The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-08-13

oilers, poet, pill-makers, l farmer, l inn
keeper, editor, 1 sculptor, 8 missionaries,
l plumber, 6 librarians, and 1875 walters.
Foreign Gossip.
Prince Alfred is to make a book of
his cruises.
-Theodorus' son prefers England to his
native Abyssinia.
The English Insane Asylums contain
80, 1913 patients.
-Menotti Garibaldi is about to marry
lady of Padua named Bedeschi.
July 16 was the hottest day expert
cnced in England for fifty years.
Basic, in Switzerland, boasts of
newspaper nearly two hundred years old.
Germany consumes 319 pounds of to-
bacco per inhabitant per year.
Public gaming houses in Germany
are to be closed on and after the year
1872.
1t is said that the heir apparent to the
Russian crown begins to show symptoms
of insanity.
The London Times uses seventy tons
of paper and two tons of printing ink
every week.
The private property of the late
| Prince Michael of Servia amounts to
$11, 100000
The gold coins of the Sydney (Aus-
| tralia) mint have been made legal tender
| in Canada.
| "A gymnast in Liverpool beats drum
while hanging to rope by his teeth at
height of forty feet.
| "A man in paroxysms of hydrophobia
was smothered the other day between
mattresses, at London, Ontario.
| 1t is said that in Egypt sun-stroke is
relieved by pouring water, in which salt
is dissolved, into the ears of the sufferer
The Princess of Wales has been de-
liyered of daughter. Queen Victoria is
now grandmother to thirteen children.
The Church of England is coming out
strong against the remarriage of divorced
persons.
The schools of foreign languages in
Paris has recently introduced Professor
of japanese.
| Horse oil is winning its way into Pa
risian salads, the Frenchmen eating it
with the utmost equanimity.
| The Minister of the Interior at Brus-
sells, the Echo Dr. Parlenaent states, has
prohibited the use of nitro glycerine in
Belgium
| A one-leg and one-arm cricket match
has been played at Brixton, England-the
one-leggers winning after hard battle.
| The military consumption of cart
ridges in France, in time of peace, is
! 100000 annually, mourning an expense
of about 81 100000. -.s y.
| France imported three times as much
wheat during the first four months of this
year as during the same period of 1867.
| The Java papers mention the appear
ance of disease among the cattle of that
island, causing severe loss to the owners
| Napoleon and Eugene recently had a
narrow escape from being crushed by a
chandelier iii the palace of Fontainebleau.
| -Bismark has been ordered by his
| physicians to remain for several hours per
day in the pine woods in Silesia, inhaling
their resinous eXhalations.
The AbyssiniaH expeditionists have
| introduced the custom of eating raw beef
with much mustard and pepper, in Eng
| land
The oldest doctor in the world, Prof
F. Verdugo, Salamanca, Spain, died lately,
aged 105 years. He had practised medi-
cine so years
The printers of Paris have Just had a
strike to redeem Sunday as . holiday, and
have succeeded in suppressing the appear
ance of several leading papers on Monday
mornings.
The mental condition of the Empress
Carlotta has lately become so serious
that double guards have been placed
around the palace of Laecken, Brussels,
to prevent her escape.
They estimate at seventeen million of
pieces the annual fabrication of calico in
Europe it has value of eighty millions
of dollars, and employs 100000 indiyid-
uals
The first thing Queen Fatouma, of
Mobely, ordered, when arrived at her Paris
hotel in the July heat, was big fire in the
chimney place, before which she sat shiv-
ering in a leopard skin.
AT recent buli-fight at Bilboa, one of
the picadors was mounted on velocipede.
In Paris race has been made between a
velocipede and horseman, to run from
Castres to Toulouse, forty five miles.
Prince Napoleon recently received on
board his yacht a deputation of Poles, and
after thanking them for their address, ex-
pressed his sympathy with their sufferings
IN the tangible form of 100, 900 francs.
Blanc, the proprietor Of the gambling
establishment at Hamburg Springs, Prus-
STA, is said to be worth $40, 100000, and it
IS only thirty years ago that he arrived in
Frankfort with only 81 in his pocket.
"A weak.minded person in Germany
has gone mad n consequence Of the i'm.