The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-22

Key West, Fla, sends 156, COO cigars
! to New York every week.
A chicken at Chitenango, N. Y, cack-
les over the possession of four legs and
as many wings.
The celebrated Sutro tunnel in Neva-
da reached 6. length of exactly 10000
feet, July 4.
| Getle woman is the defendant in six
of the eight suits instituted in New
| York city for resistance to census takers.
A Kansas girl says that nothing makes
her SO mad as to have a grasshopper
crawl up and down her back just after
her lover has come to the proposing
point.-Detroit Free Press.
The Milwaukee News says that there
are 5000 persons in that city who ought
to go up in balloon and stay up. Yes,
| that's about fair proportion the other
| $4,000 will go the other way.
A VERY pretty Sunday-school song is
the one entitled, Put your armor on my
| boys. There is, however, a young lady
who dosen't like to hear it. She says it
sounds like Put your around me, boys. !"
The largest earrings ever made in
| New York cost SIS, 900, and are destined
for Missouri bride. This follows as a
matter of course. No other woman
would wear them.
| A PEwAUKEE minister who was en-
deavoring to persuade couple of boys,
last Sunday, to give up fishing on the
Sabbath, slipped of a log into the water,
and had to postpone services for that
| day.
The amount of butter produced in
Minnesota last year was $1,000, 900
pounds. This years production, is esti-
mated, will reach II, 100000. There
were 100000 pounds shipped from
st. Paul last year.
They are talking about increasing the
standing army. They ought to do it.
It has got so that there aren't over four
ajors and captains to street car, and
the public are beginning to feel uneasy.
| From the numerous accounts of
preachers accused of indelicate dalGance
with their lady parishioners, there seems
general determination among the fra
| ternity to get their salaries raised with
out the shortest possible delay.
IT IS intended to build at the great
steel works in Essen, Prussia, new
steam hammer capable of working a
mass of steel 100 tons in weight. It is
| estimated that this machine, which will
be the most powerful in the world, will
| cost 81, 100000.
| IT was a Des Moines couple, and
| they climbed g. steep ladder to the top
of the new Capitol building. When
they were ready to descend that ladder,
he said, s.Ill go down and steady the
ladder" She replied, "Young man,
that ladder is steady enough you will
wait here and will go down first. -
How old are you?' was the polite in
quiry of a Fourth Ward census taker to
a lady member of the family he was Wis
iting officially. 4 am old enough to
put this mop handle over yer head till
| veil see more stars than there is in the
'stronomy, dam YET screamed the lady
in reply, and he moved rapidly towards
| the sidewalk.
| to her husband. Mrs. Holcomb feels
pretty badly since the loss of her child,
and I wish you would drop over there
and see her. You might say that all
| flesh is grass--that we've all got to go
the same way; and see if she is going
| to use her dripping pan this afternoon
A MONTREAL woman forty seven years
of age, and who has been married twen-
ty-two years and had nine children, has
| Just discovered that she has no affinit y
| for her husband, and eloped with boy
not yet nineteen. She carried away
property belonging to her husband to
| the amount of over 81, 900.
PRoF. JANNEy, who is prospecting the
Black Hills for gold, under instructions
from the government, has sent in anoth-
er report, fully confirming his first i'm
preston that there are no deposits of
the metal in the region around Harney's
Peak that will pay for the mining. He
proposes now to explore the supposed
deposits in the bed of the Cheyenne,
and will report the result The profess
or is apparently doing his work in a
thorough and conscientious manner, and
until it is completed, the best advice
that can possibly be given to persons
who entertain the idea Of going to the
| Black Hills is-"Dont."