The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-29
SENSE AND NONSENSE,

n4Issloaea offlcer to twelve men.
1t is saddening spectacle to see peo.
pc squanderiEg money. and know that
You can't help them do it.-Doabas.y
say, Pat, what are You sbont-sweep.
ng out the room;' 10 answers pat
| am sweeping out the dirt aud leaving
-c9 ON, now. Are you ever going to
s.op t4ik1ng about that shot heard round
inc weird: :" Shoot that shot.
1t is eae Ter to bear up under our mis-
fortunes than TO survive the comments of
our friends on them.
Twenty sophomores of Dartmouth
college are afflicted with that cheerful
ana picturesque complaint known as the
humps.
the Rochester Democrat proposes to
uate me origin Of the Genesee Falls 100
years BACK ana have a centennial
NOW that il Il learned that the fruit
bnus are destroyed. all the small specn.
litors viii 60 into the fruit trade.
"A LADY IN Lexington, XIV. WHO Is 10
years Ola persists in putting her yo1ug
lile away through the stem of a tobacco
pipe She has been at it over fifty years
"A cruel and unusual punishment is
ihhic'ed on the prisoners in the Bangor
the:l jail, IN allowing The students from
uic lHeoiogicai Seminary to preach raw
sermons 10 them.
The Tulare (Cal.) Tames resents as an
outrage The conduct If some parties who
are cutting one of the big trees in the tn.
date grove, thirty ieet in diameter and over
~ m height for exhibition al the Cen.
tennial. '''' 'A'
"A DelroIter is to be married on the
fourth OF July. Few men care to invite
~ aueh an early stage in the matrimonial
cafeer NE blowing up which is at some
time sure % come.
-Epitaphs were discussed before a fell
70" q twenty-five, who thought they were
100 complicated, and gave the following
~ what he would like to have on his
tomb
JOHN THOMPSON. f85o-105o."
"A Virginia widow refused to marry a
baid.headed man, though he was mill
lonalre She explained: We'd have a
family fight some time and he has no hair
TO catch hold Of
Think what destruction would have
been caused If the spellinp-School fever
had ever struck the Aztec Empire. WHY.
"hen they were at their meals and want
ed bread they had to ask for totauquitlax-
caliilaquelpacholli.
1t is cited by the New York.papers as
a curious fact that while the filthy, tum.
ble-down markets of that city are crowded
rom morning I'LL night no one can sell
anything IN those which are handsome
and spacious.
Louisville has had sensation. A
pulidog beionglng to prominent citizen
attempted to chew a spoon" fish-hook
one ~ the prongs entered his upper lip and
The other the lower. Noone dared to take
y ON until chloroform was administered
70 the furious animal.
- quiet, peaceable gentleman in Phil.
adelphla has recently given up business.
sent has family into the country and calm
~ announces his determination of deyot.
ing The remainder of his life to discover.
ing the man who sent him "A payng-stone
Dy express with seventeen dollars charges
on il.
1t was Jones who got mad at his wife
the other night when he thought he heard
burglars IN the house. She wouldn't let
him go down in any more than the single
garment he had on, lest if he should ge
stabbed she'd have to mend hole in his
pants.
The Italian geographers have made
considerable progress in the interior Of
Africa, and claim by letter to have dis
covered one of the Nile heads. They
nave not yet come across Stanley, but ht
VIII ma them before they get through
hose unfortunate persons who have
bcen discounted at the spelling matches
may, perhaps, derive some consolation
from me TACT that two great writers of tho
English language, Artemus Ward and
,haucer, had very insufficient acquaint
ance with photography.
The age of heroism is not entirely run
out There, for example. is Mrs. Bib.
kins, who says .. It's too hard times to buy
new bonnet this spring." and she has re
solved not TO do it. A more remarkable
instance of heroic self denial on the par
OF modern womankind can scarcely be-
imagined
The berrctta, an article to which allu
SION has frequently been made in connec.
non with the investment of Cardinal Nc.
tioskcy, Is the usual square cap worn
when in church by all Catholic priests
who are not officiating at the altar; only
IN the case OF Cardinal its color is scar.
let instead of black
-ASt Louis scientist read a paper at a
scientific gathering the other day TO prove
that the winters are growing colder and the
summers warmer. 1t does not need an
argument to prove the first part of the
statement; look at the bottom of the coal
BIN settles the fact
According to Drake, the Boston his
torian, there was in that city in 1925 a
seventeen year old boy with all the traits
Of Jesse Pomeroy. who enticed three little
children into by places and tortured them
The penalty inflicted upon him was thirty
nine lashes at the carts tail, twelve at the
gallows. thirteen at two other places. and
hard labor in the Bridewell for six months
We have a child in this office who is
five years old, weighing thirty-onc pounds
and who can set a half column of type a
day. This is the youngest compositor on
record. Those who doubt this assertion
can be satisfied by giving this office a call
and We will make Z" Ned" put up the type
in good CosiHgtoa Ca Enterprise
Peter Tyce, OF Scotch Plains, \. J.
woke his wife up at two O'Clock in the
morning, laid ii pocket-book ON the table
saving There's money enough TO bury
both of us, y and then committed suicide
hut hts wife didn't initiate his example
and probably spent her share ofthe money
on an attractive mourning dress witt
frills
At Cedar Keys, Fla. real pirate
has appeared-an aged Spaniard. who
calls himself Rios de Ralfo He once
assisted in the burial of large amount q
treasure at Cedar Keys, which he has re,
turned To unearth, and has actually sue
ceeded in discovering an iron box con.
tanning many precious stones and old
Spanish coins of an estimated value Of
$4,000
Last season P. was attacked with the
cholera, and his friends and physicians
gave him up as a lost case. As he Law
tnere, apparently upon his death-b bed. the
doctor asked him if the medicine he had
taken had in any manner affected his
teeth. don't know, family whispered
p, "but you can see; they are in the TOP
drawer of the bureau. Mrs. p. will hand
them to you"
There wouldn't be so much moving
were il not for women. If a neighbor be.
comes a little offensive, or landlord a
trihe eXacting. a woman viii move al
once. But man will swallow all griev.
ances and cheerfully submit 20 be knocked
down and sat upon rather than move
One Of Tie most trying problems is how e
load the wagon 50 the best furniture will
show to the neighbors The carman who
most carefully studids this matter will do
the largest business. -DdBJurg Meas.
They had spelling.match in Sara.
toga at which a $500 library was offered
TO any person who could spell correctly
the following words; Baa, llama, eteve