The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-05-23
MISCELLANEOUS HENS.

OOct6 Will SOOO Iu0idl SAoi" SooA'
Attic boy, seeing . man PROSTATE
before the door of a GROCERY, opened
the door and said to the proprietor, See
here, sir your sign has fallen down.
A Western wag remarks that he has
seen a couple of sisters who had to- be
told everything together, for they were
so much alike that they couldn' be told
apart.
"Ma," said a five year old young lady
to her mother, the other day, 'do they
make men the same as they do stock
ings?" How absurd you arc, Jane-of
course not. /" 'sThen what made you say
this morning, ma, that Major Spanker
was remarkably ,oeltk;nst MANI"
In rare old English book, containing
some legal curiosities, is the following,
which as compliment to the fair sex is
certainly very unique
Fee simple and simple fee,
And all the fees entail,
Are nothing, when compared to thee,
Thou best of fees-female -
Mrs. Nancy Roth died at New Bedford
on the oath, at the age of 81 years, She
was the widow of Francis Roth, one Of
the owners of the ship Dartmouth, cele-
brated as the vessel that brought into
Boston harbor, in 1913, the tea which so
excited the wrath of that colonial city, and
which the Fifty Mohawks," known as
the Boston tea party threw into the
salt water.
Bottger states that mourning candles
used in Germany are made by heating
paraffine with the shells of the Anacar-
dian nut, which contain black resin sol
uble in parafhne While the parafine is
liquid it is dark brown color, but on be-
coming solid it is jet black. When the
candles made of such colored parafhne
have a very thin wick, they burn without
giving off any unpleasant odor or yapor.
In Honolulu one man sued another to
recover a horse and the justice gave YER
dict for defendant. He added, however,
afterward that defendant must restore
the horse But asked the counsel
for defendant, "did I understand your
verdict as given for the defendant ?''-
Certainly, replies the astute Justice
'sThen. of course, hei is clear, is he not?'
"Oh, yes, entirely clear, but he must re-
store. the horse
Judge --, who isnow an able judge
of the Supreme Court of one of the great
States of this Union, when he first came
to the bar was very laundering speak
err On one occasion, when he was try
ing case of replevin, involving the rig hit
of property to a lot of hogs, he addressed
the Jury as follows: Gentlemen of the
Jury. there were just twenty-four hogs In
that drove; just twenty-four gentlemen /
Just twice as many as there are in that
Jury box ~
A Texas paper tells of young couple
who eloped on horseback, accompanied /
by a clergyman rho was to marry them.
The lady fatht- gave chase, and was
overtaking the party when the maiden
called Quito her clerical friend. Can t
you marry us as we run?'' The idea took
and he commenced the ritual, and just as
The brides father clutched her bridal rein
the clergyman pronounced the lovers man
and wife. The father was so pleased
With the dashing action that, as the story
goes, he gave them his blessing.
The VIcksJurg Herald says: s'There
is in the library of the Young Mems AS
ISOLATION book of over one thousand
pages, which shows the operation OF
moths to greater extent than we ever
heard of before. The book is one of the
government oalf- bound volumes, printed
n 1856. and on the outside are nine small
loles where the moths entered, and on
he other lid the same number OF holes
through which they made their exit.
The interior of the book is almost entire
Y cut or eaten up. the little insects hav-
ng passed ali the way through evidently,
It their leisure.
William Writ was once arguing case
INVOLVING some personal right, IN the
course of which he stated a very broad
egal proposition. His opponent asked
lim for his authority in laying down the
.ule, and to cite the book and page which
his precedent. Mr. Writ in his
style, turned upon his custom
er and answered: Sir, [ am not bound
to grope my way among the ruins OF an
tiauity, stumble over obsolete statu-
ties, and delve in black letter lore, in
search of principle written in living
letters upon the heart Of every man."
An anecdote of DIR. Garth is told in
with the Kit-Kat. He paid
a visit to the club, one night, but said he
must shortly go as he had fifteen patients
to attend Some good wine, however,
having been produced, Garth forgot all
about his patients until reminded of them
by Steele Hereupon the jovial author
physician said: Its no matter whether
[ see them tonight or not, for nine of
them have such bad constitutions that
all the physicians in the world can't save
them: and the other six have such good
that all the physicians In the
worl can't kill them
The English Independent tells story
to the effect that the late Rev. William
Thope, of Bristol, was SO stout that on
one occasion when about to take part III
an ordination service, 1t was found that
the pulpit was too narrow to admit him
in the ordinary way, and he had to be as
sisted over the side into his seat. He
then rose to deliver his address. 1t was
on 'vrhe Importance of Right Intro
duction into the Christian Ministry" and
he founded his discourse on the parable
in which it is declared that ''He that en-
tereth in by the door is the sheperd OF
the sheep, while he that climbeth up
some other way, the same Is thief and
a robber."
A judge who had been kept on the
bench an hour after the time for dinner.
bv the long speech OF an advocate in de
fence of criminal, getting out of ali pa
tience. said: Mr. B---.you must con
aiuGe vnur argument at once. on [ shall!
adjourn for dinner; you know that | dine
az oae clock and it Is now nearly two
LAWYER b, turning to the dignitary
on the bench. replied: "Your honor
most strikingly illustrates that deep in
sight into human nature which Shaks-
peare displayed, when he said,
The lean, laak and hungry
Judge would hang the gailt!ess.
Rather than eat his mutton cold"
EQUAL RIGHTs.-In Richmond, New