Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-11-26
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

All Sorts of Paragraphs.
Don't quarrel with. Spirtualist
He can always turn the tables on you
A SHEEP we'll Novembered is half
wintered.
A RICH old fellow in Georgia pur-
chased two camels of a circus, and is
teaching his children to ride them.
GERRTr SMITH has sent one thousand
dollars to relieve the sufferers by the
fire at Canastota, N. Y.
Mrs. CRANsToN wants $4,000 for set
thing in Dubuque. She settled in q
mud-hole as she was descending from
an omnibus.
SWITZERLAND exports $43, 900
worth of manufactured silk annually,
and the manufacture there is rapidly
increasing.
The real name of "Ouida" is Miss
La Rance. She is now building an
other of her highfalutin but brilliant
and fascinating stories.
A GROCER in Quincy, Illinois, mas do
mated the city forty one dozen bad
eggs, to be used in keeping lecturers
beyond the city limits
AT one of the London Clubs a rule
has been made fning any member sel
who introduces the subject of the
Tichborne fraud.
A TRENTON woman dreamed of being
surrounded by kissing snakes, and she
struck out with such force as to break
her arm against the wall.
Mrs. JEFFERSON DAVIS has recently
oil oil 0f 1nf-
ings that was " confscated :" by a Fed
eraI soldier during the time of the war.
A MISSOURI farmer was told by forr
tune teller that there was lake of Goa
oil under his farm, and he spent SO,
900 to find out that he had been fooled
Two ladies have received appoint
ments as clerks in the Department of
Justice, being the first women ever en-
ployed there.
Mosr Of the mustard sold by grocers
is not genuine. It may contain a little
mustard, but is composed mainly Of
wheat -four, tumerlc, and sometimes
capsicum.
A CURIOUS experiment is to De tried
at the Odeon, in Paris. The orchestra
is to be composed Of stringed instru-
ments, with flute and oboe only, in or
der to play the ancient scores of Lulli,
Rameau, &c.
A WRITER in Nature, arguing from the
thickness Of the stalgmitic floor of
Kent's cavern at Torquay beneath which
rude works of art have been found,
concludes that man must have been OF
the earth half million years ago.
Co1ERDaE, when lecturing as
young man, was once violently Kissed.
He Immediately retorted, "When
cold stream of truth is poured on red
hot prejudice, no wonder that they
hiss" ba nelf
A CORRESPONDENT of the Scientific
American says certain cure for nose.
bleeding is to extend the arm perpen-
dicularly against wall or post, or any
convenient object for support. The
arm on the side from which the blood
proceeds is the one to elevate.
DRY earth is a capital disinfectant.
Put load or two in barrels or in one
corner of the cellar where it can be OBJ
tanned as wanted in the winter.
Should your cellar be damp in the,
spring, this dry earth will be useful to-
scatter on the floor.
ONE of the sensations in Paris just.
now is an eastern juggler who, with
the assistance of beautiful young Ia
dy, furnishes his audience with very
wonderful illusion. The young lady.
attired in a rich dress with flowing
sleeves, stands on a dais resting on
broad square OF Turkish carpet Two
supports are placed under her elbows
and the magician makes a series of
strange passes over her with his wand,
when she gradually closes her eyes and
apparently falls asleep Then the daiss
and one of the elbow supports are re-
moved, and the spirituelle figure is
seen suspended in mid-air.