The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-07-19
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WET feet fill more graves than war.
THE hop crop of Central New York
promises well.
THE New York street cars carry 165,
900, 900 passengers year.
IT is asserted that more than two thirds
of the papers in Maine are not paying
expenses.
ALABAMA, Georgia and North Carolina
are each suffering from slight attacks of
gold fever.
THE Herald of Health contends that
no person can be a drunkard who every
day eats half a pound of macaroni, fla
vored with butter.
THE young ladies of the graduating
class at the Lewiston (h1e.) High School
will all be dressed on Commencement
day in American prints.
THERE is new law in force in New
York which forbids the DETACHMENT of
natural scenery with advertisements,
either painted OF printed.
A TEXAS sheep raiser says there are
about 2, 900, 900 head of sheep on the
borders of the Rio Grande, the finest
sheep raising country in the world.
A MAN at Pawlet, VT, recently lost
fourteen COWS, which broke into his po-
tato field and ate vines that had been
anointed with kerosene to keep off bugs.
GREENBAcKs are the favorite currency
in the Black Hills. They are worth $11
more on the hundred than gold dust.
Building lots that sold for 5000 last fall
are now in active demand at 81, 500.
ANEW HAVEN correspondent says there
are 1900 unoccupied buildings in that
city, one-half being stores. He thinks
the population of the city is 5000 or
4, 900 less than it was three or four years
ago.
'sPRAY, Mr.. Professor, what is per-
iphrasis - ''Madam, it is simply cir
cumlocutory cycle of oratorical sonor-
osity, circumscribing an atom of
ideality, lost in verbal profundity. B"
"Thank you, SIR
A SUBSTITUTE for gunpowder, invented
in England, is called powder-paper' %
1t is paper impregnated with a mixture
of potassic chlorate, nitrate prussiate
and chremate, powdered-wood charcoal
and a little starch. It leaves no greasy
residue on the gun, produces less smoke
and less recoil, and is less impaired by
humidity, and is fve-sixteenths stronger
than gunpowder.
THE TOMB AND THE ROSE.
The tomb asked of the rose:
What dost thou with the tears which dawn
Sheds ON thee every summer morn,
Thou sweetest flower that blows ?"
, The asked of the tomb
''What dost thou with treasures rare
Thou hidest deep from light and air
Until the day of doom 90
+ The rose said: 90 Homo of night.
Deep in my bosom distill
These pearly tears to scents that fill
The senses with delight"
The tomb said 90 Flower of love,
make of every treasure rare,
Hidden deep from light and air,
A soul for heaven above" 5. .l. E-.t#
-Trdnslated from Victor Hugo.
Mr.. Fry set out to marry Miss Boil in
} Amherst, Mass. Their names are fairly
| indicative of the difficulties they encoun-
; tered. Her father opposed the match,
: and she went to a family in which her
sister lived. The sister, being also in
love with Mr.. Fry, locked her in room,
and she only escaped by jumping from a
| window at night. A clergyman, called
on suddenly to perform the ceremony,
read the baptisnlal service half through
| before the error was discovered. The
delay gave time for the father to arrive
; and forbid the marriage The couple
J We're united, however, and their final
} trouble came from the groon's creditors.
who seized his baggage.
TIE first and only railway in China.
the line from Shanghai to Woosung,
recently built by English capitalists,
turns out to be great success. There
is regular traffic, and a rush for the
cars at the stations. The nimble natives
are particularly expert in getting inside
the cars. The Chinese themselves have
, now undertaken line to run from Woo
"AiO W fooOoiiOW, oll't LuSllSu CAPITALISTS
are not indisposed to advance the funds
on an enterprise which promises to paw.
The railway having thus become incor-
porated with the new policy of the most
: conservative nation in the world, it is
estimated that before many years English
and American engineers, contractors and
builders will be having something to do
, with the vast interior of the Chinese
Empire.
MEDICIL USES OF GLYCERINE.
Among the various uses for which
glycerine has been found specially valu-
able as medicinal agent is that of food
for infants; when raised by hand they
can be kept comparatively free, it is said.
from many of the ills to which they are
liable by the substitution of four to six
drachms of glycerine for the amount Of
sugar usually added to the cream, milk.
or water constituting their diet. In
cases of deafness, too, of adults, from
deficiency, accumulation, OF hardness of
the cerumen, glycerine is alleged to be