Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-03-07
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not yet returned it.
B1@ Dress plainly-the thinnest soap
bubbles wear the grandest cclors.
n1@What part of fish weighs most?
The scales.
There is but one thing thoroughly
annoying to an author-silence.
- Every reform, however necessary
will by weak minds be carried to an excess
that will itself need reforming.
gF Many pride themselves upon be-
ing wild young men, who are only wild
beasts.
rs Il is no misfortune Cor nee young
lady to lose her good name if young gen.
tleman gives her better.
IGy@ The eulogies of critics without
taste or orjudgment are the natural reward
of authors without feeling or genius.
B5 A proper secresy is the only mys-
terry of able men mystery is the only Sc
cresy of weak and cunning ones
B@ A compliment Is usually accompa-
MED with bow, as if to beg pardon for
paying it,
g8F Praises of the unworthy are felt
by ardent minds as robberies of the de-
serving. r
- However high house rents may be,
you can always have at least one room at
your command-th room for improvement.
Where girl has too many boys
about her tAe indication is like that of
buoys off "a harbor- shallowness here.
- The tairest privilege of friendship
lies in this, that the friend loves us with
our faults, while others only love us be-
cause they do not see them.
H1@ Why is it impossible for person
who lisps to believe in the existence of
young ladies? He takes every miss for Il
myth. .-.. ....r
gGzF Our relations, are always in ex-
tremes sometimes they exaggerate our
merits, at other times they make the most
of our faults .... ........ ..-. .. -.s-
Ia During an examination medical
student being asked, 'When does morti6-
tion ensue?" he replied, "when you pop
the question, and are answered, No."
agg@ The President does not want the
public to believe all that's told of private
conversations with him as worth believing
unless it has "Abraham Lincoln" at the
bottom IL s-
P ''Pretty doings, this, said Mrs.
Stubs, looming home at three or four
o'clock in the morning and telling me it's
only one." ''Well,'' growled Stubbs. "i.'s
all one to me- - -'~ '7'
AE The difficulty with men of emf
nence is, not to obtain friends, but to keep
them What success and renown attracts,
attentions, kindness and sincere regard can
alone retair.
gD@ Learn in childhood, if you can,
that happiness is not outside, but inside
A good heart and clear conscience bring
happiness, where riches and no circum-
stances ever do.
Ugy However frivolous they may be,
women soon discover the remarkable DUAL.
tiles. of their husbands, and are generally
willing to recognise superiority in which
they may almost be said to have a person.
al interest. I 5saa-aI-rF
aB@ docs the razor take hold well?"
inquired darkey, who was shaving gen.
tleman from the country Yes" replied
the customer, with tears in his ey: s, ''is
takes hold first rate bdt i. don't l,t 90
worth cent" "1s "e 5TE s# n'
eJ~ Several of tho Congressional
friends of Ger. Fremont, including promi-
nent members of the Committee on the
conduct of the war, are understood to have
preferred an urgent requ, st to the Presi-
dent to have the General assumed to
new command.
- To those who know and love each
other best, there are certain instincts and
feelings, so peculiar to the posscssor that
words are nothing in expressing or in ar
guing against them. Language which is
adapted to the ordinary wants of men, in
such cases tells nothing. There is no one
who, on some subjects, does not share tho
fate of the deaf and dumb.
AeP A volunteer applied to be enroll
ed in a southern villa when he asked to
see what kind of locking men had already
enlisted The Lieutenant paraded his car
N.Y." and tough looking set they we're
Why" said the countryman. Il thought
you enlisted picked men. y $50 they
are, said the Lieutenant. "picked cut of
the pT1ttpr-pyprv man ~