The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1873-03-06

od-humored reply.
Blakssone's spirit has bscn heard
from. When Miss Kate Fox, the spirit
medium, was married IN London, the grca,
lawyer reversed his dctum that husband
and wife are one, and that one the husband
! and announced from heavan that "that one
vas the wife'-and sometimes the mother,
/ in-law.
A young Boston gir, Is out in an advertise
ment for work. She says she has teen
educated in the best schools of this country
and Europe; has wealthy father and
good home, but is determined tc become
independent of everybody and work her
own way in the world. She will, sho de-
ciares, keep set of books for any bust
ness house, serve as an amanuensis. enter
shop or store, or, in short, accept any
thing decent thas presents ITSELF That
girl will get along if she lives Up to tie
spirit of her words.
A wife of nearly ten years, having given
her servant holiday, vas attending to
culinary matters herself, and hearing her
her husband coming into the kitchen thought
she would surprise him as soon as ho en-
tered the door by pntting her hands over
his eyes and imprintng kiss on his brow
as IN the days of the honeymoon. The
husband returned the salute with interest
and asked, Us he disengaged her lands,
"Alary darling, wher, is your mistress,
the wife discharged MARY, darling" the
next day, and has adopted new way of
"surpr ising' her husband.
One of tho most exciting occupations
of u " on IN nowadays is ''matching thinss."
In o!den days, when you got blue Assss
or stone colored dress, yoa ofdessd the
dress pattern home, and then quite cody
wa ked into trimming store and bough.
maroon buttons, or blue fringe, or rton g.
coiored velvet, with q culmncss unkno wn
to modern times. There are twenty new
colors now, and FIVE hundred and ninety.
SIX shades to each color. After a dress !
is bought all the excitement and unocr |
talnty Of the chase is the lot and portion |
Of the buyer.
Let joy be unconfned. The deyor.c
business has been sinrlifed muchly, Mr.. |
Peterson in an early day adopted short
hand proceeding of his own bat this Wau-
paca Justice has improved his method
husly:
A Maupaca Justice Of the peace divor-
'es a couple recently rs follows: He stood
n the middle of the floor, backs together
md as they walked away from each other
'e repeated the marriage ceremony hack
words.
Mrs. Myra Brakwe'l edit. the Chicago
-egal Ners, which is one Of the finest legal
apers in the country. She is talented
bic and amiablc.
Hymn for Lent.
From fsasts that perish turned Aside
A liGt!s sp,-e,
y, be tie fssa Indeed dsuIsl:
Ou- souls, an hungsred sali.Hsd
With tue sweet feast OF grace
Thou tlat did'at fast SO LOT &, SO sore,
For our poor sake
All p-Sgs OF sarta's vas hunger bore
Ere I4gg ilspCeclous Plopd dia'st p.I
For love OF Thee, to nortfy
The love OF sell, tn self shall dis,
Aud leave us Thiue at isngthi
In the Tyrolcan Mountains it is the Gus
ON of the women and children to come
ut when it is bedtime, and sing their na-
ional songs until their husbands and bro
hers answer them from the hill, or on their
eturn home. On the shores OF the Adria-
ic sach n customs prevails. There the
rives of the fishermen como down about
unset and sing melody. After singing
he first stanza they listen awhile for the
strain from off the water, and
listen till the well-known voices come
borne On the tide, telling that the loved
,ncs a-e almost home.
A young lady in Lawrence, Kansas,
Sunday school, cought boy Smiling last
Sunday. Said she, "what arc you smiling
at JOHNNY" Nothing, num-" was the
answer. 81 know BETTER" said the teacher
severely; "now tell me what it was"
Johnny looked frightened as he sputt ,rinS
ly said, "I-see your newspaper sticking
out, mum" The teacher sat down sud |
denly and arranged things.
arnce Greenwood Sarcastic.
Grace Greenwood, in one of her letters
to the New York Times severely coticised
Congress for defeating tie Colorado nd-
mission bill, whereupon the Chicago Post
acc lsel her Of being Influenced in her cri-
Sicsn by her ownership Of town lots in
Denver. Grace rc.orts upon her accuscr
in the following style which is rather sar-
castle upon some persons prominent just
now, as well as upon The Post ecisor:
81 demand an investigation. ! ssleaaly
dedsrc that osn no town lots in Denver
nor town lot nor half q town lot. ]
own not a single share Of railroad stock
nor of mining stock in the territory Of Co
dorado. My memorandum book is at the
service of any committee that may be ap-
pointed, and l defy them to find out BY it
anothirg inculpatins me, or my Denver
friends, or, for that matter to fine out any
thing AT all by it. 1t is true once saw
BY the papers that the Greeley colony had
bestowed lot upon me, and / have been
expecting to receive deed of the same
acc ompanied by temperance pledge; but
nothing of the kind has ever come to hand
| There is that acre and half Of land. rear
Pixies Peak, which shall own, when II
| is paid for and can read my title clea,
to it, That urchase | shall consider q
perfectly legitimate transaction. If my
Chicago brother should speak well of hea
/ yen | woula not eusreet him of hayIns