The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-21
PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Iowa has %, 759 tradesmen.

| Jewel.
THERE are no less than 124 foreign en-
tries in the five great races of 1878 in En-
land, and among these are five American
horses.
Mr.. P. T. BARNUM calculates that he
has sold, since he began his business of
amusement, no less than $50, 200, 900
worth of tickets.
| NEWSPAPERS in Boston and in Troy
have set good example by stopping the
sale of illustrated sensational story
papers for boys.
THE amount of sugar annually con-
sumed in Great Britain is 900,0 900 tons,
being about sixty pounds for every one
of the population.
| DRAWING straws to see whether or not
they should convict man of murder
was the plan hit upon by''a Cairo Oil. }
jury, and they convicted him.
IT is DR.. Fordyce Barkers opinion
that city women are healthier and hand
somer than country women, as a result
of better food and more diversion.
| THERE were five steamers, twenty
nine ships and 1O1 other vessels built in
being rs. 3OS tons. This is an increase
over 1876 and 1876.
A NEW design of postage stamps is
soon to be announced. They are pre-
pared with inclosed borders of white
to prevent the fraudulent practice of
washing" Cancelled stamps.
The expectation of fresh meat is look
| ing up again, and, ON recent Saturday,
six steamers arrived at Liverpool with
9, 112 quarters of beef, 1, 400 sheep and
so pigs, all from the United States.
The total earnings of the. Mexican rail
road, the only railroad in Mexico, for
last year amounted to about 100000
The total operating expenses amounted
| to 81 500, 600, or about 60 per cent. of
| the gross earnings.
THE largest oyster on record in the
| United States was one taken from the
| beds in Mobile i'll 1910. It measured
three feet and one inch in length, and
twenty three and half inches in breadth
across its widest part.
THE English feed for fattening sheep
consists of cotton-seed aud turnips
| They claim that it will put on the most
| fat, is the safest feed, makes the best
mutton at a less cost, and produces the
best and strongest manure.
In 1876 seven and a-half miles of rail
road were built in Tennessee; in 1877
twenty-one and three quarters miles. Up
| to date Tennessee has l ,667 miles of rail
read. Five hundred miles are projected,
but it is question of time and money
whether they will be put in operation.
CLARA LOUISE sang in Titusville the
other night. Like the smooth, unc-
tuous trickling of the olenglnous COM
modify from hundred barrel well, SAYS
the Herald, ''were the liquid, oily notes
of the handsome, bediamonded Kellogg
to the enraptured Titusvillers.
BEECHER has been made Chaplain of
the Thirteenth New York Regiment, the
Oldest military organization in Brooklyn.
The duties embrace two sermons to the
command In the year and his appear
ance at the annual inspection and mus
ter.
FROM 1870 to 1874 the Austrian Gov
eminent realized nearly $35, 900, 600
from the public lotteries; the ticket
holders won sic, 500, 0OO In Italy the
net receipts of the Government lotteries
in three years reached $40, 500, 900, while
the sum won by the people was $40,
600, 600.
Thirty years ago J. w. Mackey left
Ireland a penniless boy. Twenty years
ago he was travelling in this country as a
p" drummer" Sixteen years ago he was
bankrupt. Now he owns some of the
richest mines on the Pacific coast. and
has yearly income estimated at Sl4,
100000.
MAN, living five miles east OF Bloom
ington, Ind, tried to swallow too big q
chunk of sirloin, and it stuck in his
esophagus. 1t was so far down that his
breathing was not seriously Interrupted;
SO he went to the city for surgical aid
A doctor pushed the obstruction down
with poker.
The Springfield Republican did not
put In any black rules when Mr.. Bowles
died. 1t is good to see that this anti
quated style of expressing grief is pass
ing away. Nothing is more horrible or
IN worse taste than newspaper with its
column rules upside down
Courier-.J0ur71aI.
A HUGE mass of metal, weighing four
or five tons, resulting from melting down
counterfeit plates and dies captured by
the detectives of the Treasury Depart
ment, has been laid as the scorner-
stone" of the foundation in the erecting
shop of the engineering department In
the Navy Yard at Washington.
A DISPATCH from tue United States
Vice Consul at Shanghai reports an ap-
palling famine in Northern China. It is
said that 5000, 900 of people are desti-
tute, and that children are daily sold in
the markets for food. This is a horrible
story. While it kindles disgust, it should
excite the pity and open the purse of the
world.
An CHUNG, a San Francisco murderer
has kicked the bucket, literally as we'll
as metaphorically. A prison-keeper
found him hanging by the neck in his
cell He had passed a cord through the
alr-holes at the back of his cell, fastened
that end, made a moose of the other end
put out the gas. and planted himself
lpon water bucket. Then he kicke
| the bucket.
In Falls county, Tex, Miss Moore
was preparing for marriage, and invited
a friend, Miss Williams, to assist her.
In rummaglng through some clothes, an
old pistol was earelessly handled by
Miss W., resulting in the shooting and
instant death of Miss Moore. She was
buried on the day that was to have been
the nuptial occasion, and the other
young lady, who was the innocent cause
| OF it, has become deranged.
England and Turkey.