The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-16
CURRENT ITEMS.
Ono promises to produce 80, 900, 900
bushels OF wheat this year.

ONO promises to produce 80. 900. 900
bushels of wheat this year.
A LITTLE girl who spelled phonetical-
ly wrote: Il love my teacher more
than trlnkan tell"
A MEETING exclusively for steeple-
chasing novelty in this country-is
to be held at Newport early in Septem-
Der.
The historical oak under which, it is
said, Wesley preached his first sermon
in America, is still standing at Fred
erica, GA.
MISSISSIPPI has financial oasis here
and there. Pamela county, for instance,
has Ss68, 900 in the treasury, and doesn't
owe cent.
The house Gen. Grant occupied in st.
Louis before the war still stands on Bar
ton street, in that city. 1t is wooden
structure, story and half high.
THE New York Heraid says "cows
pastured on rye will give greater guam
tity of milk than they will when pastured
The popularity OF beer in Paris has
now attained such pitch that all other
summer beverages may be considered
questionable when compared with it.
The wood of the white birch is now
exported from Massachusetts to En-
gland, to be made into thread spools. A
million feet were thus consumed last
year.
JOHN Mcguire, an Irish pauper, aged
Sc, committed suicide at Drogheda,
lately, on account of unfounded jealousy
of his wife, who was less than half his
age.
FIVE suits are 10 be brought by as
many German teachers against the city
of Rochester, n. Y, on account of the
decision of the School Board to abolish
the teaching of German.
A LAWSUIT begun IN Indiana f urteen
years ago, to recover 81. SO for nse of
water privilege, has lately been ended
by decision in favor of the defendant
The costs amount to -, 900.
The Smith sisters OF Glastonbury,
Conn.,, 1--we il a house 1913 years old, sit
under tree 104 years old, and are the
happy possessors of the Gov. Saltenstall
china, which is 200 years old.
In the year 1910 some 1877 pounds of
wool were returned as being the total inn
ports from Australia into Great Britain.
In the year 1876 the quantity was 1853,
$50, 597 pounds. The increase has been
chiefly since 1860.
DURING the coming season Mr. Edwin
Booth will play season OF four weeks
in the theater in New York which was
once his, and still bears his name. He
once declared he would never put foot
within its doors again.
WALKING 1000 miles in 900 hours
having been repeatedly done in England,
is looked upon as slow. A pedestrian
named Gale, now proposes to walk 1000
quarters of mile in 1000 consecutive
periods of ten minutes each.
THERE are 1000 schools in the Argen-
tine Republic, with 100, 900 pupils. The
National College of BuenOs Ayres was
opened on the 10th OF March, 1877, with
more than 1000 students enrolled and
entered for the course of instruction.
The Sutro tunnel, intended as an i'm
proved outlet for the Comstock mines in
Nevada, has penetrated about three
miles and half, has cost nearly s., 000,
600, and will he extended half IL mile
further 1t was commenced eight years
ago.
GEN. GARIBALDI has just been ex-
tremely i'll. He lay for some time, one
day. unconscious, stiff and cold; but
when restored he gayly remarked GO,
that's nothing, you may be sure 1 shall
survive Pho Mono, and attend his
funeral"
THIS is the season of the year when
drowning accidents occur daily, showing
that of those who venture into deep
water many are unable to swim. Capt.
Webb, the great swimmer, said that
every byy should he able to swim at 8
years of age.
HEzEKIAH THORNTON, a person de-
scribed as a doctor of medicine of the
Eclectic College of Pennsylvania, was
fined $50 and costs at Bradford, Eng,
two or three weeks ago, for undertaking
to practice there by virtne of his Penn
sylvania parchment.
NEAR San Diego, Cal, tombstone
inscription TINS reads: "This yere is
sakrid to the memory of William Henry
who calm to his deth by bein
kind, brass mounted, and of suc. is the
kingdom of heaven
A FORMER resident of New Haven, who, /
during a recent visit, discovered that /
some OF the elms are dying, has written !
to Prof. Dana, suggesting that the dam
age Is done by an insect which the En-
glish sparrows do not modest, while the
sparrows have driven Away the native
birds which formerly destroyed the
aforesaid insects.
COMPLAINT is made that British mer-
chants are flooding the Chinese markets
with cheap Manchester fabrics, which
they call " American drills" When ex-
postrlated with they frankly confess
they cannot make the genuine article,
and that the Chinese will buy none
other so they counterfeit orr best
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