The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-05-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
! CHARACTERISTIC. A few days since a
small fine looking bright boy came into
the cars and took seat. Shortly after,
a minister came In and took the seat be-
fore and facing him, when the following
conversation ensued:
'Weil my little lad, what is your
name?'
My name is James Foot, what is
yours % .7e -t-.sra-
civilian Hand" was the answer
Where are you going?' asked the min
lister. q
TO Rome, sir. and where are you go
ing?' was the response of the boy.
The minister could do no less than
answer, to Camden. How old are
you? was the next question OF the minis
ter.
Eight years, replied the boy. How
Old are you sir?
The minister hesitated but gave an
answer
Are you alone?, was the next question
O the minister.
Oh, no, said the boy, pointing to the
passengers, [ have plenty OF company,
But have you no friends on board to
look after you'll asked the minister.
No, sir, said the boy, have you ?''
This was not answered, but followed by
a little history
When [ was little boy? said the min
lister, my parents would not allow me to
go of the farm alone.
At this the boy, with an understandable
look, said, it is different now.
A modest young lady, who was pas
senger on board a packet-ship, it is said,
sprang out Of her berth and jumped
overheard, on hearing the captain, during
IA storm, order the mate to haul down the
sheets.
\ remarkable being has just died IN
Page County, Va. Though upwards of
thirty years old, he was a mere babe i!
size. never left his cradle except when he
was assisted, received his food from a
spoon, and was unable to articuiate.
The following is a monthly enumera-
ton Of losses by fires in the United
States since January i, 1851 January,
S4,043, 900; February, 81 ,405. 900; March
$2,960,G00; April, $5,000,oUU; total,
$I4, los. 600.
An Australian paper records that in
eight years the progeny OF fourteen rab-
bits was IL. 253. a notable EXAMPLE OF
the way ia which that animal Increases
and multiplies on a favorable soil.
A BOYS FIRST CoNPosITIoN.-The
'Terre Haute Ind. -1todm gives the for
| lowing essay on The Ok" from one of
its young contributors, jus, as 1t came
| from his pen. 1t is so natural and spon-
| taneous. that we doubt if Shillabar Or
Josh Billings could equal it In genuine
/ humor
| Oxen is very slow animal they are
good to brake ground up. Iwood drather
| have horses if they didn't have kolick,
| which they say is wind collected in a
| bunch, which makes it dangerser for to
| keep horses than an OK If there were
no houses people wood have to wheai
/ thare wood on a whealbarrow. it wood
/ take them to or three days to wheat a
cord mile Cows is useful to. have
! herd sumo savsthat = the ka1 e Is
totller or an OK they wood be a COW. But
think when it cum to have thare tits
pulled of cold mornin thay wood wish
thay WASH t-for oxen don't generally
have 20 raise caves, If he'd to be emmy,
| i wood drather be a heffur. But II ]
coodent be he!fiur and he'd to be both
wood be an OK.
The New York Times says: we
have from a correspondent at frankfort
Germany, a sparkling account OF mar
riage in that city of VIM. Cornell Jewett
(better known as Colorado Jewett) tC
Charlotte Berna, daughter of Anthony
Berna. ESQ. 'one of the wealthleSt Anne
ricans resident in Frankfort at present
An insurance agent, urging a either
to get his life insured. said ''Get- YOU
life insured for ten thousand dollars, ano
then if you die next week the widder
heart will sing for joy.
A gentleman who had built small
house in aequestered part of his ground
for his private study showed it to a frlent
remarkine Here | sit reading from
morning till night and nobody q bit TIL
wiser.
A folorn cuss of the male persuasion
| gets of the following poetlcal eitusion :
when Salile arms her dog lmpr,son
, | I always wish my neck was hisen; ho'
often would stop and turn, to get pa
from hand like hern aud when sh
kisses Towser nose, . don't L wish tina
| ! were those.
AJ;ur a s;ri thinks She can DO nothin
without husband and when she set
ose ind She can 10 nothing with nm
e Aaag says that in iourneying latel
(, he was put INTO az omnibus with doze
p persons, Of whom he did not Know
single one Turning a corner shortly al
ter, however. the omnibus was upset
y And then said he, Il found them a
out.
= An automatic scale faucet has been il
. troduced, which measures the iiqui
drawn with perfect accuracy as it run
: out, cutting it off at the required pom
! Barston & Chiids, who now manufaetul
" the article at Utica, \. Y, are maxim
. arrangements to start a brach factory
s New England.
1t SINGER SEWING MACHINES. ne