The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-09-06
CURRENT ITEMS.

n OOLoAIN VI u-dSOury III Kansas marks
the geographical center of the United
States.
The effect OF the recent strikes in check
ing immigration from Europe is noticed
already.
BosToN has 461 public schools, attend
ed by 49, pupils, and taught by 2, O68
teachers.
THERE are five lines of telephones
now in successful operation in New
York city.
Mrs. HARRIET BEEoHER STowE's dwell
ing at Mandarin, Fla, has been struck by
lightning. .asa-s e
THOMAS JEFFERsoN's birthplace, Shad-
well, IN Albemarle county, Va, is adver-
tised fo1 sale.
The only lottery concern in South Car
DINA that had charter from the State
has been closed.
In Hartford a physician has been en-
ployed to go through the public schools
and examine the eyes of the pupils. He
found that large proportion were more
OF less near-sighted.
A TOMB at Sparta, where explorations
are being conducted under the auspices
OF the Archaeological Society of Athens,
has yielded relics of an ancient ciyiliza-
ton very similar to those discovered by
Schlieman at Mycena.
CAPT. KING of Santa Gertrudes. Texas
is making an addition of sixty three miles
to his pasture fence, which will inclose
altogether, when completed, 100000
acres of splendid land
FIFTY THOUSAND shirts, on which are
printed extracts from the Koran in blue
characters, and as many wooden waist
coats, whereon is emDlazoned the
Prophets seal, are being manufactured
in Paris for the Turkish soldiers.
WHEN a Cossack young woman falls
in love with man, she goes to his house
and pops the question to him. If he
refuses, her relations come and set at
him and threaten him, and they all nag
together, until at last the unhappy
youth must either marry the girl or run
away. -..-.
THE Peabody Museum at New Haven
has just received the skeleton of the IA
nous Arabian mare Esnea, which was
purchased years ago by John w. Garrett,
OF the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, who
outbid the late Emperor Napoleon. Her
Arabian keeper was brought to this coun-
try with her.
THEY have introduced in Germany the
novel idea of having bands to discourse
sweet music at auction sales. Large
crowds come to hear the concert, and are
drawn into the vortex of bidding. Such
an ingenious idea should have originated
in the United States, and cannot long lack
for imitators here.
TO BE DEAD
If 1 should have void darkness in my eyes
While there were violets in the sun to see;
If 1 should fail TO hear M ..Iii5's sweet cries.
Or any birds voice 1 our threshold ree
If L should cease to answer love or wit
Blind, deaf, or dumb, how bitter each must be
Blind, deaf, or dumb will not think of it.
Yet the night comes when shall be all three
-APptetons' journal for September.
MYsoRE, the famine-stricken princi-
pality of Southern India to which Queen
Victoria alluded in her speech pro-
roguing Parliament, comprises an area
of $4,000 square miles, and has popu.
lation of nearly 4, 100000. Beside the
common grains, the province usually
produces cinnamon, pepper, cardamon,
coffee, raw silk, the betel nut, and sage
palm.
GREAT NATURE Is AN ARMY GAY"
| Great nature is army gay
Resistless marching on its way;
hear the bugles clear and sweet
hear the tread of million feet
Across the plain I see it pour:
1t tramples down the waving grass;
Within the echoing mountain-pass
hear thousand cannon roar.
1t swarms within my garden-gate;
My deepest well it drinketh dry.
1t doth not rest; it doth not wait;
By night and day it moveth by;
Ceaseless it marches by my door;
1t heeds me not though 1 implore.
know not whence it comes, where
1t goes. For me it doth not care
Whether starve, Or eat or sleep,
Or live, or die, or sing, or weep.
And now the banners ali are bright,
Now torn and blackened by the fight.
Sometimes its laughter shakes the sky,
Sometimes the groans of those who die.
Still through the night and through the livelong
day,
The infinite army marches its remorseless way.
-Scrib1,er for September.