The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-11-28
THE TRIBUNE.
Miscellaneous Items.


The total number of deaths from yellow
fever in Memphis this season was 1872.
The female clerks of Boston are paid
81 a week salary-and at that figure the
supply often exceeds the demand.
The South Carolinans have taken to
smoking beef with mahogany chips, which
gives the meat rich brown color.
discovered in Fond du Lac county, Wis
sconsin.
A lady in Washington was divorced
last Tuesday morning, and married again
at noon.
How to take 4 census of the children of
neighborhood. Employ an organ grind
er five minutes.
Three months hard labor in jail is the
penalty an English justice inflicted upon
fellow for sleeping In a barn.
There is enough iron in the blood Of
forty-two men to make ploughshare
weighing twenty-four pounds.
The Toledo and Wabash Railroad earn
ed 50. ~, $50 last year, and constructed
81 miles of new track, a new telegraph.
and $4,000 worth of new buildings.
Mrs. Pratt and her daughter, of Spring
field, are Spirltualists, and in obedience
to the spirits sought to smother little
girl, for which exploit they have been
sent to the insane asylum
In Monticello, Ind, recently. a man
sold a tract of land for s., 900, payable in
tfty-nlne annual payments of 800 each,
with ten per cent interest from date
Who has the best of such :, bargain?
A father and two daughters are run
ning steam circular saw mill, near
Brazil. One Of the daughters acts as
engineer, and the other helps her father
lift and remove the sawed timber.
Counterfeit twenty-five cent currency,
with paper thicker and green back lighter
than genuine, have been put into clrcu-
lation In Washington, under the very
shadow OF the Taeasury Department.
The estate Of the late Mr.. James Wood,
OF Pittsburgh, Pa, is estimated at S1O,-
OOO, 900, and Is left In his will exclusively
to his widow and children one third is
devised to his wife, and the remainder,
In equal parts, to his children.
Punch gives domestic scene called
The Tables Turned in which little
girl and her mamma are In the dra ying-
room, nurse just entering. Nurse =
Did you ring, ma am? Naughty Little
Girl-No; rang. Take mamma away,
please. She's very cross and disagree
able
The latest Improvement in stock is
new breed of cats in Vermont, which
have tails only an inch long The ad-
vantages claimed for such tails is, that
they cannot get under a rocking chair or
be stepped upon, and that the door can
be closed quicker when they go out.
The Manchester Ame,licaa says that
gentleman engaged in trade in that city
came into the printing Office and ordered
the printing Of labels for his boxes and
drawers. Among Others was one marked |
I'll. Pepper. Said the printer, what
is this for?' Whole Pepper said the |
trader, any boy who has been to school |
ought to know that F"
\ Boston house shipped a lot of cloth
ing to a firm in Troy, the other day, among
which We're IA lot Of vests. \ member OF !
the Boston concern aftcrward remember |
ed that he had worn one Of his vests a
day or two and had placed in one Of the t
firm caused a search for the money, which !
luckily was found
\ woman in France in good circum-
stances, knowing that the man she loved
was IN love with another woman, and too
poor To marry, destroyed herself and left /
her property to the man, that he might
make her rival his wife She is certain-
ly the most magnanim0us woman the /
u |.
Elise de Barcille.
-Snooks wonders where ali the pillow
cases go to- lie says he never asked a
sirl what she was making when she was
engaged in white sewing, without having
an answer:
A pillow case"
es they have to "make shift as best /
they can, an; answer any thing \ gen
nenian once asked a young lady of his |
acquaintance.
What are you making Miss Knapp
Knapp sack, was the quick reply. |
1t is proposed that Canada shall |
have lOo,e00 militia men at an annual ex- |
pense of three million dollars for twenty
five days drill
81 hope this hand is not counterfeit
sweetheart $ fingers. 1.-The best way to
find it out is to ring it, was the neat re-
ply.
The Sugar Wedding" thirty days
after marriage, Is the latest fashion.
An exchange wants to know if, when
young women blush and weep, they can be
SAID to raise hue and cry.
Why is kissing girl like eating soup
with a fork? Because you can get
enough.
Judge Ellington was the first man ex-
ecuted Tor murder in the Plymouth colo
ny.
The first white child born -of English
parents in New England was Peregrinc
White.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
died july 4, 1896.
Peter Randolph. first President of the
American Congress, died in l775
Elihu Yale, the benefactor of Yale
College, died III England in l72l.
George Whte6eld, the celebrated
preacher, arrived in this country in l740,
The first Christian marriage in New
England took place between Edward
Winslow and Susanna White.
In 1889, Dr. Carroll of Maryland, was
consecrated the first Catholic Bishop in
America.
Aaron Burr's arrest on a charge of
treason was in 1907 He killed Hamilton