The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-02-23
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keep dry-Liye on Goldfish.

To keep dry-Live On Goldfish.
Dangerous associates-those who are
dressed to kill.
If you have means, live within them ;
if you have not, live without them.
The seed cane in Louisiana was SER
iously injured in December. and the
sugar crop Of 1871 will be short.
Swinging is said by the doctors to be
very good exercise for persons health
but many poor wretch has come to his
death by it.
A New York cat was so rash as to lick
the cheek of lady of improved complex
ion, and in few minutes was no more.
West Virginia law requires ministers
to give bond for 1900 before they are
authorized to perform the marriage cere-
mony.
''The prisoner has very smooth coun-
tenance." "Yes-he was ironed just
before he was brought in. That ac-
counts for it.
A man in Washington got back a stolen
coat worth SO by legal process at a cost
of $25 for lawyer fees and loss Of wages.
Imports at New York during recent
week amounted to $9,705, 764, one of the
heaviest values ever reported in single
week. The duties were nearly 50, 00O,-
900.
A Major in the Peruvian army has
constructed monumental clock in Lima,
which is said to be as wonderful as the
famous Strasburg clock.
Good whistlers are getting skarce rs
years ago they were plenty, but the de-
sire few get ritch, OF to hold offs, has
took the pucker out Of this honest and
cheerful amusement.-Josh Billings.
Mr.. "Chawls Thawmpson' recently
ran his head against young lady during
cotillion. 'sAh! excuse me, deah,"
he cried ''did it hurt, ah?' ''No,
SIR she replied, sits too soft to hurt
any thing"
In Louisville, few days ago, John
Hayden scratched his hand with bit Of
glass, and died within forty-eight hours
thereafter, erysipelas attacking the wound
and spreading into the heart.
An old lady in New jersey having
read an account of the bursting of
grindstone in manufacturing establish
ment, became terribly alarmed least the
grindstoEe in her cellar should burst and
blow the house up.
A brutal man in Marblehead Mass,
thrust his wife out of doors and broke
her leg. It was set, and in few nights
after went home, drunk again and broke
her leg again in two places.
A quaint old gentleman Of an active
stirring disposition. had man at work
in his garden who was quite the reverse.
"Jones'' said he ''did you ever see a
snail ?'' Certainly, said JONES'
''Then," said the old boy, ''you must
have met him for you never could oyer
take him.
Portland, Me-, rejoices in useful
Newfoundland dog. Let horse run away
and he Immediately siezes the bit, and by
his united strength and dead weight
stops it almost instantly, and thereby
prevents smashup, if not more serious
consequences.
In remote part of Germany farmer
recently turned up with his plow $4,000
Roman coins, of an unknown metallic
composition. They are thick and heavy
and date back to Marc Anthony, Hadrian
and Commodus. The heads are finely
done and the Inscriptions unusually plain.
The Kenosha wis Telegraph tells of
a woman in that city who placed a pocket
book containing $50 in the parlor stove
for safe keeping. While absent from
home, her husband built fire in said
parlor stove, and said pncket-book and
contents are not.
In Chihauhau. Mexico, gold field
Hormigas, twenty leagues from the cap
itaI. The discoverer gathered twenty
ounces Of gold in one day. People are
hocking there in masses, it is said, and
all are doing WELL Farm laborers are
abandoning their work.
Boston apothecaries are moving for
law declaring in effect that no person
shall be allowed to engage in the retail
drug business unless he have diploma
from a regular college of pharmacy. or
has passed satisfactory examination
before an examining board. after serving
regular apprenticeship of four years in
a dispensary.
The Portland (Me.l Company have
completed a mamoth fog-whistle for the
Lighthouse Department 1t is the larg-
est whistle ever manufactured in the
United States, aud, probably, in the
world. 1t is an 19-inch whistle, weighs
some $50 pounds, and will require a
steam boiler of 50-horse power to furnish
the steam to blow it.
The young man who will distance his
competitors, is he who masters his bust
ness, who preserves his integrity, who
lives clearly and purely, who devotes his
leisure to the acquision Of knowledge.
who never gets in debt. who gains friends
by deserving them, and who saves his
spare money.
Worcester, Mass, has milk vender
who occupies room fitted up with a
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