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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-07-19

NJ ETHODS OF CHINESE CRUELTY
The greatest attribute of a Chinese
General is considered to be his strategy
He is nothing worth if he fails to lead
his enemy into making false step. The
hero of the hour on this account is a
General who led a body of troops against
walled city held by the insurgents.
He besieged them, and in due course of
time they pleaded for terms Laudable
promises were made by the dozens, the
sine qua non being they should lay down
their arms. This was done, when, the
Generals dispatches inform us, they
were Immediately massacred as fast as it
was possible to do SO, but the leader
was "put to death by the extreme tor
ture." This consisted in winding
wire very tightly about the entire head
and body to the feet, intervals of an
inch being left between each turn. This
brought the flesh into wales, which were
quickly and neatly sliced of by keen
knives. The scene ended by decapitat-
ing the still-living skeleton. A very
great deal of evidence in criminal cases
is ELECTED by torture, unless that given
comedies with the ideas of the magis-
trate. If, under torture, witnesses as
sert things detrimental to the side he
proposes to favor, they remain in agony
| till they take it all back again. When
he has got it arranged to suit himself,
ten to one he will administer another
dose to them for not telling the truth CD
at once. There is something frightful
| to the civilized mind in auch abortion of
justice, but, even when the verdict is
correct and the felon is to suffer for
crime committed, the punishments are
SO truly barbarous you sink your detes-
tation of the offense IN your pity for the
suffering offender. The sight of hui
man being receiving 200 or 300 blows
from heavy bamboo, leaving gashes
and flesh beaten to jelly, and finally a
helpless cripple for life, does not tend to
excite your love for your fellow-man.
Kneeling on chains for many hours, the
lash descending at the slightest change
of posture pinching the fingers in vises
made of split bamboo; intwining metal
tubes about the body and extremities, in
which boiling fluid is poured, soaring
the flesh wherever it touches wearing a
three-feet-square, twenty pound wooden
collar day and night for weeks, being
unable to reach the mouth with the
hand, and exposed to the gaze of pass
ers-by in the locality Of the offense
placing in cage with the head secured
in collar which forms the roof, the toes
just touching the ground, and left to die
by starvation and strangulation behead
ing and cutting into 10000 pieces,
are among the usual punishments of this
enlightened race.-,Shaaghai Cor ,Sa'
Francisco Chronicle.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-07-19

Something told him that the man
would now try to get in by one of the
upstairs windows, which had no shut
tiers; so, running down into the kitchen,
he caught hold of the wood-chopper,
and quickly returned with it to watch
and wait He no longer seemed boy
his whole look and bearing was one OF
firm resolve.
"He shan't rob mamma-that he
shan't % muttered he.
Peeping through the window from be-
hind the curtains, he saw the man bring
ing the garden-ladder toward the house
saw him place it against the wall
actually saw him stealthily ascend it,
and still neither moved nor screamed.
a moment more, and the mans head
was level with the sill another moment,
and his shoulders appeared.
Now was Willie's time. Springing
back, he flung the chopper through the
window-pane full in the robbers face
A groan and heavy thud instantly
followed. The man had fallen off the
ladder, stunned.
"Saved, saved p shrieked our hero,
almost frantically. and then he heard the
sound of voices.
"Hullo! What is the meaning of
this ?" asked one.
Somebody has met with an acct
dent, " said another.
Willie knew the speakers well-they
were two village tradesmen-and was
down stairs and out at the door in a
twinkling.
"It's robber, Mr.. Babbs, he ex-
claimed, hastily, pointing to the motion
less form. ''And it's no accident Ibid
it, because he was going to rob man.
ma ~
Mr.. Babbs looked at him admiringly.
"Oh, that's it, is it?" said he. "That's
quite another kettle of fish. Here,
links, let's secure him before he comes
to his Senses
This was quickly done, and then the
police were sent for. These arrived just
as Mrs. Lever was hurrying down the
| lane. You may guess how frightened
she was for a moment, but all was soor
explained, and then it would have done
your eyes good to have seen her hug and
kiss her son, calling him her "dear,
brave boyP'
The man turned out to be notorious
housebreaker, and, after he had recov
cred from his wounds, was transported
to Van Dieman's Land. He had beer
slightly acquainted with the Lever fam
lily in his youth, hence his knowledge O
'fUncle David"
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THANKFUL.

