Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-18
General Items.

The cook has mincing gait
HE livery stable keeper has a q,ausi,ac
gait. - -"
The excursionist trips along.
THE fsh-monger founders on.
HE poulterer waddles like duck
THE grocer treads gingerly.
The gardener does not allow the
grass to grow under his feet.
The India-rubber manufacturer has
an elastic step.
HE fear that surrounds us all-the
atmosphere.
The middle ages-Generally between
thirty and forty.
"HoLLo, Spicer what are you up to
now ?? Cup to my knees in mud"
was the reply. @ Il. -
BISHOP HENNEssY, of Kansas. has
prohibited dancing at Catholic fairs and
festivals in that diocese.
A CANVASS of Congress shows that
about one-fourth of the members stand
ON the temperance platform. The
others roll under it.-Boston Post.
HE name of Elias Brosions. of San
bury, Pa, will be handed down to
posterlty as that of man who made
link OF sausages forty-fve feet long.
IT is not noteworthy fact that lord
mayor of London, the lord provost of
Edinburgh and the lord mayor of Dub
I'm are all members Of the new Parlia-
meut.
IT is said that Restori desires one
more season in the United States also
to act in Mexico, which is as vet an
untried field with her. She likewise
has designs on Australia and India.
The English cricketers played at
Sydney on the 9TH of February a COM
bined fifteen of Melbourne and Sydney.
The latter made 189 runs against 406
scored by the English eleven.
IT is windfall for Texas. that dis
covery> of balance of over $1,000 to
her credit in the United States Treas
ury, on account of an appropriation
made nineteen years ago.
A PARTY of college students, made up
from the ranks Of Yale, Harvard, and
Amherst, propose to set out next july
to trough it % through England, Scot
land and Ireland
That was practical woman who
wrote to Evangelist Hammond at St.
Louis, asking prayers to lift the mort
gage on her farm, that she and her
little ones may not be thrown out of a
home.
| AN lrlshman who had Just landed.
said, "The first bit of meat that I ever
ate In this country was a roasted potato.
boiled yesterday; and if you don't
believe me can show it to We, for I
have it in my pocket
BEN ZINE asked O'Shea, Chow is it
that the most reliable account of the
Deluge makes no mention of Irishmen
having been taken into the ark 90
"Divil the one was there" said
O'Shea.
How, then, was the race perpetual
ed !? queried Ben. ss -
Faith, said O'Shea, 81 in those
days the Irish were wealthy, and had a
bo.t of their own"
L PARTY of aged mothers recently
md at Magnoketa, Iowa. There were
thrty-two of them their ages aggre-
gaed 2l62 years average, 81 years
oloest mother, Is years youngest, 60;
OBJ OF them has .seventy-two children,
grind and great grand children as a
natural sequence to the meeting, there
was nothing left for the sewing societies
totalk about for six weeks to come.
The ashes that the church uses in the
economies of Ash Wednesday. are
collected and thrown over the fields by
tie country people in. Bavaria in the
eening of that day, and are believed
t. be more beneficial to the soil than a
tree days sunshine. The ancient in
hbitants OF Bavaria, before Christianity
vas known among them, used to do the
ame thing. The ashes which they
Employed in this way, however, remain
ID from the fires which had been
hndled for sacrifices.
A FINE distinction was that the
preacher of the Richmond First Bsptist
Church made "My brudders, said
he, 'when you were all slaves dar
might ha' been sense for cuttin' a slice
off de marsr's bacon, or hookin' hand
full of corn-meal, Or Robin de hen
|roost for you all work hard den, my
orudders, and you earn it, YOU earn it
ny brudders and sisters. But now you
all free men dar amt no 'scuse what
ever you's all on yer own 'sponsi-
hility.'
DURING the voyage of John O. Gaunt
from Manila to San Francisco a seaman
fell overheard, and had to battle with a
very stormy sea and with sharks for
about an hour. Both his vital energy
and personal courage must have been
of the best, for the sharks made de-
termined effort to dismember him, and
did succeed in stripping the flesh from
his hand thy active tactics in diving
and lodging and splashing the seaman
kept the fnny monsters at bay and
himself afoat until he was picked up
by boat from the ship.
APRoPos of the prevailing custom of
allowing children to handle firearms,
and threaten to shoot each other with
out due regard to the loading of the
piece, is the following story of the Mis-
souri, Brunswicker Yesterday the
little son of one of our citizens while