The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-06-02
CLIPPINGS.

"A farmer gathers what he sows, while |
seamstress sews what she gathers.
Every year, it is estimated that
about 10000 people die in India from
snake bites.
Stockton, CAL, has century plant
about to bloom, and it is already visited
by thousands daily.
Learn to rebuke and silence the de-
tracing tongue by refusing to hear. Never
make your ear the grave of another S
good name.
The Christians observe Sunday, the
Greeks Monday, the Persians Tuesday,
the Assyrians Wednesday, the Turks
Friday, and the Jews Saturday.
q say, Bill, Jem's got ten years
penal servitude for stealing horse.
Served him right; why didn't he buy
one and not pay for it, like any other
gentleman?'
-Diogenes being asked, "The biting
| Of which beast is the most dangerous %
answered.. 1T you mean wild beasts,
| tbs the slanderer's; if tame ones, the
| fatterer S. !"
"A dentist trying in vain to extract
decayed tooth from lady's month gave
up the task with this apology, 1.-The fact
is, madam, it is impossible for anything
bad to come from your mouth.
In recent speech of Mr.. Kelley, in
Congress, he called Col. Grosvenor, of
the Missouri Democrat, a liar. 1t is
about 500 miles from Washington to ST.
Louis, SO it was safe to say it.-Detron
Tribune.
There's a moral taught by the fol-
lowing conversation, which needs to be
learned by many fathers. Said a little
four-year old: Mother, father wont
be in heaven with US, will hep ''Why,
my child p Because he can't leave the
store.
-"If [ put my money in the savings
bank, when can [ get it out again?'' ask
ed a newly arrived.
| Och" said his friend. "sure an if
you put it in to day, you can draw it out
again tomorrow, by giving fortnight
notice.
A quarrel on the BouIevards, termi-
mated thus, one day recently, to the
amusement of the spectators "Monsie ur
you shall give me satisfaction. Reply
| (amid a peal OF laughter: Monsieur, I
cannot; | am member of the Society
| for Protecting Animals.
Sir VIM. B being at parish
meeting, made some proposals, which
were objected to by farmer. Highly
earaged, Sir says he to the farmer,
do you know, sir, that | have been at
two universities, and at two colleges in
each university p We'll, SIR said the
farmer, what of that had calf that
sucked two COWS, and the observation [
made was, the more he sucked the greater
calf he grew
-"Why,' said Miss Anna Dickinson
on one occasion, stepping forward to the
footlghts, and commencing lecture with
lofty flight Of eloquence, why was L
born % She paused, and a thrill ran
through the audience. Again the rich
tones of the winsome woman rolled the
question: ''Wny was | born? And
again she paused, that due impress
sion might be made upon her hearers,
| before she answered her own question.
why was [ born?" she asked once
more, in touching and almost painful &C
cents, when wicked boy in the gallery
shouted: Il give it up!
Aunt Judy pious old colored wo-
men, is said to have expressed herself as
follows with reference to the vociferous
habit Of certain persons at camp meet
ing" '"Taint the rale grace. honey !;
'Taint the shure glory. You hollers too
loud. When you gifts de Dove in your
heart, and de Lamb in your bosom, you ii
feel as if you was in dat stable, and dc
blessed Virgin had lent you de sleeping
baby to hold ;" Mothers, and indeed all
who have held sleeping baby, will be
quite sure to say that few sermons ever
contain anything so exquisite as the last
sentence quoted above.
"A gentleman who has tired it and is
willing to swear that it is just as he says,
informs US that the best hy-killer in the
world, is tumbler of whisky, sugar and
water They will gather about in swarms,
drink it greedily, get drunk instantly,
! tumble IN head over heels Immediately,
and die In iify. Our informant tells US
that this will kill the pests ten times
quicker than the lightning fly killer, and
ten times more than the old fashioned
trap of molasses and water. Itwont cost
much to try it, and there's lots of flies to
experiment on.-E!cchange.
A Boston paper has the following
'tAmong the compensations of disasters
Is the manner in which they bring out
/ traits of courage and disinterestedness
/ On Saturday two accidents occured-the
first on Connecticut river and the second
on Rutland train. In one case a jam
med brakeman, haging by the knob of
a car door, said to brother brakeman
who came to his assistance dick, If
any one else is hurt worse than | am,
help him first. In the other case the
first words of severly injured engineer,
were; Are any Of the passengers hurt F."
At Sherman, on the line of the Pa
cific Railroad, is the highest railway
point in the world, being s, $40 feet above
the level of the sea. 1t is up grade of
90 feet to the mile, Like other desert
stations. it has windmill some twenty
feet in diameter, which pumps water up
from a spring into high tank beside the
track. The tank holds $4,000 gallons;
the pump will fill lit in tan hours When
it is full, the water lifts little float;
that pulls wire; the wire shuts up the
sails of the windmill, dozen yards away,
and it instantly stops. When the tank
gets nearly empty, the action Of another
float opens the sails, and the windmill
starts again. The cost of the ingenious
apparatus all set up is about $4,000.
James Bell was convicted, in Phila-
delphia, few days ago, on charge of
larceny of some tools. He was addicted
to the use of liquor, and to raise funds
to procure scme, he took the tools given