During the session of a temperance
meeting IN a neighboring town, one OF
the persons who occupied the stage was
an enthusiastic deacon who frequently
interrupted the speakers by yelling.
"Thank Heaven for that Z" One gen
tleman was called upon, who arose and
sadd, Ladies and gentlemen, I an
heart and soul in this cause, and feel
that it will be great benefit to the PEG.
pie OF this place 60 Thank Heaven fo1
that - yelled the deacon "But, ladies
and gentlemen" he continued, Il am
going to say that it viii be impossible
for Me to address YOU this evening-'
&c Thank Heaven for that y said the alb
sent-minded deacon; and then the Chair
man took him out doors and had two
men sit on him.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-07-19
FOLLOWING T,R1TT

One of the most remarkable features
OF unciyilized life is the power savages
show of tracking men and beasts over
immense distances. Many travellers have
spoken of this as something almost
miraculous, yet it is only the result of
careful observation of certain known
signs; and we have before us collection
OF very common-sense hints on the sub
ject. In countries like ours every trace
of footprint or wheel-track on roads and
paths is soon obliterated OF hopelessly
confused; but it is otherwise in the will
derness, where neither man nor beast
can conceal his track. In Kafirland,
when cattle are stolen, if their foot prints
are traced to village, the headsman is
held responsible for them, unless he can
show the same track going out. A
wagon-track in new country is practi-
cally indelible. More especially" says
our author, this is the case if fire
sweeps over the plain Immediately
after, or if wagon passes during OF
after prairie fire. We have known a
fellow traveller recognize, in this man
ner, the tracks his wagon had made
seven years before, the lines of charred
stumps crushed short down remaining to
indicate the passage of the wheels,
though all other impressions had been
obliterated by the rank annual growth OF
grass, fully twelve feet high Some
times, the original soil being disturbed,
a new vegetation will spring up along
the wagon-track, and thus mark out the
road for miles. Even on hard rock q
mans bare foot will leave the dust caked
together by perspiration, so that prac-
ticed eye will see it and even if there
is no track stone will be disturbed here
and there, the side of the pebble which
has long lain next the ground being
turned up Chambers Journal
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HOW THE CIR TR4TELs.

The Emperor Alexander travels III a
carriage constructed especially for his
accommodation. This car, thirty six
feet in length, is moving palace; there
is a parlor, bedroom and a dining
room, furnished with rare magnifcence,
and to it is adapted system of wheels
which enables it to pass upon any rail
way in Europe, whatever be the gauge.
The imperial train is preceded by pilot
locomotive. on which is the Director of
the line Thirty minutes behind follows
a second train, with engineers and work
men provided with everything necessary
to repair the road in case OF accident.
Twenty minutes after this are the
coaches containing the imperial suite,
and lastly, at another interval of half
an hour, comes the escort OF 300
So11ipPS
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THE E4RLT USE OF ToRPEDOEs

