The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-09
Foreign Gossip.

Havana is reported free from cholera.
thirty Thousand dollars.
The brother of the Tycoon of Japan
is about to visit England.
Thirty per cent. Of the population of
England cannot write their names.
The shower of stones at the last erup-
ton of Vesuvius reached the altitude of
1000 feet.
Prince Alfred was met by $4,000
school children, all singing, when he ar
rived at Adelaide.
Earl Russell expresses great admira-
ton for the American system Of educating
young ladies.
The death is announced of the heav-
lest woman in Paris, Elizabeth Veramque,
who weighed $50 pounds.
The 4th of March is fixed for hosting
the American flag IN Havana by native
Cubans In favor Of annexation.
1T is said that Joseph Morrow, grad
most notorious bandit of Italy
There is said to be region in Peru
where the climate restores consumptive
persons to health IS certainly as night
follows day.
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Gazette, is to be published in Paris by
Americans, and devoted to American in
terests.
An English firm of brewers have had
a +" brewing-pan" made that will hold 1 800
barrels. 1t is the largest one in Great
Britain.
The only thing saved from the general
destruction of the Haymarket theatre in
London was the dress Of the ghost in Don
Giovanni.
The best Baldwin apples from the
United States are selling in Glasgow, Scot
land, or rather were last month, at $3.50
per barrel.
BY the burning of Her Majesty's
theatre, London, Mr. Mapleson. the mana
ger, losses 100000, the savings of his en-
tire operate career
Nearly 300 duels were fought in Paris
during the past twelve months. Only two
of them had fatal consequences. Among
the duelists were 81 Journalists.
Two days are given to the Christmas
anniversary in England Business was
entirely suspended in London and other
cities last Christmas and the day follow
ing.
"A lecturer who undertook to cure the
under graduates of Cambridge, England.
its evils, was surprised to find some four
hundred students in attendance, each with
q pipe surcharged with tobacco.
s. "A bunch Of shingles recently taken
from the wreck of a British transport that
went ashore at Castine in 1779, was as
sound throughout as when it was shipped
in England, although it had laid in the
wreck nearly 100 years.
The two leading lawyers of Paris
have an income from their profession of
about $780, 900 each, and have seven times
as much business as they can attend to.
One of them lends his name to eight young
lawyers who draw up briefs. They have
the work and he the credit and the profit.
In Sweden, there are one hundred and
eighty three Baptist churches, with a men,
bership of nearly eight thousand. In Ger
many there are eighty-seven churches,
with a membership of sixteen thousand
The Berlin church numbers seven hundred
and seven members. In France, persecu-
ton has kept the church down. The men,
bership is but five hundred.
The Church of Scotland Record pre-
sents the following statistics of Protestant
missions in India: Twenty-Five Protestant
societies labor in India, maintaining $50
missionaries, and expanding annually
dUout 81 ,@VO,Vou. Lie 4dtlk 1ONcIuu6QJ
expends in secular education upward of
SO, 500, 900 year. There are $50 native
churches $4,000 native communicates, and
214 600 native converts.
The postmaster at Montreal, discov-
ering dishonesty somewhere smong the
corps under him, had the heads of all his
clerks phrenologically examined. Three
Of them developed insufficient or over-suf-
fcient bumps and were discharged. This
| is q queer tale, but the Montreal Telegraph
relates it with circumstantial gravity.
Three of the five young men in Rer-
lin, Prussia, who lately tried to pass seven
days and seven nights without sleeping,
have died since they failed in the attempt
One of the others was SO worn that he fell
asleep while riding on horseback in the
Thiergarten, and dropped from bis horse
which kicked him and injured hiai sc.
verely.
The London Examiner severely con.
demns the Manchester execution. It says