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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-29
President Grant was requested to con-

President Grant was requested to con-
tribute Centennial message to the Phil
adelphia Sunday school Times and he
sent the following: ''Yo,Ir favor,
asking massage from me to the children
and youth of the United States, to ac-
company your Centennial number, is
this moment received. My advice to Sun
day schools, no matter what their de-
nomination, is: Hold fast to the Bible as
the sheetanchor of your liberties; write
its precepts in your hearts, and pratice
them in your lives. To the influence of
this Book we are indebted for all the
progress made in true civilization, and
to this we must look as onr guide in the
future. righteousness exalteth a ma
ton: but sin is rcproach to any pco-
ple,''
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-29

Our Dunn Animals: A little girl in
Eastman, taking compassion on sick
chicken, placed it behind the kitchen
stove. where little pet kitten nestled
down beside it and afterwards became
its companion, following her about and
playing with her. After laying her first
egg she supposed it was not hen-like to
sleep behind the stove, so selected roos-
tingplaee in the shed. Poor pussy was
quite troubled at first, but in the evening
was found quietly roosting beside the
chicken
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SPEAKING AGAINST TrfE E-THE longest

SPEAKING AGAINST TIAIE. The longest
speech on record is believed to havo
been that made by Mr.. De Cosmos III
the Legislature of British Columbia,
when a measure was pending whose
passage would take from great many
settlers their lanls. De Cosmos was in
a hopeless minority. The job had been
held back till the eve of the close of the
session. Unless legislation was taken
before noon of given day the act of
confiscation would fail. The day be-
fore the expiration of the limitation
DE Cosmos got the floor about ten A.
H., and began speech against the bill.
Its friends cared little, for they supposed
that by one or two o'clock he would be
through, and the bill could be put on it's
passage. One O'Clock came and De
Cosmos was speaking stiIl-hadn't
more than entered upon his subject.
Two o'clock-he was saying sin the
second place." Three o'cioc,,--he pro-
duced fearful bundle of evidence, and
insisted on reading it. The majority
began to have suspicion of the truth;
he was going to speak until next noon
and kill the bill. For while they
made merry over it, but as it came On
to dusk they began to get alarmed.
They tried Interruptions, but soon
abandoned them, because each one af-
forded him chance to digress and gain
time.
They tried to shout him down, but
that gave him breathing space, and
finally they settled down to watch the
combat between strength of will and
weakness of body. They gave him no
mercy. No adjournment for dinner;
no chance to do more than wet his lips
with water; no wandering from the sub
ject; no sitting down. Twilight dark
ened; the gas was lit: members slipped
out to dinner in relays Aid returned to
sleep in squads, but De Cosmos went on.
The speaker to whom he was address
ing himself, was alternately doing,
snoring, and trying to look wide awake.
Day dawned, and the majority slipped
ont in squads to breakfast, and the
speaker still went. It can't be said it
was very logical, eloquent, OR sustained
speech. There were digressions in it,
repetitions also. But still the speaker
kept on; and at last noon came to
Satilad majority, ivid with rage and
impotence, and single man, who was
triumphant, though his voice sunk to q
huksy whisper, his eyes were almost
shut and bloodshot, his baked lips were
cracked and smeared with blood. De
Cosmos had saved the settlers their
laaslo.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-29

A MURDERER COMPELLED TO BE HIa
OWN ExECUTIoNER.-Mi Almira Street,
aged seventeen, of Baltimore, Nd, was
found with her head nearly severed, and
lying in q pool of blood, at her fathers
residence, Friday morning. She had, it
is thought, been feloniously assaulted
while returning from the cellar, and fol
lowed to the top of the stairs by Chris
tian Klutz, aged sixteen, who murdered
her with an axe by several frightful CASH
es. Intense excitement followed. Klntz
was captured, confessed the crime and
said he ''did 1t for devilment. He was
threatened with death and given the
privilege of being his own executioner,
which he accepted. Arope was provided,
he was taken to the woods, and, after
adjusting the moose with his own hands,
was swung off, strangling in few min
utes. Miss Street was beautiful girl,
and the daughter of wealty farmer
IAlutz had been taken from the house of
refuge as a farm hand
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Miss Emma fierce, the leading lady
of the til eatrical company which is
travling with Mr.. Sothern, was driving
team of horses in Montreal few
days ago, when the horses suddenly SHE'D
knocking over little girl, and then be
gan rearing and kicking. Miss Pierce
and dragged the little girl from under
the furious animal of the risk of her own
life. Her hat was kicked off by one OF
the horses, but she held on to the child
and saved its life. The next day the
father of the little girl presented Miss
Pierce with two very handsome Can
adian Ponies and complete set of har-
ness
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-29

