The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-14
CURRENT ITEMS

The ex-Empress Eugene is visiting
Spain.
GERMANY has just adopted her first
patent law.
The Erie Railway Company consumes
about Is, 900, 900 feet of timber annually
in the construction of its cars, trucks,
etc. This large amount, including about
$500, 900 worth of black walnut year,
is all collected along the line of the
road.
THE sea holds 60, 900, 900, 600, 900 tons
of salt Should the sea be dried up,
there would be a deposit of salt over the
entire bottom of the ocean $50 feet deep,
and if the salt were taken ard spread on
the land it would cover it to a depth of
900 feet.
WHEN man is laid up with broken
leg and there is no -four in the house,
nothing pleases him so much as to have
the members of the society to which he
belongs present him with series of
resolutions expressing their high APP
probation of his fine moral character.
Two Pr UTEs in Newark valley, New,
hacked each other to pieces over game
of poker. They fought with knives for
half an hour, surrounded by ring of
Indians, none of whom dared to inter-
fere. The only remark of the survivor,
>c1,< ~ off
cut heap dead !''
A SPLENDID bronze fountain has lately
been inaugurated at Berlin. Around the
base are four allegorical figures, repre-
senting the Rhine, Elbe, Oder, and Wes-
er, each with his appropriate tribute;
and in the middle of the basin are four
smaller figures. representing agriculture,
trade, defensive warfare, and art
M. EyACINTHE LoYsoN is living very
quietly in Paris, Madame Loyson is
teaching young girls, and their house.
hold is very simply and economically ar
ranged. Figaro says that the first thing
that strikes one in this lady is the per-
sistence with which her black eyes fix
themselves upon those to whom she
speaks.
The number of wolves in Russia is es-
timated at 200, 900, and their annual con-
sumption of flesh % cwt. per head
Last year they ate, among other items,
161 human beings, and it is estimated
that, in one way or another, they cost the
country 100000. Hunting has de-
clined since the emancipation of the
serfs, and the wolves have increased.
The Turkish paper money, called
canine, has depreciated more than 100 per
cent. Bread costs more than it did dur
ing the Crimean war. Petroleum, which
is in general use, is imported from the
United States, refined, while the native
oil, of which there is abundance in Ror1-
maria, the Crimea, and ON the Caspian
sea, is marketed in the crude state. It has
risen from 20 to so cents an "oke."
In addition to the war with Russia the
Turks have begun a war on female van
l.
Police, has issued decree ordering all
Turkish women to discard the European
costume and return to the national one,
thus obliging them to sacrifice on the
altar of patriotism the furred robe, high
heeled boots, the Paris hat, and the CHG
non itself.
The Russians captured eight Turks
near Ibrail, who were armed with Amer
lean rifles firing thirty-six shots without
reloading. Besides the cartridges in
his gun, each man carried 100 more in
his cartridge-box. The Russians are
considerably surprised to discover that,
thanks to our Uncle Samuel, they must
fight thirty-six Turks, where they ex-
pected to encounter but one.
THEODORE MARIN was lately condemned
by court-maltial to death, in Paris, for
having, in addition to holding COM
mand of troops during the days of the
Commune, given orders to burn the
Mayoralty building of the Eleventh Ar
rondissement. Marin was condemned
in 1872, but was not arrested until March,
1876. He escaped sentence during two
previous trials on account of flaws in the
evidence.
A CORRESPONDENT, writing from Cairo,
exposes the humbug of tie Khedive in
pretending to suppress slavery, and says
that at the very time he sent an expedi-
ton for that object down the Red sea at
the instance of the English foreign
Office, he was selling 400 female slaves,
while every one of his palaces overfiows
with them, "to say nothing of his
cruelty forced laborers"
There is no doubt that this is perfectly
true.
WRITING AS IT Is SPOKEN.
Phonetics
Onion garden-bed reclining,
Beets youth his aching head;
$ Cauihowers- low weeds confront me;
Lettuce hence" he sadly said.
Carrots out the stoutest manhood
Peas my wearied soul doth need;
Bean o strife for hereafter,
Else my art viii go to seed
Pronounced. thus
On yon garden-bed reclining
Beats youth his aching head;
. Gull flowers, 10, weeds confront me
Let US hence" he sadly said.
. Care rots out the stoutest msnhood,
Peace my wearied soul doth need;
Be no strife for me hereafter,
Else my heart viii go TO seed
-Londoa Methodist