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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03
MIR. Shylay Makes Il Call.

Mr.. Shylay is as awkward as new
umbrella, and as timid as sore thumb.
He mustered up courage the other even
ing-on q bet-to call upon young
lady whose brother was an intimate ac-
quaintance. He had planned it all out
beforehand how he would make her be-
ieve he had just dropped IN to see Tom,
who was ont of town at that time, as he
very well knew.
As the servant ushered him into the
parlor, he saw the young lady sitting
upon the other side of the room, and
from that moment he was demoralized
man, and as much bewildered in his
head as though he had dropped in through
the roof from balloon two miles high.
The young lady rose with a smile to
greet him, and, in trying to make bow
in return that should show her how per-
fectly at ease he was, he got tangled up
in two chairs and stepped on the cats
tail, which objected in such decidedly
vociferous manner, with its most e1-
pressive yowhng accompaniment, tha
he opened his mouth like iewelry case
to join in, and spilled his new teeth over
the floor. In making a spring to regain
them, the center table stepped to one
side to make room for him, and nice
lot of valuable ornaments got INTO the
right place at the proper time to get
wrecked and ruined.
After falling over pretty much every
thing in the room he made q desperate
dash for the door, and encountered the
girls mother, who was coming in to as
certain the cause of the hubbub. Her
eye obtained such o close view of his
elbow that it went at once into mourn
ing, and she went spinning out into the
hall, trying to waltz with the hat-rack,
and banging her nose up so that it
wouldn't stand it, and sent an ambassa-
dor in crimson to protest. By this time
her voice was made to understand that
it had work to do, and well it did it.
Shrieks of all sizes chased each other all
over the house, but, before they could
bring the coachman from his nap in the
stable, poor Shylay had managed to get
into the street and far from the scene of
trouble.
He can never go into that mansion
again, he says, and feels that hencefortl
a cloud as thick as brick house will
darken his pathway.
"Horridly, awfully drunk y was the
unanimous verdict of the old lady and
her daughter. Cincinnati Breakfast
Table,
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03
C0lOred VS.. RaId.Headed,

Years ago the then well-known firm
of W. & Co., Boston, agents for popu-
lar line of Australian packet ships, re-
ceived a letter of inquiry from Cincin-
natl. Correspondence followed, and
second-cabin passages were engaged for
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Hatfield, their son
Joseph, Jr., and Miss Blanche, who
were politely urged TO pat in az ap-
pearance in Boston on or before May
5, as "the good ship Daniel Sharp,
whereof Joseph D. Gushing is maste
for this present voyage" would sail on
the day following, weather permitting.
On the morning designated young
darkey exquisite, sporting tall hat and
ivory-headed cane, sauntered into the
elegantly appointed Office and de-
manded:
"Is dis yer de office of W. & Go. ?"
Eyes, it is," growled the senior w.
from behind his desk, frowning over his
gold-bowed spectacles at the intruder.
"Wel, sab, me and my folks are
gw1ne out to Melbourne in your ship
Daniel Sharp, r.
"Not if L know it-you are not going
to do any such thing"
Chow so, sab? Dida't [ correspond
wild you from Cincinnati, and engage
passage for my fodder and mudder and
Miss Blanche?''
"What is your name Hatfield p
roared the dismayed agent.
eyes, sab, my names Hatfield. and"
"Why in the devil didn't you notify
me that you were colored ?"
"Why in de debbil didn't you notify
me dat you was bald-headed?"
The pertinent rejoinder silenced old
W., and, although two or three passen-
gers who preferred to have the color-hne
drawn outside of ships second cabin
gave up their berths and were refunded
their passage money, the Hatields com
placently sailed in the Sharp.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03
A .TSefuJ Wife.

