The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-10
PARAGR HIS.

In Missouri, after 1876, every voter
must be able to read and write. The
date for Florida is 1880.
In jewellers window in the Rue
de la PAX, Paris, there is breastpin
made from a single diamond and mark
ed with the price Of 800, 1000.
John A. Lyman, the newly elected
coloTed Congressman from North Caro-
lima, was q slave before the war, and was
sold at auction seven times before he
became OF age.
An Omaha girl was burned to death
the other Gay in attempting to light
fire with kerosene. A girl, can OF coal
OIL, and q chunk of fire are three things
that should never be left III a room to-
gether.
"A country editor who has become
involved in discussion on bugs, inno-
Gently asks under what head vermin are
to be classed. This is a very simple in
quiry, yet 2 good many people will have
to scratch their heads to answer it.
When female treasury clerk is
discharged she faints and gushes, but
when one Of the other sex gets his~walk
ing papers he just combs his hair back
and gets drunk. Another illustration
Of the inferiority OF woman.
One OF the stalls in Washington
Market, New York, the other day, dis
played placard upon which it was an
nounced: ga large amount of bologna
sausage for SALE" Directly under The
advertisement some wag had written
4'Dog cheap" The proprietor OF the
stall said he never knew such dull day
In the sausage trade.
A rustic couple, newly married,
marched into drug store and called
for soda water. The obliging clerk in
quired what syrup they would have in
it, when the swain deliberately leaned
over the counter, replied: Stranger,
money IS no object to Iae put sugar in
It,
The taxes were reduced, after the
close of the war and up to June 9Th,
1872, $303, so, 58S. The national debt
has decreased from March 1st, 1869, to
Jnly LIST, 1874, 1892, 1916, 018. This re-
duction of the debt Notwithstanding
the reduced taxation, )ard the refunding
OF bonds at lower rates, saves annually
$50, 600, 900 IN interest.
A little girl in Reading, Pa. recent
" saw an old drunken man lying on a
door step, the perspiration pouring off
his face and crowd of children prepar-
ing to make fun of him. She took her
little apron and wiped his face, and
then looked up so pitifully to the rest
and made this remark ''Oh, yes, don't
hurt him, he is somebody's grandpa. %
"A Jealous bnt ignorant negro preach
er. IN expounding to his flock as to the
astounding nature of miracles, got a
trife confused in matter. He said
EFMy beloved friends, the greatest of all
miracles was bout the Ioaves and fishes
der was 5000 loaves and 1900 fishes,
an de II postIes had to eat dem all,
and de miracle is, they didn't bust
The King of Persia once ordered his
vizier to make out list of all the fools
In his dominions. He did so, and put
his Majesty's name at the head The
King asked him why, to which ne i'm
mediately answered Because you in
trusted a lac of rupees to men you don't
know to buy horses for you q thousand
miles off, and who'll never came back"
Gay, but suppose they come back %
"Fhen [ shall Grace your name and in
sert theirs.
While some men were grinding
scythes beneath two immense chestnut
trees in Orange, Ct, during recent
thunder storm, lightning struck the
trees, shivering them into many pieces,
dalted against the grindstone, which
one man was turning and upon which
another man was holding { scythe,
snatched the Implement from his hands
and hurled it into the air with a noise
resembling that of buzz saw, landing
IT fifty feet away. The men were rather
startled 10y the incident, but were not
hurt
The following decision, recently
made 10y the commissioner of internal
revenae, is of Importance to all business
men ''The penalty for accepting an
unstamped check is precisely the same
rs for issuing it, viz fifty dollars. The
law declares that any person who shall
make, sign Or issue, or accept, negotiate
or pay an nIstamped check shall be
liable. Ii a person has sent to him an
unstamped check, he must return it or
stamp it before he accepts it, otherwise
he violates the law. 1t is thus seen that
the receiver of an unstamped check is
just as liable for the penalty and just as
much bound to see that 1t is stamped,
as the issuer."