The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-03-21
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Ono has $50, 600 German Catholics.
Mrs. A. T. STEWART owns a $35, 900
diamond.
FIRE is destroying the great forests of
California.
SoTHERN, the actor, served IN the
Confederate army.
SENATOR WINDOWS Washington resi-
dence cost 1856. 900.
QUEENS COUNTY, L. L, is benevolent
~ taking care of nearly 1000 tramps.
THERE is no harbor for 800 miles
north and 500 miles south of San Fran
cisco.
THE hog cholera is said to have dis
appeared from the northern part of In
diana.
THE second revision of the New Tesla
ment has reached the middle of Ro-
mans x.
PATTI can only be Iured to night of
opera with 1000 check, signed and
delivered.
+ THERE is row enough corn in the crib
in Iowa to supply half the world for
the next year.
PROF. SUMNER, of Yale, after critically
examining some of the boys story pa
pers, is convinced that they are extreme
ly pernlcious.
CALIFORNIA has $780, 900 fruit trees
and Sc, 900, 900 grape-vines, and harvests
from 300, 200, 900 to 500, 000,0 600 pounds
of fruit yearly.
ACCORDING to the statistics from the
st. Paul Chamber of Commerce, the
yield of wheat in Minnesota for 1877 was
40, 600, 900 bushels.
STEPS are about to be taken to obtain
a quantity of good tobacco seed from the
United States for cultivation in the
northwestern provinces of India, in time
for this years sowing.
A SHOEMAKER with one eye complained
that one of his lamps did not burn. One
OF his shopmates, who is genuine son
of the Emerald isle, with astonishment
exclaimed, Faith, what do you want
of taDo lamps? Ye haven't but one eye l''
A SAN Francisco tailor advertised that
he would make dresses for women, and q
fashionable dressmaker, resentful of the
rivalry, advertised that she would make
mems clothes sin the latest styles, ct
low prices, and warranted to fit"
CHARLES NAPIER, an English scien-
tlst, prescribed a vegetable diet as a
cure for intemperance. The relinquish-
ment of meat for six or seven months,
he asserts, will destroy desire for al
cohol in the most aggravated cases.
AN "oil smeller" of Titusville, Pa,
has over $4,000 worth of dry wells to
remind him of his folly. He has de-
fusion that Theoretically sealed bottle,
held by string near the ground, will
| indicate the existence of petroleum l, ZOO
feet below the surface. He located eight
dry wells last year.
On Wednesday, Jan. 20, all France
began drawing at the ballot box for army
service. When the drawing for the First
district of the city of Paris came on, the
name of Bonaparte was called, and
Prince Joachim Murat presented him.
self as relative in place of the ex-Prince
Imperial, who, being the eldest son of a
widow, was, on that account, excused.
A CURIOUS candle used in Alaska is q
fish eight inches long, almost transpar-
ent, and very fat, the fat being pure
white and very sweet. The Indians
dry this fish, then light it at the tail
| and 1T burns with clear, sparkling
| flame, which the wind will not extin
| guish.
A BALTMoRE druggist openly adver-
uses sulph1de OF arsenlcum, prepare
ton OF arsenic, as beautifer of women.
do you wish to be beautiful ?" he asks,
and then continues, "Your complexion
can be made like milk and roses" He
also promises that the poisonous prepa-
| IL -
contrary, sis highly beneficial" and
will +" cause the most angular and scrawny
to become plump and rosy"
FROM September, 1876, to September,
1877, seems to have been the darkest
period of railroad history in this coun-
try. The Railroad Gazette says that,
taking sixty-four roads, covering 1891
miles, the receipts show that with an in
crease of 1.3 per cent. in mileage, the
profits fell off per cent, though the ex.
penses had been reduced more in pro.
portion than the earnings.
A RELIGIOUS paper out West addresses
its readers in the following pathetic
strain: " Your mother read the Advo-
cate before you were born, and read it
many day as she rocked and hummed
you to sleep. She has gone home to
heaven. This years ADVOCATE may
guide your feet safely to that same
heaven. Brother, can you afford to
hush these memories and quench this
light for g. TOP"
"WHo ever heard of Emerson?" ]
asked room of Third Reader pupils.
Nearly every hand came up, and the
bright faces were full of interest. What
a delightful surprise I did not expect
to see more than two hands. All at once
L remembered that, for more than week,
every fence about the school had been
covered with circus-bills bearing the
name "Billy Emerson and, sure
enough, he was the Emerson those pupils
knew about. Nicholas.