The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-11-20
MISCELLANEOU

A green grocer-one who trusts. $50
Baptist xhortation-brethern aud
cisterns.
An Illinois lawyer advertises for the
" hairs Of Rebecca Long"
The higher We take the thermometer
up mountain the lower it gets.
Putting mp stove-pine in Danbury is
politely termed attending black crook
matinee.
An elderly lady. enaeavoring to post
letter in hydrant. is spectacle to make
an oyster weep.
On week days you buy -FOUR music by
the sheet; on Sundays you can have it
by the choir for nothing.
The obituary notice of Kentucky
lady includes the fact that her hair was
six feet eight inches long.
A man, who is eulogized as an 'ener-
gerio citizen. was run over by a funeral
in Providence, r. l, last week.
A fash of lightning went through the
Erie, Pa. Dispatch office on the shaft
Jog and knocked the "deyil" down
cellar.
A Cana 1ian paper refuses to publish
the valuable productions of one of its
contributors for less than seven cents per
line.
Mrs. Sarah Newcomb, of Illinois, re-
Gently ruined a handsome bed-post by
flashing out the brains Of her husband
against it.
An old topper, says the Danbury News,
by the name of Gilchrist, having moved
away from Nelson street, the ncighbors
now want a street lamp.
Before bustles came into fashion there
was chance for newspaper to display
enterprise; but now all of them are be-
hind in their makeup.
Why is big advertiser like sore
h"ECi DctauSe TIC IL thoFe tuOuRnE III
,han his neig hbCrs No; it it because
he is always on hand"
An active bachelor in Maine claims to
be one hundred and tw years old; but he
makes his own bed according to
local paper SO he must lie.
Won't the thousand and-one rural
scrlbblers and ambitious locals who are
pouring out yards and yards of sickly
limitations of the Danbury News man,
give us a rest?
An editor once wrote: I'VE have
received basket of strawberries from
Mr.. Smith, for which he will receive oul
compliments, some of which are four
inches in circumference
The principal of young ladies' semi
nary. up town, where especial attention
is paid to department, was Mortified tie
other day to fnd the girls playing leap
frog in the back gard.
Why" asked governess of her little
charge, do We pray God to give us our
daily bread? Why don't We ask for four
days, or five days. or week p 1--WE
want it fresh, replied the ingenious
child.
a postal card was received at Portland
Me-, recently, having dollar bill sewed
on one side of it. and directly over the
bill was written, II this is stolen, it will
be after it leaves the Kittery post
office
4 man at Princeton College believes
IN having "a place for everything and
everything in its place lie nails his
slippers on the wall, four feet up, and
then all he has to do of an evening is to
wheel up his chair in front of them.
The editor Of Minnesota paper has a
b itfalo robe which was Once the property
O. the Sioux chief, Son Ut the Sun,
whereupon are pictured all his battles,
his scal:'s and other trophies. He is
gong to Use 1t as means to frighte u
delinquent subscribers.
The Danbury maa states that the
panic has 90 far abateo as to permit an
Essex street man 10 return to ten cent
cigars, aud hopes in another month, if
The brightness continues to increase, to
get his boys boots half snled.