Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-07
Odds and Ends.
The Vendome column is fir

Odds and Ends.
The Vendome column is finished.
New YORK police stations are no
longer to be used as halls for political
discussion.
AN Albany man has a Bible printed
in 1914. He thinks it has not outlived
its usefulness.
The London Quakers have allowed
another innovation in their simple SER
vice. 1t is that of singing. -
A JURY composed entirely of negroes
was empanelled in Portland few days
ago-the first case of the kind in Ore
gon.
s'CHEERED by the successes of the
past, the Ohio temperance women are
to re-inaugurate the crusade. s
CINCINNATI joins in the pathetic cry
going up from other cities, to be spared
"The Muligan Guards" march.
"WHAT are you doing there?" said
grocer to a fellow who was stealing his
lard. II am getting fat, was the re-
ply.
The school census just completed
gives East Minneapolis, formerly st.
Anthony, a population of 8,227-an in
crease of 700 dnring the past year.
In Colorado a girl who can't go after
the COWS on bareback pony without
bride or halter is looked upon with
contempt.
The level of Lake Constance, Swift
erland, recently went down eight feet
in two days. Cause unknown, unless
it was that a piece of the bottom fell
out.
In the police court at San Jose, Cal,
the other day, a witness was asked,
GO Did you ever kill man2'' He an
swered, Ono; but I killed Chinaman
once"
A ST. LOUIS paper complains that the
church cholrs are sacreligious when the
line is rendered, "We're going home to
Oman More, Dinah More
A WRITER in the Alaska Herald thinks
that in two hundred and fifty years
Sitka will be one of the leading ship
building cities in the world. Corner
lots are for sale cheap.
MOUNT Atna has been in eruption
since the evening of Aug. 20. The lava
is issuing from the crater by three
mouths, all of which, however, are at
same distance from any habitations.
"WoMAN is delusion madame! !" ex-
claimed crusty old bachelor to witty
youg lady. ''And man is always hug
ging some de1usion Or other, was the
quick retort.
A wELLKNowN Methodist divine says
that there is &c the choicest mingling of
grace and worldliness. of holiness and
speculation ever known in this region,
on the Methodist camp ground at Old
Orchard Beach.
DAKOTA is the white mans pronunci-
alton of Lah-ko-ta, the name by which
the Sioux call themselves. The mean
ing of Lah-ko-ta is "the cut tnroats,"
and in the sign language they indicate
themselves by drawing the hand across
the throat.
"AND now," said Pennsylvania pol
itical orator, warming up as he ap-
preached the climax of his speech, "1et
us conduct this campaign, fellow-citi
zens, upon the principle enunciated by
the immortal Lincoln, with malice to-
ward all, and charity to none. %
AT the recent Dress Reform Conven-
ton at gainesville, Ohio, Mrs. Vibbard
came to the front and said that she
stood there radical for dress and
sinner before God, "for, five years ago,
[ gave up my short dress to keep peace
with my friends, and from that day I
have not dared to pray"
. SMALL Boy" George, Mrs. Brown
wants you to come home this minute !"
Mrs. Brown-"Why don't you say his
mother wants him; [ don't want my
name shrieked in the streets like that -
Boy-"Well, ma ann, [ thought it might
hurt his feelings to have the fellows
know that he had to run errands.
In reply to letter asking for inform
alton, 0. Ell. Kelley, Secretary of the
National Grange, says the Changers
Mortgage Bank, lately advertised in
New York, is not endorsed by the Ma
tional Grange, nor is it recognized by
the Executive Committee in any shape
whatever.
In Perthshlre several dissenting mem
bers of the Episcopal Church waited on
the rector with request that they might
have the services of the non Erastian
sexton. "Will you allow us, sir, to dig
our graves z" asked one of the deputa-
ton, 3" Certainly, gentlemen, said the
rector, "you are most welcome, and the
sooner the better"
CALIFORNIA and Oregon will be we'll
represented in the Chilli international Elk
hibition, and Eastern manufacturers
would do well to seize the opportunity
to exhibit American productions and in
ventions on the southern Pacific coast
South America is now supplied with lux
uries and necessaries almost entirely by
England.
'sDEAR GEORGE, how sweet and wavy
the wheat is p exclaimed fair young
lady, looking languidly from car win
dow. Yes, love, how beautiful p says
dear George, more intent on insinuating
his arm around twenty-four- bone cor
set, " how like a-a-how like a
dweam p 'sHow like OATS" retorted
disguised Granger; g them's oats,
young man."
A MOVEMENT is being made TO intro