The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-16

| $1,000 worth Of silver day from the re-
fuse Of the old Greek mines managed by
Xenophon 1900 years ago.
The chief of the secret police en-
ployed about Napoleon's person has
grown so stout as to become marked man,
and thus has lost his position.
There were SO,151 marriages In Ire
land last year, and II ,677 of the men and
| 1908 of the women made their marks on
| the register instead of signing their names
| The pay of the Prussian soldiers has
lately been raised. Henceforth privates
will receive SIS so per month; corporals
and buglers, Sill; sergeants, $14; and Or
derby sergeants, $40.
1t has just been declared by the Eng
| lish mint that worn silver and gold lin
are legal tender SO long as vestige re-
mains on the surface of the coin Of its
| origin from the mict.
The Simplon Pass, IN Italy, over which
Dickens and Collins make the characters
in "No Thoroughfare 60, was built by
Napoleon l. as military road, at a cost of
| $5,OOO,000, and occupied six years in COM
pletion-
An English officer writes from Abys-
sinia that campaigning in Theodore's do
minions is decidedly unpleasant. Their
mOm0LcI lUO budhcS III t0O UCOo1 WI pI-
ons in the mems boots; camp fevers; cpl
denies.
I'm Halberstadt. Germany, butcher
has been sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary for neglecting to have his
pork examined by the "trichin@ inspec-
tors, and thereby causing the death of 45
persons.
1t is eaid the Abyssinian war owes its
existence in reality to a blunGer. A letter
from Theodore to Victoria lay in foreign
office by mistake for years unanswered
Whereat the genial King, exasperated, shut
up the Englishmen, etc. W
The Friend Of India says that, owing
to the heat, half the engine-drivers on the
East India Railway are sick. "The other
day." 1t adds, ga train was stopped at
Hooghly with the stoker dead and the
driver dying"
The London Times wants the English
railroads to adopt the American plan of
giving the engineer and firemen small
house on the engine. AS it now is,
these important functionaries have moth
ing whatever to shelter them from the
storm.
"A French paper supposes that whale
may be only an antediluvian sardine, but
thinks it fortunate that men are deprived
of this faculty of unlimited growth. cat
the present price of bread" it says, "a
man 50 feet high would be the ruin of
any family"
There are over 100000 old maids in
England and Wales. Sad ossay, one
third the number cannot hope to marry,
as there are not men enough to go round.
OF every 100 women in England, 6S are
wives, 80 are spinsters, and 3 are widows.
The old maids are more numerous In high
life than in low.
"A Cuban who, had murdered his ia.
Their, mother, sister, and child, on his way
to execution, recently, made cheerful OBJ
servations to the bystanders, warning them
to be careful what meat they bought in
the market the next day, and suggesting
that his flesh might be distinguished by Its
peculiar toughness.
The people of Warwickshire, Eng
land, lately became possessed of the idea
that they were controlled by witches, and
some of the young laborers wanted to
kill the old women who were suspected of
witchcraft. One fellow, who cut cash
in the cheek of weird crone, is to be
locked up eighteen months for it.
queen isabella is unable to find
prince that will marry her eldest daughter,
a young beauty, with dark flashing eyes.
All courts decline respectfully to enter
into the bonds of relationship with her
Castilian majesty, although the young
princess is rather good looking, and is
said to be very amiable girl.
An English magazine states that nous
tache may be made several shades darker
IN color by tying d cabbage leaf on it on
retiring at night. BY repetition the hair
may thus be made as dark as desired. A
reader disposed to be caustic, might.won-
der whether the person who discovered
this dye, got the specific trcLn his own
head.
Official returns show that, in Liverpool,
ont of 3,740 persons who were appre-
hended in 1866, only 252 could read and
write well while of the 100 children dealt
with under the Juvenile offenders act, not
one could do So In $4,000 mar
riages that were made in England IN 1864,
$4,000 of the men and 80, 500 of the women
(using round numbers) signed with
mark.
"A horrible crime has been committed
in Vienna. A woman of abandoned char.
acter assassinated her mother, an old lady
of more than seventy, after a violent
struggle that lasted over quarter Of an
hour. When the remains of the victim
were examined by the authorities, 1t was
found that they bore not less than thirteen
mortal wounds The unnatural daughter
had pierced her mothers eyes with q
pointed knife, and, IN her fury, lacerated
her cheeks with her teeth.
The French infantry are being trained
to new sharpshooter's drill. They form
loose square, each man sets up his KNAPP
sack before and secures it with his tent
pegs, places the two sticks used for the
tente ddbri on each side of the knapsack,
and spreads his blanket over 1t as a cur
tain, behind which he crouches and fires.
At six hundred yards the men are thor
oughly concealed, and this protection,
though not very effectual, might make the
men think themselves more secure.
1t is said that the condition Of the EN-
press Carlotta continues to improve. She
goes out every day, when the weather per-
mics, for long drive or walk. She visits
their Msjesties regularly twice week at
Brussels, and the rest of her time is divided
between music and painting, for which lat
ter art she has great aptitude. The
Queen, her sister law, does not allow a
day to pass without going to see her. and
she receives frequent visits from the King
and the Count and Countess de Flandre.
"A young man in Hamburg fell In love
with the widow of physician, a lady fair,
fat, and forty, and having a daughter
eighteen. AS he wished to marry his lady
love, and as her daughter was an obstacle
to the fuiflment of his wishes, he resolved
to administer poison to her. 1t happened
the mo.har tOOk IL in Mace of the