The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-09-27
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BERLIN is the largest center of Com
munism in Germany.
WHAT is the greatest hardship in the
world? An iron steamer.
The fbrous roots of asparagus are
coming into use for fine paper making.
BRIGHAM Young was the largest de-
position but two in the Bank of England.
BEER is pronounced better tonic than
whisky by the best medical chemists of
Germany.
The Khedive, in return for his mill
tary services to the Porte, demands the
right to form a navy.
HEDGEHOG raising is encouraged in
England because they are formidable
enemies to all vermin
ALL the public lands in the States of
Arkansas, Louisiana and Florida will
soon be offered at public sale.
THE London Mansion House fund
for the Indian famine sufferers amounts
to EDO, 900. The Bank of ENGLAND sub
scribed Ell, ZOO.
Two YOUNG girls. in a fit of religious
enthusiasm, have drowned themselves
in the miraculous well at Marpingen, in
Rhenish Prussia.
ONE predominant feature of Hungarian
watering-places in general is great ex-
travagance in dress. The ladies dress
four times day.
In British India, statistics recently
collected go to show that the number of
suicides in the hot season is immensely
more than at other times.
The Baptist Weekly has the i'm
preston that the Methodist camp meet
ings this summer have lost the power
that once attached to them.
CHARLES Young, a son of the late
Prophet, has graduated from the Law
Department of Michigan University,
and will practice in Pinckney, Mich.
SOME idea of the California squirrel
pest may be found from the statement
of farmer there, who found 678 kernels
of barley in the chops of single animal.
A sELF-oPENNG envelope, with
thread in the edge of the upper flap, by
pulling which the envelope is quickly
and neatly opened, is the newest inven-
ton in stationery.
"WHAT is the meaning of back
bitter % asked gentleman at Sunday
school examination. This was puzzle.
1t went down the class until it came to a
simple urchin, who said, Perhaps it is
a fea.''
A BOY II years old died in Charles
town, Mass. last week, of hemorrhage,
resulting from the extraction of tooth
SIX days before, and the Boston Post
says that nine Ct his relatives ssdied from
similar causes
PETER O'HEARN, of Gold Hill, New,
becoming tired of the constant interfer-
ence of his wife's mother in his family
affairs, borrowed a pistol, called his wife
into a side room, and shot himself
through the heart.
THE conductor of a Chelsea-ferry car
Ill Boston recently found under seat
pocketbook containing S., 900 in notes
and money, and, upon returning it to
the owner, received exactly 81 TO en-
courage his honesty.
A RAPID and emphatic recital of the
following is said to be good for lisping
Hobbs meets Snobbs and Nobbs; Hobbs
hobbs to Snobbs and hobbs. Hobbs
nobs with Snobbs, and robs Nobbs'
fobs. "This is" says hobbs, "the
worse for Hobbs fobs," and Snopbs
sobs.
DURING the recent illness of Mr.. Carey,
telegraph operator at Martinsville. Miss.
the office was managed entirely by Mary
Short. who is only 10 years old. She
sent messages and trains, and received
orders for conductors from the train dis
patcher's Office, without hesitation or
delay.
Two BOYS recently attempted to climb
to the top of cliff on which the Point
Lobos telegraph is stationed, near San
Francisco, and found themselves in
position from which they dared neither
ascend nor descend. They remained on
their lofty perch all night, and in the
morning were rescued by rope ladders
let down from above.
A GERMAN lost his wife, and the next
week married again, and his new wife
asked him to take her out riding. He
felt indignant that she should have no
more respect than that for his deceased
wife, and said: "You dink I ride out
NIT another woman SO soon after the
death Of mine frau?''
BRIGRAM YOU'VE didn't put on historic
airs when it ca1ue to the "last words
His sen asked him if he knew him. CT
should think ought to- responded the
indignant candidate for an obituary.
This is only equaled by the historic dec
laraton of Mrs. Ward when confronted
by her elated husband, disguised in his
regimentals. "know you % said she.
"of course do, you old fool !''
MIR. FORBES, the London Daily Ne,cs
correspondent at the seat of war. was
also the most successful and accom-
plished correspondent during the siege
OF Paris. He was then with the Crown
Princes army. Clever, tough and
young, he knows neither fatigue nor
danger when it is matter of getting
and giving war news He Is a Scotch