They had been out to the graveyard
to bury Mrs. Pidgeon, and were riding
home in the carriage with the bereaved
widower. While he sopped his eyes
with his handkerchief he told about her:
sIn one respect 1 never saw her equal.
She was a manager. I've knowed that
woman that's lying out there in the tomb
to take an old pair of my trousers and
cut them up for the boys. She'd make
a splendid suit of clothes for both. Of
them out of them old pants, and aocss1s
for Johnny, and have some left over for
a rag-carpet, besides naking handker-
chiefs out of the pockets, and hustle
for herself out of the other Innings. Give
her any old garment and it was as good
as a gold mine. Why, she'd take
WORKOUT sock and make good overcoat
out OF it, I believe. She had a turn for
that kind Of economy. There's one OF
nv shirts that I bought in 1847 still go
ing about making itself useful as window
curtains and plenty of other things;
Only last July our gridlron gave out, ana
she took it apart, and In two hours
it was rugged on the side Of the house
as splendid hghtning-rod, all except
what she had made into poker and an
ice-pick. Ingenious? Why, she kept
her family IN buttons ana Whistles out
of the ham bones she saved, and she
made fifteen princely chicken coops from
her old hoop skirts, and q pig pen out OF
her used-up corset bones. She never
wasted solitary thing. Let cat die
around our house, and the first thing
you knew Mary Jane'd have muf and
a set Of furs, and I'd begin to find rnince
pies on the dinner-table. She'd stuff a
feather bed with the feathers she'd got
off one little bit Of a rooster, and she'd
even utilize the reaches in the kitchen
SOS they'd run the churn-had ma
chine she invented for the purpose. I've
seen her COOK potato paring5 SOS you q
tfiEk they were canvas back duck, and
sLa hsd way of doctorinS up shavlngs
that tie pig'd eat 'enn Rad grow fat on
'en. / believe that woman could build
four-story hotel if you'd give her a
single pine board; or a steamboat out OF
a rash biler; and the very last thing she
said to me vas to bury her in the gar
,len. SOS she'd be useful down below
there, helping to shove up the cabbages.
I'll never see her like again"
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03
A Practical ,TOke,

A sense of the 1udicrous is very en-
ioyable thing, but it may be too highly
developed occasionally. This seems to
be the case with an English farmer who
has recently appeared before the courts.
He was sitting in the parlor of an inn,
one evening, reading the news, when his
eye CHANGED to fall on the sleeping form
of man with long beard. He went
to the fire, and, lighting piece of paper,
deliberately applied it to the sleeping
mans beard. There was bright, rush
ing flame for second or two; the man
spr-ng to his feet in agony; the joke
was complete, and the farmer roared in
ecstasy. The unfortunate sufferer, who
happened to be the village tailor, knew
that the farmer was man of substantial
means, and sued him for damages. Dur
ing the entire trial the farmer fostered
his sense of humor, and laughed up
roariously when it was stated that the
plaintiffs beard was originally eighteen
inches long. He did not laugh SO heart
lily when he was called upon to pay 81. ZOO
and costs.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03
WIT AND HUMOR.

NEVER try to sleep off drunk on a
railroad track. tits dangerous.
ALL the girls are becoming vegetari-
ans. They wear turn-up hats.
IT is fact that 243 English persons
went mao from love last year.
THEY have dime savings banks in Chi
cago-banks that save for depositors a
dime out of every dollar.
New MADRID, Mo-, claims to be the
geographical center of the earthquake
circle. Glad to hear it-shake.
A ST.. LOUIS paper is discussing the
question, "Does it hurt man to hang
him2" OF course it does; it ruins him.
WHAT o silent old world it would be ii
men talked only as much as they think
A fellow would have to carry rattle
around with him to make noise with.
SUPPOSE some one starts losing bank
for a change. AS nearly all the savings
banks lose, perhaps a losing bank would
save. The experiment is worth trying,
anyhow.
In order to save time and trouble,
young men should remember that it is
blowing sand and sowing salt to at
tempt to talk poetry to a girl who has
been eating onions.
IL Russian school the spelling class
wears out new alphabet every week.
Some of the most knotty words are
smoothed off with n jack-plane before
given to the class.
IT is foolishness for man to try to
make game of boarding house chicken
by looking at it, under the impression
that steady gaze of the human eye Will
make any animal quail.
FRANKIE (aged A." Mamma, lady
at school kissed me to-day" Mamma
"Did she, dear? I hope you kissed
her lack. frankie Gndignantly)-
Kissed her back No 1 didn't; 1
kissed her cheek.
A GossIPING woman went into n neigh
boris, intent on slander, and exclaimed,
as she threw herself into chair: Gone
half the world dc7c't know how the other
half lives = '.Ihat isn't your fault,
quietly responded the neighbor.
A coLLEaIAN interested in the subject
of civiI-service reform suggests that all
the clerks in the Department of tbe In
terror are under Schurz, and that they
ought to be changed at least once in
four years, in the interest of purity IN
the service.
A PARTY Of gentlem IN were talking
about courfipg, and one of them sadly
said he should never risk that kind Of
thing. 'Why SOP was the general ex-
clamation. because, said he, "Ham
Harris has just courted investigation,
and it's ruined him."
ST APOLOGIZE for saying you could not
open your mouth without putting your
foot in it." said the editor, sternly re-
garding the horsewhip she held over his
head "I solemniy assure you that
when I said it had no idea of the size
Of your foot.
A CLERGYMAN, on applying for an ap-
pointment, was asked: :" hope, sir, you
drink in moderation" "Well, try as
much as possible to drink like beast. "
Like a beast2' eyes 1 stop when
I have had enough, and that is what
beast always does.
THIS is an off season for the small boy.
He can't eat green fruit and he
can't fall through an ice-hole; SO he
hangs round the parlor and tells his
sisters young man how much of Anna
Marias chiefest glory is hair and how
much is lutte switch.-Puck
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03
RING OUT, WILD BELLS
BY Alfred TENNYsoN.

