The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-08-05

| MAINE.-PrOt. w. u cunning Writes
to the Bath (NIe) Times in regard to
the sheIlheaps at Damarifcota. He reck-
| ons that within an area of 100 rods in
length and 80 in width there. are piled 100,
| 600, 900 bushels of oyster shells. And all
that refuse thrown down by human eat
ers. One dome shaped hillock is nearly
100 feet in height. He thinks that the
multitude of eaters may not have been
great, but that the hiliocks tell of time
rather than number. Within the men,
DRY of man, the oyster has not lived in
this river. Stone gouges, arrow heads,
bone needles, pottery, and copper knives
are the only human relics found among
the shells No geological event of any
moment has occurred since the forna-
ton of the heaps. The Wickaset Oracle
says it is rumored that human skele-
ton has been recently picked up in the
shellheaps.
A case of mistaken identity took place
as the cars left the Newark depot. A
pretty girl with her handkerchief up to
her eyes, had seen her lover seat HIM
self in the last seat of car, but while
she was bathed in tears, she did not see
the train had backed, and a different
car stood in front of her; but presently
she looked up and with sweet smile
said goodbye darling" to an astonish-
ed and bashful young man who was sit
ting there, in the place where the other
fellow should have been.
"Well, Mr.. Miller" said Yankee,
proudly, to a travelling Scot, as they
stood by the falls of Niagara, SIS it not
wonderful? In your country you never
saw anything like that" ''Like that, -
said the Scot s'there's far mair won
derfu' concern no twa miles fra whar I
was born" Indeed" exclaimed JON
athan, with an air of supercilious skep-
ticism, land pray what kind of concern
may it be?" 'sWeel, man," replied Saw
ney, 'ft's a peacock with wooden leg. :"
The largest rose in the world is probab-
ly that now wasting its fragrance On the
desert air at SAINT Barbary, CAL, on DR..
Dimmick's farm. 1t is of a delicate
lemon tint, of delightful perfume,is 49,
inches in circumference, its shortest
diameter inches, and the measurement
in various directions from tip to tip of
petal is over 6 inches. The depth of the
vel in the Doctors garden is a cluster of
que variety. 4 common felt hat covered
the space in which were counted the
above number of buds.
On Saturday night two men got into
a wordy controversy, which waxed quite
hot, and finally one of them challenged
the other to a square fight. The chal-
lenged party flibustered around and
endeavored to avoid committing himself
on this issue, but finally, pressed by the
other, he positively refused to fight.
mot that I'm any coward, y he said, ''or
that I'm afraid of you, but I was alters
an unlucky man in a fight.
TIE Pierce County Herald has the
following item: ga monster of some
kind has been seen in Lake Pepin at two
different time within the last few weeks
the first time opposite Lake City, as we
are told, and second, last Thursday.
Mr.. Hewitt and two boys were going
from Lake City to Wacouua in a skiff
when about half way, dark, strange
looking object rose out of the lake about
six feet high at the stern of the boat, re-
manned long enough to be seen distinct
ly, and disappeared.
HERE is chain lightning story from
The Portland (NIe.) Advertiser: s'Dur-
ing the storm Saturday morning a bolt
struck some nineteen cans of milk that
Falmouth farmer had placed in front
of the barn, ready to be sent by train
to Portland, scattering the milk and cans
in all directions, and also took a slant
across the family cat who was trying to
steal some milk, singing every bit OF
fur from her body, but not killing her,
and the next day she was lively though
hairless"
AN attempt is being made on the
Swedish coast to recover the cargo of an
East Indiaman which foundered near
Fortress of Elfsborg in 1912. The div
ing operations have been very success
full, large quantity old Chinese porce-
lain having already been recovered in Sc
perfect condition that pieces have been
sold to collectors at high prices.
A FUNNY incident is related of a con-
stable in Adrian, Mich, who arrested a
| prisoner in distant town. He hand
cuffed the prisoner and himself togeth-
ing the handouts were on theconstable' s
| wrists, the prisoner was gone, and
SO was the pocket book, money, and
watch of the officer.
IT was at the house-of a well-known
doctor of divinity tilat the little toddling
girl, VINO did not like to see her aunt
trim a lighted kerosene lamp, had come
to a somewhat modified theory of predes-
tination. 'Take care Take care or
We'll get blowed up into the sky, and
then God'll say Girl, what are you in
such hurry for %
elbow old are you 90 was the polite
| inquiry of Fourth Ward census taker
| to lady member of the family he was
| visiting officially. 81 am old enough
| to put this mop over yer head till yell
| see more stars than is IN the 'stronomy,
darn ye p screamed the lady in reply,
and he moved rapidly toward the side
walk
An aligatorgar nine feet long and near
| ly five feet in circumference was caught a
short time ago, in a bayou in Scott
county, Illinois. The monster was
stuffed with straw and forwarded to a
naturalist in Jackson, Mo-, in whose
! hands it remains, warning to boys to
| keep out of the river. A monster OF
this size could snaps boy in two with as
much ease as hungry man could a
| shrimp.
A SOMEWHAT singular discovery has
| been made at Buckingham Palace. Dur
ing some alterations, and while the
workmen We're engaged III pulling down
a wall, a large quantity of gold and sill
yer plate, of about the time of George
III. and supposed to be worth several
thousand pounds, was discovered in 8
place of cocealment.
The Menominee Herald records the
discovery of large quantity of ice,
some 40 feet from the Green Bay shore,
driven there by the ice shove of last