The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-30

If you are weak, you ought not to
drink, for your own sake. If you are
strong, you ought not, by drinking, to be-
come stumbling block for those who are
weak. In either case young men do not
need whisky. If they think that they do
they ought to turn into q hospital and have
it administered under medical prescrip-
ton at the hands of nurse.-Henry Ward
Beec1er.
What do you think is the latest paper
device? You know there are paper shirt
bosoms, collars and cuffs; paper slippers
and hats; paper water-pip well-walls,
ship cabin panels; but the latest adapta-
ton of paper, however, comes from Maine,
aud is specially addressed to the ladies. 1t
is hoped there may be no indelicacy in q
simple mention of this new manufacture,
which is announced in the local papers as
the product Of Paper Pantalette Com
pany."
| in Cincinnati the following questions
have to be satisfactorily replied to under
oath by every applicant for city relief in
the matter of coal: "Do you solemnly
swear that your answer to the question re-
garding your application for coal shall be
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
to Gods and that you will use it for your
own family only, and that you will not sell,
trade, lend, nor give it to any other per-
son ?"
| Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says of tie
"item column" In the newspapers, "that
it is worth more than all the small fry of
correspondents, with an editor thrown in
to boot ! Like q caravan, 1t stretches
along its columns, with packages and par
GELS, spices and gems, bits Of fragrance or
cunningly wrought metals, gathered from
rhn r1A <t,..x x1,1< ho
sides. The items of the paper, like the
stufing of Thanksgiving turkey, repre-
sent everything in the house, crusts of
bread, crackers and ali spices"
One of the japanese now performing
in Norwich, who belongs to religious
sect in his native country that obliges him
to indulge in a meal of live Goals twice q
week-Thursdays and Sundays-enter-
tanned small party at the Wauregan
House on late Sunday evening by the
| performance of this religious rite. He
cut up some pine wood and put it in the
stove, and, after it was well charred, took
it out in pieces of about half an inch square
| and two inches long, and ate it down as
though it had been confectionery.
Foreign Gossip.
Portugal is to keep only 10000 men
under arms.
To keep the London police force dur
ing 1868, tits estimated will require $685.
915 in gold.
The Pope has scattered $4,000 medals
among the soldiers who scattered the
Garibaldians.
| -Adah Isaac Menken's volume OF
| poems, just published in Paris, is dedicated
to "my friend, Charles Dickens"
| Paris has new thing in earrings,
being little globes Of rock-crystal filled
with water and miniature sea fishes and
| mollusks.
"A laborer in Silesia picked up $4,000
the other day. The Prussian Government
lays hands on $4,000, and generously let's
him have the rest.
The banker Jecker intends to bring q
snit against the French Government for
the recovery of $13, 100000 due on Franco
Mexican bonds held by him.
-" Napoleon Dying" by the Italian
sculptor Veia, which attracted 80 much
attention at the exposition, has been
bought by the French emperor for $4,000.
"A Northumberland constable recently
| attempted to stop a prize fight, but was
| relieved of his watch and pocketbook, and
and then gently tossed over the cliffs by
| the fighters.
in Germany, public and professional
men print in the town or city directory
the hour of each day when they will re-
ceive calls. Thus the time and patience
| Of all parties are saved
"A French rag picker was seen one
morning after his work to call carriage,
place his well-flled sacks on the top, and
ordered the coachman to drive to his resi-
| dence, g. like any gentleman"
| Ninety thousand special constables
have been sworn in already in England,
to protect against the Fenians. Their
captains practice summOning them, to sac
how rapidly they could rise in case of an
emergency.
"A librarian in one of the public libra
ries in Berlin. who died recently, in his
S9th year, had never been out of the city,
and for 40 years had never been in any
other house but that containing the library
and his own home.
| -Leipsic makes large part of all the
| homeopathic medicine Of the world Ger
many has numerous physicians of that
| school, although they are more eclectic in
their practice than our homeopathic doc
| tors profess to be.
| Father Babaz, French saYant, has
been studying the habits of spiders, and as
serts that they can fly and swim in the air.
| He says they perform this feat by turning
| their backs to the ground and keeping
their legs closely folded up on their bodies,
| and that in this posture they sail about
| with perfect ease.
1t may be interesting to some of our
readers to know that the Bank of England
| willingly gives "good money" for all sill
yer which has been worn smooth by fair
wear and tear. If, however, the coin
bears the slightest sign of Ill usage, such
as dint or scratch, they, Of course de-
cline to change them.
just as the safety of DR.. Livingstone
is becoming certainty, the report comes
from New Zealand that there is strong
probability that Leichardt, the explorer,
long supposed to be dead, is still alive
near the Gulf of Carpentaria. By -and-by
| we may hear that Sir John Franklin is
still alive in the frozen regions.
-Thirty-two years ago there was no
written language of the Fijis, no knowl-
edge of true religion, no assimilation to
the civilized world Now they have the
entire Scriptures, with grammar anu lex
icon and many other books, with $500
scholars, 4S1 churches, IS English and ma
tive missionaries, All lay preachers
Very sad accounts are still received Of
the famine in Finland. The peasants in
that country are reduced to such extremi-
ties that they think themselves happy #
they can procure loaves composed in equal
portions, of sawdust, moss, and coarse
rye flour. Many have obtained permits
sion from the Government to emigrate