The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-03-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The g Household Wordsn IN man,
households were better left unspoken
What bus" has found room for tn,
greater number of peorle2 Columbus
Here's to internal improvements,
as Dobbs said when he swallowed a dos
of salts.
! A country paper speaks of a man VII,
died without the aid Of physician. )
Such instances are very rare.
A person asked an Irishman why ht
wore his stockings wrong side outward
Because said he, there's hole OF
Il other side. -
| A thief was lately caught breaking in
to a song. He had already got through
| the first two bars, when policeman came
up and hit him with a staye.lA &
A Missouri farmer being asked if rails
ing hemp was good business, answered:
can sartln cay; but it's surely better
than being I; ! ID by it. y
1t is well 20 leave something for those
who come after Us. as the gentleman
said who threw barrel in the way Of a
constable who was chasing him.
''Do you think that raw oysters are
healthy. asked lady of her physician.
Yes, he replied, never knew one to com
plain Of being out of health i'll my life. y
A wounded Irishman wrote home from
the hospital, and finished up by saying
/ m for this country. I've bleG for it
and L shall soon be able to say l we died
for it. y
A counse. being questioned by Judge
TO know for whom he was concerned. y
replied, 4 am concerned, my lord, for
the plaintiff, but [ am employed by the
defendant. 7aiH
AtsMorrisville is an epitaph on one
Sam Mclaughlin nsortaus, with the adj
denda:s ''If all the leading politicians
and priests go to heaven, want to get
off at some other station
In an advertisement for young gent
leman who left his parents, it Is stated
that ''if Master Jacky will return to his
discon,olate parents, he shall not be sent
to school, and he shall sweeten his own
tea
An Irish gentleman thus accounts for
the fact of his countrymen making so
many bulls II cannot tell if it is not the
effect of climate. | fancy. i, an English
man was born In Ireland, be would make
just as many. 'H
well, wasn't that finished sermon
we had this morning." asked one person
of another, as they came oat of church
Finished, was the reply, yes, it was
finished at last, although | began to think
it never would be-
''Shall ladies have votes, asked stump
speaker. Certainly replied d strong
minded woman in the audience. ''Is
woman made only to sew on buttons?
And if she is, it is against the law of ma
ture to turn away the needle from the
poll. y
Near Cleveland lives a hale and hearty
man, whose wife says he is possessed of
the most sensitive feelings, and In proof
Of which she states that when she goes
into the yard and saws wood for half a
day. he sits by the FIRE with tears in his
eyes.
A friend of our lives next door to a not
over thriving undertaken One day our
friend young son rushed into the parlor
in a state Of wild excitement exclaiming:
50, father, somebody Is dead for sure
because the undertakers children are eat
ing candy -
Why, Mary, my dear, how is this, I
find you sitting here so comfortably with
your husband: you told me this morning
you had QuarreEed. and he had gone for
a sailor p Il father! [ told you moth
ing Of the kind . ''Uh, nonsense I am
sure you said you had some words to-
gether. Yes, father, and so we lad.
He asked me what time it was ] said
didn' know: and so he left the house.
saying lie loas 925ag 10 see! That al |
told you.
i Bostonian has scientific working
model of a machine for composing types,
which IS said to eclipse all its rivals.
4 very small pen and ink sketch by
Raphael was recently purchased at sale
in England for the British Museum at
six hundred pounds.
IF the world were erumbled to the fin
est dust, and scattered through the uni
verse, there would not be an atom of the
dust for each star.
Mr. Balm has obtained clear subna-
rine photograms at a depth Of 500 feet
in his diving studio, by means of the
electric light thrown through 1yater-tight
lens windows upon the objects to be pho
tographed. The value Of this invention
in submarine surveying is obvious.
The latest application Of Bessemer
steel IS the substitution Of much lighter
and slenderer tubes of steel for the
wrought iron masts which had already
been applied to some extent in the Brit
ISL navy in place of Sticks The new
mast is strengthened by transverse longi-
tudiual plates.
VI. Boisson has introduced a method OF
treating superficial wounds by q jet OF air
from the common bellows, Immediately
forming a dried film over The exposed
flesh, beneath which healing is greatly
facilitated and other obvious advantages
secured. Burns which have removed the
skin may be treated adSantageously in
this way,
The elevation Of the surface of Lake
Superior above the sea is about six humid
red feet, that of the upper lakes 57S #. :,
yet their great depth places their beds
except that Of Lake Erie, below the sur
face of the ocean. These immense re
sorvoirs, Lake Ontario included, contaAs
nearly one-half Of the known fresh water
on the globe.
1t has been suggested that the interior
and exterior parts Of complex objects
such as an instrument or a bodily organ,
may be represented in their positions, by
first photographing the exterior part, and
before the image has been strongly inn
pressed, substituting upon the camera
he inner nart The later VII annear in