The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-30
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
A GUILLoTINE that has cut off %. 900
French heads is on exhibition in Lon
don.
GEoRGIA's Constitutional Convention
has decided not to abolish the death pen
atty. a-
THE Spanish papers say it has been SO
hot in Spain this summer that the birds
have refused to sing.
THERE are now in Philadelphia $50
cooperative and building loan associa-
tions, in which workingmen have nearly
$40, 900, 600 invested.
FASHIONABLE ladies in Paris have be-
gun to wear dresses that permit the feet
to be seen, and there are rumors that
the day of long trails is over.
VANDERB1LT's 800, 900 donation to his
employees gave engineers about $14
a piece; conductors, So; firemen, 81
brakemen, switchmen and yardmen, $3.
"WHY, Sammy" said father to his
little son, lately, "I didn't know your
teacher whipped you Friday" 'I guess, ~
replied Sammy, " if you had been in my
rousers you'd know'd it.
In Oregon a man has to take out a
license, which costs him IS a year, per-
hitting saloon keepers and others to
81 r., r.
takes away his license in the morning
and hides it he has to go dry as a bone
all day. . ..l..
Miss MELISSA SHERIDAN, OF Sheridan,
Yamhin county, Ore, got on the trail of
a panther that had dragged off one of
her fathers sheep. Instead of deciding
lost any panther, she followed and freed
him with her dogs, and put bullet be-
tween his eyes. 1t wasn't her first, eth
er, and who would like to be that girls
lover
A RETURN has been issued of the ex-
penditure in the Tichborne prosecution.
The total costs, charges, and expenses of
the prosecution amounted to &c.,
O74 los. 4d., of which s23, 676 It's. went
in counsels' fees, ELS, ZIP IS. Id. to wit
nesses, agents, ETC., 910, 268 5s. lid. to
law stationers and for printing, e.
637 los. I'D. for shorthand writer's notes,
and 93, 780 to the jury.
THERE are seventy establishments in
the United States devoted to the produc-
ton of window glass. Of the several
States, New Jersey has the largest num-
Der, twenty-seven. The capital invested
there is about Sc, 900, 900, and the annual
production between two and three mill
ion boxes of the various sizes and quail
tiles of glass. At the present time it is
believed that fully three -fourths of the
factories are closed.
THE Queens Maids of Honor are all
granddaughters of peers who are not be-
low the rank of Earl, that being sine
qua non of eligibility for the position.
They receive $4,000 year, and if they
marry the Queen presents them with
SIS, 900. Each is on duty about two
months in the year. Since the Prince
Consort's death they have had dread
fully dull time of it. Many of these
ladies have remained ON until past so.
EMPIRE City, mining town near Jop-
lin and Baxter Springs, Kan, is no
doubt the only example On record of 80
rapid growth from an unbroken prairie
to city. In sixty days from the con-
struction of the first house, Gov. An
thony issued a proclamation declaring
Empire City :" subject to statute emit
tied an act to provide for the government
of city of the second class, 2,317 be-
ing the number of inhabitants.
THE Rev. DIR. Howard Crosby, in a
sketch of the Pan-Presbyterian Council
in Edinburgh, says it was a "scene Of
determination which suggests the millen-
ium," there being forty-nine kinds of
Presbyterians represented. The most
perfect order and dignity were main
tanned throughout, and he notes that the
rapid dispatch of business on the days
when Americans presided attracted the
attention of the Europeans.
A COUPLE applied recently to magis-
trate in Kentucky to join them in the
bonds of wedlock. The man was hat
less, coatless and shoeless, and the wom-
an was nearly in the same condition.
They had no a1icansa from tho County
Clerk, and no money to pay for one, but
desired the J. p to issue the license and
perform the ceremony needed, and
promised in payment therefor to "gath-
er him a half bushel of walnuts this
fall. -