The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14

money, because people must eat. The
better the quality, the better the price
and the more easily it is sold. It is the
best that pays best. Put up your own
hogs. Don't send them to the city and
nearly give them away. Deduct ship
ping expenses. commissions, ETC., and
but little is left. Put up pork at home,
and you have what will command money
all the time.
PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Bosros has 800 women preachers and
| lecturers.
OF American drunkards 10000 die
annually.
A MINNESOTA lad killed a full grown
bear by splitting its head with an AK
EVERY male citizen OF Atlanta, Ga.
is taxed s. for the maintenance of the
streets.
FISH are peddled in portable tanks in
Japan, the law requiring them to be sold
alive.
THE Oldest house in New England is
said to be in Guilford, CT. It was built
in 1889.
FRANCE is country in which there
are 100000 Catholics and 1000, 900
Professionals.
LIE you do not want to be robbed of
your good name, do not have it painted
on your umbrella.
WHAT is the difference between a hill
and pill One is hard to get up, and
the other is hard to get down.
Miss TABITHA ANN HoLToN has been
admitted by the Supreme Court OF
North Carolina to practice at the bar of
that State.
IT has been remarked by DIR. Reich
enau that generally the birds which have
open nests produce colored eggs, while
those which have covered or concealed
nests lay white eggs. The color of the
eggs serves as a protective, and may pos
sibly be due to the action of the princi-
pie OF selection.
AT Coventry, VT, there is society of
religionists who believe in miracles
One of their number was seriously hurt
by falling tree, and two of the breth-
rem came every day to pray with him.
After their prayers they command
him to "arise and walk" which he tries
to do, but thus far without success.
AUSTRALIA is making rapid progress
toward something that at this distance
looks very much like absolute indepen-
dent republicanism. New South Wales
wants a man-of-war, and desires En-
gland to supply the vessel, the people
promising to pay the expenses of equip
ping and running it.
JOHN GR1FFITHs, of Girardville,
Schuyllyill county, Pa, has q wife and
daughter who for many years saved ali
the money it was possible, and finally
built block of houses in Pottsville,
which they presented to Mr.. Griffiths,
who had been kept in total ignorance OF
what they were doing, while none of his
everyday homo comforts had been de-
r MED him.
WILD beasts and venomous snakes
, make sad havoc in India, and the evil
does not decrease, although last yea1
2,357 wild animals and 27O, 1S5
) poisonous snakes were killed. Dur
: ing the current year 0S77) 81, $50 cattle
| have been destroyed by serpents and
) wild enthusiastically 1000 more thar
5 last year-and no less than 1928 per.
7 SOM. India is a terrible country,
J surely.
TT is related that once when a pub
Usher said to the late Samuel Bowles,
81 like your 'gumption' as a newspaper
man, but L don't always agree with the
1bCf/t@cC6CUH Lie tSillOI Hi
swered Oh that's all right; I don't
agree with them myself" His love O!
t extreme simplicity and detestation of all
display is illustrated in the remark made
to his family after it was apparent to
l him that his death was near at hand and
they had entered his room to take final
leave of him: "Don't let us have any
parade-now, nor hereafter"
ABRAHAM JTNCOTN
| This man, whose homely face you look upon,
r Was one of natures masterful, great men
Born with strong arms, that unfought battles won
Direct of speech and cunning with the pen
Chosen for large designs, he had the art
, OF winning with his humor and he went
Straight to his m ark, which the human heart;
/ Wise, too, for what he could not b. eak he bent
Upon his back more than Atas-load,
The burden of the conn .onwealth was laid.
he stopped, and rose up to 1t, though the road
Shot suddenly downwards, whit dismayed
place
To this dear benefactor of the racei
H. ii. St0ddard, in ScribneT for Februdry
NATHANIEL V. SIMPSON, O st. Ions
lawyer, had bad luck in business. and
, was gradually reduced from affiuence to
. straitened circumstances. On every an
| nlversary of his marriage he and his wife
, had celebrated the occasion with family
| feast; and, for the fifth year, he deter
mined that the custom should be OBJ
| served IN spite OF poverty. He set about
procuring the luxuries of the table. but
l found that be had already exhausted his
t ability to obtain money from his friends.
or credit IN the stores. Made Respondent
by this unpleasant evidence of fallen
fortunes, he put bullet through his
, heart.
| BRIDGEPORT, Conn, is taking great
! interest in a genteel tramp who stroiled
into a music store the other day in his
dirty and ragged habiliments, and per-
) formed a number of difficult compo-
) sitions in very brilliant style. According
) to his story he belongs to a titled Ger
man family, and was once Wurtemburg
Consul at Paris, where he moved in GOOD
society. He became dissipated. ran
through his property, and fled to America
and, after few weeks of fruitless efforts
to obtain employment, took to the road
to keep from starving. His manners are
those of a gentleman, and the Bridge
port people believe there is something in
his story.
MUCH alarm has been created at Mos
COW by the appearance of the Siberian
plague. One day a laundress at the
university, who was suspected of having
died from it, was subjected to a post
norton examination, with the result
that the suspicious OF the authorities
were confirmed. Since then several
other persons have succumbed to the
same malady, which is more disastrous
than either small pox or cholera, and the
police are now taking energetic meas
ures TO prevent the disease from spread