The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-28
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.
A CULTIVATED ear--An ear of corn.
THERE are sixty-nine cigar factories at
Key West, Fla.
DOUBLE-TRACKs are splendid inven-
ton kind of collide-escape.
THE New York BARRIERS are trying hard
to suppress number of shops which
shave for cents.
CHICAGO and Louisville are the only
pork packing centers that show an in
crease over last years operations.
THE agricultural population of Geor-
gia is 900, 900 souls, and the number
of acres in cultivation is a trife over
600, 900.
HANDKERCHIEFs are now made of the
most expensive kinds of lace. They are
carried in the hand, both for evening
and day use.
THERE are 100 places in Deadwood
where liquor is sold by the drink. and
yet there are people there who say they
are not happy.
A SAMPLE of Russian army bread, re-
Gently analysed in Bulgaria, was found
to contain Is per cent. of sawdust and IA
per cent. of sand.
A BILL is before the Mississippi Leg
islature to exempt from taxation all
lands in the State cultivated in fruit,
grass and grain.
A CALIFORNIAN is said to have invent
ed an ingenious chemical water faucet,
through which, if water is run, it comes
out as cold as ice-water.
ALMOST every occupation by which
men get their living has the semblance
of usefulness. But rum selling has not
the faintest claim to any such quality.
THE project of the restoration of the
Roman Catholic hierarchy in Scotland
has been abandoned, owing to threats of
enforcing the Scottish laws against the
Roman Catholic Church.
The number of mich COWS in Maine
IN 1877 was estimated at 167, 500. Each
of these COWS ought to afford an annual
income of at least $50 each, which
would amount to 5,025, 900 as the total
income from the dairy.
THERE is man in Warren county.
n. g., who has been married five years
and Is the father OF seven children The
first time his wife presented him with
y u.
other boy, and the last, twins.
MIR. SAM CLAY, of Bourbon, KY,
owns nearly enough land to enable him
to ride to Paris, KY, on his own prop
erty. The profits on his farming opera
tons enable him to buy 500 or 600 acres
OF blue grass every year.
Two EIGH-soCIETY little maidens were
contendlng as to the highest respectable
lty of standing of their separate papas,
when one sought to cap the climax by
the statement: I'D have you know that
my pa is the President of a savings bank.
and there's been Receiver appointed.
So there !''-Puck.
AMERICAN palace cars are now to be
found the world over. When King Oscar
opened a railroad in Norway last Octo-
Der, he travelled in carriage built by
jackson & Sharp, of Wilmington, Del.
on the model of one exhibited at Phila-
delpfia, which was bought by the En-
peror of Brazil
SIxTY-FIvE of the eighty-one lives lost
at the Ashtabula disaster have been
paid for by the Lake Shore and Michi-
gan Southern Railroad Company at a
rate averaging SIS, 900 apiece. The most
expensive life cost the company So, 900,
and newly-married couple were ap-
praised at only So, 900.
THE extension of the Central Branch
OF the Union Pacific railroad 155 miles
into the northwestern part of Kansas has
opened lae of direct communication
with one of the finest areas upon the
face OF our broad country open to pre-
emptlon by citizens in need of the bene-
TJnpnt of fhn
The grasshopper committee appointed
last winter, consisting of Professors Ri
ley, of st. Louis Pacard, of Massachu-
sets, and Thomas, of Illinois, have ar
rived at Washington, after spending ten
months "a Investigating the habits of
the grasshopper, and will prepare their
report, which will be volume of 500
pages.
a MONTREAL paper announces the ar
rival of O new "Siamese twins curiosi-
ty. The wife of French Canadian Ia
borer In the village of st. Benoit, county
of Two Mountains, about thirty miles
west of Montreal, has become the
mother of pair of children united as
were the Siamese twins, and all are do
ing well.
Tex, dug a cave to protect himself and
his family against the weather. During
the late rains he and his family were in
it at night, and without warning the tcp
gave way with its weight of logs and
dirt. Higgins escaped with severe in
luries, but his wife and children were
smothered
The Detroit Free Press announces
that it has more poetry on hand than 1t
"can make use of for the next six
months" Now that the backbone of
summer is broken, and winter came in
bowling with the New Year, we should
think the Free Press could make use of
| about two bushels day-if it's chimney
has good draught, that -Norristo,O1l
Herald.
A DOG bill introduced into the Con-
nectlcut Legislature requires all dogs to
be muzzled when away from the premi-
ses of their owners, and to be taxed As
for every male and SO for every female.
Any person may kill an unmuzzled dog
found at large, and receive out of the
town treasury 50, but any person found
removing muzzle must pay fine of
$40, and any person killing q muzzled
dog fine of S25.
New jerseys Meanest.