The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-03-07
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.
KENTUCKY will reset the old whipping
post.
MIR. Ross has examined 375 lost Char
leys.
The State Treasury of Alabama is
empty.
ONE-HALF the wire is laid on the great
suspension bridge between New York
and Brooklyn.
A TRAMP WAS taken in at Westfield.
Mass, who boosted that he had been
on the road since 1852.
Mrs. MARGARET HERBERT and Mrs.
Catherine Tilton, twin sisters, of New
Jersey, have celebrated their Goth birth
day. .-
GERMANY is the first military power in
Europe and Russia is the second. The
two make strong team to pull or push
or butt against.
RUSSIAN officers consume great guam
titles of champagne. The general staff
of the Russian army lately ordered
$50, 900 worth from Paris.
In France IS per cent. of the murders
committed are for money; in Spain SO
of every 100 murders are inspired by
motives of jealousy or love.
THE Gear of Russia is not strong, and
fears the early approach of death. He
will be 80 If he lives until April, an age
beyond which no previous Romanoff has
lived.
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, thinks his
father ran things a little fast, and has
commenced cutting down expenses by
selling off ZOO horses kept in the royal
stables.
Ii is regarded in New York as really
quite surprising that James Gordon Ben
nett, with his extravagant life in Eu-
rope, is making his fathers fortune last
so long.
THERE are living in Belgium, France,
Austria, Italy and America 12O families
of the descendants of Rubens, repre-
sented by 500 persons. Most of them
are of noble birth.
WOLVES in Eastern France are unu-
sually bold this year, and have commit
ted many depredations. An instance is
cited IN which courier was driven by
them from his regular track.
CATS cannot exist at an elevation above
ID, ZOO feet. Attempts to introduce them
into Potosi, Bolivia, Is, 800 feet above
the sea level, have failed, and restless
Spectator who had laid in thirty-eight
cords of bootjaoks has failed, too.
WINTER.
Lastly, came Winter, clothed all in frieze
Chattr ring his teeth for cold that did him chill
Whilst on his hoary beard his breath did freeze,
And the duh drops, that from his purpled BILL
AS from a limbeck, did adown distil;
In his right hand tipped staff he held, , e..
With which his feeble steps he stayed still;
For he WAS faint with cold, and weak with cid;
That scaroe his loosed limbs be able WIS to weld
Edmund Spe7Sser.
GEN. Crook thinks that Sitting Bull
will be compelled to come to the United
States in order to hunt the buffaloes nee
essary for his subsistence, also, that
there is no possible way of keeping him
from crossing the frontier. There will
be always more or less trouble TIL Sit
ting Bull is cleaned out.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
show III many ways most kind hearts.
They have provided for Sandringham
and the other villages adjoining excellent
school-rooms and teachers, and on holi-
days they give the children treats and
serviceable gifts, the Princess and her
little one distributing the latter with
their own hands.
FRESH flowers are daily planted around
the tomb of Napoleon Ill, at Chisel-
hurst, by direction of his widow,
Eugene. It is next in order to transfer
his ashes from the island of England to
the banks of the Seine, to be buried
among the people who were dearest to
him when alive. The Hotel DIES Inva-
lides is waiting to receive the nephew of
his uncle.
BORROWING was done on grand scale
in 1877. A list of the issues made in
various countries of the world has been
made by Belgian statistician, and set
down as 81, $50, 975, 900, against $685.
O0O,O in 1876, and $3.50, 600, 900 in
1875. Of this enormous amount, 81
154, $50 was borrowed by Governments,
national, State and municipal, and the
balance by railway and industrial com
panies and institutions of credit.
Mr.. JAMES F. DowNEY, editor of the
Louisiana mo Journal, having been
assaulted by Alderman W. w. Anderson,
publishes card containing the following
business-ike proposition " will meet
him anywhere his friend and my friend
may select, both to be unarmed, and if
[ don't thrash him inside of five minutes
| will make public apology and admit
L am no man. I am in no condition to
struggle with man, but L am strong
enough to whip d hypocrite and a
coward