The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-10-19
THEY CARRIED IT TOO FAR.

the other day, and in the course of the
| conversation he said
I'm going to move. I can't stand
these Thompsons, next door to me, any
longer. They're the awfullest people to
borrow things that I ever saw. Coffee,
and sugar, and butter, and flour, don't
mind so much, although, when a woman
borrows higi-priced sugar and Java cof-
fee, and sends back sand and chickory,
a man gets bilious and mad. But
they've borrowed pretty near everything
III the house. First it's one thing and
then it s another from morning till night,
right straight along. Now there's that
poker. A poker's piece OF machinery
that you'd think anybody might go and
buy, OF, If they couldn't afford it, they
might use fence paling to stoke UP the
fire. But Mrs. Thompson seems to han
ker after our poker. She borrows it
fifteen or twenty times day, and last
Saturday she sent for it thirty four times.
She pays boy two dollars week to run
over and borrow that poker ; and she's
used it SO much that it's all bent up like
corkscrew.
Now, take. chairs, for. instance. She
asks s;to lend her our chairs three times
day, at every meal, and she borrows
the rocking chair whenever she wants to
put the baby to sleep. Acouple OF times
she sent over fora a sofa, and when the
boy came back with It he said that Mrs
Thompson was mad as thunder, and
kept growing around the house all day,
because there were no castors on it,
Last Monday she borrowed our wash
boiler, and we had to put off our wash
ing till Tuesday She did her preserving
in it, and the consequences was, all of
our clothes were full Of preserved peach
es. I've got an undershirt on now that
I'm mighty doubtful if I'll ever get off,
it's stuck to me SO tight. Every now
and then she has company, and then she
borrows our hired girl, and all the par
lor furniture once, because [ wouldn't
carry over the piano for her and take
down ihe chandelier, she told our girl
that there were rumors about town that
I was reformed pirate.
Perfectly scandalous They think
nothing of sending over after couple
of bedsteads or the entry carpet and
the other day Thompson says to me
'Butterwick, does your pump-leg pull
up easy?' and, when said I thought
may be it did, he said We'll, I'd like
to borrow it for a few days till I can get
one, for mines all rotted away The
only wonder to me is that he didn't try
to borrow the well along with it.
And then, on Thursday, Mrs. Thomp-
son sent that boy over to know if Mrs.
Butterwick wouldn't lend her our front
door, She said their was away being
painted, and she was afraid the baby
would catch cold. When I asked him
what he supposed we were going to do
to keep comfortable without any front
door, he said Mrs. Thompson said she
reckoned we might tack up bed quilt
or something. And, when I refused,
the boy said Mrs. Thompson told him
if I wouldn't send over the front door to
ask Mrs. Butterwick to lend her pair
of striped stockings and a horse-hair
hustle, and to borrow the coal-scuttle
till Monday. What in the name of
Moses she is going to do with hustle
and coal-scuttle can't conceive.
But they're the most extraordinary
people. Last Fourth of July, was it 4?
Yes-last Fourth of July, the boy came
over and told Mrs. Butterwick that Mrs.
Thompson would be much obliged if
she'd lend her the twins for a few min
utes. Said Mrs. Thompson wanted 'em
to suck off new bottle-top, because it
made her baby sick to taste fresh India
rubber Cheeky, wasn't it But that's
her way. She don't mind it any more
Why, l knew her to take off our John
ny's pants when he's been playing over
there with the children, and sent him
home bare legged to tell his mother that
she borrowed them for a pattern. And
on Thompson's birthday she said her
house was Sc small that, if we would lend
her ours we might come in late in the
evening, and dance with the company if
we wouldn't let on that she didn't live
there Yes, sir I am going to move.
I'd rather live next door to a lunatic
asylum and have the maniacs pouring
red hot shot over the fence every hour
of the day. Indeed [ would. MAJ
Adeter.
MUMMIES IN PE.U.-Several months
ago, while making excavations for new
railroad running out of Lima, Peru, the
workmen unearthed near Ancona, inter
esting relics which are on exhibition in
Clinton Hall. They comprise mummies,
both of men and brutes, together with
pottery, cloth, netting, needle work, and
various other things buried in the Peru
Wan tonbs, perhaps 5000 years. On one
table is O collection OF more than fifty
heads, all well preserved. Some are
bare skulls hleaohed to snowy whiteness