Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-12-20
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Gators,
BOARDING SCHOOL Miss Oh, Char
lie, [ expect to graduate at next COM
mencement." "Graduate What will
you graduate in?n Why, in white
tulle."
The London Press pays Americans q
very pretty compliment, under the
mask of joke He advises English
men to hurry up their subscriptions, or
Chicago will be rebuilt before they can
get there.
| In the common prayer book now used
| for the Episcopal church service, the
following lines occur in the index to
the hymns
6 My opening eyes with rapture sep. 23.
My Savior hanging on tree"-p. 20.
A PARIS letter declares that by actual
count about seventeen in twenty of the
ladies seen in the streets are dressed in
mourning but whether this is owing
altogether to a loss of relatives or is
freak of fashion, is uncertain.
THE new system of German coinage
comedies neither with the Frelcht
English nor our OVID. IF the twenty
mark piece was slightly increased in
value it would equal that of the Eng
lish sovereign.
RoRERT E. LEE, youngest son Of the
late General r. E. Lee, was married at
I" Rocklands," Orange county, Va,
November 16, to Miss Charlotte Hax-
all, daughter of Mr. Robert Barton
| Haxall.
A LADY having accidently broken her
smelling-bottle her husband, who was
very petulant, said to her; g I declare
my dear, everything belonging to you
is more or less broken" ''True," re-
piled the lady, {" for even you are 81
little cracked" F"
T. G. PERRY, of Norwich, N. Y, has
Just been fitted with patent wax nose,
| which can hardly be distinguished
/ from a first-class natural one. Mr..
! Perry wears also glass eye, awig, and
a full set of false teeth, and can hardly
! be self-made man.
A NEW miraculous tenor has been dis
covered in the person of Russian
street vagrant named Michrovich, who
has Just been admitted to the St Pc
tersburg Conservatory at the instance
of Nine. Pauline Lrcca, who had the
luck of finding him.
JANUARY is the coolest and July the
hottest month in st. Petersburg. Each
year has about 112 complete winter
days, SO spring and autum days, with
frost at night, and 1914 summer days.
The most serene months are April and
June; next, March, May, and July.
VERDI is described as an odd, puz-
zling charaeter-stiff, abrnpt, icy to
mere acquaintances, avoiding society,
never expressing an opinion, especially
upon musical matters; man of unfair
nished honor and proverbial shyness.
CINCINNATIANs are rejoiced to learn
that by a newly-suggested process of
distillation an ordinary barrel of gar
bage can be made to yield four gallons
of proof spirits.-It will also furnish
three pounds of soap, but that they
don't care so much about.
THERE are 1000, 900 members of the
international in France who pay one
sou per week. In England there are
1856. 600 members, of whom 30, 900 are
in London. The whole number be-
longing to this society in Europe IS es
timated at 7, 100000.
A CH1NAMAN at Henderson Gulch,
Montana, hadn't quite friends enough.
He broke into a store and stole 5000.
When the community came to consider
it. the vote stood 19 to 18, so a beech
\ tree in the neighborhood bore Mongo-
liam fruit.
THE Belgian government has placed
%. O0O francs at the disposal OF the Bel
eian Legation at Washington to meet
fbe first wants of the Belgians who have
suffered by the late disasters in Amer
lea, especially the Belgian colony in
| Wisconsin.
The California papers are congratu-
1atino the wine growers of that state on
the fact that the railroad rates for the
transportation of wines have been re-
duced to 81. 80 1er 100 pounds of wine,
/ in wood or cases. This rate is for all
rail shipments through to New York,
Boston, or Baltimore.
Mr.. AND Mrs. ENos BAToHELDER
lately celebrated their golden wedding
! at Avon, New York. A singular fact of
the occasion was that Mr.. Batchelder
was the brides third husband, she hay-
ing had two others, with whom she
lived six years apiece, and by whom
she had six children
A PENNSYLVANIA paper says: "Chi-
cago was probably the most populous
CITY in the world Some fourteen mil
lions of her destitute citizens have
passed through this city in the last
three weeks. You can't throw cat in
any direction without hitting a SUI
ferer.' The dodge is becoming thread
bare"
SMALL change is so scarce in Paris
that the workmen and employers IN the
city and suburbs now use fractional
currency, made by the heads OF the
workshops, and redeem when they
amount, altogether, to such sums as
can be repaid by the paper money now
issued.
A LADY had a favorite lap dog, which
she called Perchance. GA singular
name" said somebody, "for beaIltl-
ful net. madam. Where did you hnd
it?" con drawled she, 1t was
named from Bvron's dog. You remem-
her where he saws, Perchance my dog
may howl.
rADy made a call upon TREND
,vbn bad lately been married. " When
~. b,1ebond came to dinner she said;
1T 1T have been to Mrs. Simson's "
te1va1j !, replied the husband, g sup
nose she is very happy" HAPPY
Well, I should think she ought to be;
she has a camel's hair shawl two thirds
border"
AN editor in Illinois having engaged
new reporter, received the following
! as his first effort g We are informed
/ that the gentleman hoo stood on his
head under pile driver for the pnr-
pose of having tight pair of butes
druv on, shortly afterward fonnd him
self in Chiny, perfectly naked, and
without a cent in his pocket"