The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-11-01
CURRENT ITEMS.

colonizing in Arkansas.
THERE are in Preside county, Texas,
4, SOC, 600 acres of land.
LIVERPOOL chose as Mayor the owner
of sixty gin alaces.
TH1s years drought has cost the Cali
fornians 500, 600, 900.
SINCE 1871 eighteen small savings
banks in New York city have gone to tee
vail.
TE Paris Exposition of 1878 is to cost
s., 600, GOO. The original calculation was
81, 200, 600. M
TIE South Park, Chicago, will soon
be benefited by the planting of 5000
choice trees.
The population of the City of Mexico
has remained almost stationary since the
fall of Macmillan.
IT is claimed in Raleigh that there are
now eighty-one gold mines in operation
in North Carolina.
LONDON was enlarged by 226 new
streets, three new squares, and IL, 938
new houses last year.
THE largest Touring mill in New York
State is to be erected at Niagara falls at
cost of 100000.
ALL of the railroads now in process of
construction in Arizona, New Mexico
and Utah are private enterprises.
SAN FRANCISCO papers chronicle with
much enthusiasm the first arrival of a
carload of lager beer from Milwaukee.
THE village priests are newsmongers
in Russia. They read to their focks
every Sunday official dispatches from
the seat of war.
A BEE tree near Waldo, Fla, con-
tanned eight feet in length Of solid comb,
the hollow ranging from six to nine
inches in diameter.
By some patent process cargoes of
fresh meat are now being carried from
South America to France without the
use of ice, salt or saltpeter.
RUSSIA has $4,000 hereditary mobiles
and $50, 900 who are not hereditary, and
thousands of both classes who are very
poor. s..
THE Sultan of Zanzibar is organizing
force of 500 negro soldiers, to be armed
with Martini-Henry rifles and Calling
gun, for the suppression of the slave
trade in his dominions.
A SPR1TUALIsr1c doctor in Philadel-
pnia describes a death-bed scene, in
which those assembled while singing a
hymn had their spiritual eyes opened
and saw the dead brother issuing out of
his mortal tenement, joining his wife and
child and floating away.
ga. G. D." writes to the London
Times: "The parents of M. Theirs
were Professionals, and he was born in
that faith, but died Roman Catholic.
No memoir that I have read mentions
when he changed his faith" Guizot
was Protestant to the last.
THE strongest hold that the Chinese
have upon California is in respect to
cookery and domestic work, but propri-
etors of intelligence offices in San Fran
cisco say that many householders, par
ticularly ranchers, are discharging Chi
nese and employing white cooks.
THE rapidity with which the Germans
adopt every improvement in means and
methods of warfare is shown by the fact
that all the guns carried by the ships OF
the German navy, or mounted in the for
tifcations on the shores of Germany,
are breech-leading rifled ordnance.
| WHEN Chicago woman wants to get
a man on breach-of-promise case, she
makes bet of kiss with him, and loses.
She pays him the kiss in the presence OF
a witness, and sues him for breach OF
promise and trifing with her affections.
This is naturally called "courting" in
Chicago.
THE Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern Railroad Company have paid for
sixty-fve of the eighty-one lives lost at
the Ashtabula disaster, at rate averag-
ing s., 900 apiece. The most expensive
life sacrificed cost the company SO, 900,
and newly married couple were ap-
praised at only $1,000.
| Mr.. WmKE COLLINS, the English
novelist, is q great sufferer from govt in
his eyes. He lives in large dlngy old
house in Gloucester place, London, in
which, on account of his disease, he will
allow no gas to be burned, using only
candles and shaded lamps for such dim
light as is necessary after pightfall.
Miss MINNIE E. HODGES, who has
just resigned the position of cashier and
money-order clerk in the Des MONIES
Qowa) Postofice, handled and paid out
during six years $4,000, 900 and never
made mistake of a cent. At times she
had charge of the whole Office with
twenty-five and thirty clerks under her
direction.
THE desert of Sahara covers about g.
700, 900 square miles. Most of it is
about I, 500 feet above the sea level, but
portion, covering 100, 900 square mics,
is below the sea level, and a project for
inundating it from the Atlantic ocean or
the Mediterranean sea is seriously talked
of. The size of this desert may be bet
ter understood when we state that its
| area is more than two thirds that of the
entire territory of the United States.
| EVERY one knows about Vichy's wa