The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-09-23

MILWAUKEE talks of establishing a
new grade of wheat, to be known as a
No. 2 Hard.
NEW YORK CITY enjoys debt of $133,
$50, 900; and this amount is being in
creased every month.
| SEVENTY tons of silver-ore passed
route to the Philadelphia mint.
ST.. LOUIS gllrs gulp down peaches and
apples entire. But they take the rinds
| off water melons before swallowing
them.
In Lawtonville, Door County, lives a
man nomed HouIe, who is 108 years old
chops his own wood, and is smart as a
cricket.
A SCHOOL boy says that when his
teacher undertakes to 'show him what
is what" he only finds out that Which is
switch
The Baltimore shot-tower is 22O feet
high, and has a eapicity of about mil
lion bags of twenty-five pounds each,
per annum.
THERE are forty three National Banks
in the State, with an outstanding circu-
lation of s., 453, TAG. The total capital
stock is $4,000.
Mr.. A. L. KANE has purchased con-
trolling interest in The Milwaukee News.
The paper will hereafter be an out-and-
ont democratic organ.
THEY are trying to acclimate the
Florida cedar tree in Germany, as it
furnishes the only kind of wood suitable
for the manufacture of lead pencils.
A MAN would have preached in Vir-
ginia City the other day had aot :. rock
struck him between the shoulders. This
is the nearest thing to Sunday services
they have had there in five years.
THE City Court of Louisville recently
decided that newspaper men have right
necessary for self-defence while in the
discharge of journalistic duties. Sug-
gestive.
COMMODORE PERRy's flagship, the
Lawrence, sunk in Erie harbor 81 years
ago, was on Monday raised, and the
bottom found to be in a good state of
preservation She is to be exhibited at
the Centennial.
A MACHINE is being constructed in
England that will not only print and IL
lustrated paper upon cylinders, but
which viii print both sides of it at once,
and deliver it completed at the rate of
IL, 900 per hour, It is said to be mod
ification of the Walter perfecting mach
Inc.
DURING one of those severe storms of
last week, as the Omaha express bound
east was about nine miles out of Sioux
City, Engineer Rowell discove cred by a
flash of lightning where a strawstack
WAS washed against a bridge, throwing
it several inches out of place. He stop
ped the train just in time to save wreck,
and probably many lives.
In July diver in submarine armor,
| working at wreck on the coast of Nor
mandy, was seized by devil-fsh, who
held fast to a neighboring rock. His
comrade came to his assistance, and was
seized also. It was only with great diff
| fculty they could give the signal that
they needed help. Others went down.
| Cutlasses were brought, and the mon
ster's arms were hewed off.
KANSAS trainers have abandoned the
old-fashioned way of raising pumpkins
on vines. They grew so big they
| couldn't lift them into the wagons. The
Leavenworth Commercial says There
is pumpkin tree in Summer county $50
feet high, with AZ rosy pumpkins on it.
| Now they drive under the tree, bend
| down the limbs, saw off the stems, and
let the pumpkins gently into the wagon.
PEOPLE who ere afflicted with mosqri-
toes will be pleased to know that the
buzzinS wherewith the diligent insect
enlivens the night is the way in which he
calls his mate. He does not make this
noise in sheer malice, but he sings to
| his sweetheart, and these curious crea-
| lures listen to each other with their feel
| ers. Their attennm vibrate to different
| notes, and so the delicate creatures COM
mune with each other in the darkness.
Down the River Road when boy Of
| five or six leaves the house his mother
asks: "Going away, Bill?'' "Yaas. -
'Where 2" "Down to play on the saw
| logs" well, young man, I want to
tell you in advance that il you go down
on the logs and fool around and fall in
and gel drownedI'l lick the life out of
you'll" "Yum, answers Bill, and he wand
er away.-Detroit Free Press.
GEORGE WASHINGTON couldn't tell a
lie, and that's what aiIs the average
Vicksburg boy. The other day, when
one of them accidentlly broke
pane of glass in store window, it was
touching to see him walk bravely int 10 the
store and up to the merchant and SAL
'tMr Blank, I broke pane of 6 ass in
the window there, and you can charge 1t
to the old mans account /! Put il down
as q pound of saleratus, and he'll never
know the difference ~
The Sioux City and St. Paul Rail- I'D
company have commenced TO do their