The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-12-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

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No great difficulty.-A young student
Of a quiet disposition wants to get
bored in private family"
There is no special style of engraving
engage nent rings. A spiders web with
a fly in it, is a very pretty device.
Tie young man with flower in his
coat is to marry the young lady who is
in the habit of saying the ide--yan !"
An Indianapolis man advertises "See
the 81 shirt" 1t dosen't take much to
make an Indianapolis man proud.
When Chinese sea captain wants to
sell his slip, where wonld he take it ?
Why, to the junk dealer, Of course.
ssCharles ~ she murmured as they
strolled along the other evening, and
gazed upward at the beiewelled firma-
ment CHARLES, dear, which is Venus
and which is Adonis %
Says an Irish editor in his current
prospectus 1--WE trust our progress
will be an advance" And in political
article he vigorously exclaims :-"Our
enemies are fighting windmills.
From researches made on hens eggs,
Oellacher came to the conclusion that
the ova of vertebrates are capable of
presenting the phenomena of parthe-
nogensis. This tickles the hens, might
lily.
It has been discovered that the aver
age life of flea is eight months, and
when you see man scratching his back
against the edge of the wood shed door
just tell him that he is wasting time.
ADuluth girl married a young man
because he lifted his hat so beautifully
as he passed her. She got a divorce
because he lifted the table SO beautifully
when the dinner didn't suit him.-De-
troit Free Press.
"Mrs. Henry" said John to his wife,
one morning, 'sif you give me Christ
mas present this year, please arrange it
so the bill won't come in till next month.
It's just as well to keep up the illusion
for short time"
The author of "I want to bean angel, p"
&C., is disputed. This is carrying the
hospitility to General Butler most too
far. He wrote that lovely little song in
the fond hope that PROSPERITY would have
something to remember him by.
An apprentice sailor boy fell from the
Ground top" to the deck, stunned, but
little hurt. The captain exclaimed, in
surprise, f'Why, where did you come
from a'' '.From the North of ireland,
yer HONOR was the prompt reply, as
! the poor fellow gathered himself up.
| An Algerial idea is that the angel OF
death seizes dying man by the hair OF
| the head and carries him to Paradise.
To look at the front seats at a can-can
one would suppose that the angel of
death had been making good many
desperate grabs, and failed to carry away
anything but hair.
Said Nevada lawyer concerning a
man who had kicked his wife down
stairs /: "Gentlemen of the jury, he ist-
ed her Great heavens, he listed her
He-the brute, once, perhaps, a man
raised his foot and applied it to the
form of her who, at the holy altar, he
had sworn to love and cherish
We hear that keno is to be introduced
into society this winter as literary
means of passing the long evenings.
We are told that it is little arrangement
where you sit and hear man say "lev"
''sev p 'three !" and you get five but
tons in row all except one, when some
one at the other end of the room takes
ell the money.
''See here, conductor, why don't you
have fire in this car" ''Well, you
see, one of QUIZ directors is clothing
| man, and another is a doctor, and anoth-
ser is drug store keeper, and another
runs tombstone factory, and you know
in this world people must olive and let
| live" So you see ssAll right, sir
go ahead with your coffin
At Rawling, Wyoming Territory, a
fellow standing on the depot platform of
the Union Pacific Railroad accidently
shot off his rifle. The ball went through
weather board, through mans coat
tail and between an invalid lady and her
daughter. Amid the sensation the fell
low looked at the weather board and said
cts smuthe hole
AS colored resident of Detroit was
breasting the storm, with new umbrel-
la over his head, he was halted by a
friend and brother, who asked, "Is dat
your umbrella o. eyes, sah-cost me
81" was the prompt reply. "Mr.
Savage said the other, very solemnly,
wnen man will buy 81 umbrella to
keep de wet off'n fifty cent suit of
close, what's de use to talk about econ
omy?"
A resident who reached Detroit by a
noon train lately, after an absence of
two weeks, was met at the depot by his
eight year old son, who loudly welcomed
him. ''And is everybody well, Willie ?"
asked the father. ''The welIest kind"
replied the boy. "And nothing has
happened ?" Nothing at ALL I've
been good and Jennie's been good. and
I never saw ma behave herself so well as
she has this time ~
regular bumper.-Giying yonr head
q knock The man who mako1 ssI,ott