Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-26

WHY is Sunday the strongest of all
the seven? The others are week DAYS.
DAINTY buttons are made of pink
lining of the conch shell. +
SOMEBODY defines filtration to be at
tent1on without intention.
SHORT crops-The Bowery style of
hairc cutting.
A TExAs man knows himself we'll.
lie sat down on a hot branding iron.
A CREW from Vassar is suggested for
the next regatta. How all the boats
would hug Vassar
VIRGINIA hopes to send woman one
hundred and twenty-five years old to
the centennial.
POTATOES are so scarce in New
Orleans that they are retailed at three
cents apiece and SO to SIS barrel.
Ex-GovERNER Charles J. Jenkins, of
Georgia, has been selected as umpire
by the ar bitrators appointed to settle
the Maryland and Virginia boundary
line.
WE often hear Of people who are too
poor to marry; but a California couple
who had been engaged for some time
married because they could not afford
to keep two separate rooms in a board
inghouse.
AT a recent commencement in the
West young girl read fine essay. On
the way home from the hall she heard
one Of the lady listeners remark to an
other: "Wasn't that fine % s'Yes,"
was the reply, g but what a mean little
train she wore"
The season is fruitful in hat trim
mlngs. Pretty hat-bonnets are made
OF black rlce-straw, and trimmed with
either currents or cherries, with their
respective leaves, the fruit falling like
large beads on the back-hair. The
flowers, fruit and leaves of the caper-
plant are used in a similar manner.
Your future husband seems very
exacting; he has been STIMULATING for
all sorts Of things" said mother to
her daughter, who was on the point Of
being married. "Never mind, man.
ma, said the affectionate girl, who was
already dressed for the ceremony,
"these are his last wishes"
SOMEBODY has been finding fault with
the natural philosophy in Poe's
Raven" he asks: "How could the
raven sitting lonely On that placid
bust of Pallas-not only On the door,
but above it, and of course right against
the Wall-by any law Of illumination
throw his shades on the floor for the
poets soul to float in and be lifted
never more ?"
The proverb that "God helps those
who help themselves was well para
phrased by little fellow who tumbled
into fountain and was nearly drowned.
Pale and dripping, he was put to bed,
and when his mother requested the
young man to thank God for saving
him, Young America answered 81
'spose God did save me, but then I held
on to the gwass, too
The Palace Hotel, which is now being
built in San Francisco, it is claimed
will be the largest in the world, 35Ox-
275 feet, and Will contain 700 rooms.
There viii be 800 bathrooms, and 374
bay windows. Accommodations will
be furnished for 1900 guests. The
hotel is to be completed in August,
1875, and will cost altogether, $780,
900. Of this amount 100000 will
be the cost of the lot, 81, 22O,OO Of the
building, and $4,000 Of the furniture.
4 IUD1oRoUs incident occurred on
board the Thomas Powell the other
day. The Captain was accosted by an
aged oolored lady, who came up on the
boat last night, and who is blind, and
was asked to subscribe something to-
ward her maintenance. The Captain
asked her why she came to him first,
to which she replied, "Case, sab, / see
you's so good lookin', an Iallus want de
hansome men down fust." The Captain
subscribed at once.-7roy Times.
TRAVERSE City, Michigan, has taken
the sentiments of its women on the
woman suffrage question. Forty-two
want to vote on all matters, ninety-f
would prefer not, and sixty-six have no
opinion. On questions OF temperance,
or moral, Or political reform, however,
100 would vote if the law allowed
them, thirty-four would not and fifty
three are Indifferent.
The rocks named Pons August, by
the Romans, and known in later days
as the Iron Gates, which have for ages
INSTRUCTED the stream of the Danube
about the point where that river enters 81
the Turkish dominions, are now about
to be removed at the joint expense Of
the Turkish and Austrian governments.
The perfection to which the art of en-
cheering has reached, combined with
the immense power of modern ex-
plodents, has rendered that possible
which defed the Romans, great as was
their skill in mechanical operations.
The cost is fixed at low sum, 1880, 900.
A SMALL child of Mr.. Edmundson, of
Concord township, Louisa county, Ia,
came rushing into the house, exclaim-
ing: "Look, mamma, pretty, pretty,
She had caught rattlesnake around
the neck, its body and tail were wrap,
ped around her arm, and the chlld
thought she had the prettlest thing
imaginable. The mother, thoroughly
frightened, tainted; but the father
with great presence of mind caught the
child's hand and held his snakeship So
tightly that it could not bite, until
with the other hand he had unwound
n r. e,o,,, the cbild'S arm when