THE EIRLT USE OF TORPEDOES.
There is very generally received but
erroneous notion that the torpedo is quite
a recent invention, and that during the
present hostilities III the East it has been
for the first time employed in actual war
fare. That of late years torpedoes have
been greatly improved is undoubtedly a
fact, but none the less is it true that The
advantages to be gained by iudicious
employment of submarine weapons OF
war have long been fully recognized,
and, further, that these latter have been
already largely used, and with great
effect, both for the defense of harbors,
rivers, roadsteads, etc., and also for
more actively offensive operations.
As long ago as the 18th of August,
1777, a boat was blown to pieces and
nearly allits crew killed by the accidental
explosion of torpedo which had been
used in an attempt made by the Americans
against the English man-of-war Cerebus.
In 1906 brig which had been anchored
off Deal for the purpose of experiment
IN submarine explosions was DESTROYED
III the presence of Mr.. Pitt and a large
concourse of spectators, by a torpedo
containing 10 pounds of powder. Pre-
viously, Ii 1877, machine had been de-
signed by which, to use the inventors
own words, he proposed to impart to
carcasses of gunpowder in progressive
motion under water to given point, and
there explode them" and which, there
fore, contained the germ of the present
locomotive or fish torpedo.
In 1907 another vessel was blown to
pieces in New York harbor, and, finally
to come to the employment of torpedoes
IN actual warfare, we find that no fewer
than seven ironclad vessels and eleven
wooden ships of war were totally de-
stroyed during tbe American civil war
by submerged torpelioes.-PaU Afall
I,u-cFfr
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-07-19
MEDICAL USES OF GLrCERINE

MEDICIL USES OF GLYCERTNE
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
one OF the best remedial agents-intro-
duced into the canal by means of raw
cotton saturated with it. 1t is also
claimed to be the only known agent
which viii preserve vaccine lymph for
any considerable time without deteriora-
ton; it has been found extremely useful
IN numerous Skin diseases, and its ser.
viceableness has been satisfactorily
proved in connection with all the various
substances used locally in diseases OF
the eyes, except nitrate OF silver, which
latter it decomposes.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-07-19

The Age Of Steel, an American jour
nal, ably advocates the development OF
the beet-sugar industry, and says: "The
industry is practicable in every State in
the Union. A factory in Illinois is now
working up forty tons of beets per day.
Its machinery was put up with too little
knowledge of the requirements OF the
business, and has, we believe, for that
reason alone been but partially success
full A scientific tess of soils, of beets
grown, and explicit directions and proper
care in their growth, all learned from
experiments made directly to that end,
and chemical knowledge of the process,
are necessary. The rolling lands of Hi
nois, Iowa, Missouri, and especially Kan
sas, are well adapted to this indus
try. Maine offers L cent pound pre-
MUM up to 81, 900 year for the estab
ishment of the industry.
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RIPID CH4NGE OF SUBJECTS.

There were two of them hanging over
the front gate the other night. She was
standing within the yard and he on the
sidewalk outside, both leaning on the
top rail, and apparently as happy as two
pigs in corn-field. he was saying,
"Now, my own little darling, sweet idol
of my soul, whose image is ever ON my
heart. when he saw the old man coming
down the front walk, and continued in a
different strain, The potato bugs
haven't destroyed our crops SO much
since we purchased paris green, and you
will find, also, that cabbages can be
raised better on a richer soil The old
gentleman heard it, and turned back,
saying, as he entered the house, f" These
young people take more interest IN agr1-
cultural affairs than people generally
suppose"
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-07-19
THE BLIGHT or PE4NUTs.

CIVIL you love me this way when Tn
old? she asked, as he emptied hand
full of peanuts in her lap. 81 will,
darling, Iswear it, he passionately pro-
tested, as he carefully laid aside his
cigar and commenced on what was left OF
the nickel's worth. This was when the
flowers were budding and the birds were
mating, one brief year ago. Last night
they sat again in the cleaning, and who
knows but that their memories reverted
10 the happy past, and yet, when she
asked for a ffty-cent parasol, he re-
marked that a woman whose face was as
yellow as ducks foot, and looked as
though it had been cultivated crosswise
with patent harrow, needn't be SO par
ticuIar about her complexion. The pea
nuts had done their work. There had
been a wedding ere the budding bios
SONS bIoomed.-Bg'ookly5e Je6ersonia17.
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The war waged against disease by Hostetters
Stomach Bitters goes bravely on. Dispatches
are constantly received from the cured lndlcat-
ing the decisive nature of the advantages OBJ
tanned by the great botanic cordial over its for
midable adversary. Malarial fevers, constlpa-
ton. torpidity of the liver and kidneys, general
debility, nervousness and rheumatic ailments
invariably yield to this conqueror and prevent
i've of disease. For the intirmities incident to
the decline of life it is also an excellent specific.
1t hastens convalescence and repairs the raw
ages of ill-health by facilitating the conversion
of food into blood of a rich and nourishing
quality. The appetite is improved by it, and,
in cases of nervous disease, it tranquilizes that
great sensorium, the brain, far more effectualy
than any mineral sedative.
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&" COD-LHER: OIL

