Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-03-24
ALI Sorts.

| OMELETs made from turtle eggs are
Florida dehcacies
| CASTLE soap is the best pre-, entive of
chapped hands.
FRONTIER costume-The outskirts of
civilization.
DOES Chinaman play billiards with
his own queue
WAsHERwoMEN always know Just
when to draw the line.
WoRDswoRTH's prose works are to be
collected and published.
GOOD housekeepers are sad when
they turn to dust. They say, "Let us
sweep"
The effet Of cooked food is not favor
| able for the use Of animals which are
| required to make quick motions.
Now THAT the rivers and hydrants and
pumps are frozen up, COWS should give
purer milk.-NorristoaU, Herald
'THRIvING in the outskirts " is the
latest designation for picking ladies
pockets.
Mr.. SP1NNER's autograph commands
a higher price i'll the market than that
| Of any other man.
SUSIE LIBERTY has thirteen lovers,
and each of them exclaims, Give ne
liberty or give me death p
AT one of most fashionable London
clubs recently $4,000 were lost and won
at ecarte in ten minutes.
Miss WILSON, the author of s:St
Elmo, is characterized by some one as
ga local Florence Nightingale"
The King of Burmah is going to start
a newspaper to be published in Burmese
and English
GEORGIA has 83,318 colored persons
who own property. They have 338, 769
| acres of land, and their property is
valu d at $6,Oo0,OO0.
lake away my first letter, take away
my second letter, take away all my
| letters and / am always the same. Its
the mail carrier.
WHAT is the difference between a
! tube and foolish Dutchman? One is
hollow cylinder and the other is
silly Hollander.
! A HYPoDRoME which will accommo-
date 10000 spectators is building in
Paris. at the entrance of the avenue
Montaigne, Champs Elysees.
'WHAT shame that I should be
starving" exclaimed a poor corset
maker out of work-''I, that have
stayed the stomachs of hundreds
"OUIDA" recently attended a masked
ball IN Florence in the character of
Liberty. The assumption is very
appropriate, as 'sOuida'' is forty years
old and unmarried.
'ID1oT !" exclaimed lady coming
out of the theatre last evening, as a
gentleman accidentally stepped on her
trailing skirt. (Which one of u.s."
blandly responded the man.
= FEATURE of a revival of religion in
Springfield is pledge which hundreds
of children have been induced to sign.
1t is solemn covenant, by the terms of
| which the signer promises to become
and continue Christian during life.
JOHN P. JONES and E. r. Burk have
become exclusive owners of the Sumner
gold mine in Kern county, Cal. They
have paid for it at the rate of 100000,
and have an eighty stamp mill nearly
ready to run.
EXPERIMENTS recently made in Eng
land indicate that wagons are most east
ly drawn on all kinds of roads when the
fore and hinl wheels are of the same
size, and when the pole lies lower than
the axle.
RUBBER horse Shoes are the latest
novelty. Their cost, as compared with
iron, is about one-third more, and their
weight forty per cent. less. It is said
that horses suffering from cracked or
contracted hoofs are soon cured by their
use.
The editor and staff of French IL
Illustrated sporting paper dined recently
off magnificent quarter of lion, which
had been sent to the former by the we'll
known lion hunter, NJ. Constant Cheret.
The 'sdish" was declared to be de-
icious.
A BRILLIANT and adhesive paste,
adapted to the use of manufactures of
fancy articles, painters, ETC., may be
made by dissolying casein precipitated
from milk by acetic acid, and washed
with pure water, in a saturated solution
of borax.
TAKE piece of Wilton or velvet car
pet-Brussels will not answer-cut out
a pair of soles, put them inside your
qoots or shoes, and when you ride in
super. chilled horse cars or take long
sleighrides, you'll find them superior to
felt, cork or any other contrivance in
general use.
THE objection which many persons
urge against using tincture of iodine on
the skin is that the stain is ineradicable.
except after considerable time. eff a
few drops of carbolic acid be added to
the tincture,' says medical journal,
sit will not stain; moreover, the tincture
itself is more efficacious."
PARIS is pluming itself on a new fam
cy in ladies' dress, which is species
of tackle by which, when lady wishes
to dance, the train of her dress is drawn
up to possible dimensions. This tackle
is made SO as to be ornamented with
flowers Or ribbons, and to become great
addition to the toilette generally.