The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1873-02-13
aquarium, which was much better than
saying he kept a fish market


two-mule dray. She says she likes to
drive the animals because they remind her
Of her old beaux who had deserted her in
her hour of need.
A Danbury youth who could not shy o.
play, wanting to serenade his girl, whistlei
for half an hour under her window the
other evening, ana when he got ever the
fence found about seventy-fve dogs wait
ing to see what he wanted.
4 silk quilt, owned by an elderly Dan
bIry lady is over one hundred years old,
and contains two thousand pieces, over one
hundred thousand stitches, AID an innum-
erab!e caravan of bedbuss.
A beautiful prima donna at Palermo re-
Gently had large boquot thrown her on
the stage. Upon picking it up t loud re-
port followed and bullet whstlel past her
h0af. On examining the seductive infern.
al machine it was founl t. contain a revol-
yer with the muzzle turned upward and the
trigger placed SO that it would discharge
the weapon upon any person $ grasping Il e
stem. The lastarlly act was traced to a
ed
NO cards, no divorce, is what sarsu-
Inc bridegroom of Vermont appended to
the announcement Of his marriage.
Welding cards in Denver consist Of a
jack of diamonds and the queen IF hsarts,
with the contracting parties names there
on. If the brides mother is Twin the ten
of clubs is enclosed.
Gotham ahjures visiting carls. The
correct thing on the hall table of every
house is gorgcously lound visiting book,
wherein every visitor records his name and
any message he may wish to send.
A lady near Maakato dislocated her Jaw
by ygapinS, so that she could not shut her
mouth. The surgeon who rclucel the d's-
location has, The Rericw saws, the salts
faction cf knowing that he made one woman
shut her mouth
Boarding house chicken soup can he
made, it is said, by hanging up a hen iu
the sun so that her shallow shtiI fall into Il
pot Of salt water. The only tr, ub!e i.
that on a cloudy day the soap is liable to
be weak.
\ little romance abont Ben Walc'-
daughter and her tall young carpenter,
will have to be given up. Ben. says that
that to begin with he made no ohjeclirn to
their marriage, III the second place that lis
daughter never was engaged to the carpen-
ter in question, and thirdly that he never
had Il daughter.
Detroit chief If police hal Telegram
from an interior town saying Arrest II
man y ith red hair for runai:,5 away with
my wife Upon walking four block, the
chief met no less than Il rcd haired mcl
walking with la lies and he concInl,I i that
that TIE eloy .ng couple could pa.s through
the city in safety.
An Iowa Falls laiy having occasion to
lca,e home one col day recently put Il
dozen eggs IN bod TO keep tarll from frecz-
ing. She came home after DARK, f,rgot
the egg, and bounded into bed nnl-wcll
she didn't gsactly Ike it, that's all,
The Corning Eeseas says there are Il,
I resent but four wong men IN
tLut town who part there hair
in the middle. Oae year a:o they
numbered over twcaty, but death anI the
innatic asylum and renitouti"ry, have cut
down their numbers to the present figures.
A lady was told the other day by a
gentlemen (traye'ers YOU know
are provcrbially given to fabricatlony that
every lady who had n small mouth was
provided with husband by government.
'lth it pothiL!e p said the lady, making
her mouth as little as she could. The gen
tleman added, that if she had large
mouth sho was provided with two husbands
Ny gracious exclaimed the laly, at the
same time throwing open her mouth to the
full extent. The gentleman became mach
alarmed, made his escape and has not been
heard Of since.
A Milwaukee lady hal several hundred
dollar worth of point lace clipped of her
clothing by an alrot thief while she was at
church singing Strip me afF the robe of
pride clJthe me in humility,
The Princess Of Erie is the name given
Helen Josephine Mansfield in Paris, and
the amount of talk about her is said to be
immense. One report says that she has
succeeded il bringing about a duel between
two silly men, and another that she ha.
taken pew in an American Episcopal
church. True, she engaged it under
another's name but she goes there Sunday
after Sandy and buries her head in her
prayer book with the devotion of a saint.
The other attcn lants of the church arc
said to be shocked accordingly bn. it is
believed that Miss Mansfield holds tha.
churches are for the benefit Of sinners
and if she isn't sinner shed
Ike to have some .ne show her one