SOMETHING FIRES II ABOUT WHITTIER
Helena (Montana) Herald: One of the
boys while reading Whittiers "Centen-
NAL Hymn yesterday to little circle
in the back room of certain business
house in this city was interrupted with,
What! old Whittier writin hyms! Well,
well! Why, I knew the old feller in 40
in Frisco, and q harder, tougher, fight
ener cuss you never saw. S'posed he
passed in his checks long ago. And he s
aliye,is hel and writing hymns2 Well,
well! Ii old Whit can get away with
hymns, bust me if I don't commence
writing missionary tracts Then the
old ''49er" gazed with astonishment
upon the smiling features of those
around him, and proposed clicking
anyone who doubted his knowing cold
Whit" in "Frisco" in 40.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-29
THE MOON A DEAD WORLD.

Among the illusions swept away by
modern science was the pleasant fancy
thai the moon wac habitable globe, like
the earth, it's surface diversified with
seas, lakes. continents and islands, and
varied forms Of vegetation. Theologians
and savants gravely discussed the prob
ability of it being inhabited by n race
of sentiment beings, with forms and fac
| uities like our own, and even propoun-
ded schemes for opening communication
with them, IL case they existed. One
of these was to construct on the broad
highlands of Asia series of geometrical
figures on scale SO gigantic as to be
visible from our planetary neighbor, OH
the supposition that the moon people
would recognize the object, and imme-
dlately construct similar figures in reply
extravagant and absurd as it may appear
but TIE discussion was kept up at inter
walls, until it was discovered that if there
were people in the moon they must be
able to live without breathing Or eating
or drinking. Then it ceased
There can be 10 life without air.
Beautiful to the eye of a distant observ-
er, the moon is a scpulchral orb a
world Of death and silence. No vegeta-
ton clothes its vasts plains of stony des-
oIation, traversed by monstrous crew.
ces, broken by enormous peaks that rise
like gigantic tombstoncs into space; no
lovely forms of cloud float in the black
ness of its sky. The daytime is only
night lighted by a rayless sun. There
Is no rosy dawn in the morning, no
twilight Ill the evening. The nights are
pitch dark. In daytime the solar beams
are lost against the jagged ridges, the
sharp points of rocks Of the steep sides
Of profound abysses; and the eye sees
only grotesque shapes, relieved against
fantastic shadows black as ink, with none
OF that pleasant gradation anu diffusion
OF light and shadow which makes the
charm of terrestrial landscape. There
IS no color-nothing but dead white
and black The rocks reflect passively
the light of the sun; the crators and aby-
ses remain wrapt in shade; phantastic
peaks rise like phantorls in their glacial
cemetery: the stars appear like spots in
the blackness of space. The moon is a
dead world; she has no atmosphere.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-29

TKE marriage of james Gordon
Bennett, the proprietor of The Herald,
to Miss May, will take place shortly, but
will be celebrated in perfectly quite
and very private manner. No one will
know it except the intimate friends and
relatives of the parties until after it has
taken place, SO that newspaper gossip
and comment may be avoided. Miss
May has one of the brightest and sweet
est of faces, and is said to be refined,
accomplished and good.-Jetaie June.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-29

A MAN with red face, and looking
rather shabby, called at house in the
country one Sunday, and asked for a
drink of cider. The good lady of the
establishment refused, telling him that
she couldn' accommodate him. He urged
her, assuring her that she had better do
SO, for some persons had entertained
angles unawares: eyes" said she, I
know that; but angles don't go about
drinking cider on Sunday"
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-29

