The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-09-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
THERE are said to be 1854 liquor sa-
looms in Brooklyn, or one to every $50
persons.
CHINESE laundries in New York city
number over 800, giving employment to
over 3, 1000.
IT is now considered in bad taste for
gentlemen to wear gloves. This is the
most economical caprice ever favored by
fashion.
Iowa has 427 baseball clubs Now
we understand why the last Assembly
appropriated 5000, 900 for new insane
asylum.
In France they estimate the daily con-
sumption of bread at q pounds per
| person, while in England it is not quite
ID ounces.
The fruit crop in England is not good;
in fact it is the worst since 1870, owing
to the wet autumn last year and the
"cruel spring this year.
THE Peruvian Government wants to
borrow $24, 100000 for a few years, and
will secure the lender with bank of
guano $50 miles long and mile wide.
The cotton manufactures of the world
run total of $1,000, 900 cotton spindles.
Of the spindles, $4,000, 900, OF more
than one-half, are operated in England.
The country has $3.50, OCO, 900 invested
in 10000, 900 milk COWS, whose annual
product is worth 1915, 142, 295, while the
last cotton crop was worth only 5000, OOO,-
900.
A PoST-MoRTEM examination on the
body of q New York man, who had died
of consumption, showed that the heart
was on the right side and the liver on
the left.
THE lists having now been made up,
it appears that there were 200 French
officers killed or pensioned off on account
of incapacitating wounds during the war
of 197O-'71.
THREE men were found hanging from
a tree in Texas, and one of them was
placarded: "They stole horses; here is
where we found them, and here is where
we left them
ACCORDING to the fifth report of the
Local Government Board in Ireland, the
number of indoor paupers relieved last
winter was a little over 43, 600, the small
est number ever registered.
A LAWSUIT begun in Indiana fourteen
years ago, to recover ST. so for use of a
water privilege, has recently been ended
by decision in favor of the defendant.
The costs amount to $4,000.
The occupants of 600 shanties along
the lines of New York railroads make a
living by planting corn and potatoes be-
tween the rails and the fences. It is
said that 5000 acres are cultivated in
this way.
The number of postage stamps,
stamped envelopes, and newspaper wrap
pers issued by the Postoffice Department
during the year ending June 80, was
LOGO, 1853, 900, the value of which was
500, 525, S36.
REBECCA TAYLOR, who was EMPLOYED
as a nurse in the Massachusetts, General
Hospital from 1920 to 1860, dice in Bos-
ton few days ago at the age of Sc. Her
pay was continued from her retirement
to her death.
A BLUE pigeon with red legs lighted
on steam tug on July 20, about eight
miles from Seaman harbor, England.
Attached to its leg was a piece of paper
signed " William Stoker, Quebec. Sent
up at II. Is o'clock" The bird appeared
to be very tired and hungry, and is sup
posed to have crossed the Atlantic.
IT has been said of London, Eng,
that ships of every nation can be seen
at its wharves, yet only lately has the
first japanese vessel entered that port. |
It was the Nilagata Maru; cargo, 1,6OO |
tons of rice; crew, thirty-four Japanese.
She took 141 days to make the voyage
from Yokohama by way of the Cape of |
Good Hope.
THERE is one Russian who has been |
taught a lesson that will prevent him |
from meddling with reporters hereafter. |
A correspondent of the Agence Havas,
the French Associated Press, was re-
Gently assaulted at Sistova by a Russian |
soldier, who knocked him down and was |
about to rob him when help came cp.
The soldier WIS captured, court-mar-
tailed aud shot.
VERMoNTERs claim very wonderful
lake at the top of Prospect mountain,
near Addison. This remarkable pond is
about three-quarters of an acre IT e1-
tent. Except a small space in the cen-
ter it Is covered with tbi, TX moss.
strong enough for people to walk upon
Poles are pushed through the moss at
any point, but none have ever touched
bottom, yet there are large trees grow
ing and people walk in safety. The
moss forms thick mat or carpet, and is
described as being exquisitely beautiful