The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-08-30
A Practical Joke.


On the shores of Canandaigua Lake, New
York, there is a lunatic asylum kept by DR..
Cook, who also receives many inebriates-
The Sentinel Of Freedom tells the following
as having occurred at the asylum:
One morning, three years since, Cook en-
tered the breakfast-rOom, where some con-
valescents from insanity and number Of
reforming inebriates were chatting costly
over their eggs and coffee, and told them
to be in readiness for visitors, as Teach
er Institute would be up from the town
during the morning to study the treatment
of the insane. As the doctor left the room,
an inebriate, whom we will call Smith,
said Nod >;
"Now Cook will come in here with .
long string of pedagogues and schoolm ans
behind him, and tell them we are perfectly
harmless, and that they will not see any
dangerous patients. I'll show him to tho
contrary"
Smith had been in the service of the
Northwest Fur Company, and when the
doctor came in with his teachers and made
the expected assurance of safety, Smith,
who was watching from crevice Of his
| door, dashed out of his room clad in com
plete Indian costume, face painted, hair
flying and tomahawk in hand, giving ire
mendous war whoop as he plugged at the
head man of the Institute The scene
was indescribable. The teachers went hy-
ing out of the doors and windows, Smith
chasing them through the grounds, the
poor doctor half mad at the annoyance and
half killed with laughter, and the breakfast
table party, who were in the secret, all in,
commissions of delight Explanation was
| impossible. The doctor bore his sorrows
like man the Institute passed reso-
lutions of censure and the jolly Smith re-
joiced IN the success OF his prractea!! joke,
calling it the best spree of his litetime-
But we hope nobody will 60 to an inebliate
asylum for the fun of it. sal sa e
A wedding in Arkansas, between d.
vOrced woman of thirty and youth of nine
teen, took place at the house OF the brides
former husband, who is said to have been
in the highest spirits. Revenge is sweet.
"My wife tells the truth three times
day." remarked jocose old fellow, at the
same time casting miscbievous glance at
her. Before rising in the morning she
says: oh, dear, must get up. but l
don't want to! After breakfast she adds !:
Well, suppose | must go to work, but l
don't want to ) and she goes to bed, say
ing There | have been working oil
day, and haven't done anything"
A good lady, who had two children sick
with the measles, wrote to friend Tor the
best remedy. The friend had just received
a note from another lady, inquiring the
way to make pickles. In the confusion, tho
lady who inquired about the pickles recciv-
ed the remedy for the measles, and tho
anxious mother of the sick children read
with horror the following "Scald them
! three or four times in very hot vinegar, and
sprinkle them with salt, and in few days
they will be cured" a~ ~
Mermaids are numerous in tho Kaw nv
er in Kansas. Last week party Of young
men out hunting. came suddenly across six
mermaids who were disporting themselves
in the river On the approach Of tho
young men, the beautiful creatures lit ont
for the woods, Gstering shrill cries some
what resembling the screams of frightened
school girls. What made the matter more
: singular and mysterious is the fact that the
young hunters found six waterfalls, six
hoop skirts and six various etc.'s on the
banks Of the river.
A Chicago man, who had been away from
! home for a few weeks, found on his return
that during his absence he had been d.
, vorced, that his ex-wife was remarked
that his property had been awarded to her
and that she had adopted as her child th,
young woman upon whose fabricated test
mony of adultery the divorce had been gran
ted. The matrimonial knot can be yer,
, quickly united in that enterprising city.
A man in Marion county, Iowa, wid
over with one son, married . second wife
Years afterward his son, upon reaching
5 mans estate, fell in love with and fnaraiet
.. this lady's younger sister. The resulting
relations are: The young mans father {
also his brother-in law, the nephew Of tht
son is also the nephew of the father, tht
fathers youngest children will be the young
mans nephews and halt brothers, the youn
ger mans wife is her step-mother's sister.
: That's family vine of mu!tiplex branches
surely, and the more you study it out, th,
less you know about it.
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