The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-12-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A STRONG mana shop-lifter.

a STRONG mana shop-lifter.
THE Danbury> Meas says that the
month of November, with its thirty
paltry days, managed to worm out five
Sundays for the ministers"
It's easier for needle TO 90 through
the eye Of camel than for a woman to
say Its of no consequence when you
kick hole in her new silk dress.
SOME farmers are mean enough to COM
plain because the grasshoppers are build
ing bontires of fence rails. Gewhilikins
do they want the grasshoppers to freeze:
-Htiecdukee Sentinel.
AT Fairview. Butler Co, Pa, water
sells at fifty cents a barrel, and oil AT
forty cents. The water supply is short,
and, unfortunately, the oil is not consid
| cred healthful as beverage.
lr now turns out that oat meal doesn't
make brain after all, and the fhiladel-
phia editors who laid IN a dozen barrels
apiece for winter use will be almost mad
enough to give 1t to the poor. - Free
Press.
TUE best shot ever heard of has been
made in Calais, Me, where "a gentleman
fired, in midnight darkness, at The bark
of dog, and the next morning found
the animal dead, the bullet having hit
him IN the throat.
A ST. LOUIS physician is trying to prove
that lager beer is good for corSumptives
He claims that no German ever dies of
that disease, and maintains that if beer
could take the place of water few or no
body else ever would.
An eminent astronomer proclaims that
the moons attraction of the tides is grad
ually diminishing the frequency OF the
earth's revolutions. This is perhaps the
reason why France has Unexpectedly
gone without one for three years.
NICE place, Baltimore A corn doctor
there announces that husbands can take
their wives to his Office, and while he is
skillfully extracting the good matrons'
corns and soothing their bunions the hus-
bands can solace themselves with wild
ducks, partridges, phcasants, fresh fish,
salt water oysters and diamond. back
terrapins.
THE red man of the Pacific slope has
made his appearance as IA stock speCu-
lator. Some weeks since tall and
stately Piute walked into banking
office at Austin, New, and, approaching
the desk on which the report Of the San
Francisco Stock Board is kept, asked the
clerk: How is it this morning."
" Down," was the reply. Down again?"
exclaimed the savage, heap cuss"
a PLAIN-sroKEN preacher delivered the
following from his desk: q would an
nounce to the congregation that proba-
bly, by mistake, there was left a. the
Westinghouse this morning "A small cot
ton umbrella, much damaged by time
and wear, and of an exceedingly pale
blue color, in the place whereof was
taken very large black silk umbrella
of great beauty. Blunders of this sort,
brethren, are getting "A little too com
mon"
IN GoLDsbJRo, \. c., they have dog
who vi its regularly every day the post
office for his owners mail, receives it
and delivers it without accident. Upon
visiting the Office the dog cannot be put
off; the official must give him something
whether there be any mail for his owner
or not, and an old paper placed in his
mouth satisfies him and he joys off con
tented There was also such dog in
Troy once who called at the counter of
the Times for his masters paper daily.
We have had nti-vaccinationists in
this country, but England is step ahead
and boasts an anti-vacCination league.
mere are GCEcfcnuS IN II, ana doctors,
and it seems to include both persons
who object to vaccination entirely as
mischicvouS practice, and those who oh
ject only to making it compulsory. Mr.,
john Bright who declines to join the
league, is one of the latter class, al |
though he thinks facts are against the |
which seems to be |
really an illogical position. For if vac
cination is what is claimed for it, then !
society has right to compel its recep- |
ton precisely as it has a right to confine |
the criminal, or take any other action to |
protect its eXistence.-Erchange.