The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-10-04
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! dynamite cartridges, which are inserted
| under the stump in holes mode by
| long earth-auger, and, on beng fired,
lift out and demolish the stump, without
making large hole.
A BOY named Cole, in Madbury, N. H.,
recently received reward of S25 for re-
storing lost pocket-book. His employ
er, a farmer, claimed half the reward be-
| cause the pocket-book was found on his
land. Cole was discharged because he
refused that demand.
A FRENCH paper, speaking of the diff
ference between the French and the
| Spaniards, says that in France ninety
| five out of every hundred murders have
money for their object, while in Spain
love is the cause of nety-eight out of
every hundred crimes
THE chestnut tree, which furnishes a
great deal of food in Southern Europe,
is widely threatened there with destruc-
ton by little insect which girdles and
kills it. In the Pyrenean districts forests
have been destroyed, the oldest and
strongest trees being attacked.
ONE result of the interest taken in
rifle matches in the last few years is that
the principal ocean steamers have estab-
lished ranges on their decks, and, instead
of playing shuffieboard and pitch, pas
senge1s now amuse themselves by firing
at targets.
DIR. FARR, in a recent lecture before
the British Association, said that in En-
gland and Wales the population doubled
in about sixty years; in Sweden in sixty
years; in Prussia in sixty-four; in Spain
in ninety three; in Italy in one hundred,
and in France in only three hundred and
sixty-one yeBrs.
The will of the rich man of the future
will read " To the respective attorneys
of my children give my entire estate
and worldly goods of all descriptions.
Personally to the children and to my
beloved wife [ give all that remains. -
This instrument will satisfy the family,
and save the trouble of proving the old
man insane
To BLEACH A STRAW HAT-First
scrub it we'll in water, softened with bo-
rax, using very little soap; then rinse it
in borax water, using teaspoonful of
powdered borax 20 basin of water;
bleach it in the sun for two or three
days; if the hat is very yellow, little
lemon juice rubbed on will prove effect
i've.
THERE are in France, according to a
recent return, 1,141 hospitals being
one for every 80, 700 inhabitants-con-
tanning 70,717 beds, of which 4S, 496 are
free. Those occupying the remainder
pay for the occupation afforded them;
5,742 of these latter, however, are occu-
pied by sick soldiers, who are PAID for
at fixed rate per head in civil hospitals.
Nearly all the hospitals are in towns
Two BROTHERS named Mitchell, con-
fined in the San Bernardino (Cal J jail,
recently escaped by presenting wooden
revolver at the jailers head while he sat
at supper, and SO terrifying him that he
gave them the prison keys and suffered
himself to be bound hand and foot The
revolver was Whitfield out of pine stick,
and stained walnut color. Sheet zinc
was rolled up and fastened ON to repre-
sent the cylinder and chambers.
Mrs. JULIA l.. KEY, daughter of Mrs
Caroline Lee Hentz, the novelist, was
recently taken i'll in Calhoun, Fla. She
believed she was about to die, and was
filled with dread. She begged her hus-
band to watch her closely, and, when she
seemed about to die, administer chloro-
form to her. He obeyed, and she died.
There is to be an official investigation, be-
cause the physicians say that she might
have lived longer, or even recovered, had
the chloroform not been used.
ANOTHER prayer miracle For two
years Miss Minnie Walters, of Harris
burg, has scarcely left her bed, owing to
a diseased spine, and eminent surgeons
have applied heated irons and told her
that nothing more could be done. She
became resigned, and bore her suffer
ings with Christian fortitude One day
she prayed that the Lord would rails
her up and heal her. Suddenly she felt
herself growing stronger, and almost in
stantly she was restored to health and
enabled to attend prayer meeting.
HE first wife of Col. Nick Smith. Ida
Greeley's husband, was a secessimist,
and, during their courtship, would never
permit him to wear his uniform in her
presence. When he married Miss Gree
ley he gave up his religion and became
a Roman Catholic. Not long since he
had his boy baptized Horace Greeley,
dropping the name of Smith. $50 it may
be said says Miss Grundy, "that he
gave up his country for his first wife, his
religion for his second, and his name for
his child
A GOOD old lady N this State once at
tended the funeral of a man who had
made a little hell of the neighborhood
forty years. In the very ranks OF the
villagers who were present more than
twenty had been cut and hacked and
kicked and bruised by him, and his own
skin was completely tattooed with scars.
But did this good old lady make any I'M
pleasant remarks ? Not a bit of it. She
was Christian woman, and SO she said
as she looked down into the coffin.
Well, anyhow, he makes real auiet
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