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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-07-03
Important meteorological Discovery.

The Secretary of the Navy, says a
Washington paper, has received a letter
from Lieutenant Maury representing a
plan for computing the force of the wind,
by which the latter gentleman thinks it
probable that the liability to disasters ON
our northern lakes may be obviated to a
considerable extent. He says that Prof.
Ballat of Holland claims to have discov-
cred proportional relation between the
force of the wind and the difference of
simultaneous barometric pressures at
certain stations, by means of which he
has succeeded in deducing rules for cal
culating each morning the maximum
force of the wind during the ensuing day.
Professor Ballat asserts that this system
has been observed by him in Holland,
and during five years the force of the
wind has In no instance exceeded what
his calculations indicated. To outward
bound vessels ON the lakes this would be
of the highest advantage, as it would
enable them to predict in the morning
whether it would be safe during the day,
in case they put to sea. They could also
tell the safest hour during the day for
setting sail.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-07-03
Don't Like 1t.

A lady with a poodle dog entered the
smoking car ON Western train tn.
other day, and when the conductor en-
deavored to prlrsuade her to go into an
other car, she refused, saying her pres
ence would deter the occupants from
smoking. A gentleman, however, tool
out cigar, and began to- smoke, whe1
she wrenched it from his mouth, saying
IF there is anything I do hate, it il
tobacco smoke p The passengers who
had Witnessed the affair were convulse6
with laughter, but the offending smoker
suppressed whatever emotions may have
been struggling for expression in words
or action, and maintained throughout
the same imperturbable gravity which
had characterized him from the first.
Calmly rising from his seat, he opened
the window nearest him, fastened it up,
and reached over the seat back, took the
woman's poodle dog and threw him out
of the window as far as possible, at the
same time saying eff there Is any
thing I do hate, it's r poodle dog p
She took another car.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-07-03
A wHIsKEY WELL.


The Forgotten Pump Handle.
''You see, Mr.. Davis, twenty cows,
distil ely'. and farm of one hundred
acres givessme and my four boys heap
o. work to do but we do it all ourselves;
no hired folks about anywhere. 1t don't
pay; they pry into things too much
So for three or four years past we've
done pretty well, and only for our stupid
Joe leaving the handle in the pump,
they'd never would have found us out. !"
"Pumps ?-handle p INTERCEPTED Da-
Wis.
eyes. I'll tell you how it was. The
whiskey we made and put up into barrels
we paid tax on. That we put down the
well we
ssPut down the well % interrupted
Davis again.
ST forgot to say" continued McKlver,
| 1--WE have well that has been dry three
| years anyway. So I got a tub leetle
| smaller in circumference than the well,
| and made tight at both ends, and slipped
it down, connecting with the old wooden
pump that still stood there. When we
took whiskey out we had to gear her up,
but unshipped her lively, as soon as we
were through. So in looking at that for
lorn old post without an arm, nobody
| suspected it was head board for the
grave of whiskey."
Somebody did, it seems" said Davis,
getting interested.
'The officers suspected something,
at different times searched my barns
and stables and cellars, and lay out in
the field and captured the stuff as it was
taken away. They frequently seized my
tax-paid goods, but always released them
again in few hours. How did I get the
whikey away? Why, just the easiest
thing had to do. You see, I run two
milk wagons, and sometimes only one
can in five was filed with milk, and thai
for use in case a stranger stood, will
pitcher in hand, by the roadside to pur
chase. Such instances, though seldom
occurred. The rest we filed from the
pump"
.sAnd was caught at ii? % said Davis
ono; not exactly. The filing was al
through and wagon gone, when two Of
those revenue fellows popped in on me
before break o'day-the inspector hadn't
come yet-and turned things over gener
ally. They got through at last, and
seemed satisfied that all was right
Their hands were pretty dirty, SO I said
leading the way to the house, Gentle
men come in and wash your hands. One
of them started after me, the other made
for the old pump, and when turned te
look I felt just Like sinking out o'sight
Joe, who used the pump last, had forgot
ten to unship the handle, and the reve
nue. mans hand was on it. Iyelled tt
him, THAT pump don't suck 7 1t warn
no use. 1t did suck, and sent out pref
ty good stream, which he commenced tx
rub over his hands. He shifted some
and putting both hands under his nose
gave a long whistle. Then knew i
was up with me-"
"You'l go to prison p remarked Da
Wis.
'sNot if the entire Congressional dele
cation of the State can save me" sale
the distiller.
"Yor property will be confscated 7
"Only such as lies loose ON the farm
and in the still house, and that dom
take hundredth part of my four years
gain"
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-07-03
MISCELLANEOUS.
Massachusetts has 10 cities.

