The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-07-05
CURRENT ITEMS.

Nicholas for Jttae.
CURRENT ITEMS.
BORROWED dresses give no warmth.
OMISSION of good is a commission of
evil.
SHEEP sell for five cents a head in CAL
ifornia.
HARDREssER' S motto-ss Gut and come
again"
ROMANTIC DEATH-A young lady
drowned in tears.
THE teeth should be brushed I'D and
down, not crosswise.
ENGLISH exports of steel rails to this
country are increasing.
PATENT leather is about to be revived
for gentlemen's boots
THE three sons of the Khedive are
being educated in Europe
MASCULINE hair is now cut short
enough to rasp a match on it.
A QUART of peaches for every man,
woman and child in the country is the
estimated crop from Delaware alone this
season.
NORTH CAROLINA has paid for fertiliz-
ers, within the last twelve months, So
100000; Georgia, $4,000, 600; Virginia
probably more.
EARTHQUAKES, or volcanic eruptions,
occur Oh an average nearly three times
week., in greater or less intensity, in some
parts of the globe.
For cleaning black cashmeres, wash
In hot suds with a little borax in the
water rinse in blueing water-very
blue-and iron on the wrong side while
damp.
COLORADO has q Methodist Church
without a single male member. The wo-
men do all the business and it is OBJ
served that there is a balance in the
treasury.
THE ELIXIR.
Oh brew me potion strong and good
One golden drop in his wine
Shall charm his sense and fire his blood,
And bend his will to mine'
Poor child of passion Ask of me
Elixir of death or sleep,
Or Lethe's stream: but love is free,
And woman must wait and weep
-Ennna Lazarus, in Lippincotrs for Juzy.
THERE are in the United States TO-
900, 900 horses, and only 200 veterinary
surgeons who have genuine diplomas
from regular colleges. This number
gives one surgeon to every so, 900 horses.
This would seem to show ours be good
country for horses, and rather indiffer-
ent one for veterinary surgeons.
The Danbury NeaUs has ciphered out
the woman question to nicely. Itsays
woman may give intellect, genius and
virtue to profession, and fail to find
patronage; but, if the same woman were
to put on tights and sing comic song,
the citizens of our great republic would
fill the house and applaud until they
were hoarse.
The Postmaster of Corpus Christi.
Texas, has very properly decided that
the king snake, the destiliest reptile in
that region, is not legitimate mail matter.
The serpent was sent from San Diego to
Corpus Christi to be mailed abroad. and
had, therefore, already travelled con-
siderable distance in charge of the mail
carriers. Alligators are sometimes for
warded through the Posto1fice, but when
1t comes to handling venomous serpents
the best-natured Postmaster in the world
may hesitate.
SCARLET PMPERNEL.
Bright little wayfarer in scarlet cap,
With purple tuft atop, and doublet green
flora pet page sometime thou mayst have been
Fallen from favor by some strange mishap-
1t touches me to note the sweet content
win which thou dost accept thy lowly lot
Ana niakest gay some poor, neglected spot
WIN thy glad presence-pitching thy small tent
Upon the farmers homely garden-parch
Or close beside the dusty roadside way.
Needless of high or low if but raw
OF heavens golden sunshine thou canst catch.
Watching and waiting, living not in vain,
Oh tiny prophet OF the copaing rain,
a Tpletons' journal for July
Two FAST friends went to look for stock
on Stein mountain, Oregon, and only one
returned. He said that he had an indis-
unct recollection of killing his compan-
ION, but why or how he could not re-
member, as he had been In strange.
dazed condition. A search resulted in
finding the missing man where he had
been Killed with club, the survivors,
dim memory partly guiding them to the
place. The culprit is under arrest; but
1t is quite likely that he committed the
deed, as he says, when he was Temporal
rily insane, for it would never have been
found out if he had not himself made the |