The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-06-19
PICKINGS.

1
Always locate the bed-post in your
mind before putting out the light.
The new French President is MacMa.
hon. not McArone. as some of the papers
had it.-.Star, Philadelphia.
An editor out West has been elected
town constable. and is now able 10 arrest
the attention of the readers.
Newbureh, n. Y, calls commercial
| travellers foreign retail merchants. and
wants them to pay 500 piece for IL
censes.
In numbers, the sexes are very nearly
equal in the United States: males 10,
439, SOS, females l9 064 500; but the dis.
tribution is not even.
The heaviest brain on record was re-
Gently found in the skull of London
bricklayer who could neither read nor
write. IL weighed sixty-seven ounces.
A Kentucky man purchased coffin
fifteen years ago so as to have it handy.
and the other day he was burned up in a
limeklln, and the coffin was dead loss.
The newspaper reporters in the Mis-
souri, Legislature have refused a donation
of S75 voted to each Of them, taking the
high moral ground that they had no right
to take it.
'Calf's Head, remarked the waiter,
quite innocent of any equivocal intent,
but when asked what the calf said, he
very unreasonable took umbrage and de
clined further conversation.
A New Hampshire farmer scouts the
idea of taking newspaper at two whole
dollars year. and posts notice on the
schoolhouse that SO hoggs hev stade or
bin STOLEN from him.
A reporter for Wisconsin paper
writes: THOSE who personally know our
esteemed fell W. citizen, Colonel -, will
regret TO hear that he was brutaly as
saulted last evening, but not killed.
Tobacconists and drink-mixers lose
$4,000 BY swear-offs on New Years day,
but make double that sum the third
week in January, when the lambs come
back to the flock thirstier and hungrier
than ever.
Somebody has written work entitled
Useful Hints for Ugly Girls and the
New York Commercial Aduerttser de.
clares that the book has the smallest cir
culation of any literary production in the
United States.
In the late editorial convention in
North Carolina. Capt VIM. Biggs gave
in his experience as follows: He has
been several years conducting a newspa-
per, most of which had been spent in
raising the means of doing it.
There are more miles of railroad in the
United States than in all the nations Of
Europe combined. Our completed line
would reach 70,l7S miles, with an addi-
tional $4,000 in process of building. In
all Europe there are less than $4,000
miles of railrCa ID.
A woman in Chester iuterfered with
her brothers. courtship, and begged him
to stay at home evenings. He waited
until the evening when she expected her
own lover and complied, and sic says
that fraternal affection is heartless
mockery.
A physician advised patient to take
exc else on an empty stomach "Whose
stomach p feebly asked the invalid.
1t is estimated that in 1872 $lO,OOO,-
900 were spent for bread, $3.50, 900, 900
for Tobacco, and 5000, 600, 600 for intoxi-
eating drinks.
An active bachelor in Maine claims to
be l02 years old, but, as he ''makes bis
own bed" according to a local paper,
$50 he must lie
A Chicago chap advertises fol STEADY
girls to help on pantaloons A fellow
who can't help on his own pantaloons,
ought to be ashamed to want girls to do
it.
Mr.. S., who has been in the DING
business for several years, received last
week a neat ''dun" colored card with
Uncle Sans name on the face, and upon
the back finds financial problem
"To avoid proceedings unpleasant,
wish you would pay what is due;
If you do you'll obIge me at present
If You don't then I'll oblige you.
Dar a.