The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-04-06

Tho greatest length Of Lake Michigan
is 800 miles; it's greatest breadth los
niles mean depth, 900 feet elevation,
5o6 feet area, 1000 square miles.
In the monuments and tombs of
ancient Egypt, in Memphis and The
bes, far back OF any written records, are
representations of butchers sharpening
their knives On a round piece Of metal
Just as the butchers Dc at the present
day. In the ancient Scandinavian tu-
mali, IN Denmark. are found swords
and knives with blades Of gold, edged
with iron also blades CT copper faced
with iron, evidently showing that those
tumui are of very remote antiquity,
when iron was one Of the rarest and
most precious of metals.
The amount of stimuiants and marco
ties used in the world is almost beyond
belief A competent German authority,
Won Bibra, III his work, Man and the
use OF Narcotics, assumes the following;
Coffee leaves, III the form of infusions,
are taken by 2, 600, 900 of human beings;
cocoa, either as chocolate or in some
other form, by 10000, 900; 800, 900, 900
eat or smoke hashish 400, 900. 900 use
opium Chinese tea is drank by over
500, 100000 All known people of the
earth are addicted TO the use OF tobac-
co chiefly in the form of smoking /;
otherwise by snuffing or chewing.
The highest mine in the world is the
silver mine of Potosi, in the Andes Of
Peru, which is stated as being II, 1867
feet above the level OF the sea and the
deepest mine is the salt mine of Neusal-
zwerk Germany, which is said to be
2050 feet below the sea.
OF the 300, 900, O0O of human beings
inhabiting the globe $40, 900, 900 have no
paper nor writing material of any kind !;
500, 100000 of the Monaghan race use a
paper made from the stalks and leaves
OF plants 100000 use for graphic
purpose tablets OF wood $50, 900, GOO
the Persians, Hindoos, Americans and
Syrians-have paper made from cotton,
while the remaining 80, coo, coo use the
ordinary staple.
Oliver Evans applied in 1856 for q
/ patent from the State Of Philadelphia
| for carriage which he proposed to
drive with steam Of $50 pounds pressure.
| His project was, however, looked upon
as chimerical, and patent was refused
| to him.
The proportion of rain in wooded re-
gions to that in those not containing
trees in seven-thirds to fve-eights.
Tie art Of making paper from vege-
table matter reduced to pulp was known
and understood in China long before it
was precSiced in Europe, and the Chinese
| have carried it to high degree Of per-
lection.
NJ Colladon heard the sound of a
| bell struck under water across the whole
breath OF the Lake of Geneva, distance
of nine miles; this sound appeared to
pass through the water at velocity OF
4708 ft.por second.
The houses of London number more
than $50, 900, and its streets, if placed in
! line would extend from Liverpool TO
New York, and are lighted at night by
$50, 600 gas lamps, consuming every
| twentyfour hours about Ii, 600, 900 GU.
bic feet of gas.
Ii London the quantity of water used
is twenty gallons day to each inhabi-
tant, in Paris forty gallons, and in New
York sixty.
One hundred parts of wheat yield 704
of starch, Of barley $50, of rye and oats
$40, of peas 500, OF beans 400, of potato
es 100 to 300.