Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-19

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had a little lamb generally admitted
historical truth. 1n.... ~.....s ...., p.
A PORTSMOUTH woman has been
severly injured by the explosion of a
baked potato. -.
IT is a remarkable fact that there
has never been murder in Lawrence
Mass, since it's incorporation as
city. ..-... ......... ..........
+ "THERE," said little girl, while
rummaging a bureau; :sthere now,
grandpa has gone to heaven and left
his spectacles.''',. I'm .r....g 1. f-a .s.
The great locomotive works at Pater-
son, n. J., have now about $50 men at
work, and soon will be full to their ut
most capacityaa2u7 "aJ -. a1a7o"--
The snow was two inches deep on
Oliver Greek, Grant county, Oregon,
on the 18th of June, and remained on
the ground twenty-four hours.
AN Iowa Editor recently announced
that certain patron of his "was thiev
ing as usual He claims that he wrote ,
I" thriving. asas.a $50 sg,f sat .essf a.sea
A CHICAGO magazine, which is fur
nished at So, so per year, offers $3.50 in
H PROFESSOR, will you have cigar?"
said a man in the Office of Boston :.
Hotel. Nineteen men stood up and
replied g THANK you don't care if [ q,
do"
4 COLORADO is fine place for specu-
lations. A pauper recently escaped
from the poor house there and made
81, 300 in land speculations before he
could berecaptured.
q The "Potato King" in Bangor, Me-,
who bought up all the old potatoes in
the market at 80 cents a. bushel and
refused to sell them except at ae1orbi
tant prices, lost S., 900 5.l,..-.-... ~
JOHN COLLINS baby, two and a half
years old, tumbled out Of a third-story
window, twenty-five feet upon side
walk at Boston, recently, land got
only little bruise on one oil its cheeks. q.
A NEW game has been started in the
wilds Of Boyle county, Ky, called
s'grangers seven up" Three persons
play for can of oysters. The first man
gets the oysters, the last the can, and 4
the "middle-man = what he can. re-
".DEAR me, how fuidly he talks
said Mrs. Darlington, recently at a =,
temperance meeting. II am always
rel DICED when he mounts the nostrils,
for his eloquence warns every cart
ridge in my body. rz.s-r.r : s.as as.5 ~,as
" Tie West Shore (Hudson River
Railroad Company keep two men at
work on the West Point tunnel, one Of
the conditions of the permission being
that work should not be stopped after e
it had commenced.
SMITH has done this in honor of
the lady he has just taken out Of her
weeds: 't"
The CLEAN Of her eye was bright -t-
The CLEAN of her geld was brighter.
The first was beautiful sight,
The second beautiful sighter.
A RIVAL journal says of the San
duslzy Register that it contained one
editorial and only one local item for
four days, on account of repairs in the
Office. The ''repairs" consisted in put
ting lock on the door and washing the
windows. al s.a III
THERE are forty-three girls in Quincy
Ill, ahmed Betsy, but still what
sweeter sound can be heard at even
tide than an ole fashionable mother call
ing in the old-iashioned way: ''Betsy,
il you don'tgi down of'n that fence
I'll maui ye to DEATH .,....
A GENTLEMAN lost his hat the other
day from the balcony of the little hut
on the brink of the Kuterskil Falls,
Catskill. He went down all those little
steps to the bottom. and IN searching =,
for the lost article found pocket-book
containing nearly 800, probably lost in
the same manner.
THE Agriculturist advises farmers
and fisher men to dry their boots when
wet, by filing them with dry oats. The
grain rapidly absorbs the moisture, and
as it takes it up swells enough to fill
the boot like tightly fitting last.
When the oats are emptied out, put
them in bag by the fire to dry for
future use.
Miss IsADoRE PRATT of Massachusetts,
has succeeded in gaining admittance
to the royal Art Academy Of Berlin but
being ''only woman" her name does
not appear on the roll Of students, and
for the same reason 10 money will be
accepted from her, which she says is
the only advantage she ever gained by
skirts.
" A Sodium kamness steals around, a
dred orecums the sole, when in my
pockets depths sound and only find a
hole. o thus when life's breef span IS
past, and deth yauks out my sole, how
dreary life will seem at last, when taken
as a hole. But still this consultations
left, to cheer the dropping sole, though
through it I'm of all bereft, l cannot
luse the hole
1t was thought that the ribbons OF
The great Scotch order of knighthood,
the Thistle, left at the disposal OF
Queen Victoria by the death of the
Earl of Dalhousie, would be given to
the Duke of Hamilton, but it has been
conferred upon Lord Colville of Gull
ross. It may be that the bad character
If the duke of Hamilton prevented
Mr.. Disraei from recognizing his
claim. tg < ala TaI
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