The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-01-20

MtECELAN EOUS ITEMS.
Mr.. Halstead, of Louisiana, pounded
his wife with rail because she wouldn't
go to church with him and be as good a
christian as he was and as she died. it
makes bad case for him.
The st. Louis Christian Advocate has
no ear for music, and..complains that a
church choir is sacrilgious when the line
eve are going home 60 die no more is
rendered, ''We're going home to Dinah
More, to Dinah More, to Dinah More. >
tFellow trebellers,'' said a colored
preacher, s'ef [ had been eatin' dried
apples for week, an den took to drink
in for a mont, couldn't feel more
| swell'd up dan am dis mint wild pride
an vanity, at SEEM sech full tendance
har dis evening"
A New Hampshire farmer went to q
| Thursday evening prayer meeting last
week and was so conscience stricken
that he returned home and Knocked In
the heads of six cider barrels. They
say that if he Will pay some of his debts,
standing for the last ten years, they will
believe it to be genuine
Give known many a church to die
cause it didn't give enough but Ineve1
knowed a church to die cause it gave toe
much. Day don't die dat way Bred
ern, has any of you knowed church to
die cause it gave too much !? If you do
just let me know, and I'll make a pill
grimage to dat church, and I'll Ct NIB by
de soft light of de moon to its MOSCOW
cred roof, and I'll stand dar and lift my
hands to heaven and say, ssP!essed are
de dead dat die in the Lord
The wicket are not always so happy,
nor the good SO happy, as is imagined !;
and vice is, nine times out of ten its own
punishment.
Our principles are the springs of our
actions; our action the springs of our
happiness or misery. Too much care.
therefore, cannot be taken in forming
our principles. Shelton.
A Baptist disease-dip- theory.
A Baptist oyster festival is on the tapis
in Pennsylvania. Hard shells.
The Danbury Neaos says ''Self-denial
is the cardinal virtue of a Christian.
The number of Christians who deny
themselves the pleasure of attending
prayer-meetings is much greater than
the church gets credit for"
A little girl asked minister ssDo
you think my father will go to heaven %
Why, yes, my child. Why do you ask?''
fsWell, because, if he dom have his own
way there he won't stay long, I was
thinking.
The editor of the Kokomo, Ind, ~
bune, who was robbed of four hundred |
dollars in an Indianapolis hotel not long
since, attributes the affair to an over
'uing providence, and forgetting to wear
lis nose-glasses when he bolted the door.
A pious old lady being asked by her
pastor what she thought of the doctrine !
- 'o''A OOCAsNloy, ICpilod Bic tuOuSuG III |
1 most excellent doctrine, and had no |
loubtit had been the means of saving !
many souls.
Two Irishmen engaged in peddline
packages of linen bought an old mule |
20 aid them in carrying the bundles,
Each would ride awhile or s.ride and
'ie.' as the saying is. One day the
freshman who Vas on foot got close to
'he heels OF the muleship, when he re-
;elved kick on one of his shins. To |
oe revensed he picked up a stone, and |
hurled it at the mule, but by accident
struck h.. companion on the back of the
lad. Seeing what he had done, he
stopped. and began to groan and rub his
shin. The man on the mule turned and
asked, "What's the matter ?" ''The
cratures kicked me ;" said he ''he's
did that same thing to me on the bacL of
my head,' out don't see how che tar
mel crittar could kick SO high.