A New INTERNAL MACHINE M.
Henri de Parville, in q scientific article
in the Bulletin Fl'aacais, mentions
curious product "In America billiard
balls of artificial ivory are made of re-
markable hardness and of a perfect re-
Jewels made of the same material have
been quite in vogue for some months.
The new balls have already been intro
duced into England and France. Laet-
ly, in London, it 50 happened that q.
player, in lighting his cigar, let match
fall on the ball, which at once burst
into flame, to the great stupefacation
of all present 1t burnt with q smoky
flame, like sealing-wax. Efforts were
made to extinguish it, but unavailingly,
and it had to be left until it was COM
pletely consumed, which took quarter
of an hour. The explanation of this
strange phenomenon was sought, this
being the first time billiard ball had
been known to act in such marvellous
manner, the curiosity of the spectators
being naturally excited. An American
chemist explained the secret of that I'M
expected combustion. The substance
with which the new ivory is made is
called celluloid in the United States. 1t
is mixture of guncotScr and camphor,
compressed and dried. 1t forms hard,
elastic material, which, when polished,
has an absolute resemblance to ivory
Every one knows the camphor burns
readily, with blue flame. Guncotton
does better still it explodcs. The two
combined and compressed! Think
whether the infammability of the re-
suits is astonishing.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-29
COMPENSATION OF AIR.

The most beautiful analysis which
Liebig invented is that of air. The
composition of the air was made known
| at the end OF the last century. and then
1t was shown to consist of oxygen and
nitrogen in certain proportions, The oxy-
| gen being about one fifth, and the nitro
gen about four-fif of the volume, and
| nearly the same proportions by weight.
But it Is found that the air, for instance,
on Mont Blanc, and in the deepest mine,
and wherever else it has been investigated
in any part of the globe, has the same
composition. There is nowhere any diff
ference, whatever. The very same reg
ularity Is observed in the composition of
sea water; wherever you analyze Il ex-
cept III the immediate neighborhood of
mouths of rivers, it contains he same
amount of salt, and this regularity of
composition is one OF the great safeguards
for the existence and preservation of ami
NAL and vegetable life. OF course there
are impurities in the air. A room, for
instance, contains quantity of carbonic
acid, and in other places there is found a
quantity Of ammonia, and that increases
during the winter time, when no vegeta-
ton is going on, and decreases in the sum-
mer time. These small rdditions of gas
es not being oxygen or nitrogen, are so
1mperceptible that it requires very large
voiumns merely to show their presence,
and sill larger ones in order to determine
their quantity. Therefore, the presence
of these slight impurities is actually be-
yond the limits of accurancy which are
imposed upon us by our methods of re-
serch. We can not regulate The temper
ature as we should like, so that there
should be no difference between the
pressure inside or out. There are these
slight irregularities which we always
have to allow for, but they are still great
er than those produced by the admix-
tura of carbonic acid and ammonia.
And here again you find wonderful
provision of nature, that the diffusion of
gases is so great that they cannot, for
any length of time, collect in inclosed
places, except they are specially made
impervious to gases. In open nature.
in rooms, in caverns, houses, valleys, on
mountains, the gases get diffused SO
quickly that you may stand before
burning limekiin and you will hardly
perceive it; in fact, in order to perceive
the presence of gas, which goes away in
volumes, you must actually go close to
the fire and hang your heal over It,
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-29

SUNDAY there was quite stir in a
Brooklin church when gorgeousiy robed
young stranger swept along the main
aisle, preceded by an obseGuious usher.
All eyes were attracted by her blazing
diamonds, her costly laces, the splender
and profusion of her toilet, and when she
rustic, hundreds of female voices SEEM
ed to have been guided by common in
spiration as they whispered: ''The
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-29

A GOOD old fashioned revival was re-
Gently held in our usual quiet town, and
one of the fruits was old Jim s., a
confirmed old reprobate, who capitulated
early in the siege. A few nights after
his conversion, jim attended an "exper-
ience meeting" and of COURSE was called
up for his experience.
Brethren" said he, with great ear
nestness and deliberation, "brethren, I
dreamed dream last night. I dreamed
[ died and went to hell |"
At this point a person in the rear part
of the house remarked
"Will the brother please speak again?
We can't hear very plain in this part of
the room"
Jim repeated very impressively, ard
in loud voice: II dreamed q dream
last night. I dreamed I died." etc.
Just then an individual from another
corner rose and inquired if the brother
would be so kind as to repeat what he
had said, as he had not been able to
catch all the words.
Jim resumed with great energy, and
in q powerful voice: CT DREAMED A
DREAM" etc.
Hereupon a colored brother arose in
the gallery of the church, and remarked
'sWill de brudder please speak a little
louder? We can't heah in the gallery I"
Jim-terrifically 81 dreamed, I died
and aoesat to he'll! Can you hear that
yoe ID niggeT e''
They will probably have bylaw
hereafter in that church, against inter
rupting speakers-esp when these
happen to be new converts.
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HARD TINES. carpenters say
they don't get enough to pay their
their all to keep them at work, and their
dependence is on their last JOB. -1Eilors
have determined to give their customers
fits. Tie gasftters go in for light work.
Bakers say they need more, and don't
like to see SO many loafers. Butchers
have to work at killing pric The
business of the paper-makers brings
them to rags. while that Of the printer is
quoin-less.
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Pensions.

