The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-10-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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and IS colored schools.
A Brussels carpet factory is to be start
ed at dorchester, Mass.
The colorea people of Nashville are to
have a fair ground Of their own.
The Bible is printed in twenty-five
different dialects for circulation in India.
The Emperor of Brazl is said to con-
template visit to the United States.
Col Fisk's greatest theatical hit-that
on Maretzek' left eye.
St Louis is making sewer investments
OF $50, 600 month.
When Is a butterfly like kiss i? When
it alights on tulips.
The cultivation of the sweet potato is
being introduced in New York.
A Memphis poet describes dueling as
this wart on a Christian age
Salmon are being caught in TIE Sus-
quehanna river weighing from five to
ten pounds.
The female vote cast in Wyoming, It
is said, we're mostly for the Republican
candidates.
Ottawa County, Mich. out Of a popu-
latlon of 26, 677 has 10000 natives Of
Holland.
The Union Hotel, at Saratoga, lodged
and fed 26, $50 persons the past year.
Now that the star of the Empress has
set, the Paris fashions Will have to set
themselves.
\ goat in Danbury, Conn, has been
taken up and impounded for kid-nap-
ping.
Nearly al the towns along the Hudson
River are visited with fever this autumn.
Canada wants the United States to
pay $5,000,090 for the recent Fenian
raids.
The latest song out is 'Father VIII
Settle the Bill. F." 1t Is very popular with
young ladies'.
One Of the finest Catholic churches In
the south is in process Of erection in
Greenville, Tenn.
The eonvicts in the New Jersey State
Prison have started a paper. 1t supports
the policy OF protection"
When Paris was found to be too tight
d place for for the Bank Of France, the
bank was taken to another place-Tou-
louise.
i reveuue collector in Missouri recent
" tried to collect fifty cents a head in a
ball-room-the tax On hops.
Quite : number Of ladies have applied
for admission to the medical and law de
partments Of the Michigan University
this fall.
Valuable silver mines, yielding rich
ore have been discovered in California,
about seventy-Gve miles from San Ber-
nardo.
At North Adams, Mass, last week, a
young girl, while riding to a fair with
her lover, vas thrown from the wagon
and instantly killed.
Norfolk, Virginia, has revived the
oyster that 1t takes six men to swallow
whole. The enc in question was % inches
long.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad has a
project Of irrigating three million acres
Of the great country through which its
roads run, by means of canal from
Platte Canon across the plains.
Cologne is to have a new theatre to
contain /, 800 spectators and the expense,
including the cost OF the stage, scenery.
&c, not to exceed one hundred and fifty
five thousand thalers.
4 man at the Patterson IN. J.. opera
house. the OTHER night, had his pockets
picked OF watch and purse. They were
found in the heel of shoe Of an innocent
looking young man beside him.
The Concord, n. H., Patriot says that
one fact that contributed largely to tie
financial success of a recent county fair
was that most of the candidates OF the
next congressional nomination were pres
ent, making themselves a very respect
able attendance.
The fire which has been raging for
several weeks in the peatbogs at Bristol,
L. L., has nearly exhausted itself from
want Of material, after having burned
over a number Of acres of swamp land
aad destroying hundreds Of acres Of Yalu
able peat.
Brooklyn has 10000 children Of
schools the attendance is 200, 600 leaving
Il 900 not attending school. The esti-
mated value of school houses and sites is
3, 2I5, $50; total number Of teachers,
7s5.
The Italians can thank the Pope for
their conquest Of Rome without blood
shed. Alter the Kings troops had en-
tered Roman territory, His Holiness
said to his military advisers: 'If the
Italians attack Rome | will be my own
general. The gates shall be locked, and
if they enter they will have to by violence
by breaking down the gates No blood
shall be she'd at the doors of the Vatican;
and if they are pleased to enter as burg
lars and robbers they may"
On a recent Sunday evening, Just after
Mr.. Butter, . colored preacher, had de-
livered his sermon in the Zion Methodist
Church at Portland Mich, his wife, who
had been an attentive listener, went up
to him, called him relative of his Sa-
TAME majesty, gave free vent to her pent-
up feelings, told him just what she thot'
of him, and then went out doors, filed
up her pipe, and sat down, apparently
well contented with her exploit.
Joe Meek, the Oregon trapper, went
to Washington as a Territorial messenger.
His good looks and relationship to Presi-
dent Polk made HIM 4 great favorite with
tae ladies. While promenading one even
Ing, a lady inquired whether he had ever
been married. Yes" Jee said, she
had a wife and six children sob, Ia =
continued his friend, ''ana isn't Mrs.
Meek afraid Of the Indians p Afraid
Of the indiansf' replied the frontiers
man i reckon not, why, she's an In
dian herself