The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-01-04

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The iron mines of Wyoming are prov
ing richer than the gold mines.
TEXAS railroads are overloaded with
cotton, and running behind time.
DOMESTIC magazines-wives who are
always blowing UP their husbands.
The genius who invented wooden
toothpicks for hotel use has made over
$50, 900.
Tile expectation of American wall pa
per has commenced under favorable cir
cumstances.
SPEAKING of all bets being off. a Troy
! grocer named Belts went off lately with
another mans wife.
THERE will be s, 463, GOO. O0O feet of
lumber cut this winter on the Wiscon-
sin river and its tributaries.
CLEoPATRA's Needle was not erected
by Cleopatra, nor in honor OF that Queen
but by Rameses the Ga eat.
A CALIFORNIA farmer sold his wheat
crop the other day for S658, 900, realizir g
thereby profit of $200,O00
DURING the fiscal year ending June
80, 1875, the Government certified L.
DOL, IT'S acres of land to railroads.
SOME Cincinnati proprietors of retail
dry goods stores have the lady clerks
searched before they leave for the day.
PRUssIAN blue does not come from
Prussia, but it is the prec1pitate of the
salt of protoxide of iron with the prus-
state of potassia.
THE character of the men who are
now clamoring for war is the best posi-
bic guarantee for an enduring peace
| St Louis Globe Democrat.
| BRAZILIAN grass does not come from
Brazil or even grow in Brazil, nor is it
grass at all. It consists of strips of palm
leaf, and is chiefly imported from Cuba.
DANBUaY News: sit is poor policy
for young to engage himself to a young
lady late in the fall. It sometimes hap
pens that the money which goes for the
ring is needed for under clothes"
IRELAND Is prospecting. The bankers
there say that the deposits in the saw
ings institutions are largely on the in
crease, and thatsthe working classes and
peasentry are doing well and saving
money.
WHALEBoNs is no bone at all, nor does
it possess any properties of bone. It is
a substance attached to the lower jaw
of the whale, and seems to strain the
water which the creature takes up in
large mouthfuls.
Sealing wax is not wax at all, nor
does it contain single particle of wax.
It is made of shellac, Venice turpentine
and cinnabar gives it the deep red col
| or and the turpentine renders the shell
lac soft and less brittle.
A VAUDEVILLE girl worked the motto
81 need thee every hour" and present
ed it to her chap. He says he can't
| help it j; it takes him two hours to milk,
and feed the pigs, morning and night,
and business has got to be attended to-
Burgundy pitch is not pitch, nor is it
manufactured or exported from Burgun-
| dy. The best is resinous substance,
prepared from common frank-incense,
and brought from Hamburg, but by far
the largest quantity is mixture of resin
and palm oil.
The President says he does not fear
| civil disturbance over the Presidential
result, but will be ready to meet it if it
comes. He will recognize and transfer
the Government to whoever is declared
elected by the presiding officer in the
| joint convention.
The Senate has passed bill to Gre
ate new territory out of the northern
portion of Dakota, west of Minnesota,
to be called Huron. This is the new
territory which, at the last session of
Congress, it was proposed to organize
with the name of "Pembina.
4 NEENAH soiled dove on Thursday
night last, took q dose of poison, and
then tried to kill her 'sman" with knife
but she was foiled in the latter attempt,
and the service Of vigorous stomach
pump being called in use her worthless
| life was saved.
| THE Adams and the American, which
are the two great express companies of
the country, employ about 5000 men,
| 200 horses, j, 200 wagons, and use g.
| 900 iron safes. Their agents travel more
than 100000 miles daily, or nearly 49,
100000 miles yearly.
THERE is no similarity of friendship
between the Chinese and Japanese.
There have been less than 5000 Chinese
who have gone to Japan in the last :, coo
years, according to Japanese history
| The japanese Indians are the most hairy
| people in the world.
THE remains of balloon have recen-
thy been found on the coast of Ireland.
La the car where human bones an in
! complete skeleton-and a leather trave-
ling-bag containing papers SO moldy as
not to be deeiphered. 1t is coniectured
/ that this was the balloon in which the
seronaut Price assembled during the
siege of Paris.
The Amazon River is navigabie for
1900 miles by vessels Of large size. It
! has four tributaries, which are united by