The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-29
IT only costs ss,oOo,ooo to get up a
Centennial show.

THE attendance at the Philadelphia
Centennial is improving daily.
AT Bagdad during the month of May
,122 persons died of the plague.
Few people are aware that there is a
greater area of gold and silver in the
United States than of anthracite coal.
PETERsoN's Counterfeit Detector gives
out that large and increased number
of forged bank notes are it circulation.
Two hundred passenger trains went
from New York to Philadelphia on Sat
urday, June 5, on the Central road
one every seven minutes, night and day
A FARMER in Lenoir, N. c., finding
that some person stole his meat, poison
ed his pork with strychnine. A family
of eight negroes ate of it, and all died.
A MAMMoTa OK, purchased for the Cen
tennial, at an expense of SO, 900, weigh
ing over 5000 pounds, died on the train
on its way to Philadelphia, from New
Brunswick.
AN English writer says that in case of
fire in buildings containing horses, if
the harness be merely put on, however
loosely, the horses will quit the place
without difficulty.
AN old lady at Attica, Ind, Just to
show what she could do, filed g goblet
with cream, and with a teaspoon churn-
ed butter enough for breakfast for q
family of six.
A wELL-KNowN lawyer of Norwich, /
Conn, while on his way to Washington
the other day, talked for an hour and
quarter 30 his seat-mate before he dis
covered that he was deaf and dumb man.
The gold in the vaults of the bank of
France at the present moment, exceeds
500 tons in weight; in other words, it
weighs about as much as twenty locomo-
tive engines of the first size.
Mrs. Triton is earning her living by
going out as dressmaker, working for
$1.25 Gay. The church members en-
ploy her. The church itself stopped
giving her money since the trial.
PETER HARRIS, living near Baltimore,
vas bitten by wild hog few days ago.
He soon exhibited signs of hydrophobia,
became raving maniac, and escaped to
the woods. He has not been seen since.s
A MACHINE has been invented, after a
study of ten years, for making seamless
paper boxes. It rolls them from the
pulp, and will make 600 an hour, no
matter whether they are large or small,
round or square.
A METEoRIo stone, kissing hot, and
| foot in circumference, lit in Northum-
berland, Pa, the other night. 1t is sup
posed by the natives to be Venus or
some other planets contribution to the
Centennial.
AT medical examination, a young
a,pirant for physicians diploma was
asked: ''When does modification en-
sue9 . ''When You propose and are re-
jected, was the reply that greeted the
questioneer.
A HAMILTON CONT woman has re
! covered 500 damages from a lover who
| forsook her after an engagement of
twenty-six years. That is about $57
year fer the joys of courtship, which
certainly seems reasonable.
A SIMPLE and effectual remedy for the
prevention of milk turning sour in sum-
mer time consists in adding to each quart
fifteen grains of bi-carbonate of Soda
This does not affect the taste of the milk,
while it facilitates its digestion.
A FISH with four feet, that walks on
land, has been discovered III the Rocky
Mountains 5000 feet above The level of
the sea. Specimens have been brought
East by Mr.. Wilcox, Of Middleton, Conn.
1t uses its legs for fins when in the
water.
A TEST was recently made of the bouy-
ant power of leaf Of the water lily
known as the Victoria Regia in the Bo-
tanic Garden at Client. Bricks were
heaped over its entire area, and before
it was submerged in the water weight
of 761 pounds was foated.
AN eminent Boston physician says
"One of the cheapest and most efficient
chest protectors, when unexpectedly ex-
posed to cold, raw winds, is a folded
newspaper inside the vest He does
not venture to give any advice on the
subject to the other sex, and perhaps he
| had better not.
The new lawn game is called ''Vex-
illo." It has not been introduced here
yet, but rs it is said to resemble croquet
it is supposed that the way to play it is
for one player to make misstroke, and
then tell the other that she cheats, after
which they both pitch their mallets over
the fence and go into the house.
NOTHING can be more impressively
sublime than the air Of man with no
buttons on his coat, and hole in the
toe of his boot, standing on the steps Of
n free lunch establishment devouring
toothpick, and remarking to a friend
that he hasn't decided yet whether he'll
take his family to Long Branch or New
port this season.
An ornlthologist observed that in the
northern countries of Europe, when the
storks, after the breeding season, pre-
nara to ,oirrota So,tb,ro,l IL