Adam Black, the famous Edinburgh
publisher, has retiree from business at
the age of ninety.
Barnum will spend $3.50. 600 for adver-
Using this year, and make 100000 by
it. Printers ink pays.
A dinner was given to ex- Governor
Jewell, at Young's Hotel, by his friends
in Boston. before his departure for
Russia.
Smith, the Westfeld Conn., murder
er, failed to sustain the insanity dodge,
and was hung on the 9th ult.
White Feather. Esq.,. an Indian resi-
dent of Michigan, who is graduate in
| medicine and divinity, is lecturing in
Kentucky.
The Wine Growers and Wine and
Brandy manufacturers assosiation OF Cal
ifornia offer upward of $50. 200 in pre-
miums this year.
1t is affirmed that Miss NJ. e. Braddon
and Mrs. Henry Wood, the novel writer's,
are coming to the United States-to
lecture.
Since the opening of navigation, 49,
924, Sl5 feet of lumber, 2,95l, 100 lath.
and 1857, 900 stayes have arrived at
Toledo by lake.
| 1t is said that the attendance in the
public schools bas rapidly increased in
| Michigan since the enactment of the
compulsory education y law.
| George A. Pierce, one of the proprie-
tors of the Mt. Waldo granite quarry. the
largest in the country, died lately, at
Frankfort, Me.
| A widow in Maine has lately worked
out her tax on the highway, and the sur
yeyor said she did her work better than
any man in the town.
| Pearls require airing as much as horses
and babies. Unless they are constantly
worn, they change color, and finally crum,
BILE to pieces.
1t has been decided by court IN Bos
ton that if man can rent building fol
the purpose of selling liquor, he need
not pay any rent for it.
The Canadian authorities have direct
ed that the United States postal cards b.
delivered to any part of their Dominion
for one cent additional.
The babe born aboard the Polari
opened his eyes 100 miles nearer the pole
than ever babe did before. And still il
is not Pole, but an Esquimaux.
The American clipper ship Young
America won the race with the British
clipper La Escocessa. reached Liverpool
ON the 18th ult., in LOG days from Sal
Francisco.
The Shah of Persia is prohibited, BY
etiquette, from ever walking up stairs
and he is therefore reduced to the neces
sity of sleeping perpetually on the ground
floor.
Baltimore is seriously discussing thu
project of establishing a grammar schoo
for advanced colored scholars 1t is al
encouragement to know that such a neet
exists.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-07-03
THE HAND THAT ROCKS TIL
WORLD.
BIZ wILLIAM ROSS WALLACE

BIZ WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE.
Blessings on the hand of Woman
Angels guard its strength and grace
In the palace, cottage, howell,
o, no metterswhere the place
Would that never storms assail iti
Rainbows ever gently curledf
For the hand that rocks the cracte
Is the hand that rocks the world.
Infancy's the tender fountains
Power may with Beauty flow:
Mothers first to guide the streamiets;
From them souls unresting grow,
Grow on for the good or evil,
Sunshine streamed or darkness hnrled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rocks the world.
Woman, how divine your mission
Here upon our natal sod
Keep, o keep the Young heart open
Always to the breath of God
All true trophies ofthe Ages
Are from Mother Love fmpearled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rocks the world.
Blessings on the hand of Woman!
Fathers, sons and daughters cry,
And the sacred song is mingled
With the worship in the sky,
Mingles where no tempest darkens,
Rainbows evermore are hurled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rocks the world.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-07-03

