The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-05-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

iron.
Song of the billiard ball-"Oh, carom
me back !
Sorosis women declare they won't
wear dresses any longer.
There Is so much whisky paper"
afoat in Cincinnati that money is
tight"
A religious paper, just started out
west, locates the New Jerusalem in Oma-
ha.
Song of man going to have his tooth
drawn ''How happy [ would be with
ether
Boston Posts reading Of common
poetical quotation: ''Loath the poor In
diam"
Young women should set good exam
pies, for the young men are always fol-
lowing them.
There is no use of praising the pres
ent style of ladies' dresses, for they are
pulled enough.
Is there a word in the English lang
! uage that contains all the vowels? There
is unquestionably
An exchange says the Cleveland Plain
dealer is the best paper in Ohio. Even
the editor head is read
! Victor Emanuel has brought an action
for defamation against Vienna editor
who called him names.
The Boston reporters talk of getting
up new badge, and some one suggests
pump in active motion.
A Providence man fell dead the other
day while directing letter. A warning
against directing letters.
The cotton seed product of the Missis-
sippi Valley, if manufactured into oil,
would be worth $4O,OO0,O0O.
Cattle are dump beasts, but by get
ting themselves into large numbers they
make themselves herd.
The reason why editors have their
manners spoiled, is because they receive
so many communications.
Texas has new game in cards-one
holds revolver, the other holds the
cards. A coroner holds the inquest.
What is the difference between high
Church Episcopalian and a Baptist?
One burns wax candles and the other
dips.
The cotton crop now arriving at the
cotton ports of the South. promises to
be the largest since the famous one of
.le5e-6O.
Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps says
there is no use quarreling with woman,
the press,a railraad company or the tele-
graph.
There is an editor in New Jersey who,
in addition to his editorial labors, runs
a bank, an insurance Office and grave
yard.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton of Dover, England, by a vote of
fifteen to thirteen, has expelled Punch,
the comic paper, from its reading room.
The action has elected several ESSAYS on
the uses of wit and humor.
A Memphis coroner complains that
vagrant goat eats up his morning papers
every day, as soon as the carrier leaves
them
Germany has at present thirty-two
humorous papers, with an aggregate
circulation of two hundred and eighty
five thousand copies.
A negro woman came into our Office
the other day, saysa Kentucky paper,
and wanted US to print Cincinnati En-
| quirer for her husband.
The Chicago Republican claims, under
its present management, to have attain
ed circulation exceeded by no newspa-
| per in Chicago or the West.
The Grand Jury h as indicted the pro-
prietors of all the daily newspapers in
Cincinnati for advertising a grand
gift concert by the Milwaukee Musical
Society.
The magistrates of Savannah Ca,
have re solved that ''for the future no
information relative to business in their
courts shall be furnished to the report
ers of the daily press
The Baptist Examiner, of New Y ork,
says, their ministers are not, as rule, of
the lank and lean sort of men, but of the
fine looking and rotund order of people,
indicating good sound creed we'll lived
up to.
"You say, said Judge to witness,
''that the plaintiff resorted to an iugen-
ious use of circumstantial evidence
state just exactly what you mean by
that. y ''Well, said the witness, ''my
exact meaning is that he lied"
Doctors have begun to feel their pa
tients pulses by telegraph when hun
dreds of miles separated from them.
But that's nothing; the telegraph is
made to feel the pockets of newspapers
down to the bottom dollar at thousands
of miles away.
They have the champion type-setter
in Georgia. Here is his latest feat
THE President of the Atlanta Printers.
Union set up 6S4OOO ems in one day,
which at Savannah prices, would net
him $a4. SO.' This is certainly very as
tonishing. The only drawback is, that
everybody who knows anything about
setting type will know that the feat is an
impossible one.
The ''Devil' of a newspaper in Vale
10 Cal, recently stepped into a dry