The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-01-20
MISCELLANEOUS.


A ''party call' should be made within
a week after the entertainment is given.
A ''pearl wedding" occurs on the six
tieth anniversary of the marriage day.
''Please avoid dollar stores, is the
warning written on cards recently issu
ed for silver wedding.
Another Croesus has announced his
iun-tention of putting up another man.
moth hotel in Frisco.
A gentleman's hat has been made of
the hair of two young ladies and sent to
CHILEAN Exhibition.
Near Prescott. Arizona, in a locality
known rs Happy Valley, is military
station with the anomalous designation
of Fort Misery.
The Rothschilds could pay our nation
al debt and then be the richest house in
the world. Bet you they won't do it.
The piano voted to popular Indian
apolis man at a lady's relief bazaar was
Immediately seized by the Sheriff to
satisfy debt.
In Waterloo, Ind, recently, a milk
man found bunch of shingles in his
COW yard one morning, bearing the in
scription, ssShingle yonr cows"
4 jury in the Bartlett county Circuit
Court, Colorado. recently decided case
of assault with intent to kill, by a game
of euchre. The verdict was Guilty
of assault and battery"
The man who is curious to see how
the world could get along without him
can find out by sticking eambric-need-
lie into a mill pond and then withdrawing
it and looking at the hole.
It has been discovered that the same
kind OF coloring matter which poisons
the striped stockings is also used to col
or bad whiskey. In both cases it goes
to the legs and ruins the understanding.
A Jersey City man wanted plain
hencoop built, and the estimates of the
dTCultecIS IdlISeu lIotu fPioo W R-, -'o'
He went to work and built it for 81, and
now places the American architect along
| side the American detective.
1t took Sir Isaac Newton less than
three years to thoroughly digest the
principals of gravitation, while an In
diana farmer has spent eleven years fry
ing to find out why a COW never kicks
until the pail is two-thirds full.
A woman of Pekin. H., was asked by
her minister if her husband feared the
Lord. She replied Gear him Bless
you, he's afeared of him that he never
goes out on Sunday without taking his
gun along
A Cuakertown man has solved Mrs.
Livermore' query ''What shall we do
with our daughters 2" He has purchased
two washing machines, and will take in
washing. His wife and seven daughters
are tc do the work, and he will superin-
tendent the business.
It was in Omaha. A lawyer was ad-
dressing the Judge, and the Judge
was eating peanuts and reading a nov
ell. The lawyer bore it for some time,
and then angrily remarked, 81 sup
pose I'm entitled to claim the attention
of this Court" 'Well, sir,'' retorted
the Judge, ''the Court has long sus-
pected you, and will do its duty the
first chance it GETS
One of the young men employed in
a Danbury hat factory, discovered a
brass collar button in a piece of mince
pie he was masticating, the other day.
He is looking for new boarding house.
He says he wants the comforts Of a
home, and not the excitement of dol
liar store.
Kladderadatsch, the Berlin Punch,
devotes an amusing little cartoon to the
Cuban question. 1t represents ii most
rascally-loolzing Yankee crawling up out
of a cavern with outstretched fingers to
pluck jewel from the Spanish crown,
while Don Carlos, dim in the distance,
dances with excitement and shouts out
"Alphonso Alphonso ! look out
There's fellow trying to steal a piece
of my crown from YOU"
The Grand Jury at Jacksonville, Fla,
makes the following disclosure: We find
that there are three prisoners in the Jail
who have been there nearly two years for
the pltiful sum of SO costs each. These
prisoners have cost the county nearly
5000. We recommend that the county
commissioners pay the fines, release the
prisoners, and thereby save money for
the county.
Each house in London is supplied
with tank Of a regulated size, and each
morning man comes along and turns on
the water from the street main until
| this tank has time to fill, and then turns
it off again until the next day. OF
course, standing thus all day, especially
in summer, and where ice is almost an
unknown luxury, it becomes insipid for
drinking purposes. But that makes no
difference to the average Londoner he
rarely drinks any water.
Louisville has been amused by row
in fashionable boarding house. A
boarder refused to either pay his bill,
or to go away until the month for which
he had bargained had expired. The
landlady was told by the lawyers that
the money wat not legally due until the
end of the month. and that she must