The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PEOHLE AN u IHlNUSs
GERMANY prints $4,000 books every
year.
FULL of interest-A long note over
due.
SURE way to turn peoples heads Go
late into church.
REFINED sugars are cheaper now than
ever before in this country.
KENTUCKY paid $40, 947 for wolf, fox
and wildcat scalps the past year.
THERE are 4, $50 miles of railroad west
of the summit of the Rocky mountains.
FIVE THOUSAND pounds of artificial
butter are manufactured daily in Pitts
burgh.
THE wild animals in the West Vir-
ginia mountains are becoming bold and
daring.
RUSSIA estimates that next years
campaign will cost her about $400, O0O,-
600 in gold.
A GYPSY woman in Pittsburgh meets
little girls and takes their gold rings
from their fingers.
The Hon. J. F. Speed, once Mr.. Lin
coins Attorney General, is lecturing on
abraham Lincoln"
IT is said that the Government owes
importers and others over 81 900, 600 for
duties illegally collected.
ALL the German fortresses now build
ing upon the Russian frontier will be
finished, it is asserted, by 1880.
MARY MONICA MAXWELL SCOTT, great
granddaughter of Sir Walter, is a con-
vert to the Roman Catholic faith.
In Waterford, Pa, three men have
been promptly sent to prison for five
years for tarring and feathering woman.
is the freak of a Montreal man, who
wears his beard on one side of his face
only.
ASHES from the recent eruption at
Cotopaxi, in Ecuador are said to have
fallen at distance of 1000 miles from
the volcano.
THE total valuation of property in
New Orleans this year is $111, 115, 1876, a
falling off of nearly 81, 900, 600 from last
years assessment.
FATHERS and mothers, regulate your
gifts to your children according to their
good or bad behavior. It may learn
them to do better by another Christmas.
GEN. LoNGsTREET received severe in
juries in fire which nearly destroyed
his house at Gainesville, Ga, the other
day. He was hurt in fighting the
flames.
VERY many of the cross-ties laid Oh
the Union Pacific several years ago have
become petrifed. So solid are these ties
that it is impossible to withdraw the
spikes.
The banks in San Antonio, Tex, paid
the workingmen of the town $50, 900 in
Mexican dollars, and the next day re-
fused to take it for less than . j
discount.
LEFT OUT.
One day, st. Nicholas made complaint:
think it's quite plain why they call me Mt.
l wonder if any one happens to
That nobody ever makes presents to me;
That l, who make presents to ever many,
Am the only poor fellow who never gets any ~
FORTY SEVEN members of the XLVth
Congress are natives of Pennsylvania,
and Pennsylvania is proud. Of this
number, Messrs. Blaine, Wallace, Cam
eron, Mitchell, Mcmillan and Patterson
are Senators. New York has forty-nine
representatives in Congress.
IT appears from Blue Book just is
sued respecting the great cyclone and
storm wave which visited certain dis
tricts in Bengal, on the morning of the
LIST of November, 1876, that the total
number of persons drowned was 10000,
and that the outbreak of cholera which
followed carried off $4,000, making a
total mortality of l65, 900.
AN old custom in some parts of Eu-
rope on Christmas eve is, after the fes-
tvities Of the tree are over, for the faith
ers 20 speak privately to the sons and
the mothers to the daughters, and tell
them what has been observed most
praiseworthy and what most family in
their conduct for the past year. Would
not this be a good pattern to follow
parents?
AN Irish penny was found near An
napolis, Md, recently. On one side is
the bust of a man, around which are the
words, ".Georgius Ill, Rex" on the
other is a harp surmounted by crown
and the wrod, Hibernia." while under
meath is date of coinage, "1775." The
coin is well preserved, and was proba-
bly, lost by a British soldier during the
Revolutionary war.
SIR WAITE SCOTT has described il
VlVac1ous verses, In g Marmlon," the
ceremonies produced in England and
Scotland in feudal times, when,
On Christmas the bells were rung:
On Christmas eve the mass SING;
The Gansel donned her kirtle sheen;
The hall dressed in holly green :
The fire. with well-dried logs supplied,
Went roaring UP the chimney wide
There the hinge sirloin reeked hard by
Pium-porridge stood, and Christmas pie.
Then came the merry masquers in,
And carols roared with biithesome din
England was merry England when
Old Christmas brought it sports again.
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Be merry all, be merry ali
With holly dress the festive hall,
Prepare the song, the feast the ball,
To welcome merry Christmas.
And, Oh remember, gentles gay,
To you who bask in fortunes ray
The year is all holiday;
The poor have only Christmas.
When You the costly banquet deal
To guests who never fam ne feel,
Oh, spare one raorsel from your meal
To cheer the poor at Christmas,
SO shall each note of mirth appear
More sweet to heaven than praise or PRAYER
And angels. in their carols