The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-12-21
INTERESTING ITEMS.

| Inc enI1ro CO11eo crop Oh TIE HoIio
last year was 900, 900, 900 pounds.
Scarlet fever is raging in Kenosha,
and is proving particularly fatal.
Man does not want to be an angel
until he has failed at everything else.
| A New Yark florist has made for
tune of 100000 selling button-hole
boquets.
-Fourteenpersons have been killed
so far in the course OF building the East
River bridge.
Brazil furnishes the United States
with thirty-six million pounds of tobac-
co per annum.
OF the $50 bodies taken from the
ruins OF the Brooklyn theatre, but fifty
nine are identified
The wheat falds Of CoIusa county,
California, are covered by millions of
wild geese, and great damage is being
done.
The deposit of rock salt is found to
be enormous in Nevada. In recently
open quarries it is sawed out like marble,
aud is almost pure.
The Thanksgiving Day morning
mail on the Hudson River Railroad
weighed 22,636 pounds, the largest ever
sent from New York.
Don't trouble yourself to stretch
your mouth any WIDER said dentist
to his patient, 81 intend to stand out
side to draw your TOOTH
DoUaHERTY Brothers, of Green Bay,
have received proposals for an immense
number of tight barrel slaves from par
ties in Liverpool England.
The Chicago Custom House officers
report the arrival OF $500 Christmas
trees by lake in one day last week, a
indication that Christmas is coming.
THERE is a highly valued and curl
Gus relic in the University Of Gottinsen,
Hanover, being a Bible which is written
on sixty-four hundred and seventy-six
palm leaves.
TT was Escopetio who shot Maximil-
liam, and now Senior Diaz has gracefully
performed for Escopedo the same SER
vice which the latter rendered to tie
usnrping Austrian.
THE Gar of Russia makes nearly
go, 900 day out of his position, and
when he knocks of in the middle of the
day to so out and play base ball OF see
q horse race he isn't locked cent.
An agate stone has been picked up
ii the town CT Rudolph, Wood county,
for which the finder refused $50. Near
Il every species CT jasper is found in
Wood county to a greater or less extent.
IN Russia, during the cold winter,
if q window IL a crowded ball room be
suddenly opened, sudden condensation
OF the atmosphere takes place, and
fall Of snow follows, covering the dan
GERS with fakes.
When the Senate met last year it
was in mourning for its presiding Off
Ger, the late Vice Precedent Wilson, and
when the House met this year it was in
mourning for its speaker, the lamented
Michael G. Kerr
The honor Of Introducing the custom
of riding horseback sideways is conceded
to Anna Of Bohemia, until whose tine
ladies' OF all ranks rode astrido like mon,
and as the Indian women do TO day on
the plains Of the far West.
A young man in Menomonia was
loaing around a blacbsnith's shop with
a pocket full Of powder, when q spark
from the forge ignited the stuff and blew
two or three men higher than Gilderoy's
kite, but injuring no one seriously.
LIGHT travels at such wonderful speed
that it would go eight tines round the
earth while we count one! Or, to put
it in another form, light travels at the
rate of 200, 600 miles in single second
Of time.
ASSUMING the temperature Of the in
terror of the earth to increase uniformly,
at the rate of one degree for every forty
five feet, at the depth of sixty miles the
the degree OF heat would be sufficient to
fuse all known substances
Monday, the I1th inst, T. Barlass,
of Bradford, sold to Clark 6 Dawson.
OF Janesviils, four sheep, which weigh
ed $50 pounds, at five cents per pound,
making So. The sheep were of the
Leicester variety, and were eighteen
months old
Open al oyster, retain the i lul in
the lower or deep shell, and il viewed
through microscope, it Will be fouz d
to contain mul titudes OF small oysters,
covered with SHELLS, and shining nimbIy
about one hundred or more of which ex-
tended in q line would measure les than
an inch