The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-05-23
Che Irs'o1,ne.
ODDS AND ENDS.

the following" In the year 1899 sew
eral cases of smallpox occurred in the
town, and dwelling near the village
of Hoosiok Falls was used as pesthouse.
Seventy years afterwards the house(h hay
ing becu occupied all the time as
dwelling, with no case of smallpox or
other unusual sickness) was repaired.
One of the workmen employed on the
repairs was taken down with a disease
which proved 70 be malignant smallpox
to which he had been not otherwise ex-
posed than by working on this old pest
house. If smallpox vsrus can be re-
tanned for seventy years in the walls,
floors, ceiling or furniture of dwelling
house, greater care and more stringent
measure will be necessary to insure pro-
lection from this loathsome disease
Troy Press.
DIR. Chalmers beautifully said: 'Tbe
little that have seen in the world and
known Of the history Of mankind, teach
es me to look upon their errors in sor-
row, not in anger. When / take the
history Of one poor heart that has sinned
and suffered, and represent to myself
the struggles and temptations it passed
through-the brief pulsations of Joy;
the tears of regret; the feeblensss of
purpose; the scorn Of the world that has
little charity the desolation of the souls
sanctuary, and threatening voices with
in health gone happiness gone-I would
fam leave the erring soul of fellow-man
with Him from whose hands it came.
In case decided in San Francisco,
where apackage of whalebone were en-
jured on voyage, the judge said that if
the damage were caused by rats, the
ship would probaly be liable; for injuries
by those animals can be prevented by the
ordinary and reasonable precaution of
smoking out the vessels. But if it was
caused by reaches, it would seem that
the ship ought not to be answerable
for it is stated that there are no means
Of Kidding a vessel of those creatures
| while she remains in warm ATTITUDES.
The weight of evidence appearing to
be in favor of the rat" theory.
The mails having, for week, failed to
come in time in an Arkansas town, the
local paper says it has been forced to
draw heavily on the almanacs for copy;
and if communication with the outer
world should be still longer cut off, we will
be obliged next week to make
extracts from the Bible, thus supplying
some of our readers at least, with mat
ter entirely new to them
The farther we are from the poles the
swifter, of course, is the rotation of our
world on its own axis At st. Peter
burg, in sixty degrees latitude, the speed
of rotation is nine miles minute. At
Paris, eleven miles and half On the
equatorial line, the rapiGity of its motion
is not far from eighteen miles a minute.
A jury in North Carolina, after being
charged" in the usual way by his Hon
or. retired, when a white juror ventured
to ask a colored associate if he under
stood the charge.of the judge, 'Goly,"
asked the astonished juror ''he doesn't
charge US muffin for dat. does he? Why,
[ thought we were gwine to get pay"
There are now in course ofconstruction
on the Delaware, near Philadelphia,
twelve iron steamships, from $4,000 to
10000 tons capacity each. and to cost,
in the aggrebate, Sc, 100000. -Four OF
these..steamers are for the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, and will be the
largest iron steamers ever constructed in
America.
A farmer on the road between Charl
ton and dorchester, having been terri
bly, annoyedby drummers, put up the
sign: ''No sewing machine wanted. Got
one?" 1t was of no use, however the
next drummer wanted to see the ma
chine, So now the farmer has putt
Small pox," and says that works first
rate.
SIS Miss B at home ?. asked Mrs.. Of
the Irish girl who answered the ring at
the door. ''yis she is, sir" is she
engaged? 2" ''An' is it engaged you say?
Faith, an l can't tell ye. sir; but she
kissed Mr.. v last evening as if she had
not seen the like Nv him, an it's engaged
[ behave they are, sir"
Several boys in Milwaukee, Wis,
have established a line Of telegraph wires
connecting each others houses, and, in
all, nearly four miles long. They have
twenty-five cups and ten Morse Instru-
ments. When it rains they stay at home
and play chess or checkers, or carry on
conversation By their wires.
4 schoolmistress, while taking down
the names end ages of her pupils, and
and the names of their parents, at the
beginning of the term. asked one little
fellow, 'tWhat's your fathers name 2
"Oh, you needn't take down his name2'
he's too old to 60 to school to woman,
was the reply.
A Scotch nobleman one day visited
lawyer at his Office, in which at the
same time there was blazing fire, which
led him to exclaim, "Mr.-, your
Office is hot as an oven /" $50 it should
be, my lord," replied the lawyer, "as
it is here that l make my bread"
A man having a cock that was much
given to growing by night as well as by
day, gave him the name Of Robinson.
The reason why: because Robinson