The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-04-04
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

of at least $50, 200.
AT Cairo the Khedive placed palace
at Gen. Grants disposal, and accompanied
him to the pyramids.
For the. term Turkey in Europe. I"
that of "Russia in Turkey" will soon
have to be substituted.
MARRIAGE is becoming fashionable
among Catholic priests of Germany, the
civil law protecting them.
GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON has built
up large and profitable insurance bust
ness in the South, with his headquarters
at Atlanta.
GARIBALDI, SO far from lying dying at
Caprera, is preparing to visit Paris dur
ing the Exposition, when he will be the
guest of Hugo.
No LESS than 247 Indians have bitten
the dust in frontier wars during the last
year. And each bite cost the United
States $11, 1924
ILLINOIS and Iowa beef is the best in
the world. Johnny Bull SO decides, and
he is the best judge. It lis tender, sweet
and nutritious.
THE value of the exports of fish and
fish product from Canada in 1877 was
took 81 ,225, 275 worth.
DAVID DAVIS wears hat as large as a
circus tent, and yet he is the only man
In the Senate whose name appears in
small caps in the almanacs.
WANTED-To know why the winters of
1898, 1908, 1918, 1928, 1888, 184S. 1853.
1868 and 1878 should have been as the "
have been-unusually mild?
The Free Thinkers of Chicago pro-
poses to build a vast temple to free
thought, in which discor rises are to be
delivered by Bob Ingersoll and others.
THERE were 1854 miles of railroad
built in this country last year, of which
Texas has over one-third. She has now
more roads in process of construction
than all the rest of the United States.
NEARLY all our native rice comes from
South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana,
the former State supplying one-half the
entire product of the country, and
Georgia going 100000 pounds ahead
OF Louisiana.
That Georgia Major says that Nor
rissey has {" the face of a Mephistophe-
les" John wishes to reply through the
Graphic, as follows: ri don't know
'zactly what that means, but remem-
Der that 1 hit him with Me-phist ophel-
esy." That is 8, diabolical pun, by the
way.-Graphdc.
AFTER lapse of seventy years the
behring's have returned en- masse to the
shores of Sweden, and the fisheries are
now IN their glory again, to the great re-
lief OF the country. The last disappear
ance was in 1908. and, according to ira
d1tlon, they should be plentiful for sixty
or eighty years to come.
JOHN DAMON and Sue Mers were over.
taken by the girls irate parent while
they were clipping from Aberdeen, KY.
and the old gentleman ordered the youth
to be gone. Damon refused, and was
knocked down. He arose. and sent two
pistol bullets whizzing at the head of
his prospective father-in-law, who beat
hasty retreat. The pair went on, and
were married.
The widest excitement prevails
among some of the citizens of Trigg
county, KY, over the apprehension of
the immediate coming OF the dav of
Judgment. Many of them have aban-
doned all business, have turned their
stock loose to range through the woods.
and, cutting themselves loose from the
contemplation of all earthly affairs, they
go from house to house singing and
praying for the eventful day.
A FIGHT between dog and wild cat
took place at Charleston, S. c., the
other day. The cat was a ferocious
specimen, and the dog was a yearling of
the Mcguire breed The encounter was
terrific, the cat tearing the dog fearfully
at first. The dog was game, however,
and kept up under the fearful punish
ment, and finished Grimalkin in about
fifteen minutes.
The New York Euening Post saws.
aptly "One of the chief mistakes of
advertisers is in trusting to journals which
are printed, not with the view of obtain
ing the largest and most desirable class
OF readers, and thus becoming a prac
tical means of disseminating informa-
ton, but to journals whose main object
is to secure advertisements, and which
trust to them and not to their suoscrip-
ton list for support"