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


They were built By the Moravians in
1893, and are now in good running or
der.
The amount of nutriment contained
in beer IS generally greatly 2verestimat-
ed. Liebig asserts that in 1860 quarts
of the best Bavarian beer there is exact
" the nourishment of an ordinary two
and a half pound loaf Of bread.
Carrier-pigeons lately travelled the
distance between Brussels and Cologne.
10 miles. in from three TO five hours.
One bird few thiTty-se7en miles per
hour.
The smallest watch was exhibited ct
the Paris Exhibition. 1t was set in
gold psncil-case.
The Royal Library of Munich contains
upwards OF 500, 0OO books and manu-
scripts.
The United States uses $50, 600, 900
postage-stamps annually, France $780,
000, 900 and England 800, 600, 600.
SS141Isi "AAtSi Scl1lllsttOS tIAiO 1Al
acre of good buckwheat will yield IA lbs
OF honey daily.
The oldest wooden house in the Unit
ed States is the 7Iinot House, Dorches-
ter, Mass. It was baiit ii 1858, and
rents for $50 year. 1t was occu-
pied by General Washington for sea-
! L. L.
One hundred and fifty feet is under
stood to be about the maximum depth of
the Straits OF Dover At this depth, a
leak in the proposed tunnel, of only one
square foot in .rea, would require a
steam engine of 1900 horsepower TO
overcome it.
TO clean plaster of Paris figures: Car
ry thick layer of strong starch paste on
the medal, place it in an airy place, and
the starch will peel off in pieces, carrying
the dust with it.
The artesian Well at Passy, near Par
is. is probably the largest well Of the
kind that has ever been sunk. It is 19-
% feet deep the bore finishing with a
diameter OF two feet. 1t first yielded
$4,000 gallons day, bat now only
brings to the surface 1900 900 day.
The largest masses OF gold ever found
were, first, that found at Ballarat III
1859, which weighed 224 lbs. /, second,
that found in Calaveras, Cal, in 1854,
which weighed 1875 lbs.
The American dollar is derived from
the German ''tEaler' literally valley
coined in Joachimsthal, III Bohemia,
where there are extensive mines. The
same name is also used in Sweden and
Denmark, where the unit OF currency is
called rix dollar.
It is estimated that from tina postage
stamps used during the last year in this
country, ribbon could be made two
and half times the length of the Mis-
sissippi.
London contains 10, 600 miles of gas
pipe.
Days of rain are more numerous in
high than in low latitudes.
The heaviest fall of rain on our globe
takes place on the Khasia Hills. to the
northwest of Calcutta, and amounts to
600 inches annually.
The largest span Of any truss bridge
in our countryis that of the bridge across
the Ohio River at Louisville. It is $40
feet
Our country possesses II 600 miles of
navigable rivers. From Cairo to New
Orleans the Mississippi falls two and
three fourths inch to mile. Seventy
per cent. of al the disasters is caused by
the snags.
The Romans used smooth stone blocks
laid in lines for the wheels OF carriages to
run upon. On the Island Of Cicily SINH
lar tracks are in use at the present time.
In England iH 1913 cast iron rails were
used instead of wooden ones to convey
the coal carts. In1776 rails with edges
use. The year 1893 brought our com:
mon t'T--shaped rails.
1t rarely or never rains on the coast
OF Peru, in the great valley of the river
Columbia, or in that of the river Colorad G
the Sahara in Africa, and the desert OF
Gohi in Asia, while in Patagonia and
fti,ilDo 81, 4
If one of the sources of the river Nile
really rises ten degrees sonth of the
equator, that river becomes tie loI ges!
in the world. The distance from such a
southern latitude to Cairo is about equal
in an airline to the distance from the
mouth Of the Mississippi to Sitka in
Alaska, or from the Isthmus of Panama
to the mouth CT ST. Lawrence River.
According 20 P.nv, there as no sun
dial ii Rome until eleven years before
the war with Pyrrhus, about AGO, A q.
G. ornearly 300 years before Christ. They
were known, how ever, to the Greeks
two centuries. carrier. The first seem to
have been brought from Cicily to Rome,
and Piiny complains that they did not
suit the lati5ude, aad' gave the hours
falsely, the evil was dill emily re c:ifiei''
by Roman mechanic and the dial. in
various foIms, Remained the only smeas-
ure CT time for Gel tury and more.
About leo before Ch-ist, tlepsydra OF
water clock, WIS introduced This was