The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-06-17
VARIETIES.

BETWEEN an enemy with the worst in
tentions and friend with the best there
is but little to choose.
A GOPHER hunt in Olmstead county,
Mimi. last week, resulted in the destruc-
ton of over 5000 of the animals
THERE is new Rochefoucauld who
says. "Women love but once endeavor
to be the man of every other occasion
but that"
THE Russians boast that they have in
the kremlin of Moscow the biggest and
noisiest bell in the world. 1t weighs
1872, 900 pounds.
A MISTAKE of the types in contem-
porary, caused an announcement to read:
Thirteen Illinois railroads are in the
hands of deceivers!"
IT seems that California is not to
have the monopoly of big trees. A fall
len tree recently found in Victoria, Aus
tralia, measured 4S0 feet in length
THE Islands of New Guinea, at the
junction of the Indian and Pacific oceans
has the Hottest mountain in the world,
80, 783 feet, or six miles, in height.
WHEN a good-looking woman's hus-
band gets into State Prison, even the
Judge who sent him there for three
years, when he might have made it one,
feels called upon to go around and COM
fort her.
A WOMAN rag-picker of Indianapolis,
who has always lived in the utmost
squalor, and was supposed to be very
poor, died, the other day, and is now
found to have been worth nearly $780,
900.
THE depreciation in the price of sill
yer in Europe, it is said, will soon cause
the Issue of silver coin in this country
under late law of Congress. Tt is now
worth only ten per cent more than our
currency.
THE Milwaukee G. Northern and the
Wisconsin Central companies have set
tied their differences, and the latter re
mains III possession of both roads, and
will have to pay George Reed his $780,
600 when he gets his judgment.
IT is said that there has lately been
discovered at Rome a portrait of Rapha-
ell at twenty-six, not hitherto known to
exist, and believed by some experts to
have been painted by that immortal
genius himself.
EVEN the editor of the Louisville
CourierJ ournal, who has served up the
third term roasted, boiled, stewed, fried,
friscassed, toasted and as hash, is com
PEELED to abandon the cry of Csesar1sm
as played-out political clap trap. It
says: "We shall have to give it up"
LUCY STONE denounces corsets because
Eve didn't wear any. Lucy is built
right up staight, like board, and is so
infiexible that corsets don't make any
impression on her. The plea for corsets
is, that, if Eve had been more staid in
her conduct, she would have stayed lon
ger in Paradise
Eyes, you may come again next Sun
day evening, Horace, dear, but" and
she hesitated. ''What is it, darling :?
Have I given you pain 90 he asked, as
she remained silent. '"You didn't mean
to, I'm sure she responded, ebut next
time please don't wear one of those col
lars with the points turning outward
they scratch So
The Marquis of Hastings once paid
| $50. 900 for the famous race-horse Kan
CARGO, and this dilapidated equine, a
bony apparition of the former King of
the Turf, now goes in front of London
cab, at six cents mile. Philosophers
cite the case under the head of ''vicissi-
tudes of great families"
A BOY once asked his father who it
was that lived next door tc him, and
when he heard the name asked if he was
a fool. 'tNo, my little one, he is not a
fool, but very sensible man; but why
did you ask the question:" because, y
replied the boy, ''mother said the other
day that you were next door to fool. -
CAPT. MARES, the commander of the
British Arctic Expedition, states that if
they can reach the latitude attained by
| Hall, and early as he did, there will be
little difficulty in getting 500 miles fur
Their. He has repeatedly stated his con-
viction that the safety of the expedition,
| as far as human power can do it, has
been reduced to a certainty.
A PENNSYLVANIA lad who-went afish-
ing Sunday, and was thereby the means
of saving a wealthy gentleman from
| drowning, has had $4,000 deposited for
him by the latter in a savings bank
Such occurrences can only be interpre-
ted as conspiracy to overthrow religion
Better abandon our Sunday-schools and
| dissolve our tract societies if this boy
dosen't come to some bad end before the
season is -E'cchange.
RELICS of a gigantic race of men long
long since extinct, have recently been
found in the premises of D. B. Wylie,
of this city. It will be remembered that
this property was formerly owned by
ID. IL. Lawrence, of this city, who in
improving the same, dug out and re-
moved a large amount of human bones.
The further leveling of this mound by
DR.. Waylie has brought to light the re-
mains of men evidently buried in stand
ing posture, as well as fragments of black
flint used on making arrows Vo,tsau
Pilot.
THE biologists of the Wheeler expe-
dition have discovered in Southern Utah.
field of lava 5000 square miles in ex-
tent, and IN Arizona and New Mexico an
area of not less than 10000 square miles
III extent. From the existence of these
immense and connected fields of lava
| they surmise that volcanic eruptions
have occurred in the Western Territor
les $50 recently that it is indeed surpris-
ing that there is no human record of
them. They also surmise that volcanic
eruptions are liable to occur at any fl,
| ture time.
THE Reading pa Eagle says: Son
the premises of Mr.. N. F. Bechtel. Per
kiomen avenue and Franklin street. is
to be seen one of the most remarkable
curiosities ever heard of, of the kind. A
large crabapple tree is growing in the
yard, and on the top of the tree is
blooming pure white rose stem. which
is growing from the apple branch. 1t is
over two years old, as it has already
bloomed two years. They can be best
seen from the second story of the house.
Health Commissioner Miller saws it is
one of the greatest curiosities he has
/ ever seen.
PILLOW IIFE-PREsERYERS- Scotch