The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-10
PEOPLE AND THINGS.


PEOPLE AND THINGS.
ONE of the chief hobbies of flower
lovers at present is fern cultivation.
An Otsego county On. Y. egg-dealer
recently sold stock of 80, 900 dozen in
New York.
The country population of California
is only equal to the population OF San
Francisco.
THE Mayor of jackson, Miss, gives
tramps situations on the chain gang
cleaning the streets.
THE first greenback printed is kept
under glass case at Nashville, Tenn.
It is dated March 10, 1868.
New YORK has 500, 900 horses, which,
ut an average of 1851 each, aggregate
a total value of $59, 293, 486.
HISTORY repeats itself. William
Shakespeare has been indicted at assizes
of the Midland Circuit for poaching.
Two Siamese- twin oysters were recent
ly found in the Chesapeake. They were
joined by igature running from heart
to heart.
THE highest wages paid to the train
given to engineers, and the amount is
1927 year.
FRENCH tobacco contains seven to
eight per cent. of nicotine; Virginia to-
bacco, six to seven; Maryland and Ha-
vana about ten per cent.
A COLONY of Texan emigrants is form
ing at Rutland, Vt, and an effort is
making to have it the largest colony ever
sent out from New England.
CoCULUs INDICUs, a virulent poison,
is largely imported into this coun-
try, yet it is not known to be
used in any manufacture except that
of lager.
NEVADA has law authorizing the
public whipping of wife-beaters. A
| whipping post has been tremendously
placed in front of the Court House in
Austin.
A BANGOR man has received note,
inclosing 81. so, from a man WITH a
tender conscience, as pay for a pair of
chickens worth seventy-fve cents, which
he stole when boy, fifteen years ago.
GREAT BRITAIN receives 60 per cent.
of its imported cheese from the United
States, 20 per cent. from iceland, Is
per cent from Canada, and the balance
from France, Germany, Sweden and
Belgium.
OF tobacco, Massachusetts, averages a
yield per acre of 1 $40 pounds; New
Hampshire, 1,5OO; Pennsylvania, 1, $50;
Connecticut, 1920; Wisconsin, 800:
Kentucky, $50; Maryland. 800; Virginia,
600 pounds.
The Irish rihemen have challenged
the Americans to shoot not only for the
centennial trophy next year, but also in
an Irish-American match at Paris next
year, on the same conditions as for the
centennial match
Trrrznr. ora oao in,.r4,a1o Of q political
character published in France, and the
amount of Go caution " which they have
had to deposit with the Government
represents a total of 5, 593, 311 francs,
very nearly 81, 098, $50.
ThCUGH the Turks are recurring heavy
war expenses, and the holders OF their
bonds whistle for the interest on them,
Sultan Abdul Hamid seems to have
plenty of money. At present he is hay
ing a marble staircase made at Carrara
which will cost about 81, $50, 000
A YOUNG man hired as clerk was
told by his employer that all the clerks
slept at the house, and that it was
closed punetually at 10 every night
go, don't apologize!" said the youth
/" I don't care what time it's closed. il
it's only opened early enough in the
morning"
DIR. RAVEN, of Broadstairs, England,
reports that he furnished a little CIR
with about seven inches square of new
skin upon a spot which had beer
burned. Three hundred "skin gratis ,
were used. A few were furnished by
several Sisters of Mercy, but nearly al
were taken from living pig.
| EIGHT of the twenty-five principal
English races of the past season have
been won by first favorites and the only
winner of an imp ortant race which
started at really long odds was Jongleur,
the famous French horse, against whom
33 to 1 was bet Just before the Cam.
bridgeshire. For the Derby there were
four other animals who started at shorter
odds than Silvio who won.
The Duke of Norfolk, who was lately
married to Lady Flora Hastings. gave
his bride pearl necklace once owned
and worn by Queen Mary, of Scotland.
The bridegroom is Premier Duke and
hereditary Earl Marshal of England,
and by virtue of the latter rank attend
all great court ceremonials with his Ea,l
Marshals baton. He is not only the
head of the English reerage, but the
recognized leader of the English Roman
Catholic laity. The new Duchess is a
convert to that faith.
THE excitement in England On the
subject of hydrophobia had not subsidized
at the date of the last mails. Thirteen
fatal cases thus far this year had been
registered in London; last year there
were six; in ten years preceding, an
average of two per year. The panic
there has not resolved itself, as here.
into war against the Spitz. DIR. Often
burg was successful in curing the dis
ease in a case which he treated at Mum
ster, Westphaia, by administering the
Indian arrow poison known as woorarl.
wouraIl, or curare. That powerful drug
checked the spasms, by its peculiar
| property of paralyzing temporarily all
/ muscular movements.
Two Fresh Stories Abont Mr.. Lincoln,