The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-07-24
MISCALAEN EOUS.


Weight for the wagon, sang the fat
lady.
Spots on the sun-Freckles on your
boys face
A woman who tells fortunes from a
tea cup is a sauceress.
Captain Jack is said tc have asked to
be tried by jury of Indians.
People who are always trying some
thing new, had better try neuralgia.
The dressing gown is the most lasting
of all garments it is seldom worn out
A Kentucky man has named his six
teenth child, recently born to him,
Omega, hoping it will be the last.
What vas the proverb that King Lear
heard from the lips of his two daughter?
Go father and fare worse
Wher are the men of '76?" shouted |
stump orator. Dead" responded
sad looking man in the middle aisle.
The success of the balloon experiment,
now on the carpet, will prove whether
or not it is Wise to cross the Atlantic.
A Japanese paper thinks that the
paper manufacturers of that country will
soon be able to supply the American
market.
A Scranton household is enjoying an
era of peace. The lady of the house put
her tongue to a fat iron to see if it was
| hot
When Shakespeare mother wished
him to confess theft, what distinguish
ed character did she hold up before him?
William Tell.
Mrs. j. A. Dunniway wants to be
Mayor of Portland. Oregon. She says
it is high time the prejudices of the past
were Dunniway with.
l. is stated that the ''late John Car
penter, of Marquette, Mich, knocked
the ashes out of his pipe on the head of
a key of blasting powder.
The London papers not having any
revolutionary heroes to fall back on, are
hunting out old soldiers who fought with
Sir John Moore off Corunna.
The old gentleman who put his postal
card in stamped envelope, is matched
by an Omaha man who has his money
orders sent by registered letters.
1t is remarkable fact that the mo-
ment woman writes a letter she is fran
tic to put it in the post-offiee, although
she may have been putting off the writing
for six months.
In recent article on fair in his To-
cality, the editor of Western paper
says, brother editor took valuable
premium, but an unkind policeman made
him put it right back where he took it
from.
1t is suggested that persons who 60
about with the Cashmere shawls turned
inside out to show that they are genuine,
should adopt the custom of walking on
their heads, to show that their boots ere
soed.
Boston ladies put on clean stockings
when they have their photographs taken.
A philosopher is trying to study out the
reason. But the most interesting point
OF inquiry is, how did the reporter learn
the fact?
The ST. Louis Journal is going to pub
lish list of itemizers who give credit
when they clip anything, and will entitle
it ''The Laurel Wreath % s'The String
of Pearls ''The Chieftest Among Ten
Thousand, P" or something of the kind.
| A Portland man, caught fishing for
trought on another mans land the other
day, completely silenced the owner, who
demonstrated, with the majectic answer,
ssWho wants to catch your trout I am
only trying to drown this worm %
An erudite insurance agent sent the fol-
lowing dispatch to Western Office just
after the Boston fire ''Our companies
all sound as a nut. Loss will not exceed
$4,000 Advance rates 25 per cent
and go ahead. Our motto is still Soc ct
tn en-.
''Cannot something be done to prevent
young ladies from being insulted on our
streets at night" asks cincinnati paper.
There can. Just have the girls mother
| 4,,o I, Il, oh ir1,t
o'clock in the evening and lock the door
on her.
A young man in Peoria sought to Sc
cure his sweetheart by strategy; SO he
| took her out for boat ride and threaten
end to jump overheard into the lake if
she wouldn't marry him. 1t did not
work. She offered to bet him dollar
that he daren't dive in.
A woman never realizes her necessities
| till she attends an auction sale. They
| tell of woman in Baltimore who has
provided herself with two hundred pairs
of stockings, wooden and cotton. She is
evidently intending to organizing hose
company somewhere.
Among the replies to an advertisement
of music committee for candidate
for organists, music teacher, &C.,
a vacancy having occurred by the re-
signation of the organist in Office, was
the following: Gentlemen, noticed
your advertisement for an organist and
music teacher, either lady or gentleman;
having been both for several years, L
offer you my services. %
AS YOU Go.
If you cannot pay on the spot for what