The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-31
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

directly out OF the panic of 1873 and the
depression that succeeded it.
PEOPLE AND THINGS.
THE Delaware peach crop netted ST.
100000.
The telephone is spreading all over
Europe.
Do NOT entertain visitors with YOU
own domestic troubles.
Two THOUSAND Milwaukeeans have
signed the temperance roll.
ONE THOUSAND polygamous marriages
took place in Utah in 1877.
Two DEATHS have just resulted from
vaccination in Sheffield, Eng.
MILLIONS have been lost during the
past six months on sales of imported
sugars.
ARCHIBALD GORDON, of Granville, N.
G., is the father of twenty seven sons by
one wife.
THE shock of the Negaunee nitro
glycerine explosion was felt fourteen
miles distant
OVER IL, 900 Mennonites have passed
through Kansas City during the year, en-
route for the West.
The other day man in Union county,
Ore, killed three deer at one shot at
distance Of $50 yards.
PUTNAM COUNTY, No., claims to have
gold AMI silver in unlimited quantities
hid away under its sod.
IT is estimated that holders of sotcks
in Boston will receive during this mont.
in dividends $4,000, 900.
n ID ~
have ordered 700, 900 trees, to be set out
along the line of their road the coming
season.
THE muskrats imperilled their reputa-
ton as weather prophets by building
their nests for this winter exceptionally
thick and warm.
FEWER railway and steamboat acct
dents have occurred in the United States
last year than in any previous year since
the introduction of steam.
THERE are now 851 manufacturing es-
Establishments in San Francisco, whose
aggregated products amount to $62, 1885,
600. They employ over &c, 900 persons.
LYNN is said to be losing its trade in
boots and shoes, which used to be al .
most monopoly. Western manufact-
urers are getting large share of the
business.
New YORK is suffering q heavy loss of
revenues through the cigar makers
strike and the action against the liquor
dealers. The deficiency will become
serious if continued for any considerable
time.
SATIN is now the rage. It went ont
of fashion in England twenty eight years
ago, when Mrs. Manning, q celebrated
murderess, at one time lady's maid to
the late Duchess of Sutherland, was
hung in q black-satin dress.
CONSCIENCE makes towards Of lis
all !" wrote the immortal bard; but the
man with a stomach full of boiled cab
bage has his own private opinion about
the matter Cincinnati Breakfast To
bic.
MANY of those banished to Siberia
grow SO weary of their exile in such an
inhospitable region that they lose their
minds. Lunatic asylums have been
erected of late years for their especial
accommodation.
PEORIA has eight distilleries, which
manufactured So, 937, 1877 worth of high
wines in 1877. The money value of the
-four manufactured in Peoria during the
year was $S70,528 The revenue col
lections for the district were Sc, 592, O98.
THE quantity of poison which the
| leaves of artificial flowers take I'D in
their manufacture seems almost incredi-
BILE. Careful chemical analysis shows
that twig of twelve leaves often con-
tains ten grains. A lady might thus
unconsciously carry poison enough upon
her person to destroy twenty of the
guests.
JURIEs in Illinois murder trials decide
whether the convicted prisoners shall be
imprisoned for life or hanged. In Shaw
neetown jury stood three for hanging
and nine forimprisonment. They pulled
straws to settle the question, and on
verdict thus obtained man was SEN
fenced to death; but when the facts came
out new trial was granted.
BROKEN bottles are utilized in England
IN the manufacture Of cheap jewelry,
chimney ornaments, and inferior house
hold glass for the manufacturing dis
tricts. Also for the manufacture of
emery powder, glass paper, ETC. One
soda-water maker in London, last year.
| broke, IN the process Of filing, corking,
cleaning, and distributing his soda, one
hundred tons of bottles. The old glass
brings acout 10 shillings per ton.
THE wife of Selma negro has demon
strated that it is possible to live on con-
slderably less than dollar day The
weekly table expenses for herself and
husband are as follows:
ore half peck of meal. ..................lO