The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-10-18
CURRENT ITEMS.

STANLEY reports no hard tunes or talI-
ing banks where he has been.
THE F'ortnightly ReUiea0 says that
cats born $500 feet above the sea are
deaf.
FROM 1920 to the end of 1876 there
arrived in this country 5000, 900 immi-
grants.
FOURTEEN years ago Pithole, Pa, was
the largest of the oil towns. Now it polls
only six votes.
A GRAND LODGE of the Knights of
Honor of the World has been founded at
Springfield, Ill.
Now THAT Senator Bogy is dead, Ker-
nan and Spencer are the only Catholics
in the United States Senate.
LAND OWNERS along the Sacramento
river, in California, have in convention
resolved neither to employ Cinnamon
nor deal with them.
Fort WAYNE is considerably excited
over the discovery that hogs which had
died of cholera are sold as fresh pork in
the markets of that city.
In France the daily consumption OF
bread is estimated at two pounds and a
quarter per person, while in England it
is not quite thirteen ounces.
A PRoMIssoRY note for $67, "raised -
by the maker to $467, after Endorsement,
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, de-
cides is void as to the indorsers.
A PRoMIssoRY note for $67, "raised"
by the maker to $467 after Endorsement,
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
decides is void as to the indorsers.
The pilot who caused the recent ter
rible steamboat collision ON the Volga
river is to be sent to Siberia for life.
One hundred and eighty lives were lost.
M. THEIRS fortune is valued at So,
2OG,O0o He made 100000 by his
History" He left nearly everything
to his widow, for whose devoted affec-
ton he expressed himself profoundly
grateful.
The Los Angeles Express explains
that the word hoodlum comes from the
wharf rats cry Of "huddle 'em," mean
ing that the police were near, and that
the plunderers should seek their rendez-
vous and lie low.
HAwTHoRNE's old home in Salem,
where he began his literary work, has
been turned into a dirty and noisy tene-
ment, but the blurred window pane on
which he scratched his autograph has
been removed as curiosity.
The French Government has adopted
revolving cannon that fires eighty-fou
shells minute, each of which bursts in
twenty four fragments. 1t can be pre-
pared for action with great rapidity, and
two men only are required to work it.
THE statement that the Turks have
used explosive bullets is emphatically
contradicted by the correspondent of the
London Times. A wound exactly like
that caused by an explosive bullet is
produced by a conical ball striking at
short range.
The owners of the Mammoth cave now
search visitors, to be sure no instru-
ments are taken in by which the bearings
of the cavity can be ascertained. They
fear that an entrance may be made on
somebody else's land, and the profit of
the cave be thus divided.
A PHILosoPHIC Benedict says : "To
be nagged at and blown up by beauti-
full being of your own, who loves you
all the while like apple pie, and whom
you love like plumb pudding, is, to my
idea, the happiest privilege of matri-
mony.'
HENRY SPAULDING has sued the Penn
sylvania Company for $4,000. He al
leges that he rode from Newark to Eliza
conductor. Instead of getting off at the
latter point, he continued on the tain to
Jersey City, when another conductor at
tempted to charge linn 81 cents for the
additional distance. He refused to pay,
and was locked up in Jersey City over
night; hence the suit for damages.
CANDIDATES for the penitentiary are
becoming quite numerous. The Car
thage Qll.) Gazette reports Sheriff Can
non, of Hancock county, ILL.,, as saying
that there is more DEMONSTRATING going
on just now in the West than at any for
mer period since he has been in office
Every day he receives through the mails
from two to six bills or printed postals
announcing the theft of a horse or horses
and offering rewards.
AT Dartmouth Park, England boy,
3 years of age was given an old woode1
pipe by his father, with which to blow
soap-bubbles. The father washed out
the pipe before letting the child have it.
After using it the boy was taken i'll, and
three days later he died, his death, &C.
cording to the medical evidence, being
undoubt IDLY caused by the nicotine con
tanned in the old pipe, which he ha6
sucked while blowing the soap-bubbles
| YOUR MOTHER AND SISTERS
Never use a ladys name in an I'M
proper place, at an improper time, or il
mixed company. Never make assertion,
about her that You think untrue, or al
lusions that she herself would blush t.
hear. When you meet with men who d.
not scruple to use woman's name in
reckless manner, shun them. They al,
the very worst members of the commu