The somewhat remarkable statement
and certainly discouraging to invalids-
is made in a California paper that there
Is a firm IN San Francisco who purchase
the thousands of dogs slaughtered by
the poundmaster of that city, or that
may have been otherwise killed. for
which they pay 40 cents each. The car
casses are conveyed to their manufac-
/ tory III San Francisco, where the skins
are removed and sold TO the tanneries.
the hair taken Off and resold to plaster
ers, the hide tanned, and the denude /
carcass then boiled in a huge caldron
until the flesh separates from the bones
the latter are ground to a fine powder
AMI used to clarity sugar. while the oil
that rises to the surface of the boiling
mass is skinned off and made into cod
liver oil for medicinal purposes.
4 BF-rEF III the value Of fresh blood as
a metl;- NJ in cases OF consumption is
entert med BIZ several St Louis pbysi-
clans, and every morning the chief
slaughter-house OF that city is visited by
| patients.
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OUR JUVENILES.
Suppose.

Suppose.
Suppose, my little lady,
Your doll should break her head,
Could you make it whole by crying
Till eyes and nose were red?
And wouldn't it be pleasanter
To treat it as a joke,
And say you're glad twas doll. S
And not your head that brCke?
Suppose you're dressed for walking
And the rain comes pouring down,
VIII it clear off any sooner
Because you scold and frown?
And wouldn't it be nicer
For you to smile Than pout,
And so make sunshine in the house
When there is none without?
Suppose your task, my little man,
Is very hard to get,
VIII it make it any easier
For you to sit and frete
And wouldn't it be nicer
Than waiting like Ounce,
To ge to work in earnest
And learn the thing at once?
And suppose the world don't please you,
Nor the way some peorle do,
Do you think the whole creation
VIII be altered just for you?
And isn't it, my boy or girl,
The bravest, wisest plan,
Whatever comes or doesn't come,
To do the best you can
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WUHOFr's Fewer And AGITE T0NTc.

WILHOFTs FEVER AND AGUE Tonic. -
This medicine is used by construction compa-
MES for the benefit of their employees, when en-
gagged in malarial districts. The highest testi-
monials have been given by contractors and by
the Presidents of some of the leading railroads
in the South and West. When men are copgre-
gated in large numbers in the neighborhood OF
swamps and rivers Wilhofts Tonic will prove
a valuable addition to the stock Of medicines,
and will amply reward the company in the saw
ing of time labor and money. We recommend
it to all. G. R. FINLAY d Co., Proprietors,
New Orleans
FoR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
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THE name Cashmere Bouquet, as ap-
piled to Toilet Soaps and Perfumery, is regis
tered and patented rs a trademark by Colgate
& Co., New York. Purchasers, however, need
hardly to be warned against infringements; the
genuine article is SO universally esteemed as to
have made the names Cashmere Bouquet and
Colgate & Co. nearly synonymous.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-07-19

A FEW years ago no one would have
thought that more than a hundred hours in
struction in music could have been afforded for
SIS yet this is just what more than 10000
pupils have secured at the New England Con-
servatory of Music, with its seventy-five emf
nent Professors. Full information may be Sc
cured by addressing DIR. T.. Tourjee Boston.
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4 sPfPIrED SCHOOL-GIRL.

