Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-01-06
Odds and Ends.

A LITTLE knowledge Knowing a bee
sees.
How to take life easy-Be careless
about kerosene.
LIT generally takes about quart of
powder and three pounds of lead to ar
rest man III Arkansas
AN Alabama editor mildly alludes to
his rival as a Reservoir of falsehood
and an adequate of mendacity.''
THE Norristown Herald saws. A
queer old chap has nicknamed his
daughter Misery, because she loves
company.
A FATHER at Dubuque makes his
children address him as follows
"Most respected and reverend father
I'll take another later"
His name was Wrath, and when he
asked his girl to marry him she gave
him soft answer, and the answer turn
ed away Wrath.
A Texas man who died the other day
left " the sum of 1000 as fund to
defend persons who kill southern rail
road baggage smashers. %
MRS. GRANT, of Pennsylvania, has
killed eight deer thus far this season,
but there is many a day when her
husband has had to make his own bed.
HE Cologne Gazette is constructing
a private 3O0-mile telegraph line to Ber-
lin, In order to get early parliamentary
reports.
AN Ohio sheriff felt ? good deal of
embarrassment on havins ; take to the
penltentiary a man who b., been con-
victed of voting for him three times.
PATCHOGUE man compares his
wife's surviving eye to a can ofkerosene
it is SO full of warning. -Brookly,a
Argus.
"HEAvEN bless YOU" said John
Henry, cit was the prettiest fight you
ever saw. She punched away at the
ivory keys like mad, and the pianoforte
nobly."
JOHN FOSTER, an explorer, recently
completed a journey across northern
Australia, an immence territory, about
which nothing has heretofore been
known.
The sword -swallower, Benedict, is in
Havana, where he swallowed his excel
lency the captain generals sword,
cane, and other articles, but could not
stomach the umbrella.
A NEW potato, known as the white
queen is being cultivcted in France.
In good soil, from twelve to fifteen
tubers are formed, many Of which attain
or exceed twenty-five pounds. The
flavor is said to be fine.
A NEW invention is shaft coupling
for the speedy repair OF broken shafts
on steam vessels at sea. It is so simple
remedy and SO easily applied that the
only marvel about it is that it has never
been contrived before.
SOME relic hunter has broken off one
of the big toes of the Washington
statue IN the east capitol park. If he
had left the toe and carried off the rest
OF the statue his transgression would
have been forgiven.
THIS is what Western Jenkins saw
at wedding reception the other even
ing: "The jellies upon the bridal supper
tables were pure amber masses of
qu1verlng translucence, catching the
wine-colored prisms Of perfumed light,
and holding them in a tremulous mirror
of rosy beauty -
ENGAGING, and nearly engaged cook:
" And now, Ma'am, may [ ask how
many servants you keep beside myself,
II [ come ?" Lady: ''Oniy two -
Cook: All ! then I'm afraid must de-
cline. The fact is, [ can't get on with
out my rubber of an EVENING"
THE Atheneum says the expression
Go to Jericho y was used for probably
the first time In a royalist paper in 1848,
i'll the following lines:
IF the Upper House and Lower House
We're III ship together,
And all the base Committees they were in
another;
And both the ships were bottomlees.
And saying on the Mayne;
Let them all goe to Jericho,
And nere be seen agalne.
The following stanza is part of lit
tie hymn in the San Francisco Chronicle:
Hoky poky winky. wank,
Well honor the Kink if we bust a bank
To give him welcome due the rank
Of King of the Cannibal Islands.
WIEN Lolita reached the dressing
room IF a Brooklyn theater, one night
last week, she missed 81, 500 diamond
from her earring After long search
she thought OF, the restaurant where she
had taken tea, and sure enough she
found the diamond lying on the floor
near where she had been sitti-g.
A WEST RoxBURY fireman heard what
he supposed to be the screams of an
infant In a burning building, last week,
and, Selling blanket, he rushed into
the burning smoke, and catching up
the child, made hasty retreat. When
he carefully unwrapped the blanket be-
fore the crowd, he disclosed-a three
months pig.
The Belgian journals mention the
death, at the age of 10 years and IL
months, Of Frederic Van de Kerkhove,
a young painter of almost miraculous
precocity. He was a native of Bruges,
and had executed not less than $50
pictures. It has been proposed that
there should be public exhibition of
b;c works