The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-02-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
COUNTRY SHAREHoLDERs-Plow
A ROARING TRADE - Keeping q me
n;agerie.
WHEN is wall like fish? When it is
scaled.
| BLOOD, they say, tells. But not Sc
| often as tongues
WHEN is young lady like a part of q
word? When she is silly belle (sylla-
ble)
CAN it be said that the man who makes
a business of raising pork for market gets
his living by his pen? -.
| IF brevity is the soul of wit, what vast
amount of fun there is in the tail of a fash
| ionable coat.
| LEAP YEAR. AN old bachelor saws
that during leap year the ladies Jump at
every offer Of marriage the name.
Tn1ID bachelors are congratulating one
another upon the close of lear. year and
their escape from the peculiar danger
| which threatened them.
MADAME DEMoREsT the celebrated
New York Modiste, learned the millinery
business at Lansingburg, N. Y, where
she was only plain and pretty Ellen
Curtiss
IT turns out now, according to French
man lately writing on the subject, that
| Napoleon lost Waterloo because he was
sleepy, and coffee would not keep him
awake during the most critical hours be-
fore and during the final struggle.
TKIs advertisement recently appeared
, IL the New York papers; "The person
ii the possession of stray Maltese cat,
with white spot on its breast will re-
ceive the prayers of heart-broken female,
and So also, by leaving the same at No.
81 Lexington avenue"
/ THE Russian student in Cornell Univer-
sity, noticing that boots were placed out
] side the doors of certain rooms at night
(the Professor's), placed his outside also,
but next morning, instead of being well
| polished, he found them filled with water.
| PROF. MARSH says: 81 know a man
who, at the age of forty, entered the Law
renee Scientific Schoola at Cambridge, Mass,
became 6. boy again among the boys, re-
newed his youth of body and mind, and
probably made far more proficiency than
he would when twenty years younger"
WHEN Horace Greeley started the Neao
! Yorker in New York, years ago, he en-
deavored to create a sensation by offering
prizes for the best poems and stories
! Lewis Gaylord Clark wss chairman of the
committee to decide these things, and
awarded the $50 to Mr.. Henry w Long
fellow, professor in Bowdoin college, for
the poem.
NOTHING is more easy the to grow
rich. 1t is only to trust nobo to be-
friend none; to get everything and save
all we get; to stint ourselves and every
body belonging 10 us; to be the friend of
no man, and have no man for our friend;
to heap interest upon interest, cent upon
cent mic h md
for some twenty or thirty years-riches
will come as sure as disease and disappoint-
ment.
THE Coos IN. HI Republican says that
Richard P. Kent's mare recently getting
loose in her stable, the door of which was
open, trotted out through the street to a
blacksmitb's shop, entering which she
trotted up to the anvil block, at which
man was at work, and held up her fore
foot. Examination showed that the nails
were loose, and they were properly fixed.
In Tif1n, Ohio, a few days since, man
visited an unoccupied Elill and entered an
old boiler that had been taken out for re-
pairs. While pegging away at its sides
with hammer and chisel to obtain speci-
mems of lime scales, it rolled and fell On
its end, closing the entrance and imprison-
ing the specimen seeker. In this unex-
pected dungeon he remained six hours
until mis- cries attracted the attention Of
some passers by.
SEVERAL weeks since Cincinnati doc
tor was called to attend sick young man
in a boarding house. Apprehensive that
the youth would die, the doctor refused to
prescribe until the proprietor of the house
agreed to pay in case the patient died.
The youth recovered, and is now at work
but unable to pay. The doctor then de-
ma cd ~ ion, 0f hn or
who said he had become surety only in
case death ensued, hence, as the man
lived, he was not responsible The indig-
nant doctor sued the boarding house keep
er and lost the suit. Next time he will be
more careful in his treatment of such
cases.
THERE is story, forgotten by all but
men who were students at certain college
near thirty years ago, of an enthusiastic
professor of entomology not celebrated
for his exercise of hospitality, who was so
delighted at the arrival of an eminent pur-
suer of insects that he invited him to
board and bed in chambers. Next morn
ing DR.. Macfy greeted his guest, "And
how did We sleep the NIGHT, Mester Bee
hemoth % "Not very well; strange
bed, perhapsl But" "Ah," quoth the
doctor, eagerly, We were just bitten by
something, eh?" sWell, to tell you the
truth, doctor, was" "Just think of that
Bitten, war ye? Now, can you say it was
any thing at all noteworthy that bit you?
Peculiar, Ell ?" "Fleas, think. But such
devils for biting I never met in my life"
I should think so, indeed" with great
glee). They're Sicilian fleas; imported
them myself"
WHEN horse drops dead in the street,
it is the duty of the policeman on the beat
to examine the carcass. If he finds life ex-
tinct, he is required to report the saine to
the roundsman as soon as he encounters
him The roundsman, having convinced
himself Of the truth of the statement, re-
ports to The Sergeant on duty when he re-
turns to the station. The Sergeant on
duty enters the fact on the blotter. The
Captain copies it from the blotter and re
ports to the Superintendent. The Superin-
tendent, through the Inspector, refers the
case to the Board Of Health. The Board
of Health, through their Secretary, COM
municate the intelligence to the Sanitary
Committee. The Sanitary Committee refer
the matter to the Bureau of Vital Statistics
The Bureau of Vital Statistics thereU.pon
issue instructions to contractor, who
keeps windlass, two men and dead
horse truck, and the contractor tanereupon
proceeds at his leisure to remove the body.
---Neao York Herald.