The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-07-13

are not those who had SIS, 900 given them
| to start with.
MARK TWAIN says: cit is a blessed
| thing to live in a land of plenty; If you
have plenty of land.
UNTIL all men master the art of living
without working there will be COM
plants of hard times.
A CHILD was drowned in n street gut
ter during thunder shower at New
Orleans the other day
A COMMON rat has $50 bones under
his hide. If he hadn't over IA he might
be hit with a club, occasionally.
How melancholy the moon must feel
when it has enjoyed the fullness of pros
perity, and gets reduced to its last quar-
ter.
AN animal was recently killed on the
upper Loup River, Nebraska, that just
answered the description of an Austral-
ian kangaroo.
MANY people have been lately poison
/ ed in London by eating mushrooms,
and there is panic among the house
wives.
THUNDER is certain death to Holsters.
All the live Holsters in the New York
markets were killed by thunder the
other day.
PROFANITY in Texas is against the Law,
500 worth each time. They think of
enforcing the law for month and pay
ing the national debt.
How ministers are killed." is the cap
ton Of an article circulating through the
papers. You may not have one to kill,
but it is we'll to know how it is done.
JOHN MoRRIssEY contemplates going
into the newspaper business. He and
other prominent Democrats talk of es-
tablishing an organ, with a capital of
$500, 900, in Washington.
AN improvement in the devices on
the coinage is contemplated. The prin-
cipal change will be the substitution of
classic head of Liberty in place of
the sitting figure on the diverse of the
silver coins.
The following, from Chicago source
may be received with some reserve
"Last Tuesday, while st. Louis young
woman was putting on a pair of ball
slippers, she found missing sealskin
jacket in the toe of one of them"
AT the Centennial Mexico displays a
solid mass of silver worth S;72, 900; Chill
exhibits ore containing ninty-five per
cent. pure silver, and Switzerland ex-
hibits perfect watch no larger than a
silver half dime, and set in finger ring.
MARK TWAIN, speaking of a new mos
quito netting. writes !: ''The day is
coming when we shall sit under our nets
in church and slumber peacefully, while
the discounted flies club together and
take it out of the minister"
Now is the time for lovers to get
few dabs at his vanilla, and he borrow
ing taste of her chocolate. This pro-
cess inspires confidence in the day when
they will be throwing corn beef and cab
bage across the table.
THE desert of Sahara covers about 9,
100000 square miles. Most of it is
about 1,5C0 above the sea level, but a
portion covering 126, 900 square miles is
below the sea level, and a project for in
undating it from the Atlantic Ocean is
seriously talked of.
STRAwBERRY Ice CREAM-Take two
pounds of fresh strawberries, carefully
picked, and, with wooden spoon, rub
them through hair sieve add the
juice of one lemon sweeten to- taste
color with few drops of prepared cochi-
neal; stir in one pint of sweet cream,
then freeze.
The work of attempting to raise the
British frigate Huzzar, sunk in the East
River with about So, 900, 900 of money in
1850, has been resumed, and The COM
pany are confident of success. But the
gold lies III a most inaccessible place,
and the tide runs like race-horse.
Many people think that the treasure has
been swept away years and years ago.
A CHICAGO boy who is addicted to
going to the theater to see the heavy
drama called his father to supper the
other day by bawling out: ssWhat. he.
there, base craven Come hither to thy
vesperian hash" And when the father
and son came together it sounded rs if
the belt had slipped off cotton fly
wheel. american.
FouR months ago party of divers
started from San Francisco to recover
the treasure from the steamer Golden
Gate, which was wrecked in 1861 off the
coast of Mexico, and from which $775,-
900 were raised in 1868. Land had bur-
led the vessel SO deep that they could
not reach any of the $780, 600 which are
supposed to be still there.
-''WoMAN," said the fat man on the
cracker-barrel, refectively, 'swoman is
like boil. When another man has her
we laugh at him when we have her our
self we cherish and protect her." He
seemed to be a man of pure and lofty
sentiment, and when he said he guess
cd he'd go home and give his wife o
oI,anoa To do tho chor1c avarvboIv rag