The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-24
MESCEZA EesES.

ACCORDING to the Posen Gazette, the
Russian government has issued an order
THREsHNa machines are making
more widows In Iowa than the war ever
did
a New York firm has received an or
der for $4,000 bridal outfit. Hard
times.
GoIDsMnH Maid is seventeen years
Old, which is about the age folks gener-
ally get fast
Small potatoes are plenty in Connect
cut. Mrs. Murphy,of Tompkinsville has
just given birth to her twentieth.
An Arizona girl, only - years of age,
owns 10, 600 head Of cattle, but she chews
tobacco and has wooden leg.
THERE is nothing half so sweet in life
as loves young dream, excepting the
luscious watermelon.
Now they tell fellow that Long
Branch Is an hour and a half from New
York and two minutes this side of hi.
HE French feet now at Quebec is
the first that has visited that place
since its surrender to the arms of
Britain
At the age Of one hundred and eleven
years, Mrs. Betsy Leathlaud, Of Iring,
England, is fair hand in the harvest
field.
GOSSIP ABOUT LADIES' A New YORK
doctor figures it out that an average wo-
man viii shed barrel Of tears, III forty
years.
Two ladies st Ocean Grove camp
ground, New York, claim the apostolic
power Of healing diseases by the laying
on of hands.
RAISING cork trees seems to be an ap-
preaching industry IN California They
are said to grow very rapidly among the
foothills
A LETTER was put In an Indiana post
Office with the following address: s"ro
the Misses Sally Or Jute Tulip ov Terra
hut, vigo ko Indyany."
SAN Francisco capitalists are pro-
jectlng q salmon fishery and canning
establishment at the mouth of Smith
River.
THERE has been a great advance in
toothaches since the burning OF thirty
thousand gallons of creosote in England
last week.
MISS LYDIA BOWER has been voted
the hand3omest woman in Wathena,
Mo, and now some 'joker" aught to
take her.
A religious rooster entered Long
Branch ballroom ct midnight to pray
with the jewellers, and they had him ar
rested.
The Detroit Free Press wants to know
how long Toledo woman's foot is, # it
takes q shoemaker five hours to sew up
rip ii 4 8snter.
THE arrival of John @. Higgins, of
Green Bay, Is noted by Brooklyn pa
per. John @. knows his business. Hug
gins are popular in Brooklyn.
In the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton rooms at Springfield, Mass, all the
books and magazines are chained TO the
tables to keep members of the society
from stealing them.
Doctors in discussing typhoid fever
occasionally refer to it as the ''Legend
Of Disease" When. on the other hand,
they talk of the govt, they transpose
the phrase to the tDisease of a Legend"
NOISY boys in the editors presence,
are worse than loafers in the composing
room. 1t must have been these classes
Pope had, IN view when he wrote how
''fools rush in where angels fear to
tread"
A Texas dog wagged his tail at the
coming of his master into the house; his
salutary tail struck 8 lighted lamp on
the table, knocking it off, the lamp
shatterIng on the floor, an explosion
took place, and the house was destroyed.
THERE is scarcely fashionable ca
price that doesn't do good to some one.
Thus the ornaments of white and black
Jet which have become the vogue inParis
have restored prosperity to the working
classes at Venice, who were in state of
great distress before The revival OF the
taste for jet trimmings.
OF expulsion against the Jews residing
IN Warsaw who We're not born IN that
city and have no fixed occupation there.
The Jewish Chronicle says: 'sNo less
than 1900 to I5, 900 Jews viii be affect
ed by this harsh decree, the truth of
which requires confirmation. We have
it on good authority, however, that the
Russian government acts in most arbi-
trary manner toward the Polish Jews in
Western Russia.
A wELL-DREssED elderly woman goes
to the Paris Morgue every morning, and
draws her pr.a yer-book from her pocket,
recites a prayer or two In a low tone of
voice, then prostitutes herself upon the
pavement and remains for few mo-
ments absorbed ins silent prayer she
then rises and departs, convinced shat
by this process she has resJlscitated all
the dead bodies in the building. OF
course the poor old creature is mad,
but her madness is of so mild a type that
no one attempts to modest or Interfere
with her.
THERE are IN France cities of Is, 600
which have net a single
physician there are cities of 10000
which have but one physi-
clan, and he not graduate OF medi-