The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-08-08
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Foreign HOssih.

-Farls is overrun with counterfeit gold
coin manufactured in Spain
Seven thousand men are engaged in
the book-selling business at Leips1c.
: 1t is said that England's crops of hav
and cereals this year will be good
Live lightning Bugs are used by
Mexican women as ornaments for the
head.
Lyons has six daily papers, with an
aggregate circulation of only ten thou
sand.
"A dry goods dealer has sued the
Queen of Denmark for a bill of four
hundred dollars
Prince Napoleon, travelling under the
name of General Bonaparte,' has gone
to Prussia. He will pass the summer
and autumn in Berlin.
The depOsitors in the Liverpool bank
for small savings now number Al 500, and
the amount to their credit in the bank is
upwards of $5,375, O0O
The Lord Lieutenant of ireland has
been mulcted in some 1925 damages for
alleged misconduct of the Dublin police
during riot in Phoenix Park.
In Liverpool it has been found that
the publication of the names of persons
who became intoxicated has reduced the
number of drunkards one-half in six
months.
The Prussian Government publicly
calls attention to the presence of trichine
in hams imported via Bremen from the
United States, warning purchasers to alb
stain from them, and threatening the sell
ers with criminal proceedings.
Schools for printers are established
throughout Germany, designed to instruct
apprentices in the theory and practice of
printing not only, but to lmpart general
knowledge of foreign languages, and an
accurate acquaintance with the type of
all languages.
Out of the four hundred students at
Zurich University, eighty are women. Of
these, fifty are in the classes of medicine,
and are chiefly from Russia, though En-
gland is pretty well represented. Miss
Atkins, of the latter country, has Just
passed brilliant examination, and re-
ceived the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
In France an inventor of boots with
which to walk on the water made pub
lie experiment, when, says an account,
the boots indeed foated, but the inven-
tor, with his head under water, seemed to
be carrying on a conversation with the
fishes, which would have probably ended
with his suffocation if a boat had not
picked him up.
Attention to agriculture in Soutl, AT
RIGA is following the discovery of the dia-
mond fields, just as it followed the discov-
cry of gold in California It is now stated
! that the new district which England has
just annexed is unrivaled in the richness
of the soil, and of which only a very
small portion has hitherto been cultivated
by the Dutch settlers.
Late London papers contain tele-
gram from Paris, saying that no woman
has hitherto been executed at Versailles,
though the courts martial have sentenced
several to death, but now the cantiniere
| Guyard, convicted of firing upon Bishop
Jurat, is to meet her DOOM 1t being,
however, thought too revolving for sol
dlers to shoot a woman, she would be
guillotined
"A curious case, involving the validity
OF Gretna-Green marriage, came before
an English court recently. It was said
| that woman was married at Gretna-
Green to man named Ker, and after
wards married another man named Will
son. At her death Ker claimed her es
tate, but the jury, without leaving the
box, decided for Wilson, and ordered let
tiers of administration to oass to him.
| There is considerable alarm in the
German Universities regarding the falling
off in the number of theological students.
The following figures are given in illus
tratlon Ten years ago, in 1862, the stu
dents of theology in the sixteen UNIVERSE
ties of Germany numbered 1859; there
are now only 1, 1856, and four-flfths of this
decrease is in the Prussian Kingdom At
the present time the division runs thus
In the seven non-Prussian are ,005 theo-
logical Students Forty years ago over
one-third of all the Prussian students
were Protestants now there are less than
one eighth. In 1896 the theological stu
dents in Prussia were 2, 119; they are now
as above.
"A French correspondent of the Nation
tells how Paul Feval, one of the most
popular of sensational novelists, used to
write three or four novels at the same
time for various papers. In order to find
his way into the labyrinth of his own
Imagination, he had a number of small
dolls for each story, strung together in
The dress of their role-monks, kings,
| dutcheses, soldiers, etc. His valet
brought him the string of the novel he
was working at, and each time one of the
personages was killed or died the CORE
spending doll was taken off. One day
! the valet forgot to take away the doll of
| a parsonage who had come to grief and
had fallen in duel. The result was that
the editor of the paper in which the
novel appeared was soon surprised to re-
| ceive number of astonished and angry
letters, demanding to know how it was
that Monsieur So-and-so, who was killed
a month before, had come to life again!
Incidents and Accidents.
"A robin worsted bantam rooster in
battle at Lafayette, Ind, few days
ago.
"A child of J. Klingerman, of Center,
Ind, was drowned in a tub of water a few
days ago.
Lilly, daughter of Newly Wilson, of
Richmond, Ind, died recently from an
overdose of morphine.
Three persons were poisoned the
other day, in Prairie du Chen, Wis, by
eating stramonium, which they cooked
for green's.
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