The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-09-05


trunk, said to me: Gas you have moth
ing, sir. will you be kind enough to take
that bundle and fishing tackle in the cor
ner? Never mind my wife. She'll take
care of herself
| did not pause | hurried down the
hall. was convinced that Mr. S was
brute, and his wife "a suffering saint.
L leave tomorrow by the early train
io:' New York, where domestic diseords
and municipal dishonesty are unknown.
The Prosecutions Of the Quaker City.
Mark Twain, one of the best Anne
rican huDorists, is one of the excursion
lists to the Holy Land in the Quaker City
That vessel having been ordered into
quarantine at Naples, Mark protests in
the following letter, published in the
Naples Observer Of Aug. 3D.:
HARBoR OF NAPLES, August ID. 1867.
MIR. Editor i must mildly. but firm
ly, protest against the guaranteeing of
our excursion vessel, the Quaker City. in
the harbof of Naples. You need not be
afraid of catching the cholera from us.
We have been fumigated not once only
but several tinas-at the lake OF Como,
at Lccco, and most Internally at Venice.
We have been fumi gated until we smell
Of all the vile stenches that can be COM
pounded or imagined Each and every
passenger has acquired distinct and IN
ctividnal odor, and made it his own, and
yoa can recognize any one OF them by it
III The dark as fai a. you can smell him.
Now there is no possible danger cf US
W az not .e:noli like anything on earth,
or like anything le4. .,,ier r'acc except
1t be perdltlon Itself. Therefore wing L
.et us go at large? Your neople can east
" tell when any or us are aronnd, if we
get 10 Wlndwafd OF them, and save them
selves 10y fight. You need not be afraid
they viii take other smells for ours They
may Imagine they smell us sometimes,
when they do not, but Whenever they do
smell Us IN reality they will not be in
doubt any more. Now. do not leave us
here to waste our sweetness on the de-
sert ar, but set US at large IN your mag
nlicent city, and let Us give a pleasing
variety TO the fragrance that dweils in its
atmosphere. Do it. We can make YOU
sing Eiash from the TombS. You
wUtld think we were right from there.
But seriously now. it is Il great hardship
to DE cooped up here day after day. when
we have done no harm. Honestly, we
have not brought any cholera with US
from Leghorn. They would not have let
us take it out Of the country without
paying duty on it. You know that your
self. If we had any cholera with us we
would nave given 1t to the people at Ci-
vita Veccha. We wanted to give them
something for lnf1icting such hot weather
on us, but we had not any cholera or any
m b.,,- E,, l-1f,-
and SO they had to go without, which
was sharleiuL
They never interfered with us at Fayal
lAzore islands, nor at Gibraltar. Mar
settles, Genoa OF Legh0rn-except at the
latter place they took Us for :, pratical
revolutionary expedition of some sort or
other, with designs against the Govern
ment, and therefore sent gun-boat to
watch us day and night-but here you
have gone and done thing which will
give us reputation for ped,iIng cholera
around the world. and We may never get
rid of it. We want to go to Athens,
Gonstantlnoplc, Ti.ebcs, the Pyramids
and the Holy Land, and we want to 90
with a good name. Now can we 90 ut
all II the people IN these countries gather
tie impression that we are a gigantic ex
terminating expedition, whose mission it
Is to Kill all we can with cholera, and fin
ish the rest with stencil so atrocious
that only such as are educated to it can
hope to smell and survive.
Come let Us out OF this, and behold
we will bless YOU
L am. yours oht'ly,
MARK TWAIN.
L. S.-lf you cannot let US out [ wish
you would at least suspend the rule that
prohibits profanity here Let us have
some little comfort any how.
To PURIFY A SINK. In hot weather,
it is almost impossible to prevent sinks
becoming foul, unless some chemical
preparation is used. One pound of cop
peras dissolved in four gallons of water,
poured over sink three or four times,
will completely destroy the offensive
odor. As a disinfecting agent to scatter
around premises affected with any I'M
pleasant odor, nothing is better than a
mixture of four parts dry ground plaster
OF Paris to one part of fine charcoal, by
weight All sorts Of glass vessels and
other utensils may be etfectual.y purified
fron offensive smells by rinsing them
with charcoal powder, after the grosser
impurities have been secured off with
sand and soap.
Thomas Mast, the wonderful car
toonist, whose. political designs in Har-
per $ have been so popular. and Nasty,
d. r. Locke. are about - publish an IL
Illustrated politician journal together. Mast
is also preparing a political panorams for
the Presidential campaign, to which Mas
by is to lecture There is fun ahead. -
They are preparing Lives of distinguish
ed Americans" efwhieh eff. Davis is to
be first.