Ring out wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ri lg out, wild bells, and let hlfn de-
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring happy bells, across the snow;
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor
Ring in redress to al mankind.
Ring out the slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws
Ring out the want, the care, the sin.
The falthless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring he fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false PRIDE in place and blood,
The civic SANDER and the spite;
Ring IN the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love OF good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease:
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold
Ring ont the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03

NEVADA dogs seem to be made Of
:. .sterner stuff than other American
ours. Last week one fell down q ninety
fve-foot shaft-struck with emphasis on
hard rock, lived sixteen days without
food OF water, was taken out otter that
time and Immediately ran down and
totally destroyed rat that presumed too
much ON appearances, and approached
rather too near the sickly-look1Dg
canine.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03
MRS. E. KERN,

WORK STREET, MANITOWOC. WIS, DEAL
Il er in Dry Goods Groceries, Crockery, Fam
cy Goods, Glass ware. Boots and Shoes, Ready
made Clothing, Paper Hangings, Hats, Caps,
Toys. Children Carriages, Live Geese Feathers,
Bird Cages, Kerosene Oil and Lamps, &C., &C.
share of public patronage is solicited.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03
4. p. MEIENDY.

DHOTOGRAPHER, EIGHTH ST., WHITES
Il new block. Manitowoc, Wis, is prepared to
take Photographs or Tintypes of every size ana
in the latest style of the art All negatives re-
touched. Call and examine specimens and
prices Copying and enlarging old pictures
speciality. keep constantly on hand q large
assortment of frames for the trade.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03
GUSTAV FEHRS.

w ATCTISIAKER AND JEWELER. OFFERS
w his services for repairing all kinds of Clocks
and Watches. Has fine and well selected
sortment of the latest and best styles of Clocks,
American, English and Swiss Watches, as also
Store on 8th street, South side, door south of
kremerS, Manitowoc.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03
T. RANSCH,

1EWELER AND PHOTOGRAPHER. ALL
y kinds of work in the line of my business
promptly attended to, and warranted to give
satisfaction. | have just received Wing & Orns-
bey's Multiplying CAMERA OBSCURA, with
which can take small pictures of the finest or
der, for one dollar per dozen. Photographs taken
of all sizes. Albums and Frames constantly on
hand. York Street.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03
CHARLES HOVER.

MERCHANT TAILORING ESTABLISH
Nl ment, on 8th street, near south end of
Bridge. The tailoring department is complete,
and contains "a large assortment of fashionable
cloths and Gents furnishing goods constantly
on hand. Please call aud examine before pur-
chasing elSew here
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FRED. SEEGER.

OFFERS TO HIS FRIENDS AND THE PUB
y lie generally, a choice selection of Fresh
Hams, Shoulders, Sausages, Tallow and Lard at
the lawest rates. Market on Commercial Street.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03
CHAS. KARNOFSKY

THE OLD ORIGINAL BARBER AND HAIR
i dresser, Manitowoc, Wis. Corner Eighth
hand a well assorted stock of Neck-ties Collars,
Hair-oils and Perfumery.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03
NEW BARBER SHOP.