All UFEf(EES, sOInIERS. and SAL
Ltx wounded rGpturei, or injured in the late war,
however sightlp, obtain pension 10y addressing
GsiLY0ssE AZ GO.
Gases prosecuted by GILMORE. & 90. before
the Supreme Court the United States. tic Court
of claims and the Southern Claims Commission.
Each department Of orr busine-s il condErted ia a
separate bureau, under charge niihe sale exl erlrc-
ed parties employed 10y TIA" old firm Prompt atith
to to all business .-iii irusted To 4 h 6; * sk O
IS thus secured I've desire fo VII Succ' -
nv deserving it.
Asidress GILMORE Co, h-i stree, h "shinet"h,
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PASSAGE TICKET
American and FOREIGN Patents.

Gilmore Co. Successors TO Chapman, Hosmer &
Co. Solicitors Patents procured in all countries. No
Fees in advance no charge unless the patent is
granted No fees for making preliminary examina
tions. No additional fees tor obtaining and coGduc
ting reheafing. BY u recent decision of the Com
missioner All rejected applications may lie revived
Special attention given TO Interference Cases before
the Patent Office, Extensions before Congress- Iufr-
ingent Suits in different States, and all litigation ap
pertaining Inventions Patents. Send stamp to
Gilmore & CO. for pamphlet of sixty pages.
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Land Cases. Land Warrants, and scrip.

Contested Land Cases prosecuted before the U. s.
General Land Office and Department of the Interior
Private Land Claims and Homestead Cases attended
to- Land Scrip in 40, so, and l6O acres pieces for
sale, This Scrip is assiguable and can be located In
the of the purchaser upon any Government
land subject to private ontry, at Sl25 per acre III
is of equal value with Bounty Land Warrants Send
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-29
GHaYar FRHRS,

yXyATCHE AEEB and JESELHR. or
w fers His services for repairing all kinds o
Clocks and watches Has a fine and well selected
assortment of the latest and best styles of Clocks
American English and Swiss Watches, as also of Gold
aud Plated Jewelry, at his new Brick Store on Sth
Ireet south side one door south of Kremers. Mani
VOC Oily
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X. Il. P.xIN'E, n. y,

T0za seONathic PhysiclaD. Surgeon
II and Acconcheur late resident Physician at tho
nahnemann Hospital. Chicago, l,i,s permanently 10
Gated ut Manitowoc. Office in Plumbs building, cor
Buial2 and Hiehth Streets.
o., III to A NJ
officE f"oN'' 1 to 9, and to S P. NJ.
Diseases of the eye and etr treated.
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En- ED SEEGER.

NFFEEE5 to his inasy friends ana In
~ public generally, choice selection OF Fresh
Meats Salt Pork and Beef, Smoked Beef and Hams,
Shoulders Sausages, Tallow and Lard at the lowest
rates Market Commercial Street. 9-ly
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CHICAGO AND NORTHWEST
ERIN RAILWAY.