Pride and poverty hav travelled to
gether now for about thousand years
and pretend to lny each other, but they
kant phool ennyboddy but themselfs.
Law men are alwuss the most posa
tive. They are too lazy to inform them
sells, and too lazy to change their minds
A man will defend his weak spots 8
crate deal more sharply then he will biz
strong ones.
If men were stubborn just in proper.
shun az they waz right, stubborness
would take her seat amung the virtews,
but men are gen orally stubborn just in
proporshun az they arc ignorant and
| wrong.
Genius after all amt ennything more
than elegant kommon sense.
Thare IL CRATE deal ov dignity in this
world, that is komposed entirely ov dig
nifty, and nothing else.
We hav professors who teach the art
ov talking korrectly, viii kant we hav
sum that will teach the art ov listening
pashuntly.
SANDER travels on the vino, and WHARF
it Gums from, and WHARF it will go, we
don't enry ov US seem tew kno.
When a man ov farming talks he makes
US wonder. but wize man makes us
think.
People worth noticing should never
forgit that everything they say and do il
watched by sumboddy, and it il equally
true that the good things are generally
forgot. but the bad ones never.
| phully apreshiate the proverb, "that
speech liz silver, but silence il golden"
but i must say that sum ov the mos. dis
kreet and dignifed phools that hav eyer
met hav been thoze who never ventured
an opinyun upon enny subjekt.
What il happier tew meet than good
temper? 1t IL like the sun bi day and the
soft harvest moon by mite.
Sum pholks are naturally SO kross and
krabbid that it IL an insult tew ask them
tew be polite. Yu mite az well ask dog
tew take the krook out Nv hiz tale, and
be gentleman.
l hav often heard ov men who had be-
kun disguised with the world, and re-
tired into solitude; but i hav never
L card oY kommity ov our fust citizens
waiting on them and asking them tew
KUN bak.
I never hav known man yet die at
three skore years and ten possessed ov
the welth that he had got ronefully.
Peace il the shaddo that the setting
sun oY a virtewous life kasts.
Side by side ov Plain Truth stands
Common Sense-two ov the greatest
warriors time haz ever produced
Diogoneze waz a crater maa than Al
exander, not bekauze he lived in tub,
but bekauze a tub waz all he wanted teH
liv in welth could not fatter him, nor
could poverty make him afrade.
1t takes just times az long tew cell a
lie, on emmy subjekt, az it dug tew tell
the truth.
Vanity IL the most jealous diseaze
hay saw men SO vain that they kouldn't
look with kompozure upon a peakok
spreading his appendix tew the morning
sun.
Tru valor IL like honesty, it enters into
all that man SEE or duz.
The man who thinks s. he kant do it, -
il alwuss more than half right.-M 7.
WeeL.7,f
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-07-03

A PITTSBURGH firm recently made
their first consignment of finished Rus
sian sheet-iron and sell it to the English
consumer cheaper, it is said, than it can
be imported from Russia to England. -
Their present capacity in this important
specially is two tons FER day, but their
faohtNs eal be increased almost nde6-
nnef.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-07-03

Womens Heavy Calf Shoes, 81 SO.
Misses Heavy Calf Shoes, 81 25.
Z yards Good Shifting Flannel for $500
yards Good Bleached ShrtingEor 81, co.
Best French Calf Boots, 5000
and Shoe line than
NOTICE!
Book otherwise before DE
eber 1872 that the be paid
December 18th 1872; fail not you wish to costs &C.
Manjoyoc Dec. 5th 1872 J. FL. THORNTON.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-07-03

IN Middletown, Conn, recently, girl
backed out of her marriage engagement
when the minister got to the house. The
bridegroom wasn't of the broken-heaIt-
ed kind. He turned to the assembled
ladies and said: ssE there's airy another
gal here that'n occupy this vacant situa-
ton I'm her'n." Up jumped the sister
of the LADY who had declined to be a
bride, spying 'sCount me in. Proceed
with the performance. I amt afeared, :"
and the ceremony was performed, to the
delight of the groom and company.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-07-03

TIE trial of the election inspectors for
registering the names of Miss Anthony
and others, and for receiving their votes
at the late eaecsion. commeD8d On the
a8th ut;
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-10-09
Religion Attractive.

