The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-08-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

corner Of a salt-cehar.
To make tall man short Try to bor-
row five dollars of him.
4 circuit court-The longest way home
from the singing school.
An Ohio reporter. desperate for an
item, has given the world the ayoirdu-
pois Of the Grand Jury.
1t was as long ago as the Fourth of
July that Jones asked for the shoehorn
to put on his hat with.
Every man must be alone in the world
No heart was ever cast in the same mold
as that which we bear within US.
Thought means life, since those who
do not think do not live in sny high or
real sense Thinking makes the man.
One profession, says Punch. is safe
from the invasion of woman. She may
enter the army, but it is impossible that
she can man the navy.
They have, as yet, had no cholera in
st. Louis, but large number of people,
old and young, have died from cholera
infantum Sucker State.
Now put your bait on che treacherous
hook, and cast it in the shady brook, for
when the sunfsh sees it quirm, he II sure
ly go for that angle worm.
The latest instance afforded by fond
mother of her sons cleverness, is said
sons correcting her for saying he was all
over dirt. He said the dirt was all over
him.
A Detroit hotcl-keeper was so angry
with a man who sent him a circular ad
vertising a bed-bug exterminator that he
knocked him down and bit off a portion
of his ear.
The editor of the Kankakee Gazette
thinks fishing, as a general rule, don't
pay. ave stood it all day in the river
last week, he says, but caught nothing
until we got home.
An exchange speaks of ''rare Ben Bot
ler." Very rare indeed. The country
will never have Butler with the plaudit.
We'll done good and faithful servant. p"
Louisville Coarier-Joaa7idl
Scientists arc claiming that instead of
being cold, the moon is in reality red hot /;
so much SO that no living thing known to
our world could exist there. This spoils
the green cheese" theory.
Some one tells story of a steamboat
passenger watching the revolving light of
lighthouse on the coast, and oxclaim-
ing, Gosh the wind blows that light
out as fast as the man can strike it.
After Mr.. Casey had finished reading
the Declaration on the Fourth, man
rose and moved that the speech be pub
lished, SIS it was one of the best speeches
he had ever ''heern" in his life. Hound
City journal.
A good-looking telegraph operator in
Columbus, Ohio, waited about an hour
the other afternoon to witness a plunge
by the sea-lion. His lionship finally
jumped, and a suit of linen duck went to
the washerwoman in the afternoon.
A sentimental editor says, at is com
forting to know that one eye watches
fondly for our coming, and looks brighter
when we come" A contemporary is
grieved to learn that his brother of the
quill has wife with only one eye.
Several passengers, on the Lower Mis-
sissippi. were attracted by the alligators
basking in the sunshine. Are they am
phibious, Captain ?' asked a locker on.
"Amphibious, hill" answ cred the en-
thusiastic officer, ''they Il eat hog a
minute.
The patent churn is the latest item
creator yet produced in the boundless
West. A little girl at Clinton, Wis.
was recently caught in the gearing of one
of these implements, and ere she could
be rescued looked as if she had been
spanked with curry comb.
Two men, disputing about the pronun-
cation of the word either '-one saying
it was ee-ther, the other e-ther-agreed
to refer the matter to the first person
they met, who happened to be an Irish
man, who COMPOUNDED both by declaring
tits nayther, for it ayther.
A Danbury gentleman Of sixty years
writes his letters with lead pencil, and
then carefully applies blotter before
doing them up. He says nobody. unless
he has used sand, can understand how
handy the blotters are.
ERRORS. -What subject is there so
serious that the newspapers cannot make
it appear ridiculous? Read the following
statement as it appeared yesterday in our
kilograms Everybody in this place had
cholera symptoms, and some large fami-
lies have only t,co led.-Richmond, Va,
DISPATCH.