The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-12-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A LITTLE ready money comes in the
very (pa)nick of time nowadays.
DOGsKIN gloves for gentlemen are in
toduced in new and pretty colors just
now.
SET out your ostriches now for next
spring crop. Present price of feathers,
$3.50 pound.
VTRGINIUs of old was a Roman, and the
Vlrglnlus that is causing the war Just
now was a roamer.
A MAINE Spiritualist tells tale of
having the Darwinian theory impaired to
him eighteen years ago.
Mrs. HALL still believes her husband
was poisoned, and wants the Government
to send an expedition after the body
A NOVELTY in kid gloves for evening
wear is the palest blue; also blueish Law
ender, Nile green and the peculiar chalk
color.
LONDON smoke silks are quite the thing
just now. They are very handsome and
suitable, indeed, for all full dress occa-
siOns.
ONE of the most iaunty of the new
long gray plume and bound with grey
velvet.
CORAL jewelry is now so cleverly imi-
tated that even experts have difficulty in
detecting the difference. This is very IN
fortunate.
SQUARE pieces of coJored silks-bue
cherry or scarlet-with wide white hem,
are worn around the neck by fashionable
AS an indication oft ne determination of
the massachusetts, Pronibiiionists, it is
noticed that Lawrence is to have a new
reservoir holding 100000 gallons.
A o1arly in
Gently went On cunning expedition, and
inflicted agonizing tortures upon four
young people for two days, who were wait
ing for marriage certificates.
Dir. BEECHER lectures with his usual
vivacity on the WASTES of Life" Couldn't
he manage to say a word or two on the
Waists of Death, just for variety The
subject hasn't been attended TO for two
days, and the ladies are completely IN
laced by such stays in the proceeding.
T'HE fate of the man who fell asleep on
the railroad track, as chronicled by an In
diana paper, wasn't SO bad after all. He
was just fast asleep, clasped in the arms
of both Morpheus and Somnus, and was
only awakened by the glorious light that
shone from the judgmentseat i'll the
world beyond the river" that was all.
A "WoMAN's Peace Society " has re-
Gently been formed in London, which
has published an offer of 500 for the
best tract written by a woman on the sub
ject of peace. The title must be I'm what
way do wars affect women, and how they
may best use their influence to prevent
war;
A FEW days ago DR.. Dio Lewis pre-
scribed bean diet to improve the girls
compilations, and now he tells the little
dears that if they would acquire a queen
ly carriage they must walk an hour a day,
each carryinga bag of beans on her head
The dreadful suspicion is whispered
about that Dio is in the interest of a bean
ring.
IF person is inclined to be reticent
and uncommunicatjve in society, it is
generally best to let him alone. Such an
individual is like bottle of champagne
hard to get uncorked, and harder sill to
cork up-and though the contents may be
bright and sparkling, too much OF them
will cause you to wish you had not
started the flow
THE yellow fever derives its name from
the deep yellow hue assumed by the skin
OF the unfortunate victim of the disease.
1t appears to be confined within narrow
geographical limits but why one CITY
should be desolated by this scourge, and
another having tae same climate escape,
IS a circumstance not satisfactorily ex-
planned. Apparently this terri BILE disease
is not fully understood; but obscure as
are the causes from which it originates
1t is manifest that its most violent ravages
have often occurred in localities where
there is great lack of proper sanitary
conditions. A year or two ago Buenos
Ayres was visited by this malady, if our
memory serves US, and the mortality was
trightful. But it soon became known that
the sewerage was very defective, the water
was particularly impure and garbage and
refuse matter of all kinds We're suffered
to remain in exposed situations until the
air was filled with pollution. The IN
wholesome conditions that surround
Shreveport have been often mentioned
since that city has suffered so severely.
Memph1stls said to have no proper sewer
age, the cistern-water which the people
drink is unwholesome, and the streets are
not kept IN clearly condition. All these
circumstances favor a pestilence, and
might easily engender it. If suitable
sanitary conditions exist in any place, an
infectious or contagious disease finds it
hard to gain foothold there The yellow
fever has many peculiar features. Chill
dren are generally supposed to suffer
most severely from its prevalence, and
the severity of the disease appears TO vary
with persons of different naiionalities.
The Germans and Irish seldom have it SO
lightly as do the French and Spanish,
while Americans and the English are at
tackled with medium violence. Although
1t is usually confined to warmer sections,
New York has several times been visited
by this plague, but it has not assumed an
spideiaie form there FOR May years,