The way to make church mem
bership thing sought and shar-
ed is to show that is thing
worth having. l would not join
a church that spent its time in
petty debates,and wasted its ener.
gies in party struggles. l would
not if l were a child be attracted
to my fathers church if round his
table l heard nothing but sharp
criticism of sermons, covert insin.
uations- against ministers, scan
dal about fellow members, ,or in his
house | met bad temper and care
less living ON them who went
next day to the communion. But
let them adorn their profession,
and l am drawn to it. Let them
SO live that identity with Christ
and his church all that is hottest
and happiest in my little world!
Let religion mean not a melan
choly mystery for old people COM
ing out in long family prayers and
scraps of DR.. Watts, and ominous
shaking of the head over every
youthful peccadillo; but a secret
of bright faces and kind words and
helpful acts; thing to take the
bitterness out of sorrow, and roll
away the cloud of sin, and knit
young hearts to Christ their Sa
vier, and see them in the way to
heaven! Many such homes we
have, and there, / think, you will
see the old charm still working
not without exception, for every
child has will of his own, but as
a Divine rule, a gracious DISPOSE
ton ofthe Divine purpose; there
is the household of faith gathered
round the family alter, round the
Lords table; the sons as plants
grow up in their youth, the
daughters as corner-stones polish
ed after the similitude OF palace.
-Rev. O. Brock, .jr. an London
Freeman.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-10-09
Seed Wheat, and How to Sell
- It

There are some new and very
valuable varities of Winter wheat
now being produced in Centra.
New York. l took some time
Lasts season to investigate the facts
in regard to one of these ya1e
ties, and gave them to the public
through the Tribune, and intro.
duced the wheat into nv own
neighborhood with a very salts.
factory result. One of nv friends
harvested 35 bushels of this
wheat to the acre, and that, too
In the same field and under the
same conditions that he gave OF
the Diehl and of the Treadwel]
only 20 bushels to the acre. An.
other ofmy friends and neighbors
had little over20 bushels, against
less than 20 cf Mediterranean,
These are men who are willing to
make exact experiments, and test
. new thing beside an old one, and
learn whether the new is any
better than the old, d,and they have
sold their entire crops softhis new
variety of wheet fors2 so a bush
ell at their barns, know of one
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-10-09

man who, two years since,procur-
ed one bushel of this variety of
wheat at a great cost, as some of
his friends thought; but this sim
gle bushel of seed has produced,
in increased yield and increased
price more than 5000 profit.
Facts that have within q few
years come to my knowledge lead
me to think that the wheat crop
of this country can be vastly i'm
proved by selecting the best SAM
Piles of seed, and improve them
by again and again selecting of
the product. If some Agricultural
College would give as much
trouble and time to this matter
as some florists have devoted to
improving their very beautiful
but really yalueless plants, vast
advances would be made. l
have heard of many instances
Of, a single, very perfect head of
wheat being taken in hand by
some painstaking man, and only
the perfect berries of its product
being sown, until sufficient was
procured to introduce this social
ed new kind of wheat into gener
al notice by very large yields,
and then its passing into ordinary
modes of culture, and degenera-
ting, and finally going out of no
tice, that l am confident that real,
ly there should be as much care
devoted to the improvement of
seed wheat as there is to the i'm
provement of cattle, or sheep or
horses. And / am confident thai
there is as much prospect of a
high reward for labor so directed
as there ever has been in the i'm
proyement of farm stock. And
| think that the farms of the agri-
cultural colleges present the
most favorable places to have
carefully conducted experiments
made, would result in producing
the best varieties of wheat for the
wants of the greatly varied soils
and climates of our whole coun-
u. A ttttt f.---t
Finally, and as a personal
point, [ would say that l have no
seed wheat to sell, and l do not
wish to. purchase any, or to re-
ceive any as present,that l may
give it trial, and this is my gen.
eral answer to persons who write
me letters of inquiry in regard to
buying or selling seed wheat. 1t
is passing strange to me that per-
sons having new and valuable va
rieties do not make that fact
known by advertising,and l have
said so in some cases in reply to
letters; but ! cannot do more in
that way for them than to say
that, if l had some hundreds of
bushels of wheat that yelled from
so down to 40 bushels this year
to the acre, | would give the
world due information throug
the advertising columns of the
Weekly Tribune and of the Semi
Weekly, and put price on the
seed that would pay me for the
expense.-George Geddes, Onon-
dagG Co., ~ ?.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-10-09
Who Should not be a.wife.

