The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-05
Miscellaneous.


Making light of cereous things-Burn-
ing wax candles.
The Bump of Destructiveness"-A
railway collision.
Lawrence, Kansas, wanting a smart
teacher, has hired Mr.. Mustard.
Don't take too much interest in the
affairs of your neighbors. Six per cent.
will do.
Give work rather than aims to the
poor. The former drives out Incidence,
the latter industry.
A widow holding n policy on her de-
ceased husband in the Washington gets
the money herself. It cannot be taken for
his debts.
There is a sign on Nassau street, New
York, which, in the most enticing man
ner, invites passers-by to enter and par
take of Rise Puden."
1t is said that the Government has &C
quired valuable stock of diamonds,
which have been seized, one by one, from
would-be smugglers.
The chief exporter of California fruit
to the East lost $1,000 the first year be
went into the business. Last year he
cleared $4,000.
The following notice is posted con-
spicuously in a newspaper office out West:
"Shut the door; and as soon as you have
done talking business serve your mouth
the same way"
The Sioux are very observant. One
of Spotted Tails followers, who speaks
little English, seeing one of the servant
girls of the hotel take off her chignon, ex-
claimed, "Howl White woman raise her
own scalp! Indian no good herer'
-"How shall I sell my horse?' said
jockey to an acquaintance. ellis tail
came off in less than six hours after l
bought him. "Sell him by wholesale,
for no honorable man will retail him.
was the reply.
The head cock at one of the Saratoga
hotels gets 81, 500 for four months.
Under him are thirty Frenchmen as as
sistants, or cooks in the meat and game
department, and twenty-five women as
vegetable cooks.
"A merchant put an advertisement in
a paper, "Boy wanted" Next day he
found handbook with an infant in it on
his doorstep, with this inscription, Glow
Will this one answers"
The tobacco crop of Missouri for this
year is estimated at 10000 hogsheads
against IS, 900 hogsheads last year. The
ST. Louis Republican attributes this large
increase to the stimulus afforded by liberal
premiums offered by the Tobacco Associa-
ton
By a series of observations made in
Philadelphia last summer, the singular
fact was ascertained that the advent of
peaches curtailed by full one-third the sale
of alcoholic and malt liquors in retail es-
Establishments, and that the cheaper peaches
became, the smaller were the receipts at
drinking bars.
1t has been proved by repeated ex
periments that it is possible to rule lines
with diamond point on glass so close
hot of nf
are comprised in the space of one inch.
The apparent limit of vision in the best
microscope does not, however, reach be-
yond lines separated one eighty-thou-
sandth of an inch.
"A few days age a car on New Y ork
Central train leaving Utica was crowded
so full of passengers that twenty-three
gentlemen failed to obtain seats, and
pretty well filled up the aisle. Among
the number was a lawyer, who proposed
to his twentytw companions that they
would not give up their tickets until the
conductor found them seats. They all
agreed to this, and when the conductor
demanded their tickets refused to give
them, telling him their reasons for doing
So He said there was plenty of room in
the drawing-reom car just ahead, but, as
there was extra charge on it, they would
not enter it. Finding they were firm, he
compromised by sending twenty-three of
the passengers, who were already seated,
into the drawlng-roOm car without extra
charge, and so the tickets were handed
over and the vacated seats taken.
THE PAIN KILLER.-Special attention is
invited to the testimony, voluntarily given
by Rev. P. NJ. Baker, of Elmwood, in a Sc
we're case of Asiatic cholera. We would also
say that we have frequently tested the mer-
its of the Pain Killer, and we advise no per-
son to be without it.-Iroyidence (R. II Id I
0eTtiser.
CIoaks md Trim IN fngs.
]. W. Griswold & Co., in spacious quarters |
at 81 and SO Madison street, near Lake, have Z
the largest and best stock of Cloaks, Cloak
ings, Laces and Trimmings ever offered IN
Chicago. Their increased manufacturing
facilities, long experience and superior goods,
give the trade special advantages