The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-11-21
Miscellaneous Items.

Lord and Lady Amberly are at the
Hub; and thereby creating a hubbub.
Croton water is scarce in New York,
and panic among the milkmcn is the
consequence.
Three women are to edit new paper
at Terre Haute. Of course it will be a
triwcekly.
The disease under which Thad. Ste
vens has been laboring is said to be cac-
cethes scrtbeadi.
An English town claims the nativity of
Mrs. Lincoln. Let the claim be conceded
Signor Blitz has been juggling for fifty
years. So has Thurlow Weed.
Somebody calls Wendell Phillips an
internal machine set to music.
Snobdom at Valparaiso is violently ex-
erclsed In anticipation of the arrival of
Prince Alfred i'll the frigate Galatea.
Petroleum stoves which save about
three quarters Of the fuel are being man
ufactured at Hartford.
Louisa Pyne is singing in the provincial
precints of England The provincial pre-
cincts are favored, for Louisa is sweet
singer
The democracy makes terrible howl
ing about Buffers stealing of Spoons
The trouble with them is that Ben. won t
divide.
A Mobile paper dominates Franklin
Pierce for the Presidency. Better take
an Egyptian mummy.
1t is said that Dickens don't like to
have people go out while he is reading
. MESS it is necessary. q De
Colonel Austin, of Mississippi pro-
poses to give peace to the country by en-
franchising all The whites, and re-enslav-
ing all the blacks. ...-.
Historian Pollard says Wise is an ass.
We assent. We wish we could further
say that Pollard ism one.
Earl Russell has been talking on the
education of young ladies, and expresses
great admiration for the American sys-
tenn. Q. The female system.
Kimball, the Mormon, has just buried
his first wife. 1t is to be hoped that his
ten or fifteen surviving wives will succeed
In consoling him.
Three months experience in Journal
ism cost the proprietors of the Brooklyn
Press forty thousand dollars, after which
they gave up the pastime.
Thad, Stevens is frequently alluded to
as the Great Commoner. In view of
his recent letter on finance, he should
rather be considered the Great Uncom-
moner.
If Cincinnati editors don't lie. that city
has increased l14.00O souls in seven
years Subtract this from the present
actual population and nothing is the re-
mainder. A wonderful ,deyelopment.-
Nought equals it. ts'
Richard Grant White has discovered
that Charles Reade stole the plot of his
w bite Lies, from the French of s'Au-
gusta Marquet," and Reade says that
w hite Lies when he says so.
A modest individual in the Nutmeg
State announces that his golden wedding
will eoine off just thirty years from now,
and offers liberal discount on any pres
ents his friends then desire to make him.
A Copperhead paper says to General
Grant: Get back to your tan ward in
Galena. Wait till he adds to his stock
OF raw material the skins of few more
rebels and Copperheads fayed alive in the
coming Presidential election.
A New York sheet says that the rush
to see the BLACK Crook" is as great as
ever-ln view, especially of certain new
features, which it characterizes as hits. -
Beng made with the feet, it would be
more accurate to style the new ''hits,'
kicks.
The ,penchant on the part of the ladies
tor wldowers is well illustrated by an ad
vertlsement in the London Telegraph =
"A lady OF middle age will give her ser
vices and 920 per annum In widower's
house where servant is kept Apply"
&c