The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-06-15
GENERALITIES.

Ihe Chlcago hepubican compares
cheese to the pen-its mitier than the
sword.
Eagle Harbor, on Lake Superior, has
uncovered four tons of copper in one
mass.
An engine Of IS horse power is to be
used to ventilate the Capitol at Washing
| ton.
Why is the elephant the most saga
| cous of travellers? Because he never
takes his eyes off of his trunk.
The reason why editors have manners
spoiled, is because they receive so many
evil communications.
p England now permits seven per cent.
of the rank and file of the army who have
| served seven years and earned good
conduct badge to take wife.
A Michigan farmer is the proud pos
SCISSOR of a young colt with no foreegs
and only one eye, but otherwise finely
developed. 1t progresses kangaroo fash
ion
The other night as Edwin Booth, as
Richelieu, had finished the lines France
my mistress. my welded wife, who shal.
proclaim divorce 'twixt thee and me ~
deep voice from the audience answered
-"Chicago T.
The editor of a Western paper in his
Loci
longer on frewood, maple sugar and
sheep skins. We bid our patrons good
bye, and offer for sale 200 bushels seed
potatoes slightly frost bitten.
The Devil is dead. 1t was Califor-
man paper.
A poultry raiser in California owns ten
thousand hens.
Wife-beating is called ''spousal castiga-
ton in Chicago
Chicago has more than fifteen miles of
lumber wharves.
II. W. Beecher was once offered $1O,.
900 to write life of Christ.
Indianapolis is excited over the fire.
ouent disappearance of young girls.
At Hanley, England, young woman
was fined for kissing married woman.
There are over 100000, 900 paper col
lars manufactured in this country every
year.
C1ly a rough board, with his name
inscribed thereon, marks the grave of
General Albert Sydney johnson, in the
cemetery near Austin, Texas.
The statistics prove that handsome
widow has three chances of marriage to
the maidens one. Especially if the dear
departed left her million or so.
A Wisconsin editor was called out of
bed one night to receive subscription.
After that he sat up nights for over a
week. but the offense wasn't repeated.
James Sharon, the only colored man
in Mason county, Mich, was recently
elected justice of the peace in his town
ship, over democratic opponent
The last two or three steamers at San
Francisco have brought but few Chinese
an average of less than hundred
each and by departures aud deaths the
number of Chinese in America must now
be decreasing rapidly.
We once heard of newly married
man who begged somebody to spank him
with single, because he feared he was
becoming too happy. He felt some as
did those, who in March lamented that
it was too pleasant for the season, they
wanted more wind and clouds.
| In Bombay market girl who can sing
and dance well will fetch from $1,000 to
$500.
An apothecary sent in a bill to a
widow, which ran thus; ''To curing
your husband till he died -
Fargo, the expressman, is building a
house at Buffalo overlooking the lake,
which. when it is inihed, will have cost
him the modest sum of $75O,OOO,
At New York wedding reception a
young lady accidently set her back hair
on fire. When it was extinguished she
said she was glad it wash her best.
A fellow got permission to leave bag
of potatoes in a New York grocery over
night, and when the grocer went home a
| burglar got out of that bag and helped
himself to the pennies and scrip.
A girl out west is studying law and in
tends to practice. A lawyer after trying
to brighten her, at last asked her if she
was not afraid of losing her reputation
She instantly asked him if lawyers had
any reputation to lose.
The town Of Wilmot, N. H., has
family whose relationships are muddled
in the most extraordinary fashion. A
gentleman named Dickey is the father
of sixteen children, thirteen grandchildren
and three great grandchildren. His own
daughter is his sister by marriage; his
own sor is his brother in-law his moth
er-in-law is his own sister; his father-in-
law is his brother-i n-law
A rather elderly gentleman adopted
very original way Of proposing once in
church. He passed to the young lady,
the object of his passion his open prayer
| book, having marked the words in the
marriage service-"Wilt thou take this
man to be thy welded husband ?'' In
stantly she opened at another OF the
ancient canons, and handed back the
book, with this very appropos sentence
strongly underlined. s'No woman NAV
marry her grandfather.
A Yankee was walking with an Irish
man on the road to New York and think
ing to jest his companion, said to him