The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-12-20
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The spat of single oyster is sufficient
to populate an acre.
In Spain at a dinner party the Oldest
lady is always seated first.
LARGE collars, like those worn in the
olden time, are again fashionable.
LARGE quantities of cotton are being
shipped from Charleston to Germany.
BEAUTIFUL Circassian girls can now
be bought in Constantinople for $500
each.
OVER three-fourths of all the hangings
in Missouri within ten years have been
by mobs.
CHICAGO has spiritualistic materializa-
tions in which only the apparitions of
Indians appear.
A FLIGHT of butterflies passed
through Falls county, Tex. They
numbered millions.
THE bar-room bell-punches in Rich
mond, Va, have collected about $15, 900
tax in about two months.
THE demand for boots and shoes is
taxing the capacity of New England
manufacturers to the utmost.
THE number of Cinnamon who came
to San Francisco last month was
only 229, while 882 returned to their
native land
THE German Bishops banished from
their sees in Germany have been sum-
structlons.
MACHINERY is being made in New Or
leans to be used in manufacturing hats
from the fiber of palmetto leaves at
Orange Park, Fla.
WOMEN are coming to the front as
pedestrians. Miss LIE Franc has Just
walked fifty miles in twelve hours, in
North Adams, Mass.
SENATOR DAVID DAVIS is said to be
one of the most popular men in Con-
gress. He is teller of stories, and is
sought for dinner-parties.
ONE Kentucky farmer appropriates
the yearly product of one acre of his
farm to the purchase of reading matter
for himself and family
| TwENTY-NINE women were advertised
In recent issue of Chicago paper as
about to preach and conduct religious
services on the following Sunday.
NEVADA has a new law authorizing the
public whipping Of wife-beaters. A
whipping post h. been tremendously
placed in front of the Court House in
Austin.
MINING Industries in Colorado are
gaining at a rate of 30 per cent. annu-
| ally. The laws are SO framed that
high salaries and big steals are impos-
sible
MORE than 5000, OCO cans of corn are
now packed IN Maine annually, and sold
in every part of the world, yielding a
business to that State of 81, $50, 600, and
giving profitable employment to FROM
5000 to 10000 people during the pack
ing season.
! A MAN in Salem, Ore, cleared his
premises of rats by catching one and
pouring carbollc acid over it, and then
turning it loose. The odor of their un-
fortunate friend appears to have con-
WINGED the other rats of the propriety of
going elsewhere.
The Chicago Post estimates the net
losses of different baseball clubs this
season as follows: Chicago, Sc, 900; st.
Louis, IS, 900; Hartford, So, 500; Louis
vile, $1,000; Boston, $500: Star,
81, 600; indianapolis, Sd, 600; Tecumseh,
So, O0U; Milwaukee, 50, ZOO.
THOUGH Mr.. Gladstone was born and
bred at Liverpool, and has passed the
latter part of his life within easy reach
OF Ireland, he only visited it for the first
time last month, while Lord Beacons-
field has, in common with thousands of
other English gentlemen, never set foot
on its shores.
A FALL RIVER factory girl dreamed
that she would be stricken dumb at a
certain hour, and since that time she
has not spoken unable to utter a syl-
liable, as she says in writing. Doubt
less she is monomaniac, but in every
other respect she is physically and men
tally healthy.
A GRASS fire overlook man in San
tBernardino, CAL, and he had barely
time to reach creek. He rolled over
and over in the shallow water, scorched
by the flames that swept overhead, and
was almost smothered. The terrible
heat lasted only a few seconds, but suf-
ficiently long to burn off his hair and
char his clothing.
OPERATIONS connected with the SUBJ
marine tunnel under the English chan
mel have been commenced upon the
French side, several pits having been
sunk. The English and French compa-
MES have drawn up definite conditions of
work. The property of the tunnel is to
be divided in half, by length. Each COM
pany is to possess half.
ACCORDING to the latest statistics
Rome has now $50, 900 inhabitants, 347
Catholic and Protestant churches and
Jewish synagogues, As public schools,
attended by 8,308 boys and 1909 girls
4 hospitals. containing altogether 8, 800
beds; !, 900 hackney carriages, with l
horse, and 200 with 2, besides 40
coupes, and 80 ommbuses; steamboats,
ply on the Tiber, and there ere 3,S4O
places of refreshment.
! WINTER is COMING.
Winter is coming We hear in the moan
TO OF the wind as it passes the old wooden she'd
In numbers and beauty over our head.
Winter is coming for the trees have shed
Their robe of summer they wore SO long:
The oak balls are hanging by SMALL tiny thread,
And no more do we hear the robins sweet song.
| Winter is coming, and soon Will be here
With bis cold, frosty breath, and sharp, chilling
The cheeks will be rosy, the eye with tear
WIZ pc moist while this cold winter weather shall
The brook by the roadside is bridging with ice;
Small cataracts are forming along on its side
And fairies and nymphs down under them hide.
Winter is coming, you the glass,
1t sparkles with frost of beautiful forms;
TIE fields all glisten like pearls on the grass
And the heavens give signs OF heavy snow-storns.
winter is coming, we see by the snow;
autumn Is leaving and soon wiz be gone;
They blast all the flowers that bloom on the lawn
Indian Corn StatisticaIly Considered.
The amount of Indian corn exported
from the United States last year has
been uuderstated at 60, 600, 600 bushels