The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-05-24
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
Two MARRIED man of Dandy, VT, re-
Gently snapped wives.
The experiment of raising frogs for
table use is being tried at Virginia City,
New
THERE are over 100, 1000 cattle within
radius of fifty miles of Fort Griffin,
Texas.
EXTENSIVELY ApvERTtsEb excursions
were an adjunct of hanging at Claren-
don, Ark.
THE total length of the Dutch rail
roads is 900 miles. The first lines were
opened in 1888.
BALTIMORE papers note the fact that
coal is cheaper in that market than at
any time since 1861
A CHICAGO girl, Il yeats old, has fur
nished comfortable home and bought
piano with the money obtained by selling
papers.
THE first edition-2,OO0 copieB-of
Bull Run Russell's "1ndian Tour of the
Prince of Wales" was sold on the day of
publication.
Boston women are protesting, in the
columns of the local papers, against the
practice of Boston gentlemen smoking
on the public streets.
The stage manager and the low come
dian of Richmond theater had real
istic fight with knives on the stage, and
the former was seriously wounded.
MASSACHUSETTS, has o new law for the
protection of Holsters. Any person
offering for sale lobster less than ten
inches in length is liable to a fine of IS.
AS AN excuse for horse stealing in
England, the culprit pleaded that he
only stole to get married; but an I'M
sympathetic Judge gave him six months,
none the less.
Miss CASSIE BUoKER, of Henry cotln-
tys Tenn, has just received patent for
q combined harrow and stalk cutter.
The young lady is still i'll her teens and
quite pretty.
A SON of one of the jurymen who ac-
quilted Laura d. Fair of the charge of
numbering Lawyer Crittenden is in
prison at San francisco, for killing po-
iceman. He is but IL years of age.
SAN FRANCISCO drummers can't sell
goods in Sacramento without paying
license fee. So twenty drrmmers have
founded an agency across the Sacramento
river, where they sell goods cheaper than
Sacramento merchants can.
AN American girl, Miss Agatha Ives,
has been awarded two gold medals in the
celebrated Seminary of N uns, in Rome
one for superior knowledge in Eastern
dialects and languages, and the other
for the best composition in the living
tongues.
IT is said that Prof. Barff has discov-
cred means of preventing iron rr1sting
by coating it, under certain conditions,
with magnetic oxide of iron, which gives
it an exterior harder than iron, not to be
separated from it, and wholly incapable
of rust.
AMONG the recent applicants for Post
offices are a daughter Of ex-senator John
j. Crittenden, of Kentucky, author of
the famous Crittenden compromise, and
daughter of Alexander Campbell,
founder of the religious sect known as the
Complexities.
MAGYAR is the language taught in
8, 4O4 Hungarian schools, German in
2,1S4, Roumanian in 2,13O, Slovack in
2,O57, Russian in $50, Sorvian in $50.
Crotian in II. In 2, 1882 schools instruc-
tlon is given in two languages, in 532 in
three languages.
A Cold SPRING On. V Methodist
deacon reprimanded some young
roughs who, accompanied by few fe-
males of their species, insisted on dis
trlrbing a meeting. After the exercises
the girls held their beaux' coats while
they licked the deacon
TEXAS language is peculiar. 10 'land'
anywhere means to arrive there; bag
gage is g tricks, peanuts are ''goobers,"
mustang is g COW pony" yearing
colt a maverick" and whip is
'sqUrt." Travellers "meet up" with
old acquaintances, and If you have plenty
OF money you are 'Sull oodles."
A CURIOUS experiment with the magnet
was recently tried in London 4 boy
had broken n needle i'll the calf of his
leg, and before resorting to surgical in
struments it was decided to try the effect
OF Il powerful magnet in withdrawing the
steel. After Il number of experiments
IN different positions the needle was
drawn near the surface on the opposite
side of the leg from which it entered, and
was easily withdrawn
Tho Debris of tho system
Must either pass through its natural channels
or exit, the bowels. the kidneys and the pores
or IN default thereof, poison and disorder the
hrlds OF the system. In order to effect the
complete expulsion of this dangerous refuse
the organs through which it passes off musf
be active and unObstructed. Fortunately there
is a certain means of rendering them SO when
they are not Hostetter's Stomach Bitters slim
ulate the action of the excretory organs and.
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