to put the following words conspi-
ciously upon the greenbacks, where
everybody would see them-to-wit:
| know that my Redeemer liveth.''
To a lady who asked Professor Whew-
ell for cypher he wrote.
You D 0 but thee,
0 Ono O. but 0 me.
o let then thy my be,
And give back [ 0 thee.
Answer to the CIPHER:
You sigh for cypher, but sigh for thee
0, sigh for no cypher, but Q, sigh for me
o, let. then, thy sigh for my cypher be
And give me hack sigh for sigh-for sigh