The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

favor.
GLASGOW Will raise a monument to
Livingstone.
THE British museum library has
twelve miles of book shelving.
Long earrings are coming into vogue
again, and there are plenty Of ears to
match.
The old iron mine at Salisbury, Conn,
which has been worked over $50 years,
rec emily declared dividend OF ll5 per
cent.
The local authorities of Auckland,
New Iceland, have instituted yearly
tax on bachelors Of S. a head, to be de-
voted to education.
The production of pig iron IN the
United States in 1872 was 1854, 55S
tons in 1874. 1855, 278. Pennsylvania
makes nearly one-half of the whole.
EX-SENATOR Ross, of Kansas, is now
foreman in Lawrence paper-a posi-
ton he held eighteen years ago, before
embarking in politics.
A MARRIED girl of ID years, seeking
divorce on the ground that she is too
young, is one of the latest social deVel-
opments of Indianapolis.
IF stove polish is mixed with very
strong soapsuds, the lrstre appears I'M
mediately and the dust Of the polish
does not fly around as it usually does.
HIGH LIVING highest inhabited
spot in the world is the Buddhist clolster
at Haule. in Thibet, where n priests
live at an altitude of Is, 600 feet.
HARD words are like hail stones IN
summer, beating down and destroying
what they would nourlsh II they were
melted into drops
If we could read the secret history of
orr enemies. we should find in each
mans life sorrow and suffering enough
to disarm all our hostility.
A SCIENTIFIC commission from Mexico,
to observe the transit Of Venus, have ar
rived in Philadelphia on their way to
China.
Signor Minghitti, IN q speech at a
banquet at Legrand, Italy, said it was
estimated that there would be deficit
in the revenues in the year 1873 Of 81
100000 of lire which viii probably be
reduced by 80, 100000 from uncollected
taxes. The balance, 22,000,000 OF lire,
will, it is expected, be covered by octro
and customs duties.
REPORTS received at the Agricultural
Department show that the wheat crop
will nearly average that oflast year. None
of the large corn producing states reach
an average. There will be fair crop Of
oats, potatoes, and hay, but less than
half crop of tobacco.
AT Patterson, n. J., on Saturday, a
suit for $4,000 damages against DR..
Norton G. Richards, of Hackensack, for
malpractice in the treatment OF boys
broken arm, whereby the boy lost his
arm and nearly lost his life, was conclu-
ded. The jury returned verdict OF 3d.
900 for the plaintiff.
AN Austrian astronomer has calculat-
ed that the orbit of the comet which was
lately visible is an ellipse of such i'm
mense extent that it requires twelve
thousand years to traverse it. This be-
ing true, the present generation can
hardly expect to see it again.
WHEN you do attempt anything that
is right, go through with it. Be not
easily discouraged. Form habits of
perseverance. Yield not to sloth and
sleep and fckleness. To resist all these
will not be easy, but you vii feel
that you have done right when you get
through.
A GENTLEMAN undertook for wager
to stand for whole day on London
Bridge with a tray full of good sterling
soyereigns, and would fail to find Gus
toners for them at a penny apiece; and
he won the wager, as all passers-by
thought he was trying to cheat them
with brass limitations.
Now is the time of year when every
agricultural newspaper in the country
ADVISES its readers to put away their
tools in good order. Every one Of said
readers admits the excellence of the adj
vice, and perhaps one in ten follows it.
This one will find his machinery and
tools in good order in the spring, while
the others will have accumulations Of
rust to get rid of before much efficient
work can be accomplished.
A wEnL-DREssED chap entered a jew
elry store and asked if he could see
those cups in the window, pointing as
he spoke to some silver cups lined with
gold "These," said the jeweler, hand
ing him one, ''are race-cups.' Race
cups-what are race-cups2' ''Why,
replied the jeweler, '.they are cups
had ordered to be made for prizes to the
best racer" 'sWell, if that's SO, sup
pose you ana me race lOf one, AM
with cup in hand, started, the jewelel
after him. He probably won the cup.
QUICKSILVER is one of the most singu
lar substances known. Miners III Ne
vada say its divisibility Is so great, that
particles of it float down the clearest
streams, invisible to the eye. and YET
large enough to contain still smaller
particles OF gold and silver, or of both
The presence of the floating metals i:
shown by deposits made on copper yes
sells, sunk in the streams where, in
few months, hundreds of dollars wortl
Of quicksilver is collected.
Nor long since gentleman who car
ries the keys of one of the bank vaults
in Nashua was returning home. late a
night when he was accosted by two sus
picious looking individuals. The bank
ers dog, large Newfoundland, whose
presence is Unaccounted for inmediately