The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-09
CURRENT ITEMS.

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OF handful of silver halves and quar-
tiers, from one-quarter to one-third will
now be found to have been coined before
1860. Where have they been travelling
IN the meantime?
THE United States has resumed the
position of the chief source of the Brit
ish cotton supply, much to the detriment
of India, which sent 965, 900 cwt. less in
1876 than in 1875,
1t was observed of philosopher who
was drowned in the Red sea that his
taste would be suited, for he was a man
OF deep thinking, and always liked to go
to the bottom of anything.
MEssRs. FLOOD & O'BRIEN are said by
the Eureka Sentinel to own $50. 900
shares of bonanza stocks, worth now
about 81 100000, and yielding them
monthly income of $4,000.
JUST as the Empress of Brazil stepped
into the railroad carriage to leave Paris,
she missed casket containing diamonds
worth 100000 It had been left be-
hind, but was quickly recovered.
The new New York prison reform
management under Superintendent Pills
bury reports saving to the State of some
1920, 900 In nine months a reduction of
expenses over 1876 of $23s, O9S, and
$50, 115 Of Increased ,eceirts
A DOUBTFUL wheat harvest is assured
In Colorado, all other crops are promis-
| ing well, and the mines will produce at
least $1O,OO0,OOO this year. The pros
poets of wool-growers are good, and, on
the whole, industrial prospects are excel
lent.
| HAzING has never fourished at Ober-
lin College, but an uncommonly dis
agreeable youth incited an outbreak re-
Gently, for which six students have been
expelled-the largest number at any
single time since the institution was
founded.
The death is reported of ''Capt Jack,
Chief of the Modocs," somewhat IA
nous white successor of the original
chleftain. He was shot and killed by
his companion in a rude hut on the
Snake river, Southern Idaho, during a
drunken quarrel.
QUEEN VICTORIA is especially fond of
Indian shawls. The stone which is her
specially is the sapphire. The Empress
Of Russia has an unrivaled collection of
turquoises and pearls. The ex-Queen
Isabella of Spain has the most valuable
collection of laces in the world, one of
her shawls being worth $4,000. The
Grand Duchess of SAKE Weimar is said
to possess the finest set of rubies, and
the Empress of Austria the best emeralds
and opals in Europe.
HE enormous losses inflicted on farm
ers and gardeners by the attacks of in
sects is every year becoming more seri-
GUS, not only in this country but in Eu-
rope. 1t is gratifying to learn that in
England the scientific men, especially
entomologists, are taking steps to obtain
accurate records of the habits and con-
ditions most favorable to the develop
ment and increase of certain well-known
insects that devastate our crops, with a
view to their determination.
SOME farmers i'll the South of France
are digging away hard at an ancient Ro-
man encampment which is known to
contain cisterns which have been closed
from time immemorial. According to
some old family papers one of these
cisterns contains all sorts of valuables,
and five persons have formed an associa-
ton to make excavations. These have
been already rewarded by marble
statue of Jupiter, and an iron lamp of
classical design. They are still some
way from the bottom of the cistern, and
indulge in great expectations.