The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-09-13
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Gazette
CURRENT ITEMS.
A FARM hand for harvesting is paid in
Central Italy 7 cents day, and consid-
ers himself a lucky man to find employ
ment at that rate.
GREAT BRITAIN claims $15, 900, 600 as
the worth Of the fishery concessions in
Canada waters made to the United States
by the treaty of 1871.
THE total number of buildings erected
in Brooklyn, n. Y, from 1864 to 1877,
inclusive, was 23.906, the valuation of
which was $54, 736, 400
THERE are 125 temperance reform
clubs in New Hampshire, with an ag-
gregate membership OF 65, 600 men, of
whom 81, 900 are over Is years of age.
BEFORE vacation: School-master to
grinning pupil-t' You rascal what
makes you grin SO % Sir, the thought
comes over me that we soon must part"
THERE is on Kentucky farm apeach
tree that measures four feet in cicum-
ference one foot above the ground, and
forty three feet from tip to tip of the
limbs.
BILL LoNGLEY, typican Texan des-
perado, while awaiting trial in the Lee
county jail, is writing his life and adven-
lures for the Giddings Tril me. He
owns 30 thirty-two murders.
IT is said that not a single member of
the American Rifle Team has black eyes.
and only one has brown eyes. This fact
gives support to the theory that light
eyes are best for long-range vision.
A LEGAL bushel of oats must weigh 80
pounds in Maine, New Hampshire and
New Jersey; "a pounds in Canada, So
pounds in Oregon, 35 in Missouri, 33 in
Iowa, and 80 pounds in Massachusetts,,
New York and most other States.
In the Mount Auburn cemetery, Bos-
ton, is lot containing five stones, one
at each corner, and one in the center.
The latter is inscribed "Our Husband"
and the others respectively bear 4" My
Wife, My II Wife, 60 My LII Wife,
and my " Wife,"
ACCORDING to the most recent stats.
tics, the inhabitants on the earth num-
Der 1, 423, GIT, 900, or twenty eight per-
sons to every square mile of surface
London is the most densely packed spot
of population, containing 3, 489, 1913 souls
more than some continental kingdoms.
WHEN Buffalo young lady
SO writes a correspondent-part
from her beau, who is too bashful
to understand the nicer usages of his po-
sition, she will say: civilian, if you
were to kiss me, you might be afraid ma
would hear it; but if I creak the gate
she won't know the difference l''
ONE "Boston Bob" has been tattoo
ing about 100 of the ingenious youth of
Philadelphia at charge of 25 cents a
head-or rather, an arm. AS the artist
chewed tobacco and had an liberated
mouth, and mixed LIS colors with saliva,
the consequence was that almost all his
customers were inoculated more or less
severely with painful and 1oathsome
disease.
By the verdict of the Paris court, the
Marquis de Caux will recover half of the
$400, 900 which he vested in his wife at
their marriage, and he would have re-
covered the whole of it if he had not
omitted the formality of marriage con-
tract. Nine. PATHS diamonds and other
jewels, together with her laces, velvets
and shawls, Will be sold, or, if she
chooses, she can take one-half and the
other at valuation.
RICHARD HENRY SToDDARD, the poet,
began life at the age of Is as office boy
for two fedgling lawyers. His first
poetry was printed in the New World,
a paper at that time edited by Park
Benjamin. He afterwards served for
short periods as prentice in printing
Office, a tailor's shop, and a black
smiths; and his hard life at mechanical
pursuits continued until the close of his
22d year.
PERHAPS the most remarkable suicide
on record has been committed in Swe-
den. A Government official in the district
of Ripsa, wearied by pecuniary Difficult
ties, took row with his wife and two
children upon neighboring lake, os-
tensibly to pass few hours in fishing,
but, after getting to a distance at
which he could do no harm to others, he
applied a match to quantity of explo-
sive material, supposed to be some form
of dynamite, that he had, unobserved,
taken with him, and blew the boat and
its occupants literally into fragments
! THE DISCOTERY OF FIRE.
Fire, the common source of heat, of
light, and of life, and the active princi-
pie of a multitude of industries, and of
metallurgical industry in particular, is
unquestionably one of the greatest con-
| quests achieved by man over nature.