The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-06-06
THINGS WISE AND OTHERWISE.

: The new leap-year style of popping the
question" Don't you want ms to wash
dishes for you p
Weare not to search the distant hori-
xon for beauties, while the flowers are be-
meath our feet.
1t is stated that white flowers are most
fragrant; next yellow, then red, and lastly
blue.
Smart young men, and gossipping, pert
girls, are the persons most to be dreaded
In society.
Some genius has discovered that the
northwestern boundary line of Wisconsin
reveals fair profile Of George Washing
ton
A Young man who has recently taken
wife saws he did not find it half 80 hard to
get married as he did to get the furniture.
A New Haven doctor quieted clamor-
Gus landlord by showing him skeleton,
IN chest, and saying that that man
came here just two weeks ago with bill.
A California obituary: " The deceased
wa, talented man of romantic nature.
lie placed the butt Of his gun in the fire
white he looked down the muzzle and de-
parted hence spol aneously.'
Mamma" said a precious little boy,
who. against his vii, was made to rock his
little baby brother, = if the Lord has any
more babies to give away don't you take
them =
A little boy accosted his papa last week
thus: Papa, are you growing stu :!
"No, dear; what makes you think sol?
Because the top of your head is coming
through your hair" The poor politician
is getting bald
In making calves foot jelly, take a live
calf, place his hind feet in a corn-milI, and
then commence to turn and the ielley will
will flow out in its crude state. Collect
this in a pan, and throw away the calf
An idler boosted to farmer of his an
cient family, laying much stress upon his
having decendel from an illustrous man
who lived several generations ago. SO
much the worse for you" replied the far
mer; "for we invariably find the older the
seed the poorer the crop
Two little girls were lately prattling to-
gether, and one of them said: 1--WE keep
four servants, have got six horses and lots
of carriages; now what have you got -
With quite as much pride the other
answered, "We'ye got skunk under our
barn."
An old bachelor recently gave utterance
to the following .jeu d'esprt: He was in
troduced to beautiful widow, of the same
name as himself The introduction was in
this wise: Mr.. Evans, permit me to in
troduce you to Mrs. Evans" "Mrs.
Evans p exclaimed the spirited bachelor,
the very lady | have been in search of
for the last forty years!''
A Scotch law lord was seated one day
on the hillside of Bonnally with Scotch
shepherd, and observing the sheep reposing
in whan he thought the coolest situation,
he observed to him: "John, if | were a
sheep would lie on the other side of the
HILL The shepherd answered.: cay, my
loard, but if ye had been a sheep ye would
baye had mair sense
Sheridan one day, when coming back
from shooting with an empty bag, did not
like to 90 home completely empty, anC
seeing a number of ducks in pond, and q
man or farmer leaning on a rail watching
them, said: "What will you take for &
shot at the ducks p "Well," he said, ~
will take half sovereign Ozone,
said Sheridan, and he fired into the midst
of the flock, killing dozen. I'm afraiC
you have made bad bargain, said Sheri
dan. DWELL l don't know" said the man
"they weren't mine.''
Fanny Fern says that when she sees /" &
pretty man, with an apple head and rasp
berry moustache with six hairs in it, paint
on his cheek, and little dot of goate,
on his chin, with pretty little blinkin!
studs in his shirt bosom, and little neck
tie that looks as if it would faint if it wer
rumpled, she always feels desire to nil
him with pair of sugar tongs, dropping
him gently into 4 pot of cream, and strev
rose leaves over the little remains"
An Irish woman at a loss for word
went into drug store, and, looking much
puzzled said she had come for some med
icne, but the name had slipped her mine
"intircly'' but sounded like Paddy in the
garnet.
The druggist, willing to "make sale,
tried to think what it could be, and hit
upon Paragoric.
"Indade, thin, that's it, said she, OBJ
tanning the medicine, and going away de
lighted that she had come so near the right
Tord.