The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-06-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

BARNUM's ballon went off from New
| Haven with piece OF boys ear, and
he went off on the other.
| MANY young ladies who are seized
with the spelling mania should try to
spell their mothers at the wash tub.
BOYS, what is stratum?' GA layer "
Mention an example" ga hen. "
Eyes, and ship. She lays to-"
II. n. BISHOP, who sailed from Troy
to the Gulf of Mexico, in canoe, has
reached Philadelphia on his return voy-
age.
SAN FRANCIsCos new three million
| dollar palace hotel will contain a ladies'
| billiard room, furnished in princely
| style.
SARATOGA Will be the proper place to
send your obnoxious relatives to this
serson. 4 new rifle club has purchased
shooting groudns there.
- The quantity of iron to be used in the
construction of the Centennial buildings
| will aggregate about 5000 tons, of which
more than fve-sixths will be wrought.
TIE Maine Farmer says single firm
used up 1,500 cords of white birch in
the manufacture of spools and bobbins,
and will consume this year over 1000
cords.
THE donkey in Cincinnati who whip
| ped the lioness has been cast into the
shade by squirrel which killed rat
| tlesnake in that city the other day after
desperate struggle.
A MISSISSIPPI negro, who was shot
while stealing bacon, rolled his eyes
over the crowd and mournfully exclaim-
ed !: ''Why didn't you glib de ole man
anodder chance?' %
THE Prescott Clarion reports that the
pigeons have been very destructive of
the new sown wheat in that region. In
some parts of the county they have
almost entirely ruined the crop.
WHEN conductor ON a Boston car
shouted, ''Ruggles street - the other
night, fellow who had been doing in
the corner started up and said : ''Rug-
giles treat Where's Ruggles Show
me Ruggles.
A "cullud chap" was hugging d sal
mon colored maid one night, when she
whispered sweetly in his ear, 81 don't
mind yer huggin' me, Jim, but, fo' de
Lord sake, don't touchd at bile on de
back O my neck .
THERE is a monastery in Turkey in
| habited by twenty-three monks, who
have not seen woman since infancy,
and one of them tells an interviewer that
| he can form no idea what woman is
like.
ONE of the old settlers at the Isle of
| Shoals, seeing the name Psyche on the
hull of q yacht the other day, spelled it
out slowly and then exclaimed, "Well,
if that amt the darndest way to spell
| fish 20
THE new patent gutta- percha white
shirt bosom, which does not wrinkle and
can be sponged off, is probably the only
article in the world equally popular with
engaged young men and inveterate to-
| bacco-chewers.
FIRST class in geography : What is a
bay? Fathers best horse. What is a
sound? A thunder clap. What is a
strait Whiskey without water. What
is cape? Something to wear on the
| shoulders.
A Fergus Falls, Mimi, young man
caught his former sweetheart dancing
with another fellow in public hall one
evening recently, and fired pistol at
her, and then blew his own brains out.
The girls corset steels saved her life.
A LADY has Sunday school class in
| one of the churches. Two brothers at
tended it alternately. One Sunday the
lady asked one of the boys if he would
be there on the following Sunday. ooh,
| no - said he. 81 can't it's my turn to
| saw wood.
In 1874. 100000 pounds of
of buffalo meat were shipped over the
Kansas Pacific Railway and its connec-
| lions. In the same year. over the To-
peka and Santa Fe Railroad bones, g.
Ola, 050pounds hides, l, 314, 800 pounds
meat, 631, 800 pounds.
cit is not our fault says Milwau-
kee editor, ''that we are red-headed and
| small, and the next time that one of those
| overgrown rural BOOSTERS in ball room
| reaches down for our head and suggests
that some fellow has lost rose bud out
of his button-hole, there will be trouble. -
MEN who see into their neighbors are
very apt to be contemptuous but men
| who see through them find something
! lying behind every human soul which
is not for them to sit in judgment on,
or to attempt to sneer out of the order
of Gods manifold universe.
REV. SAMUEL FALLows, known dur
Ii,
ed his bacl on the Methodists and
Methodist institutions, and will hereafter
be staunch Episcopalian, at least SO
long as he can hold his present position
as rector of st. Paul's Reformed Episcopal
Church, in Chicago.
THERE is movement among the col
ored people of the South to migrate be-
You'd the Mississippi, and leave the poor
white trash to take care of themselves.
Several meetings have already been
held in various parts of the south. to
consider the matter, and the indications
now are that they will go west and grow
up with the country.
DURING the voyage of the ssPolaris''
the extreme northern limit of 800 16<
was reached, and at this point, no less
than fifteen species of plants were found,
of which five were grasses. In latitude
SO So twenty-six musk oxen were shot,
together with seventeen different kinds
of birds, and DIR. Bessels made collec-
ton of flies, butterflies, and mosquitoes.
In one of the courts lately there was
q long and heated dicussion between the
counsel as to whether o witness should
be allowed to answer the following
question "What did Mary say 20 Three
judges took nearly an hour to decide
the point, and at last allowed it. The
question was put to the witness by the
defence, and the reply was short and
sweet-"Not word
IT is authenticity stated that David
Reed, the negro who was mobbed in
Nashville two weeks ago for the murder
of Policeman Frazier, escaped. A tree
on the side of the bank of the river broke
his fall to the earth, 100 feet below. 1t
has since been discovered that he was
wounded In the back of the head and
throne oh tho chool- Tho ,,oe,e 100 IL.