Has that woman a call 10 be a
wife, who thinks more OF her silk
dress than of her children, and
visits her nursery no oftener than
once a daya Has a woman a call
to be wife, who calls for a chas-
mere shawl when her husbands
notes are being protested? Has
that woman call to be a wife,
who sits reading the last new
novel while her husband stands
before the glass vainly trying to
pin together a buttonless shirt
bosoma Has that woman call
to be a wife, who expects her hus-
band to swallow diluted coffee.
soggy bread, smoky tea, and wa
terry potatoes six days out of the
seveng Has she call to be a
wife, who flirts with every man
she meets,and reverses her frowns
for the home fresides Has she
a call to be a wife, who comes
down to breakfast in abominable
curl-papers,a soiled dressinggown
and shoes down at the heel9 Has
she call to be wife, whose hus-
bands love weighs naught in the
balance with her next-door neigh
boris damask curtains or velvet
carpetg Has she a call to be a
wife, who would take advantage
OF a moment of conjugal weak
ness to extort money or extract
a promiseg Has she a call to be
wife, who takes journey for
pleasure, leaving her husband to
toll in a close shop, and have an
eye,when at home, to the servants
and childreng Has she a call to
be a wife, to whom a good hus-
bands society is not the greatest
of earthly blessings, and a house
full of rosy children, its best fur.
nishing and prettiest ornaments.
-Presby. Banner.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-10-09
Tanning and Dyeing Sheep
skins.

A correspondent of the Scientif-
ic American gives the following
plan for tanning and dyeing sheep
pelts:
Wash the pelts in warm water
and remove all fieshy matter from
the inner surface, then clean the
wool with soft soap, land rinse the
soap thoroughly out. Secondly,
apply to the flesh side, the follow
ing mixture for each pelt: Com
mon salt and ground alum one
quarter pound of each, and half
an ounce of borax. Dissolve the
whole in one quart of hot water.
When cool enough to bear the
hand, add rye meal to make a
thick past,and spread the mixture
on the flesh side of the pelt. Fold
the pelt lengthwise, and let it
remain two weeks in an airy and
shady place, then remove the
paste from the surface, wash and
dry. When nearly dry, ,scrape the
flesh side with a knife, working
the pelt until it becomes thorogh-
ly soft.
A beautiful blue may be i'm
parted to the wool by using the
following recipe: So
Add a wine -glassful of sulphur
ic acid to gallon of water. Put
into the solution tablespoonful
or more of imperial blue, regula-
ting the quantity of the dyestuff
to the shape of blue required
Put in the pelts and boil for ten
minutes. After boiling, the pelt
will need working again,to make
it soft.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-10-09

CORN, ! I, HUSKER::s3. J | UI!S nsssi e ssi

EMPLOYMENT FOR ALL One
2agent in four weeks made profit of S4l2 So,
selling Bryant's Library OF Poetry and song;
so in one week on The New Housekeeper's
Manual. by Miss Beecher and Mrs. Stowe. Any
active man or woman can have an agency
j. y. FORD i Co., New York, Boston, chic ago
and San Francisco
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-10-09
Fireside Department.
Power of Example.

In a tone in Bavaria there was
a little tumble-down church
building, where the duke, as often
as he came that way used to 20
in and pray. If, on coming out
Of the chapel, ,he happened to meet
any of the peasants in the field
he e.loved to converse with them
In a friendly way.
One day he met an old man
with whom he fell into conversa.
ton on various things; and tax
ing liking to the man, he asked
him,i parting if he could do any
thing for him. ~
The peasant replied, ''Noble
sir, you can not do any better for
me than you have done already"
"How sol" answered he. 81 do
net know that l have done any
thing for you"
"But / know it," said the old
man;;s'for how can L ever forget
that you saved my SOM He
travelled SO long in the ways of
sin that for long time he would
have nothing to do with the
church or prayer; and sank every
day deeper into wickedness. Some
time ago he was here, and saw
you, noble sir, enter the chapel.
l should like to see what he does
there, ,"said the young man scorn-
fully to himself, and he glided in
after you. But when he saw YOU
pray SO devoutly,he was so deep
ly impressed that he also began
to pray;and from that moment he
became new man. l thank you
for it. And that is why / said
you can do me no greater favor
than you have done me already.n
From The German.