Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-09-16
Odds and Ends.

WHAT to wear in hot weather.
clothes.
SHIPBU11DING is depressed on the
Delaware.
The Baltimore Gazette is again
folio sheet.
MERRIE England is not nearly so jolly
just now as it might be.
BRIGNOLI is to travel through the
English prOvences next fall.
The case of the first alderman ever
sunstruck is recorded at east St. Louis.
How to get hard-up-send your
family to fashionable watering place.
ENGLAND is threatened with general
water famine
STOCKTON, CAL, is suffering from a
visitation of poisonous spiders.
SIR ISAAC NEwToN's residence in
London is now used as a Sunday school
room.
The number of Protestants is increas-
ing at remarkable rate in Rome and
Mexico.
CHEYENNE is smitten with dryness,
and the trees are dying for the want Of
water.
MARsE1LLEs proposes a monument to
Berger, and the cremationists feel
badly.
The buff postal cards have met with
a rebuff in Washington, and are to be
replaced by ighter-colored ones.
SACRAMENTO thinks nothing of a
radish thirty inches in length and
twelve inches in circumference.
The minister who preached sermon
from the text, Goodness is profta-
ble," also believes that Honesty is
the best policy"
The Vendome column without the
statute of the Little Go rporal is ikened
to the play of "Hamlet" with the
melancholy Dane omitted.
IT is proposed to erect two extensive
asylums for priests banished from Ger
| many-one in England and one in the
United States.
A CHINESE shoemaker in Sacramento
ran away, owing his creditors $4,000.
And yet we claim that the Chinese do
not assimilate themselves to our civil
cation.
BANrING, the celebrated funeral fur
nisher of London, has proved himself
a good friend to the living, after all.
He successfully fought corpulency all
his life, and now that he is dead con-
valescents benefit by the asylum he has
founded.
The difference between topper and
COW is in favor of the latter. Two horns
last her lifetime, while the topper
needs more than that every day.
RUSSIA, it is said, produces annually
, 1876, 900 tons of flax Austria, $4,000;
France, 100000; Belgium, 20, 900 Great
Britain, $4,000 Italy, $4,000; Bavaria,
5000; Saxony, 5000 other countries,
5000. The total production in Europe
is $50, 1000 tons.
, of an English Chancery Court, and
kept saying, GA penny, please, sir Only
a penny, sir, before you go in. . "And
: for what, my man q inquired an old
country gentleman. Because, sir,
the chances are that you will not have
one when you come out.
A CLERGYMAN in one of the rural
towns of Maine, who had preached al
most two hours, the other Sunday, was
interrupted by one of his hearers, who
remarked in very loud voice:
''There, there, you have preached long
enough! If you preach any longer we
shall forget the subject of the text -
The meeting closed Immediately after.
"WHAT are you holloaing about,
Billy ?" said mother at the stair-foot
one evening, after her two boys had
been put to bed. "Please mother"
said Bill, "'Jim wants half the bed"
"Well," said she, let him have it
and you can take the other half"
eyes, mother" says Bill, "But he
wants his half out of the middle, and
make me sleep on both sides Of him.
WHAT a meaning and unique express
sion was that of young Irish girl who
was rendering testimony against an
individual in a New Orleans court not
long since ''Arrah, sir,' said she,"
"I'm shure he never made his mother
SMILE There is biography of I'M
kindness in that single sentence.
| AN hour passed on-the Turk awoke.
He had been sleeping in front of
grocery in Cairo, and rs he got up he
pulled out revolver and wounded
three men, saying: "Somehow [ don't
feel lively to-day
A RECEIPT for getting up fashion
able summer bonnet: Let the lady run
her head into sheaf of oats, and af-
terward stick in few field flowers here
and there to light up her couture, and
then the thing is done.
"M1ssUs SNowDRoP," said gentle
man of color, during a shower, to a
lady of his acq uaintance, "as de web
|
do me de honor to step under my UNI
breller an form a quorum. In dis
webber an umbreller is RAIDER cosmo-
politan.
The Providence Press relates this
anecdote: A young gamin applied at
the Central Station for ticket to the
poor children's excursion OF the Chris
tian Association. He was asked II ne
was Christian, and promptly salo ne
was. care you an honest boy
ssyas civ >, rTbe Dhrenologist of the