The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-02-13
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lively rate in Southern Kansas.
Many hands are employed in printing,
but we have seen foot print.
Do not run for Office if you would not
lose your character as gentleman.
Wisconsin ranks as the fourth State in
the number of Indians within its bounda-
ries.
Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, are
seeking admission as states into the
Union.
1t is sure sign of an early spring to
see cat intently watching small hole
in the wall.
A young lady who thought she could
make her voice clear by straining, it made
great mistake.
Several States are now making efforts
to have two-thirds of the jury's opinion
constitute the verdict.
A tender hearted Chicago bus driver
says he hates to run over man. he thinks
it hurts the springs.
A shrewd old lady compares her hus-
band to tallow candle-he always sput-
tiers and smokes when he is put out.
The weather-wise a while ago were pre-
dieting an open winter. 1t has opened
and they have left for warmer climate.
mo one to blame" is the verdict of
the Coroner's Jury in the case of the
victims of the New York Fifth Avenue
Hotel fire.
1t is stated that large quantity OF
counterfeit postage stamps are being cir
culated. II is difficult to tell them from
the genuine.
The papers say that Stokes is much
detected. Under existing circumstances
it is not to be wondered at Alas poor
Stokes; his doom is sealed.
A young lady at Toledo tainted when
told that over 500, GOO men died last year,
but was revived by the information that
there were Is, 0OO,0 900 left
A Yankee steam saw mill is in opera
ton in Jamaica, and is nobly sustaining
the honor Of its country, having already
sawed up several natives.
Everybody is in favor of ''civil service
REFORM" but the present system of ex-
aiming candidares as if they were APP
plicants for district school, seems to be
growing less and less in favor.
Two plugs of tobacco in his pocket
stopped bullet and saved a Kentucky
mans life recently but you will never
see this circumstance related and circula
ted in the form of tract.
A Connecticut town boasts of young
man so timed that he cannot look needle
in the eye. Many young ladies are fire.
quently troubled with similar fear when.
ever they can get any one else to do their
sewing.
A witty writer says that Universalists
believe God too good to punish sinners
eterna!ly, and Unitarians believe men toe
good to be punished forever; SO that fol
these reasons, they come to the same
conclusion.
Don't you think it safe, my DEAR ~
said husband to his wife, ''for men to
take off flannel when it looks like spring?''
perhaps So" replied his wife, but ]
never saw any flannel that looked like
spring !"
The latest enterprise in the way OF
periodicals in Chicago is the The Matri-
monial News" devoted as it afirms to
furthering the cause of matrimony. 1t
gives advise on the subject gratuitously
A man will die for want Of air in FIVE
minutes, for want of sleep In ten days,
for want of water in week, for want OF
food at various intervals, depending on
constitution, habits of life, and the cir
cumstances of the OCCASION
A Louisville woman reading that a hot
shovel held over vanished furniture
would remove white spots, tried to re-
move the bald spot on her husband S
head by waiting him few love taps with
a red hot poker.
A dutchman, few days ago picked up
bound volume Of documents on the
back of which was stamped Pub Docs"
Ter Tyful !" said he, wat kind of pooks
will dey print next? Ash | live here ish
one on pup toys.
A new kind of railroad switch has been
invented, which kills the switchman if it
happens to be out of place when the train
comes along-thus securing the safety of
travellers by appealing to the strongest of
all motives, the instinct of self.preserva-
ton.
A Boston gentleman who could not
waltz, offered d young lady 500 if she
woulk let him hug her as the man did
who had just waltzed with her. Il was
a good offer, and showed that money was
no object with him, but they put him out
of the house so hard that his eyes we're
quite black
st. Louis has man who allows his
property to be advertised in the delin-
quent tax list merely to get his name in
the paper Let him shoot person and
when tried plead insanity and his name
will not only be published in all the news
papers, but it will become general topic
for conversation.
A lawyer, notorious for brow beating
witnesses, asked man in a case of as:
sault and battery, what distance he was
from the parties when the assault hap
pened. He answered: Just four feet
FIVE inches and half" "How came YOU
to know SO exact ?" said the counsel
Because | expected some lawyer to ask
me-" said he, land l measured it,
The small pox in St. Louis has attain
ed somewhat startling proportions. Ad-
vices from that city state that in places,
entire streets are cut off from travel by
the prevalence of the disease in the
buildings adjoining that the pest house
is overlooking; that building used as
pest house upon the fair grounds Is over