The IN stress OF most d1sorderly
school in Skowhegan, Me-, lost control
of her scholars one day last week, and
allowed the naughty boys to throw wads
of paper and balls of clay at the pretty
girls. One of the girls finally ''report-
ed" certain boy who was annoying her
with pot shots from popgun. The
timid schoolmistress sternly reproved
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her for tattling in school. The girl re-
turned to her seat, and her prosecutor,
resuming military operations and firing
at long range across the schoolroom, hit
her in the face. elf the teacher can't
lick you can, said the pretty girl, and
darling across the room she struck him
with big book, dragged him out of his
seat, and beat him until he lay on the
floor blubbering and begging for mercy.
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THrRrr wears, exne1ience nrones th

THIRTY years experience proves the
Graefenberg Vegetable Pills to be the mildest
and most effective medicine ever known for the
complete cure of headache, biliousness, liver
complaints, nervousness, fevers and diseases of
digestion. Sold everywhere; price % cents per
box. Send for almanacs. Graefcnberg Co.,
New York
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HATcH's Universal Cough Syrup takes
the lead of al cough remediesi in our trade. We
keep many others. None receive such general
communication. Our customers will be put off
with nothing else. We warrant it in every case.
SAaI'Is Cross & Co., Fet's Mills, n. Y.
Sold by H. A. Hurlbut & Co., Chicago, III.
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OFER-EITING.

By eating between meals, the stomach
is overworked, and soon gets out of Or
der then the whole body suffers, and
disease creeps in. Thousands of men
are daily inficting upon their own stom-
achs abuse of the very same character.
Thousands of mothers daily encourage
in their children habits which impose
upon their stomachs burdens more
onerous than the tasks demanded by the
Egyptians of their Hebrew servitors
The stomach needs rest as well as other
organs of the body. Anatomically con-
sidered, it is chiefly muscle. All mus
cles require rest after short periods of
activity. The stomach also performs a
glandular Office in uhe secretion of gastric
Juice, an essential element i'll the process
of digestion. If rest is not allowed the
stomach, the glands are unable to fur
nish the requisite quantity of gastric
fluid. The inevitable result of this
abuse is dyspepsia. AIultitudes of chill
dren under ten years of age have be-
come confirmed dyspeptics by the per-
nicious habit of eating between meals.
Regularity III eating is one of the first
lessons that should be taught children );
and the course of instruction should be
begun in early infancy. From the time
a babe leaves its mothers breast he is
not too young to learn.
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of honest trade. When you buy DooLEY's YEAST
POWDER, for sale by all grocers, you get per-
fectly full weight, just as marked on the cans,
and beside that an article made of the very
best and purest material, so that the strength
can always be trusted.
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PONDS ExTRACT.-Large sums of
money are spent by the afflicted to find relief
from Piles. The Extract is a certain cure for
Blind OF Bleeding Piles.
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4 MURDER MORE THIN Il CENTURY
IGO.


In the old burial ground adjoining
the Goshenhoppen Reformed Church, in
Upper Hanover township. is a tomb
stone which bears the inscription
GA. D., Kosina Schultz, murdered June
18th, ammo 1850. Aged % years. For
death has come into our windows. Jer.
tx. 81" The Scriptural quotation has
an actual significance. The story of
the affair is now told as a tradition.
Her husband was away from home, and
she lightly punished a slave for some
offense. He made up his mind to kill
her, but better spirit prevailed, and he
went to work in the field. The old story
says that while there an apparition in
the form of white man appeared before
him and said, "Don't kill her !" It dis
appeared, and black man came, who
whispered, "Kin heri" These two
specters confronted him alternately all
day, until nightfall, when the white man
disappeared, leaving the black man
alone, who still kept telling him to kill
her. At midnight he seized a butcher
knife, and, getting into her room through
window, stabbed her and fed. Thus
it was that death came up to her through
her window.-NOTTist0a0 Herald.
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The War Against Disease.

sary, he very soon answered his own
question
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number if the natives were allowed the
free use of fowling- pieces, at any rate, If
not of rifles