The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-01-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

NEW kind of backgammon-The pam
nier.
| MAzzINI expects to live until the ere
public of the United States of Europe" is
proclaimed. sd
THE Boston 4dc6rtiSer says philanthro-
pists generally approve of the new plan of
! dosing with chloroform criminals about to
be executed.
THE crowd is so great at Dr. John Halls
church in New York, every Sunday, that
| pew holders have to hang out tickets
| bearing the word Taken" like those at
| the theatre.
AT the Romish Church at StradbIoke,
England, a few Sundays ago, an enter
prising youth forbade the publication of
the banns of his mothers second mar
rage on the ground that she was too old.
81 MEANT to have told you of that
hole, said gentleman to his friend who
was walking with him in his garden, and
stumbled into pit full of water. mo
matter" said the friend, blowing the
mud and water out of his mouth, 1--WE
found it.3
A SOUTH CAROLINA editor, who con-
fesses himself bachelor, congratulates his
brethren of the celbate state on the
close of leap year, and their escape from
the peculiar danger which threatens such
Wretches during that period.
ONE of the New Haven pastors lately
received letter through the Post Office,
desiring him to prepare q lecture on tenn
perance. "For," the writer asserted, al
am an excellent extemporaneous speaker
if have my lecture written for me-
GENERAL PRM's Christmas present
from a certain royalist was magnificent
box, with silver key attached. Being
opened by his wife during grand recep-
ton, it was found to contain miniature
gallows, with an effigy of the General, re-
markably well executed, pendant.
A PHILADELPHIA surgeon, who was on
his way to perform an operation on a
patient, had his carriage robbed and lost
his surgical instruments while making a
temporary stop, whereby" adds the re-
porter, "the operation was prevented and
the patients life saved"
A MAN in East Hartford, Conn, dislked
the order of the authorities to have fine
tree in front of his premises cut down. He
couldn't resist, of course, but he drove
spikes into the trees trunk from the ground
upward six feet, so that the axmen had to
give it up as bad job.
CALIFoRNIANs do not seem to appreciate
velocipedes. One of them says: ''How
would man who has felt bis blood stirred
by ten-mile dash in California saddle
feel on finding himself trundling through
the streets like school boy? We would
as soon think of riding a broom handle or
rocking hobby horse"
A ROCKY MOUNTAIN paper publishes an
obituary Of "Jim," Chief Of the WashOe
Indians 1t SAYS that he was good,
though very dirty, red man. He possessed
a welLbalanced head of hair, and stomach
enough for all he could get to eat. His
regard for the truth was notable-he never
meddled with it. He left no will, and mis-
estate consisted of pair of boots"
ARCHBISHOP SPAULDINe, of Baltimore,
has issued an order foTbidding the indis-
criminate attendance of persons in the
churches to witness marriage ceremonies,
and hereafter no one will attend except
ing by card of invitation from the parties
interested. This is deemed necessary on
account Of the levity and improper con-
duct of curiosity seekers On recent occa-
sions.
| A CANARY bird in Rochester, N. Y, has
| been taught to sing yankee Doodle"
Though occasionally interrupted in his
strains by few notes of his native music,
vet he shows his patriotism by falling
| back on " Yankee Doodle" which he pre-
fers. His performance is so exact that
one in another room. nearing it. would at
| once recognize Inc luile, dNO suppose tUSt
some one was whistling it.
! HORACE MANN used to tell story of
conversation he once had with an inmate
of the lunatic asylum at Worcester,
Mass, whose peculiar mania resulted from
an inordinate dc alopment of the bump of
self esteem. "W lat's the news? Has
anything unusual happened Of late, sir 2"
inquired he, with a consequential ar.
| MI M hannening to racOllect thet q furl-
| Gus storm had occurred a few DAYS previ-
GUS, gave him some account of it, men
tioning that on the ea-coast it was very
severe, several vessels having been Driven
ashore and wrecked, with the loss OF many
lives "Can you remember. sir, what
night night in the week all that happened ?"
eagerly inquired the listener Mr. Mann Mann
said he believed it was the night OF tues e.
day "Ahr' said the lunatic, with an az
of solemnity, mingled with tri mph, and
lowering his voice to whisper. 81 can