The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-12-07
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An agreement without consideration
void
Signatures made with lead pencil ar
good in law.
A receipt for money paid is not legal.
conclusive.
The acts of one partner bind all tn,
others.
Contracts made on Sunday cannot BE-
enforced.
Principals are responsible for the acts
of their agents.
Long absence makes the heart grow
fonder-ofsson:e one else.
To make hens lay-tie their legs togeth
er SO they can't stand up.
Newspapers are the hardest things il
the-world to kill. The Chicago fire has
proved it.
Why is your C ambermaid immortal Z
She returns to dust every day without
dying.
The burned Chicago buildings, if set
side by side would reach one thousand
miles.
Motto for railway dircctors-Never
mind passengers it freight that makes
tie cargo.
Tiye months in this year have FIVE Sun
alays-something that does not happen
but once III half century.
You seem to walk more erect than
susual my friend. Yes. l have been
.straitened by circumstances"
Never mix your drinks is held to be
q COOL rule with topers. and is not at all
bad one for milk men to observe.
St. Louis has just ENJOYED case of
death from hydroplobia, in which the
man was never even touched by dog.
No person ever got s:ung by hornets
who kept away from where they were. 1t
is just so with bad habits
The young lady singer who thought,
she could make her voice heard by strain
ing it made a great mistake.
Il is unaccountabe that little whisky
makes man SO noisy, for it il. OF itself,
still production.
During the month Of November we
lose thirty eight minutes of daylight.
After the 24th Of December the DAYS be-
gin IN leipthpp arain
a promise should be given with eau
ton and kept with care. 1t should be
made with the heart and remembered 10y
the head
4 good drain on farm-Heavy mort
gage at ten per cent. will drain it abont
rs rapidly as anything else we know of.
Never owe any man more than you are
able to pay, and allow no man to owe you
mole than you are able 10 lose.
One who wishes the world to know
what he knows about farming, says the
hest way to raise strawberries is with
spoon.
Ii young lady yawns half dozen
times III succession, young man you may
get your hat.
: alt is said to make carpet look bright
AMI fresh it sprinkled upon il before
sweeping, and also good preservation
aga nst moths.
The road ambition travels is too narrow
for friendship, too crooked Tor loye, TOO
rugged for honesty, ald too dark for COL
science
Il wag, speaking Of blind wood-sav-
yer, says that while none ever saw him
see, thousands have seen him saw
A Maine girl whose lover had lost a
limb replied to her companions banter,
Il would not have man with two legs
they are so common.
The Spaniards say. white hands nev.
er offend. meaning thereby that ;ie
faults OF ladies should be quick ly pat
doned.
An Oregon chap says they can't fool
him on history. He doesn't believe
George three is (IlI.l had any more OPP
ties than anybody else.
Josh Billings says: Courage without,
d.seression is like ram with horns On
both en,is-he will have more fights on
hand than he can do justice to.
The quickest way for man to forgei
all Common miserics, is to wear tight
boots.
In conversation, wise man may be a
: loss to know where to begin, but foo
never knows how to stop.
1t has been the Song of the Democrat,
for year past, that the Republican par
~ wa, dead If this were true.
must have had sudden resurrection.
More than seven million feetltay bottle
are annually sold in the United s es
So many mothers are unable to nouris
their eif>pringl
Unaer the head of "IIow we Assis
the Devil, Il religious paper says: Nv
consume millions Of gallons of distiilc
spirit yearly" The editor must be max
Iag money.
When interest on debt becomes dine
pay it at the tisae, whe Their your creditc
wants Sc MT. n yer ak him to IVA
till next week" but pay it. Punctuaii,
is key to every man chest.
4 purely mechanical punster sugges
that young wnmen have adopted the ma
.cuEne exercise of boat-racing becau