The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-07
PERSONS AND THINGS.

Luz IL NlOTGOu
The New York herald sreafs Of eli
Lord Hicks a golden wedding"
THE North Carolina press advocates
the restoration of the whipping-pos,
ONE Philadelphia died taat vvear at
The age of 102 years, and another at lis
years. rr. a1E
SECRETARY EvARTs has been reelected
President of the New yotk Bar Associ.
atioa,
GEORGE CABOT WARD is the new Pres
ldent OF the Union League Club of New
York. Hfi8 IVA
CAPT. EAps is visiting the national
capital to, see about his money due for
jetty work. -
IT is very iaortarfying to our national
pride to learn that Sergt. Dat es is carry
ing hod:
DIR. PETifERMANN, the ieading geoerapbet
of the world, places Stanley foremost
among all explorers.
NUMBERS of German mechanics are
now seeking work in London, hoping to
benefit by the strike.
Ar the funeral Of Henry Meisgs. il,
Peru, 200 carriages and 20, 600 persons
made up the procession.
Rev. W. 81. Milburn, "the blind
preacher is engaged filing lecture en-
gagements in Ireland.
Now THAT the holidays are over, isn't
it time to quit accusing Gen. Butler with
having brick in his hat2
WHEN next Mr. John B. Cough makes
q lecture tour, he proposes that it shall
be through Old England
JUDGE BANCROFT DAVIS has seated
himself IN that easy chair of the United
States Court of Claims at Washington.
A CHAMPION oyster-opener in New
York has accomplished the feat Of OPEN
ing forty gallons of oysters in ten hours.
| WITHIN the three years since the Phil
| adelph1a Times was started it has had
seventeen libel suits, and won them all.
Rev. JOSEPH Cook thinks "Thana-
topsls is the earliest American poem
that will be remembered 600 years hence.
PROF. JAMES MARTIN, of Shelbyville.
Ind, has died, leaving a collection of
10, 900 beetles, the largest in the coun-
try.
PRESIDENT BAscon, of the University
OF Wisconsin, comes out emphatically in
favor OF the mixing of girls and boys in
schools.
The case of robin building its nest
on the ground is cited in the Naturalist.
1t was noted near Vineland, n. j., in
May, 1875.
IT is said that, by picking off a part
of the fruit-buds from apple trees in
bearing years, they Will yield a harvest
the following season.
STURGEON says that in this age clergy
men are not afraid to profess principles
which formerly only the most daring
atheists had the temerity to avow.
VARIETY may be the spice of life, but
advertising is the pepper and salt of a
| newspaper, and the bread and butter OF
| the advertiser. The customer gets the
cream.
DURING a recent urt-martial in Ore
| gon the evidence of Col. Culver Grover,
brother Of Senator Grover. of Oregon.
was ruled out because of his expressed
unbehef in God.
| A MISSOURI farmer found his missing
daughter in the guise OF a st. Joseph
newsboy. She had, on being reproached
with her uselessness at home, gone out
to earn her own living.
|
| about all things having their uses. Even
the young man with eyeglasses and hair
parted in the middle don't make bad
model for cigar store sign.
| "GoLD hairpns may be had now for
- dozen,' says fashion item. That's
all very nice in print, but. while this
financial business is so full of rough
shedding as at present, nearly ell the ten
der creatures will continue to pick their
teeth and button their shoes with the cid.
fashioned 10-cent kind.
The Bank of France is giving ND the
issue of notes and insists on paving in
gold, to the disgust of the public. The
reason is that the Directors find it does
not pay to issue notes on which a tax of
Il per cent. is imposed, when they can
! scarcely obtain more than this sum for
| discounts.
| COUNT DAssI has written to banker
at Austin, Texas, that he proposes to d.
vert the Italian immigration now going to
South America to Texas, and that line
| of steamships will be established be-
tween Genoa and Galveston, bringing
over immigrants and returning with cot
| ton.
| THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company
are making strong efforts to suppress
the tramp nuisance on the line of their
road. They have provided four prison
cars, which have been placed at differ
ent points on the road, and recommend
| that the local associations give such aid
| as may be in their power to the officers
OF the railroad company
MIR. MOODY, in a discourse at Hart
| ford, Conn, said that no man could ever
be saved by good works, adding ''Sup-
pose man got to heaven by his good
deeds ; there would be no living there
with him he would be always talking
about himself; he would have harp in
corner all by himself, where he would
keep singing all the time about his good
| deeds"
| A PRUDENT father in the western part
| of the city, says the Des MONIES Leg5s-
| ter, refused to purchase pair of skates
for his 14-year-old boy until the lad had
penses of funeral, in case he ventured
on too-thin ice. This was last winter.
Yesterday the youngster rendered 32I,
which he had earned by hard work and
economy since that time, with the an
nouncement "This won't get up reg
| ular sumner of planting, but. I'm not
| proud, and it will furnish a good
enough outfit for me. Where's them
skates?" He got 'em.
| The colonists of Queensland, Austria
liza, are complaining of the depredations
caused by large focks of kangaroes,
which are overrunning the settled dis
| triets IN the interior and destroying the
crops and vegetation of all kinds. The
ravages of these marsupials combined
with the havoc wrought by the rabbits,