The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-05-06
Miscellaneous items.

| of late.
Ignatius Loyola Donnelly is girding his
loins for future struggle in the political
arena.
A Philadelphia editor carries the edi
torial we so far as to sag our gracious
for my gracious.
The people at Washington continue to
be neighborly toward the President.
The two greatest royal brewers are Ma
poleon and the Viceroy of Egypt. The
latter brews beer, the former trouble.
Charles Neymeyer, of Detroit, strap
ped himself to bed-post lately, and re-
manned there until he was dead, dead,
dead. As nobody went Neymeyer, his
circulation soon gave out and he died at
| his post.
Princess Louise, daughter of Queen
Victoria, will be married, on the 9th Of
July next, to the Prince Royal of Den
mark. This will leave the Queen only
one unmarried daughter, the Princess
| Beatrice.
A man, drinking gin and molasses in
Albany, the other day, accidentally swal-
lowed small piece of chip from the
molasses cask, which produced infamma-
ton of the stomach and death. A sad
warning to those who take molasses with
their gin,
1t is stated that Thomas L. Tullock,
Appointment Clerk, is to be made Ass;s-
tant Secretary of the Treasury, in case
Mr.. Richardson, the incumbent; accepts
the Judgeship of the Supreme Court of
Massachusetts,, recently rendered him by
Gov. Clafhn. Mr.. Tullock is, we believe
New Hampshire man, and has won his
promotion by his service as Secretary of
the National Republican Committee.
The Havana press advocate the expul-
sion of all Cuban-American citizens from
the island.
The Obserratore Romano says that Plus
TX. is now engaged in negotiations with
General Grant with aview to sending a
Nunclo to w aShlngton.
A big blast was recently made in Cali
fornia. Twelve hundred kegs Of powder
were used and a mountain blown up.
A freedmen's saving bank in Macon,
| Ca, which has been in operation only
five months, has S12, 304 on deposit.
A great aquarium Is being constructed
at Berlin, for which 5000 living varieties
of marine life have collected.
There has been discovered in F1ance, a
substance, the destructive effects of which
far exceed the terrible force cf picrate of
potassium. Some experiments are 70 be
made with it at Cherburg.
British officers in India lave heretofore
been obliged to take off their shoes Oh
entering the Nizam's presence and squat
before him. This custom Is to be abol-
| is he'd.
A plan is being agitated for cutting
ship canal through the valley of the Gar
onne' France, to unite the Mediterranean
and the Bay of Biscay. The cost of the
work is estimated at SSS, 400, 900; the
time required for its completion is six
years.
There is bill before the New York
Legislature prohibiting gas companies
from charging rents for their meters,a and
from refusing gas to house keeper who
may be disinclined to pay the bills of the
previous tenant.
In California, there is made, on an av-
erage, from 500 to Csc gallons OF wine to
the acre. The four most productive of
the wine growing districts of Europe are;
Italy, giving to the acre AZ gallons;
Austria and her provinces, 265 Sc gal
Ions France, ITS 81 gallons; Nassau
2373 gallons.
| An English paper states that dwarf
Highlanders are going out of fashion in
London. Of late there has been a run
upon naval costumes. and it is not an
unusual thing to meet fve-year-old
boatswain In the park, whistle and all
complete, accompanied by his nurse, who
draws a perambulator into which the har
dy sailor is put when he wants to sleep.
The New York Times of the 25th
| says: 1.-THE threatened strikes for the
coming summer are going on With re-
doubled vigor, and the compromises
which we advised, and which we hoped
might prevail, appear to be as remote as
ever. There is not the slightest DISPOSE
ton to compromise evinced by either the
employers Or employees, and the fight
must in all probability shortly ensue.''
At the Cuban fair, in New York, next
month, Mayor Hall will preside at the
opening, and Henry Ward Beecher will
make the opening prayer.
The Empress Eugene is going to visit
Carlotta at Loeken, about the first of
May. Carlotta is said to dislike her in
tensely.
Count Won Beust has purchased an es-
tate in Syria for $4,000 forms. Two
years ago he was quite poor. and people
in Germany are putting this and that to-
gether.
Prince Napoleon presented to the
Prince Imperial, on his recent birth day
a number of relics of Napoleon the First
among which was the quill with which
Napoleon signed his abdication, in 1914,
at the palace of Fontainbleau.
When Ferdinand II. Of Naples (sBom-