The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-07-23
CUR CHICAGO EETTER.
Correspondence of the Manltowoc Tribune.]

SHOdSO; - oiy II, lOOO.
Of course / sent you noletter last week
first because there was really nothing
worth writing about; second, because the
thermometer indicated 103 in the shade
and that is too hot for any honest labor :;
third, because there was too much Fourth
of July about. The second of those
reasons is still valid, but [ shall sacrifice
myself
For a week passive have been in con-
slant state of excitement over the Demo
cratic Convention-the mountain which
after so much labor has brought forth a
mouse. Newspaper Offices have con
stantly been besieged for late intelligence
and the air was thick with discussions,
prophecies and bets-but never could one
hear the name of Seymour Nobody
mated, the news thereof was at first re-
ceived with dumb astonishment by every
Democrat. An attempt was made to get
upsome enthusiasm, by fireworks and can
non, in the evening, but it failed. The
fact is very apparent here that Seymour
is not trump card for Western Demo
Gratis, IN this section at least. They want
ed Pendleton and his financial theories,
not Seymour, ''the instrument of the
bloated bondholders" as some of them
do not scruple to call him. The Repub
icans are iubilant- They say that an
easier ticket to crush, than Seymour and
Blair could not have been nominated and
even many prominent democrats disavow
all hope Of electing their men. The new
Democratic paper which ''was to have
been started several times within the
last year, is again said to be on the topic
and it is even affirmed that some of the
deluded gentlemen who have invested in
the venture have gone on to New Y ork.
nominally to get a press, really to see how
liberal the great moguls of the party Will
'sstand in with them for the campaign.
1t isunderstood that if sufficiently backed
to start at all, it will be even more ultra
than the Times.
But, to drop politics for the nounce,
| have something to tell you-an incident
in social life much more exciting than
Jolly for all concerned. In one of our
most respectable churches, there is a
portly rubicund old chap who performs
the duties of deacon or elder, or steward,
or whatever they call these official fellows
who go about in the awkard pause be-
fore the doxology, raking in peoples
spare stamps. He has a very pretty lit
tie wife, much his junior, a roguish love-
" little thing who knows thoroughly the
mysterious language of the handker
chief and can signal volume of love
with her fair arts with which Turveydrop
Boanerges as we may call her husband, is
happily unacquainted. Last Sunday he
presented himself at his own pew door,
in his official capacity and extended the
plate to pretty madame, who demurely
extended her hand ard dropped in her
contribution. A second after, she saw,
TO her horror, for recovery was impos-
sibie. that she had made a mistake and
had dropped in instead of ''greenback"
lovely little missive to dear Guy,
an designation which she expected to
slip into his hand while leaving church.
Said Dear Guy" being an individual
much younger, handsomer and less port
" than her husband. As may readily be
imagined there was cheerful row when
church was over Dear Guy" was very
scarce. Pretty wife declared with many
tears and proSestations, as women always
do, that she had been 'imprudent, but
never criminal, oh no, never" Portly
husband stormed, then fCrgave. All this
transplred in the preacher s private room
at the back of the church, and at its door
the matter has been dropped, so far as
the.public kno7.
Our Board Of Education has recently
taken one step, which is in the highest
degree creditable to she spirit of improve
ment and advance charaeterizing Chica
go. After thorough experimental trial
OF the merits of the system of heating
and ventllating buildings which has been
applied to Government structures, all
over the Union. they have adopted it for
our public schools and Chicago children
will now have the best aud most health
full atmosphere in their school-rooms en-
joyed by any in the United States. 1t
was first applied in the Dore and parti-
ally in the High School and has now been
ordered for the Franklin, Clark, Holden,
Carpenter and Hays Buildings also. By
this system, fresh air drawn from outside
the building is passed through steam coils
and, when thus properly heated is forced
by fans, to all the rooms where it is re-
CURED. Cold air is admitted to the warn,
ar tues in such quantity as to properlv
regulate the temperature before entering
the ROOM These are the mere outlines
OF thus admirable system, which not only
warns but thoroughly ventilates anv
building to which it is applied, far more
perfectly than any other apparatus. 1t