The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

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cradle.
A FASHIONABLE lady says her husband
is the latest thing out.
BIERsTADT threatens another large
painting CT California scenery.
THEY are discussing proposition in
| ST. Louis to raise funds for the erection
of million dollar Opera House.
| A CUBAN lady at Saratoga, famous for
her wealth and very elaborate toilettes,
wears necklace of American twenty
dollar gold pieces, valued at $500.
OUT of the ten million women in
America there isn't one who won t
scream at the sight of rat.
| a sCHooLMAsTEEs in California has fall
len q victim to the rife of one Of his
pupils. This comes from teaching the
young idea how to shoot.
LANDLADY, (fercely)-''You must not
occupy that bed with your boots onl'
Boarder- ''Oh never mind, they're only
an old pair. The bedbugs can't hurt
em"
WHEN man nearly breaks his neck
trying to get out of the way of light
ning-bug, supposing it to be the head
light to q locomotive, it is time for him
to sign the pledge.
TIE Pennsylvania Railroad CLAIMS
the largest locomotive in the country.
It has twelve driving wheels and weighs
seventy-five tons.
INDIANAPOLIS women are carrying
canes The sticks are not, however,
ornamented with ivory limbs of the
Steiner sex.
A DELAWARE man lost his wife and
race horse by the same stroke of light
ming, and he tried for two hours to re-
viye the horse.
A SAGINAW poet writes of his native
place:
Won'st the red Injun here took their
delights,
Fish t, fit and bled.
Now most of the inhabitants is whites,
With nary red.
ACCORDING to the census, there are
only two men in America who make a
speciality of the manufacture of hand
organs Just think how easy it would
be to Kill those two men, and yet they
still live!
THE Baraboo Republic notices a mann
| moth tomato, raised by Mr.. FL. 6. Jones,
which is 49, inches in circumference
one way by IL inches the other and
weighs Il Tbs.
CARL KIssEIBAIH, of La Crosse, on
account of domestic trouble, undertook
to shuttle off this mortal coil, lastThurs-
day. The razor failed to find the jugu-
lar vein.
An Illinois paper reports that ro-
mantle Macoupin county girl thought to
Maud Mullerixe and ''rake the meadows
sweet with hay" She stood over a
yellow jackets nest as she swung her
little rake. First Jump from the score,
eleven feet. Distance to the house half
mile. Time, two minutes.
The discovery of ledge of rock in
Montgomery County, Md, about -
miles from Washington, very rich in
gold, is announced. The ledge is about
s feet thick, and Of considerable ex-
tent.
A SURE cure for setting hen-put
her on live clans instead of eggs. As
the CLAIMS begin to get warm they open
their shells, and the hen don't go on
that nest second time.
QUININE BISCUIT is the latest novelty
in the medical pastry line. Each Bis
cult contains one-fourth of a grain of
quinine, and the taste is SO concealed
that hearty individual can put them
down until the hair on the back of his
head begins to curl, without knowing
what he is taking. Next we shall have
castor oil sponge cake and squill dough-
nuts.
A MAN at Lee, Mass, has imported a
basaltiC column from the Giants Cause
way, off the north coast of Ireland, as an
ornament for his lawn.
A PAIR of twin sisters, living in South
Bethlehem, gave birth TO twins on last
Saturday night. The four youngsters
were born the same hour.
A CALIFORNIA man has patented de-
vice for the purpose Of efecting on the
stage of theaters the rising, sinking. roll
ing and pitching motions of vessels at
sea. So perfect is the imitation that, in
connection with sheet-iron thunder,
saltpetre lightning, and bellows wind,
the actors are made sea-sicl.
A CLERGYMAN lately addressed his
auditors as follows: ''Be not proud that
the blessed Lord paid your sex the dis
tingushed compliment Of appearing first
to female after the resurrection, for it
was done that the glad tidings might
spread the sooner"
BRIEF colloquy in Texas between a
tourist and native: s'My friend, why
is it everybody in this country thinks it
necessary to carry one or two revolvers?'
''Wen, stranger, said the Texan, 'syou
mought travel around here a good long
time and not want a weapon, but when
you do want a pistol in this country you
want it like hell.
A FEMALE drummer, named Gertie
Dunn, has been interviewing ST. Paul
merchants on the subject OF baking pow
ders. They find it harder to resist her
solicitations than soldier does to take
powder from Dertie Gum.
LARGE numbers of Indians are employ
ed in the Oregon harvest fields.
SAN Francisco has Chinese theatre
oo,oLIa Of seating 3 C0G perSOnS