The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-11-15
CURRENT ITEMS.

iuries to indict some of our juries.
CURRENT ITEMS.
HOLLAND has not had bank-failure
in forty years.
WHEN woman has the gift of silence
she possesses quality above the vul-
gar.
a PROMINENT London lawyer says that
twenty women are robbed to one man in
that city.
IT is the woman who paints who finds
the greatest difficulty in keeping her
countenance.
The man who can say all he has got
to say in few words is an ugly custom
er to handle.
WIEN the sky is filed with white
clouds nature may be said to be in it's
shirt sleeves.
The Tennessee Methodist Conference
resolved not to admit any clergyman
who uses tobacco.
IT is stated that of twenty-five wife
murderers in New York within five years
not one has been hanged.
GA LADY should never use her hus-
bands professional title when she writes
her name," says the Home Journal.
Mr.. HARMS, of Titusville, Pa, started
recently for China, where the Govern
ment has employed him to prospect for
oil. He is to get salary of $4,000 and
expenses for the first year.
Two PROFESSORS of Dartmouth Col
lege, while at work in the college chapel
recently, were locked in by some mis-
chievous students, and were unable to
obtain their release until late Sunday
morning.
The Principal of school in Coving-
ton, KY, denies that an unpleasantness
existing between him and lady teacher
arose from his threat to kiss her if she
were dllatory, and says that such a
charge "bears on its face the per-
suasive odor of its own improbability.
THE numerous indictments which
have been instituted against the timber
thieves of the Pacific coast ought to
yield a rich return. An official esti-
mates the stealings since 1855 at $780,
600, 700, one firm alone having carried
off $50, 900, 900 worth of lumber with the
connivance of land agents.
WHILE Mr.. Thomas S. Bronson. of
Clay county, Ga, was cutting down
tree, his ax-handle struck against his
left breast coat-pocket, in which he had
pistol. The striking of the ax-handle
fired off the pistol, lodging a bullet in
his body, which produced death in few
moments
The religious sentiment in San An
tonic, Texas, is overwhelmingly ortho-
dox. An infdel there delivered q lee
ture against Christianity. On the fol-
lowing night he was whipped by a mob,
and warned TINT if he ever again at
tempted to teach infdelity in the COM
munity he would be hanged.
A REVOLUTIONARY relic in the shape
of a blacksmith's anvil is now owned by
William Mauldin, of Keowee county, S.
@. 1t was the property of his great
grandfather, and was In use during the
Revolutionary war in manufacturing
swords to arm the gallant men who fol-
lowed the gallant Gen. Marion.
How and where prairie dogs in their
villages, far away from rivers, get
water, was not found out until recently.
when Mr.. T. Mercer, a frontiersman
OF experience, learned by observation
that the dogs dig their own wells. Each
village has one with concealed opening
He knows of one 200 feet deep, with
circular path or staircase leading down
to the water.
HENRY GoRHAM, a Utah Mormon, un-
dertook to chastise his six wives with a
horsewhip for disobedience. He had
previously punished them singly MANY
times and had grown arrogant, but this
time he had overrated his power. The
SIX wives Joined hands, or fists, and be-
fore Gorham escaped from them he was
so badly scratched, bruised, and bitten
that his recovery was for a time doubt
ed.
HE Bishop of Hereford was examin-
ing SCHOOLGIRLS the other day, and
among other things asked what an aver
age was. Several boys pleaded ignor
ance, but one at last replied: cit is
whata hen lays on" The answer puz-
zled the Bishop not a little, but the boy
persisted in it, stating that he read it in
his little book of facts. He was then
told to bring his little book, and on doing
50 he pointed triumphantly to para
graph commencing: "The domestic
hen Lays on an average fifty eggs each
year"
ALG ERI-d.
The visitor to Algeria in these DAYS
Will find that the French are proving the
fallacv of the currapt ,ofio,, +b,4 H.