The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-12-24
ODDS AND ENDS.


Montana bears In her bosom an mex
haustible ledge of pure marble.
The place for proof-readers-
house of orrection.-LouisriUe Courier
Journal.
A drama called ssThe Gorilla is to be
produced in Paris. It should be brought
out in Ape-ril.
Mrs. Manners Sutton. is an English
lady who is said to be the exact counter
part Of the Empress Eugene.
& single small engraving, a portrait of
Aretino, by Marc Antonio Ramondi, sold
in London for s4,O95.
The carriages Exclusively for ladies'"
on the underground railways in London
are poorly patronized.
The hundredth anniversary of Daniel
O'Connell's birth is to be made national
festival in Ireland next August.
Ernest Renan is going to England
as vet an unknown country to him
for scientific work in the British Mus
cum.
Plaid is getting played out in New
York. Fashion has Scotced it, even if
it is not killed.
1t is not generally known that 'corn'
in England means wheat. Over here 1t
means maize, and the difference is
amazing.
The recent fruit growers convention
IN Florida is bearing fruit Over thou
sand orange groves will be planted along
the St. Johns River.
Oxford University is 1000 years old,
and exults in an annual income OF
$1,000, 900, and a library OF $4,000
volumes.
A paper can for kerosene oil, which
is claimed to be as strong as tin and
much cheaper, is among the latest in
venti0ns.
An Iowa woman sent her boy back to
school to be whipped, assuring the
teacher that she was ''a believer in cap
ital punishment.
Isabella of Spain wants about two
millions and half for pocl1et-money,
and IS willing to sell her diamonds for
that amount of dollars.
There are 7S7 islands off the coast of
Scotland, of which about 1S6 are in
habited Many of them are very small,
mere rocks rising out of the sea, without
any vegetation OF any kind.
The traffic of East Switzerland in fruit
has attained such large proportions tibet
in the month of October upward of 90,
900 tons of fruit crossed Lake Constance
for the German market.
People who saw him jump up and
down and heard him swear thought him
crazy, but he wasn't. He had merely
delivered fifteen cords of wood at the
wrong place.
According to the latest statistics
gathered by European Hnguists, there
are 9O,O0O,O00 of people who speak the
English language; 100000 speak
German, 100000 Spanish and 45, 900,
900 French.
A doctor ordered one of his patients
to drink fower-of- sulphur and water.
The patient expressed his disgust by
significant grimaces. cit is only the
first glass that is hard to drink, said
the doctor s'Then," reioined the in
valid, 81 Will begin with the second"
Crosby Hall, the ancient city palace
of London, where Richard the Third
lived and plotted for the English crown
and ended his turbulent life, has been
transformed into a restaurant, where the
wayfarer may enjoy his chops and to-
mato sauce aye, in the very banquet
ing room of the hunchback tyrant, upon
whose deformed and misshaped body
the sun shone through the magnificent
oriel window filed with richly, stained
glass, bearing the escutcheons of the
bloody s'boar.'
A miner named Barrack, accidentally
killed at the Grove coal mine, near
Massillion, was buried in the cemetery,
and his brother dreamed one night that
grave had been robbed The dream
so preyed upon his mind that he could
not rest, and on visiting the grave he
found that his vision was only too true.
A London audience listened quietly
to singer and rapturously applauded
Handel's accompaniment. This marked
preference mortified the singer, who
threatened Handel if he ever played
such a trick again. he would Jump down