DIEGEL & HERMANN, PROPRIETORS,
ID Eight Street, near Commercial We cor
daily invite friends and the public general
ly to give q call.
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s. SANDERSON.

MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
1NI Boots, Shoes Leather, &C., &C. Shop on
Buffalo street, near the corner of Eighth. Re-
pairing neatly and promptly executed.
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r. x. PAINE. M. D..

HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, SURGEON
IL and Accoucher. late resident Physician at
the Hahnemann Hospital, Chicago, has perman-
tly located at Manitowoc. Office in Plumbs
building, corner of Buffalo and Eighth Streets.
OFFICE HOURS StoS Stos a; and1 n; 1+ospM
Diseases Of the eye and ear treated.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03
FRANZ & TREAT.
NEW HARDWARE STORE.

II AW AND ABSTRACT OFFICE, FRANZ
i j Block, South Eighth street, Manitowoc,
Wis. Collections promptly attended to.
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Ed. BOrcherdt, Editor & Pub.
OFFICE, Corner York and Main Sts.
TERMS, $500 PER YEAR
JOB PRINTING.

run by steam power, and has the largest and
best appointed Job Printing Department.. Par
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sion to his late employer, and to Julia
Leyland, who deeply suffered for her
thoughtlessness and folly.
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DENTISTRY.

nR. A. ]. PATCHEN. DENTIST. OFFICE
IL in Sherman's new building, on Sth Street,
Manitowoc Wis.
GS Teeth extracted without pain.
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H, G. & W. J, TURNER
WHITE & FORREST,

A TTORNEYS AT LAW, OFFICE ON sTH
n Street, South side, over K9hlers store, Man
itowoc, Wisconsin.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03

NJ SCHAUS, DEALER IN STOVES, TIN
N and Hardware. Platt's Block, York Street
Prices very low. Repairing promptly attended
to. Patronage solicited.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-03
G. E. ESTABROOK,
NASH & SCHMITZ,

A TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW.
IA Office, corner Eighth and Quay Streets,
South Side, near the Post Office.
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4 TTORNEYS AND COUNCILLORS AT LAW
IA Office over Plart's store, corner of York
and Ninth streets. Collections promptly atten-
ded to-
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DHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, TENDERS
i his professional services to the people of the
City and County of Manitowoc. Office on York
street, between Eighth and Ninth, where night
calls will be attended to.
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J. d. MARKHAM.

A TTORNEYS AT LAW. OFFICE ON STH
II street, South side, opposite Schuette's Store.
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ii. COAKLEY, NJ. D.,

A TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW.
IL Office, corner of 8th and Quay streets.
Manitowoc Wisconsin,
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THE TRIBUNE.

ONE INCH SPACE MAKES A SQUARE.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-08-07
Skeleton Leaves.

At a recent meeting of the scientific
of the Royal British Horti-
cultural Society, some beautiful speci-
of skeleton leaves were shown, the
exhibitor stating that that they were
prepared in accordance with these gen.
eral principles: For the dissection of
leaves maceration is too long and tedi-
Gus, to say nothing of the uncertainty
as to the results. The use of alkali in
saturated solution is preferable, the
specimens to be introduced while the
liquid is heated to boiling point. The
time of immersion is to be regulated by
the character of the various leaves, and
the nature of the epidermis to be re-
moved. When the specimen is freed
from epidermis and cellular tissue, it
must be subjected to the action of chlor.
inc to destroy the coloring matter. The
introduction of peroxide of hydrogen
serves not only to render the lace-like
specimens purer in color, but preserves
it also. In destroying the coloring mat
ter in ferns this also is invaluable; add
ed to the chlorine it gives a sOlidity to
the bleached fronds, and appears to
equalize the action of the chlorine. For
skeletonizing capsules, the slow process
of maceration by sleeping in rain water
is alone available moderate heat may
be applied to hasten the process, but
alkali is useless. The only known
flower which can he dissccted is the n.y.
drangea japonica. The fibrous nature
of the petals renders it easy TO skeleton
ize in the perfect truss in which it
grows. ~Skeletonized leaves and capsules
appear to gain in the process a tough
ness and durability not possessed by
them in a natural state.
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4 Greek 0entleman's Costume.

