The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-02-20
MISCELLANEOUS

as boy on an errand.
Breach of good manners for ruin to
stare you in the face.
Love is an egotism of two. The first
sigh of love is the last of wisdom.
There are over $4,000 idiots in this
country, who are acknowledged as such
IF a saloon-keeper gets rich it is be-
cause he makes many good bargains.
Why is person who never lays
wager as bad as regular gambler? Be
cause he is no better
A New Hampshire town betrayed the
expense of providing municipal hearse
by giving fancy dress ball.
When a Milwaukee paper remarked
recently, "The lilac bushes are bud
ding" reader said excitedly, "You lilac
Satan
The Burlington Qowa) Daily speaks
of a couple resolving themselves into
committee of two, with power to increase
the number"
Colonel Sweet, editor of the San An
tonic, (Texas) Herald, recently received
two Indian scalps as present from an
admirer of his paper.
The editor of the Panama Star apollo
gizes for the non-appearance of his paper
by saying that he had to haul off to dig
buckshot out of his legs.
DIR. David Livingstone was born in
suburb of Glasgow in the year 1915, his
father being weaver in one of the cot
ton mills in that vicinity
The gushing local of Browns Repub-
lican, Bellefonte, Pa, writes ''Pretty
that black-eyed maiden that 'keeps-a-
peepin' in at our Office window.
A man was boasting that he had been
married for twenty years and had never
given his wife cross word. Those who
know him say he didn't dare to. /.
Are blacksmiths, who make living
by forging, or carpenters, who do
little counter fitting, any worse than
men who sell iron and steel for a living?
An old edition of Morse's geography
says "Albany has 400 dwelling houses,
2,4O0 inhabitants, all standing with their
gable-ends to the street"
An envious newspar u writer desires
the School Commute, to investigate the
oh II hot ,I,o Ill
young man to sit with his arms around
her in school hours.
''What is more exhihrating sight,"
asks Vermont paper, ethan to see
eighteen handsome girls sliding down
hill on an OK sled ? Nineteen" says
the experienced editor of the Boston
Post
IF your neighbors he rs troublesome
And steal across the way,
Don't let your angry passion rise,
But fix place for them ttiay'
A young author reading a tragedy per-
ceiyed his auditor very often pull off his
! hat at the end OF the line, and asked
him the reason. 81 can't pass an old
acquaintance, replied the critic, with
out civility'
They had wreck OF Tuesday at
/ Johnstowls and the Tribune says:
''Some Of the folks who considered that
they had a perfect right to capture the
goods at the wreck near the depot this
morning. will likely have an opportunity
OF knowing what twelve unbiased men
think Of it at the next term of the Dis
trict Court
Some useful lessons or examples may
be found in the most simple occurrences.
At the Terre Haute depot recently, an
old lady attempted to get off while the
cars were in motion. A gentleman stand
ing near the door prevented her. ''Let
her 60" exclaimed kind-hearted pas
senger eff she gets killed, it will be
warning to somebody else
John, said clergyman to his man,
you should become a teetotaler; you
have been drinking again to day." '.Do
yon ever take drop yourself, meenis-
ter ? Eyes, John i; but you must look
at your circumstances and mine " every
true, sir, said John, ''bUt can you tell
me how the streets of Jerusalem were
kept SO clean p ''No, John, I cannot
tell you that" ''Weu, sir. it was Just
because every one kept his ain door
clean"
4 man entered a room where two la
dies We're sleeping in Albany, and stole
their Jewels, which were valuable. An
Irishman hearing of the larceny, gal
lantiy remarked: ''Au SHIRE, the two
ladies', who wur the most valuable Jewels,
he didn't touch at all at all
MY lad, said a youny lady to boy
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