The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-02-01

DR.. Westbrook nervously killed man
n Arkansas for pointing plug OF tobac-
| 90 at him.
THE largest pumpkin grown this year
weighs 2S2& pounds, and was Caifor-
mia product.
A SURGEON at Medford, Taylor county,
has amputated twenty-five toes this win
| ter cccasioned by frost bites.
TIE cremation movement is extending
in Europe. At Brussels society with
400 members has been formed.
The cheapness and excellence of cider
in New England, this year, combine to
play havoc with the temperance socie-
ties.
SWEET are the uses Of adversely. A
Cross eyed school nam can keep twice
the usual number of children in order
at once.
To Indianapolis belongs the honor OF
having invented a hne-tooth comb,
which can also be used as stove handle
and taok-hammer.
An Omaha paper employed an Indian
on its local staff, and his first days work
was to get 35 red men into fight for
the sake of an item.
A FRENCH legal adviser of the Jap
anese Government has presented petit
ton to the Ministers to abolish tortsre
in the procedure of the courts.
NOTHING will throw New Haven di-
vinity student into commissions quicker
than to surprise Connecticut girl in the
act of sliding down the bauisters.
A WOMAN only stubs her toe once to
mans six, but when she does she goes
down like tipped-over churn and cuts
a postage stamp out of both elbows.
The monster clock of the period has
just been completed for the crystal pal
ace, London. The dial is forty feet in
diameter and the minute hand nineteen
feet in length.
THE shortest man in New Jersey is
the purchasing agent OF the State Grang-
ers. We do not know just exactly how
tall he il, but he is short $500 80 is
the State Grange.
TIE main disclosure made by Mr..
ChsDdler's dispatches is that he got wind
Of that $1,000 check even before it was
started for Oregon. Such man is a
terrible obstacle to s'reform. 3"
EARLY in the century, a rich English
man left his daughters their weight in
ono pound bank-notes. The eldest got
s51 200, and the youngest EST, 344. The
handsomest pair of paper weights on
record.
SHE was romantic and he was practi-
cal. She remarked dreamily that her
soul was troubled-that the forebodings
Of fate we're running through her head.
And he oddly advised her to use fine
tooth comb.
Few men have strictly mathematical
mind, but we never knew one who
couldn't calculate within sixteenth Of
an inch where his neighbours property
began when he was shoTsling snow off
his own sidewalk.
A ooUNTRYMAN going down town with
load of pork was met by a young girl,
who genteely made him a very low cour-
tesy. He exclaimed "What do You
make courtesy to dead hogs2' s'No,
sir, answered she-s'to the live one."
A WE'LL TODD real estate dealer of
Teutonic descent, who abides in one of
the mountainous places in Pennsylvania,
noticing friend, who was looking at
one of the pattern plates of Harper's
Bazaar, remarked well, ID does beat
all how dis country is gittin' cut up NIT
railroads ~
The temperance cause has received
another serious setback Jno. Nc Cum
misky, of Erie, intended taking passage
on the fatal train that went through Ash
tabula bridge, but stopped to get adrink
and thereby missed the train. This is a
very poor incident to build temperance
| story upon.
AMERICANS and Russian:-the spend
thrifts Of the world-are scarce in Paris,
and there is woe among the shopkcepers.
Who but Russian could be muniacent
enough to purchase as wedding pres
ent dinper-service of Sevres porcelain,
painted with white flowers on 4 pale-blue
ground, every piece different, and the
whole costing s25, 0002
BALTIMORE & Ohio railroad coach 277
which arrived in Jersey City Tuesday,
contained $1,000, 900 in twenty dollar
gold pieces, the whole weighing tons
! The gold was contained in fourteen iron
cases, and vas accompanied by eight
clerks OF the Treasury Department, and
Captain George F. Price, Of the fifth
Cavalry, and eight selected men.
THEY had been engaged a long time,
and one evening were reading the paper
together. Look, love- he exclaimed,
"only fifteen dollars for a suit OF
olothe. - els it wedding suit2" she
asked, looking naively at herlover. "Oh!
no, he replied, it is business suit ~
"Well, I meant business she replied.
And they were married last Tuesday.
HUSH ANDs AND W1vEs.-Itis stated as