The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-01-16

/ linen iHeS ii tlTl and watch each other
| Nearly out OF sight,
Each viii say, ''She dresses awful!
She's hoT1id frightr ~
Ansell Merritt advertises as follows in
| Troy, Kansas: "Whereas, when | am in
! toxicated | am not competent TO make
contracts; and whereas, have been taken
| advantage of on several occasions recently.
in such contracts, notify all persons that
| shall not hereafter fulfil any contracts
made by me when drunk"
A farmer once hired man to assist in
drawing logs. The man, when there was
| log to lift, generally contTived to secure
the small end. Dinner came, and with 1t
| a sugar-loaf Indian pudding. Jonathan
| sliced off a generous slice OF the largest
| part. giving the farmer a wink, and eX-
claimed always take the butt end!'
| Perry Mills and Frank Griffith met in
| Fisalia, CAL after long separation. They
| were very glad indeed to see each other
"Ive been looking for you more'n two
| years. said one. This is what I've been
lOngin' for" said the other. Then each
| drew revolver and began to fire. The
| wounds were numerous, but not mortal.
| Printing was discovered four hundred
| and thirty-four years ago, but nobody has
! vet discovered how to run a newspaper to
| suit everybody.-Yonkers Gazette. Oh,
| YES. there has We have them calling at
| our office every day, stop US in the street,
| or tell US how to do it in the horse car
| E..
! Within a year or TWO a considerable
number Of hides Of the japanese wolf have
been imported into this country. The
| hair is long, thick and coarse, and in col
or is similar to that of the opossum. 1t
makes durable and rather an attractive
robe, ranging in price from eighteen to
| twenty-five dollars each according to size.
The fashion in ladies' coltfures IN Paris
| is to brush the hair more and more from
the neck, so that the modern female head
looks like Pompeian cameo. Powder is
coming into use again. At the races at
Longchamps, there were two ladies, form
erly blondes, who appeared with canary
| yellow hair. They were very pretty, and
SO no one said anything.
| doctor, what do you think is the mat
ter with my little oy?" "Why, it's only
a currulitiied exegesis anti-spasmodically
| OhIdlIalILiS IIOIi tiC germ Vi lIlc dillndl
refrigerator producing a prolific source of
irritability in the pericranial epidermis Of
The mental profundity." '.Ah that's
what told Betsy, but she lowed it was
Wurrums."
Sufferers are compelled TO take life
easily whether they will or no. Two men
thus afflicted were at work at a forge.
The iron was red hot and placed on the
anvil, when the first one said: John, SIS
strike it hard The other answered:
Jim, VIII wh-where shall l hi-hit?" mo
l'm-m-matter now. its got cO-cO-cold, was
the reply, and the bar was put into the
forge again.
At political gathering in Buffalo late
ly, where d large number of smokers were
| together, one gentleman remarked that it
was no pleasure to him to smoke in the
dark; and the discussion spreading, it was
discovered that nobody had ever been
heard Of who did enjoy a pipe or cigar
when he couldn't see the smoke. Is this
universal experience!
Among the notable incidents of the
stagnation Of the last three years is the
fact that at Brussels not single firm or
company n the iron trade has failed. On
| the contrary, Belgium iron continues to
be sold, and England is being undersOld
| by Belgium IN her own markets. and has
! even bad contracts filled in that country
in several instances.
| AT SHOVE is hot UuU vi IuUse JIuuuIueu
| who regard their residence here as only
| temporary, and look forward eagerly to a
| return to their native land. He engaged
in business in Boston thirty years ago,
| married a German woman, and grew
| wealthy. He is now widower, lives on
fine suburban estate, and has two pref
ty, educated daughters.
The question as to the kind Of carriage
way which should supersede macadam is
receiving a practical answer in London at
the present time. Asphalt holds lis
ground in the city, and granite is still en-
plOyed. But the tavorite material seems
now to be wood, which is being put down
in various parts of London on half a score
OF different systems
A New Jersey physician, heavily load.
ed with town lots, for which he had paid
only in part, hastily prescribed a box of
pills for patient and allowed his mind
to wander back to his real estate. The
patient asked how the pills were to be
taken The doctor replied: Zone third
down, the balance in six and twelve
months, with interest"
Let every sound be dead
| Baby sleeps.
The Emperor softly tread
Baby sleeps.
| Let Mozart'S music stop!
| Let Phidias's chisel drop
Baby sleeps.
Demosthenes be dumb!
Our tyr;ant hour has come
Baby sleeps
A Milan gambler recently played four
numbers at the royal lottery. On the day
of the drawing, three of his numbers and
81, instead OF 30, which he had PLAYED
came out Of the bag. \ miss is as good
as mile, especially in the eyes of royal
lotteries; but as he had been so near win
ming, it was more than his mind could
stand, and he had to be shut up in luna
tic asylum.
Cotton factories and cotton seed mill:
are constantly increasing in the South. A
little establishment near Westminster,
Ga, of which the machinery only cost
$4,000, turns out about S27 worth of man
utactured goods daily, and employs eight
hands at fifty cents day The village
consumes the product, and the owners,
who are also planters, obtain vastly high
er price for their cotton than if they ship
ped it.
The referee in the divorce case of Mrs
BealS against her husband, in San Fran
cisco, filed his report in her favor She
was dying, and it was her earnest desire
to die the wife of Mr. Gardiner. That
reason for haste was stated to Judge
Wheeler, who obligingly made his con
firmatory decision without delay. On the
following morning the newspapers con-
tanned notices of her divorce from Beals
of her marriage to Gardiner, and of bcI
death.
Mrs. Dixon iourneyed on the Chicago
and St. Paul Railroad with her eight chill
dren. The oldest of them was boy Of
IA, and it was natural that, with smaller
oDaS in bar arms and clirCincr IN bar Sbt