Passengers for CHICAGO, Detroit, To.
ledo, Cleveland, Buffalo, Niagara Falls,
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Rochester, Alba
ny. Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Port
land, Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington, st. Louis,
Cairo, San Francisco, Sacramento, Og-
den, Salt Lake City, Denver, Council
Bluffs, Sioux City, st. Paul, Marquette,
Escanaba, Menasha, Madison, Cheyenne,
Omaha, Yanlzton, Winona, Duluth,
Green Bay, Milwaukee. and all points
North, West, South and East, should
buy their tickets via CHICAGO and the
CHICAGO AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.
Close connections are made at Chicago
with the Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern, Michigan Central, Baltimore & Ohio
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, Kan
kakee Line and Pan Handle Routes, for
all points EAST and SOUTHEAST, and
with the Chicago G. Alton and Illinois
Central for all points SOUTH.
Close connections are made with the
Union Pacific r. r. at omaha fer all
far West points.
Close connections are made at Juno
ton points with trains ofall cross roads
PULLMAN PALACECARS
These celebrated cars are run On all
night trains Oh all the lines OF this road.
This is the ONLY LINE running these
cars between Chicago and st. Paul or
Chicago and Milwaukee.
At Omaha our Sleepers connect with
the Overland Sleepers on the Union
Pacific Railroad, for all points west of
of the Missouri River
Among the
Inducements offered by This Route
to the travelling public are all the modern
improvements Rock and Gravel Ball
asted Track, Steel Rail, Rock and Iron
Bridges, PTlor and Drawing Room
Day Coaches, Smoking and Lounging
Cars, Westinghouse Safety Air Brakes,
Miller's Patent Safety Coupling and
Platforms, Speed, Safety and Absolute
Comfort.
Running thro' Five Great States,
and operating over 1900 miles of road,
this Company presents to the traveller
facilities that ARE NOT and CANNOT be
offered by any Competitor.
All ticket agents can sell you tickets
via this route
If you wish the best travelling accom-
odations, you will buy your tickets by
this route, and Will take no other.
MARVIN HUGHTTT, W. H. sTENETT,
Gen1 superintendent. Gen1 Passenger Agent.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-29

SOMEBODY has invented a coupon
cutter. Thank heaven Send us 13 of
them by express at once.-Rocheste,
DoInOcrdt.
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ARREARS OF PAY and BOUNTY.

Officers Soldiers and Sailors of fAe late war,
their heirs, In many entitled to money from
the Government of which they have knowledge.
Write full story Of service and state amount ofpay
and bounty received. Enclose stamp to Gilmore &
Co. end full reply, after examination, will be Civ
en- vou free.
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r.. KER.T.

IN Dry Goods Groceries, Crockery, Fancy Goods
3iass ware Boots and Shoes, Ready made Clothing,
Paper hangings Hats, Caps Toys Children carriages
i've Geese Feathers Bird Cages, Kerosene Oil and
amps, &c, &c. share of public patronage is soii-
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~. MBTSCH.

IEKRL1R aud Photographers. All
81 1nds of work in the line of my business prompt
attended TO- and warranted to give satisfaction.
have jsst received a Wing & Ornsbeys Multiplying
CAMERA OBSCURA, with which can take small
Dictres of the finest order for dollar per doZen-
Photographs tax on of all Albums aad Frames
nstantly on hand York Street. 13-.tf
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-29

RAPID pedestrianism is becoming very
popular in the Black Hills county,
The Indians help it along.
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II. e. .HHLETDf,

DH0T1G8APHE Eighth Street, Whites
l new block Mantowoc, Wis is prepared to take
Photographs or Tint,pes of every size and in the
latest styte of the art AlI negatives retouched Call
and examine specimens and prices. Copying and
enIarging old pictures specially. Keep constant
;y on hand a large assortment of frames for the
frade chg20ian16 A. Is. MELEND1.
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THE fire of 1000 cannon at Gibraiter
can be concentrated upon any hostile
vessel that attempts the passage of the
Straits
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j. ii. EEOH-T. M. u.

PHYSICIAN. SURGEdN AND AC-
1 cnuchesr Difficult obstetrics and surgery,
together with all critical and Obscure cases, will
ceive prompt and especial attention Office and re-
sisnca, Cor. Main and Chicago Street, Manitowoc
8r-Ni, ht bell ct ofice. door feblI-em
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q. E.aTDERSGN,

MANUFACTURER and Dealer In
M Boots, Shoes, Leather &c. &c. Shopon Buffalo
street neai the corner of Eighth. Repairing neatly
and promptly executed
Manitowoc September 90, 1865.
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DETTESTk +,

DU. A. j. PATCHES. Dentist. once
in Shermans building, Sth Street,
Manitowoc Wis
M Teeth extracted without pain.
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II. COkKLEf, N. ID.

nHY1SIEIAN and Surgeon, tenders
his professional services to the people Of the City
and county of Maniowoc. Office over }. A. koehler 3
Store, where night calls will be attended to-