The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-09-06
PLEASANTRIES.

A WOMAN loses one-tenth of her life
in looking for her thimbie.
MAGGIE MITCHELL is going to throw
her whole sole into Little Barefoot +"
this winter.
AN Irish agricultural journal says that
potatoes should always be boiled in
cold water"
PEOPLE learn wisdom by experience.
A man never wakes up his second baby
to see it laugh.
THEY are fools who persist in being
quite miserable because they are not
quite happy.
10 MINGLE the useful with the beauti-
full is the highest style of art. The one
adds grace and the other value.
The Iowa man who invented grasshop-
per soup has concocted beautiful sauce
of cockroaches and kerosene oil.
A LITTLE Philadelphia girl: "Bless
papa and mamma, and oh please don't
let the baby squall tonight. Amen"
THREE good looking young ladies, the
other day, stood beside a grocer's sign
which read: "Don't squeeze these
peaches. %
"HAvE I not right to be saucy if I
please?" asked a young lady of an old
bachelor. eyes, if you please, but not
if you displease.'' -
SPEAKING Of dancing, clergyman hits
the nail on the head with the remark
that "people usually do more harm
with their tongues than with their toes. :"
A YOUNG lady in Jacksonville, Fla,
has reluctantly come to the conclusion
that as she has not yet kindled a flame
in any mans heart she is not good
match.
RUFUS CnoATE once said that when he
had been on the Rhine two days he
knew the whole river perfectly; couldn't
have known it better if he had been
drowned in it.
A KENTUCKY Judge has very kindly
consented to postpone a hanging a
couple of weeks, in order that it may
add to the pleasant and attractive feat
ures of Sunday-school picnic.
AT Sunday-school teacher asked a
little boy if he knew what the expression
"sowing tares % meant. "Courth do, :"
said he, pulling a part of his trousers
around in front, s there's a tear my ma
sowed feared it when I was sliding
down hill"
"WHAr's the use of all this sacrifice
of human life, this bloody butchery of
Turks and Russians ?" said a Philadel-
phia Quaker to a Cincinnati hog mer-
chant 81 don't know" replied the
latter mournfully; "pork isn't riz any
that I can see.''
HIS Reverence (time, Sunday morn
ing)-" Tim, you don't name to say your
master is going to work the poor baste
to-day?" Tim" Oh, no, yir Reverence !!
Yir see, he's been hard to work all the
week, so the master thought he'd take
him out to-day for bit of holiday p
THIS lady and her daughter, as every
body knows, spare no effort to repair
the ravages of time in their faces, and
are not always successful. "I saw
Nine. E." says friend; chow old and
worn she looks" eyes; poor woman.
She is beginning to look as old as her
daughter. ."-P0ris paper.
LIES LETTERs-BY A VICTIM OF INPE-
CURIOSITY.
Out ON Cadnus and his etters
Life is hateful through his pains
Men held airy fetters,
Bound in alphabetic chains.
Chidhood's hours are gay and sprighty,
While we wander glad and free,
But how changed is all when tightly
| Captive held by BIC!
Then, again, wnen man is mated,
What joy this world would be,
If it were not dominated
BY the curse of L S d!
| So throughout, with power Titanic,
| Letters all our days pursue;
| But the worst and most tyrannic
Is the hateful o U.