The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-12-06
PEOPLE AND THINGS

Tor use ana OCCupaGOQ.
PEOPLE AND THINGS
GEN. BUTLER has entered hls Goth
year.
Coz. HARPER has refused $50, 900 for
Ten Brock
WARSAW has not less than 80, 900 Jew
ish residents.
SENATOR MCDONALD, of Indiana, be-
gan his W rking life as saddler.
Oh who would be turkey-hen
Fed and fattened in pen,
Killed and eat by hungry men,
All on Thanksgiving day?
A PERFORMING bear and big bulldog
had street fight in ST. Louis. The bear
was beaten.
A MEMBER of an Illinois jury that con-
victed man of a capital offense has be-
come insane.
SENATOR FERRY, of Michigan, is an
old bachelor and an elder in the Presby-
terrain Church.
The Oldest ex-member of Congress now
living is the Hon. Artemus Hale, of
Bridgewater, Mass. He is 95.
Two NEGR. Es fought in CASTOR county.
s. c., and one slowly choked the other
to death, while a crowd Of spectators
stood by.
ployes, except Gen. Sherman and staff,
to abstain from intoxicating beverages
between q. m. and p. m.
THE Rev. Edward Everett Hale's
scheme for the colonization of drunkards
under voluntary contracts of two years is
slowly gathering Roadway.
Two CHICAGO boys looked into a
sewer for lost ball, and breathed poi
sonous gas, thereby contracting ma
larial fever of which they died.
PETROLEUM V. Massey Cd. r.
Locke has sold the Toledo " eekky
Blade to A P Miller. the present editor,
and J. W. Hayme. for $4,000.
PARIsIANs are astonished that Grant
speaks not a word of French, and
maintain that his education must have
been sadly neglecte l in his youth.
STATISTICS show that, while the He
brews form 10 per cent of the popula-
ton of New York, they contribute less
than l per cent to the criminal classes.
simplicity is the sweet title of an
association of ladies just formed at Leip-
sic The object of this association is to
war upon luxury. Members must pledge
themselves not to have any trains or
false hair, not to wear tuniques, polon-
aises or other frivolities. The dresses
must be plain, and only simple en-
broidery or trimming at the end of the
costume is permitted.
SIXTY per cent. of the lunatics of the
State Hospital for the Insane at Pough-
in IS
labor. AS the cases in that hospital are
largely acute, and include many in
stances of general paralysis, the per-
centage OF those in which regulated labor
is made an element in the treatment IS
a large one. The effect is claimed to be
good, not only in an economic point of
view, but in therapeutic view.
The Khedive of Egypt has the first
choice of all the slaves that still are sold
freely in his dominions, and has no
Clrcassian to Nubian. The war has
ruined the slave trade tx -ear, and $500
Circassians were sold at 5000, and pretty
Somali girls at $50, at the great Tanta
Fair, their owners preferring to realize
on then 1T any price rather than hold
them for future delivery at a possible
advance.
A PHYSICIAN and bank cashier re-
newed an old quarrel in a Turkish bath
in st. Louis. They occupied touches
in the hottest room in the establish
ment, and their tempers may have grown
warm in sympathy with their perspiring
bodies. They soon came to blows, and
then Il rough-and- tumble fight ensued.
They displaced the mating so that their
bale feet came in contact with the bis
tering floor, which caused an extraor-
binary hvelines5 OF movement and short
ened the contest
THE English subsidies to steamship
lines last year amounted to 81, 42O, 900,
but these were largely bestowed on the
home packet lines to Ireland The Gov
eminent has announced its intention of
Withdrawing the 50, $50, 900 year be-
slowed on the Peninsular and Oriental
Steamship Company. The present pol
icy of the British Government is to aban-
don the steamer subsidy business, and
let each company paddle its own canoe
without being spoon-fed from the ma
tional treasury