The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-07-26
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
The Pennsylvanians paid 81, 992, 900
for insurance last year.
AN Atlanta Methodist clergyma'. is
policeman on week days.
IT costs New York $4,000, O0O year
to keep up it's day and night schools.
EXPENDITURES on New York's East
river bridge thus far have been $7,46S,-
6466
The average measurement of the
stunted foot Of a Chinese female is four
inches.
Nor lost, but gone BEFORE" exclaimed
the man when his hat blew off and ahead
of him.
4 PLANTER near Savannah, Ga, sold
his cucumbers on three acres of vines for
$1,250.
OVER three thousand immigrants have
arrived in Manitoba since the opening of
navigation.
A HUGE mammoth has been discovered
in Siberia at depth of twenty-five feet
beneath the surface.
A NEW ST.. Louis ordinance forbids the
sale of intoxicating liquor to persons
under Is years of age.
A SHOWER OF frogs about the size of
flies has been recent distraction in the
country about Petersburg, Va.
THE largest contributor to the revenue
of England is said to be brewing firm,
which pays about S., 900 for every work
ing day in the year.
The Baltimore woman who was fined
500 for sending scurrilous postal cards
has been committed to jail for thirty
days in default of payment.
The largest known diamond belongs
to the Rajah of Nathan, in Borneo, and
weighed 367 carats. He had been Of
fered and refused e12O,OO for it.
A CENTURY plant at ST. Augustine,
Fla, now about to bloom, has reached
a height of twenty one feet, and is still
growing. 1t has twenty-four branches.
LOVERS Of strawberries should emf
CRATE to Santa Clara, CAL, which has
been entitled Strawberry valley, as they
have strawberries every month in the
year.
Bob INGERsOLL, in a speech in San
Francisco, offered ZOO reward for
proof that the death of Voltaire was not
peaceful, and the same as to Thomas
Paine.
In America we rate an ounce OF gold
as worth 16 ounces of silver France,
which is the head of the Latin union, al
lows only 15g ounces of silver to equal
in value an ounce of gold.
WHEN the Cars soldiers got into
Paris in 1915. they drank all the alcohol
III the jars in which the scientific
French preserved the museum serpents,
but did not succeed in civilizing France
HAVE laugh for the child in her play a. your feet:
Have respect for the aged and pleasantly greet
The stranger that seeketh for shelter from thee;
| Have covering to spare, if he naked should be-
| Have q nope IN tiny sorrow, a calm in thy joy;
Have work that is worth thy life to employ:
And, oh above all things on this side the sod,
Have peace with thy conscience and peace with thy
| God.
A MEMBER of the New Hampshire
House of Representatives. is anxious to
render the death menace impressive. He
has introduced an act in relation to the
execution Of Joseph La Page, providing
that it shall be in place accessible to
the public, 50 that all persons WHO wish
to be present may have the privilege.
The Savannah Neays believes that the
lands of Northern Georgia are based
upon & gold-bearing stratum quite fabu-
lous in its richness. At Dahlonega the
other day, directly after the falling of
heavy shower of rain, a little barefoot
street urchin found fifteen OF twenty
large particles of gold in about half
gallon of earth, scraped up in front of
! the Court House door.
The Custer of the Russian army. and
its youngest General, is Skobeleff, con-
| queror of Khokand, and row on the staff
of the Grand Duke Nicholas. In the
khokand war he made a night attack.
with $50 men, on a camp of several thou
sand of the enemy, cutting down every
man within the range of their swords. The
enemy fled, leaving forty dead and all
their camp material and baggage. Sko