The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-06-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The DEAR DEPARTED-Venison
"STEPs UPWARD Going to bed.
: "WovEN OF MANY THREADs"-A shirt
"TALEs FROM REAL LIFE"-Chines,
"queues"
THE CHEAPEST AND LONGEST CONVEY
ANCE-A train Of thought
Now is the time to insure in the Mutua
Life, of Chicago.
The St, Louis Herald wants {" a real good
boy to make devil Of"
| OTHELLO was not LAWYER, although hs
was tawny- general of Venice.
a GENTLEMAN of Medford, Mass, is now
repairing his house, which was built %.
years ago.
FIVE hundre and twenty y-fiye thousand
six hundred I, aims leave London in the
course of one year.
A GRAVEYARD inscription in Kenne-
bunk, Me, reads thus: Poor joel his
head is level now, if it never was before. u
JAKE BL1FFKINs says: My wife's the
most poetlcal woman alive; leastWays,
she's always q 0erSe 10 me, you betl"
A WIDOW holding a policy on her de-
ceased husband in the Washington gets
the money herself. 1t cannot beraken for
his debts
"SALT' is the subject of the school
boys latest composition: "The salt is a
spice which spoils the potatoes, if you
forget to put it on"
THE Governor of the District of Colum-
bla received one thousand applications for
one hundred and thirty six offices at his
disposal in Washington.
WHENEVER a preacher haz preached a
sermon that pleazes the whole congre-
gashun, he probably has preached one that
the Lord won't inderse-BAyingS.
A CURIOUS fact about book publishing
in the kingdom of Greece is, that, of every
book published at Athens, nearly three
times as many copies are sold out of the
country as in Greece itself.
a CLEVELAND merchant lately received
a package labeled, q box Tom. Cats" 1t
took him some time to decipher the fact
that the inscription meant box of tomato
catsup"
No less than two hundred and twenty
four life insurance companies have been
wound up in Great Britain within the last
! twenty six years. This is twice as many
| as now exist there
THE landlord of tenement house in
Boston actually called on the person who
rented it, the other day, and asked him
what repairs he wanted made, and what
makes the matter stranger, the landlord
was perfectly sane
IN New York, boarding house land
,,s, ""ently claimed $15 damages against
.pa' an eX-bOarder because of
his dying in her house, ' 'iACnoDS = ihJui.
ing her business. The Jury :, s00iu "o'
grant the claim.
a YOUNG gentleman of Pittstield, Mass,
has recently involved himself in difficulty
by stealing empty bottles from the back
, them * so5J ron4P a4P4d dddhFe fhea an6f 6fasGTHIhhg sGThg
THE appearance of Mr. Darwin's book
on THE Descent Cf Man" has been fol-
lowed, the London papers say, by great
increase in the number OF visitors to the
monkey house in the Geological Gardens,
Regents Park.
A SHOEMAKER in Fond du Lac, Wis,
whose wife recently presented him with
an heir, has run a wire from his bench
and attached it to the cradle in the next
room, and, when the baby cries, the father
keeps step with his foot to the music of
the lap stone.
IT is said that the salary of President
Eliot, of Harvard College, is $4,000, and
of the chief cook of the Parker House,
$4,000. "There is nothing very alarming
in this statement" says the Boston 1rdoel-
Ter; "it only suggests that there are more
men fitted for the presidential chair of
colleges than are capable of taking charge
of the kitchen of a tirst-class hotel
MANY tenement houses in New York
are built now with stairways reaching to
the roof, so that tenants have only to open
door, instead of raising scuttle, when
| they want to visit the h0use-top. The Gu
rious triangular coverings of these stairs
are visible on many rows OF city build
! ings.
A FUNNY limb of the law had an office
next door to doctors shop. One day an
| elderly gentleman of the fogy school blum
dered into the shop. Is the doctor in ?"
Don't live here" said the lawyer, who
documents cob | thought this was his
office" Next door" Pray, sir, can
you tell me has the doctor many patients ~
mot living" The old gentleman told the
story in the vicinity, and the doctor threat
ened the lawyer with libel
AN enthusiastic lady who takes part in
| the religious exercises in the st. Louis
Central Police Stations, Sunday mornings,
told one of the parties she found there, on
a recent Sabbath, that she was glad to see
him sober once, as she could see by his
looks that he was then so and after she
had spent some little time in urging him
to reform and lead different lite, closed
her discourse on being informed that the
subject of her solicitude was minister who
had been invited TO assist in the exercises
of the day.
, A GENTLEMAN in Canada gives a history
of battle between two sWarms OF bees
recently. One swarm, he says, took fOrci
BILE possession of their neighbOrs barracks
and, as the attacked defended their right
furious fight commenced, and the battle
! ragged from AZ till Q p. M. Next morning
as the sun appeared, the battle was resum
{ ed, the marauders appearing not in gooc
,, condition, yet showing great pluck. Tht
, carnage continued without intermissloI
; till 10 a. m, when hundreds of dead bodies
: lay on the plain. At II the battle ended
when there was not one of the attackin!
, party left to tell the tale.
PROFESSOR MORSE tells an anecdote o
y his early struggles When he was II
: Washington, employing all his energies t
n obtain an appropriation from the govern
r ment TO erect line from BaIImOle u
e Washington, he had his instruments a
each end of the Capitol to demonstrate t
q the members of Congress the feasibility o
+ the plan. He says: Il talked to them, ex
# planned the working of the instrumen
K hour after hour. l gained many adher
, ents; still I saw that many were incredu
V lous, and many even secuted at the ide
: as preposterous, and pronounced my, in
9 strl1uent as the tOy of a crack Drained en-
4 thusiast. 1t was toward the close of tn
e session, and there were still about two o
: three hundred bills yet to be passed betor
they came to mine. 1t was late at nigh
e and, finally, l gave up in absolute despair
n and left the Capitol building with ss
r heart. l was bankrupt, having expende
/ all that l had on my discovery. l wake
i down the Capitol steps with exactly lift
. cents, all l had in the world, and a mol
n disconsolate individual it would have bee
If hard to find. After wakeful night
e arose in the morning to find my bill pas
" ed. and a new era in the history OF sclent
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