The Greek dress is extremely tasteful
and picturesque, though we doubt if it
would be just the thing for practical
Americans. We refer, of course to the
genuine Greek, and not to him of the
genus Hibernian. A correspondent
writing to Temple Bar gives the follow
ing description of the Greek dress az he
saw it in all its brilliancy on a Sunday
afternoon:
"The fustanella, a sort Of white cotton
petticoat, fastened around the waist in a
thousand folds, is the same for the pail
kari and the peasant, and is unorna-
mented. The belt, always of silk, is
wide and long, embroidered with gold.
The waistcoat is OF the greatest variety
Of black velvet or any colored silk, with
round buttons to match, and braided in
the most fantastic patterns-as q wit re-
marked, "A ball of string gone into
fits" A very short vest sometimes
leaves the neck open, or is fastened by q
double button. This ia the richest part
Of the costume; the sides and back are
covered with embroidery of silk mingled
with gold and silver. In the dress of
some rich people the original stuff is en-
tirely hidden under q mass of gold braid,
such an article costing about SO, and
wide open sleeves, also embroidered,
show the silk shirt. Caters fall over 3
patent-leather boot, meeting the silk
trousers below the knee, where they are
fastened by silk garters, which are gen.
orally a n chefF 9ucre of exquisite work
manship. The fe1i is the head-gear for
all alike, only varying in the richness of
the black, blue or gold tassel, sometimes
fastened BY a diamond clasp"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-08-07
Queer Place for a Worm.

Henry r, Funk, of Allentown, hasfor
some time been the victim of a disease
which he believed to be consumption.
He wasted away under his besetting
malady until there was hardly anything
left on his bodily frame save the skin,
and he had about made up his mind that
it would be best for him to prepare for
the inevitable. He had for a considera-
BILE time experienced at intervals queer
sensations in his windpipe, as if there
was some creeping thing in it, and fire.
quently remarked these experiences to
his family, but was as often talked out of
it as being the natural results of his
sickness or mere imagination. On a re-
cent day while seated in a rocker the
sensation again presented itself. 1t felt
exactly, he says, as if some reptile was
endeavoring to crawl up and out of his
trachea, and being about the same time
taken with a severe coughing fit he to
his great surprise, as we'll as the utter as
constituent of his family, expelled a Gu
rious worm about two inches in length,
and thick in its middle as a straw stem.
1t was of a whitish color, and so trans
parent that the blood in its vitals, and
which it had absorbed from its victim,
could be clearly discerned. The worms
head was sharp as a needle and its hinder
part fat and stumpy. 1t was remarka-
bly, active and worked its head with
great energy. How it came to the man,
or in what manner it originated is a
thing altogether inexplicable, his doctor,
to whom the worm was given, and who
has it preserved it alcohol, never having
heard of a like case before. The man
has since experienced a change for the
better, and feels so much improved that
he is inspired with. confidence that be
will soon again be a well manufacturing
Eagle.
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on, and not with, a violin, in a forced,
nervous, unnatural manner. One of
these human hot-house plants, the Bra
lillian child, Maurice Dengremont, Is
now being exhibited here by n of the
purveyors of artistic sensations, q
Herman. He-that is the childl@-
cially IL years Of age, but his fac looks
3O--hard and ghastly-and III soon
look ghostly, If ! do not pi6fake; but
certainly no human m1Acal engine
played better; and draws, and that,
of course, is th kIo point. The Tivoli
Gardens, wAet. he plays, are full every
night, and ladies are charmed at the
little 'darI ng,' who receives at least
half a So OF bonbons every evening.
He re1HlHds me of a poor little woman,
Qpf winters old, whom / n 9 saw
MeWhere in Whitechapel, and who
Was-I can't call it anything else-but q
human matchbox making machine
Poor little thing, she has often haunted
me since, with her own pale face, the
large, unnaturally bright eyes, and heI
little fingers mechanically applying the
lgnm to the sides of the pasteboard. But
1T w<ptsa Dickens to do justice to thi'
scene of human misery.