The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-15
PARAGRAPHS,


pilia cs Yer up their goods on Saturday,
their Sabbath.
Mr. Storey, OF the Chicago Times,
has started licw evening paper called
the Telegraph. 1t sells for three cents.
"A train for the Centennial leaves
New York every seven minntcs and
''makes'' Philadelphia in a little over
two hours.
Time is Incidentally long, and every
day is {: vessel into which much may be
poured, if one only wishes to fill it up.
Goethe.
On farm at the Gap, Lancaster
county Pa, there are chestnut fence
rails, well preserved, which were made
in 1760-117 years ago.
An Oshkosh man recently lost a $40
bill on the street, and few hours after
wards his dog came trotting home with
the money in his mouth.
One Of the clowns in Barnum's new
show puts the conundrum: "Why is
the Centennial like home Because it's
the dearest spot on earth -
About as mean posishun as emmy
man kan put himself into il to work all
the time for the Devil and look all the
time to the Lord for his pay.
II you have built castles i'll the air,
your work must not be lost; that is
where they should be. Now pat foun-
dations under them -IH0reau.
Time softens all things. \ man
who had been even kicked by George
Washington would be looked upon with
some sort of respect were he alive now.
Tom Thumb is raising oranges i'll
Florida. 1t is q lard thing for Tom to
do, bat he does it. An orange to Tom
is just about the size of pumlin to an
ordinary man.
The rooms OF the Meriden Young
Mems Christian Association have been
furnished with billiard tables. Some Of
the boys forget themselves and pound
on TIE floor with their cues.
The San Francisco Call says: s'Sac-
ramento. Cal, has for some time had 81
factory for the making of sugar from
beets. AMI now the experiment is to be
tried in that city Of manufacturing su-
gar from melons.
An exchange says: 'New York la
dies wear nothing but the gypsy hats -
And unless the hrim of the hat is at
least fo,sr feet deep, and turns down all
around, we should think a modest man
would want to leave that city
The Paris Kentuckian says that a
citizen of that place sent dispatch Oh
Tuesday to his father in Baden, Ger
many, and received an answer thereto
within four hours. The dispatch con-
tanned fourteen words and cost $16. TO-
There IL a lady living in Richmond
Indiana, who was married when twelve
years OF age. When fifteen years old
she was the mother of two children, and
when thirty her children numbered ten.
Eight Of hcr children are now living.
A single field in Grimes County,
Texas, contains thirteen thousand acres
all under one fence, without cross
fence III it; ten thousand acres all in cul-
tivation. Nearly the entire field belongs
to one man, who rents it out to tenants
at two dollars per acre.
The Morgan Line steamship Austin
from Havana, struck snag in the river
twenty-five miles below New Orleans
Thuss,lay afternoon, and sunk. Her car
go was valued at $50, ,00G; she had on
board 700 hogsheads of sugar The
vessel was valued at a125, 600, and is a
total loss; 10 insurance.
An ingenious Frenchman on Long
Island cl;iims to have discovered a sure
means Of destroying the potato bugs.
Mix one gallon of prussic acid with
three ounces of rend rock, stir well, and
administer a tablespoon every hour and
n half til the bug shows signs of weak
ening. Then stamp on HIM.
Brooklyn Argus: a simple peasant
from the wilds of New England was
alighting from the cars at Washington
depot, il company with friend, when
the latter pointed out the first distin-
o-,,iobo,1 Iodine, MOI, Ia cow n, L nv
laimed: "Look, George there goes one
of the greatest statesmen in this coun-
try" ''Dew tell ~ calculated the simple
peasant. ''How much has he stolen ?'
"A young man was lounging about
the Office the other day complaining that
he had lost his place. s'It's pretty
hard thing" lie dubiously observed,
'for q man with wife and two children
to be thrown out of work at this time,
with strawberries Is cents quart. We
felt that any words of ours, however
well intended, would sound like hollow
mockery to such q grief.
"A woman got off the train at
Wrightstown last week, and proceeding
to the woods left her two weeks old IL
FAINT in a clunp of busllcs doubled up in
q band box. By mere chance, man
hunting for his cows heard the clies Of
the babe, and proceeding to the spot,
found it and carried it home. The child
was richly dressed, and appeared to be
of more wealthy parents than character
lied the woman who was seen to get of
the train with it. No clue to the woman