Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-06-16
Spices and Solids.

Spices and Solids.
A MUFF-a thing that holds young
lady's hand without squeezing it.
s. go through my work." as the
needle said to the idle boy. "But
not until you are pushed hard" as the
idle boy saidto the needle.
WHAT is the difference between the
Emperor Williams thermometer and q
bill-poster2 One is Bills ticker and the
other b1l-sticker.
THEY have a man named Porch in La
doga, Ind, 104 years old, who has
voted the democratic ticket at every
election since his majority.
=" If you want to be well dressed"
says a Washington paper, "wear a
Warwick collar, and have your boots
BACKED" Cheap suit and very COM
Portable in the summer.
Mr.. RICHARD 81. DANA, jr., has re-
ce1ved from the Lexington Centennial
Committee silver medal in recognition
OF his services as orator at their recent
celebration.
VICTOR HUGO spoke over Ouinet's
this happy sentence: 1T is the pleas
ure Of proud souls to be troublesome to
tyrants."
CHINA has very singular plant called
the chameleon flower, kind of creeper
of the convolvuli tribe, which in the
morning is deep blue, at noon pink,
while at night it becomes quite white,
and afterwards fades away.
HARRY Brooks is a Washington
pedestrian who has accomplished the
feat of walking continually for 1870
hours, with the exception of one hours
rest and forty hours which he occupied
in sleep. 1t nearly killed him.
PRINCE KAwA, near relative of the
Mikado of Japan, is to enter the Prus-
sian army to acquaint himself with it's
discipline. The son of the Khedive is
| already In the army for the same pur-
pose.
The statue of st. John the Baptist,
discovered few months ago at Pisa,
and recognized subsequently IS a work
of Michael Angelo, is said now to have
been executed by that artist In his Dist
year.
JEFFERSON DAVIS, during his recent
| visit to Houston, Tex, was pre-
sented with large silver medal
by the survivors Of the 'Davis Guards"
Of that place. an organization which
served through the civil war.
SAYS an experienced educator: eff
a boy shows disposition to ignore
school and slight his studies, tell him
that he will bitterly regret such policy
when he is grown to be man. He will
at once change his course" Undoubt-
eddy.
MIR. SCHLIEMAN, whose excavations
on what is supposed to be the site of an
cient Troy have been so graphically des-
cribed by Mr. Bayard Taylor, has been
granted authority to continue his investi-
cations, and will proceed with his
work almost Immediately.
Ten models of statues of the pro-
posed Sumner memorial in Boston have
been sent to that city, and at least as
many more are on their way. After
selection has been made by the COM
mittee, the models will be exhibited in
that city and possibly in New York.
The keeper of New York restaurant
found his strawberry account short the
other night. A searching inquiry sub
sequently developed the fact that one
of the colored walters, in hurry of
business, inadvertently allowed thirteen,
instead Of twelve strawberries to plate
for one of the guests.
VISITOR: "Well, Mrs. Flanagan, what
did the doctor say about your poor
husbands deafness % Mrs F.: ssBedad,
Miss, the doctor says Tim will never
hear gain; but (whispers) please don't
speak loud; it might make him depress-
ed loike!'s
THERE is some talk of piercing the
Alps by third tunuel, this time under
Mount st. Bernard. At the centre of
the tunnel it is proposed to excavate
shaft to the surface, through which
visitors could be drawn up to hotel,
and thus obtain the view without
fatigue.
AT school examination q clergyman
made brief address to the pupils on
the necessity of obeying their teachers
and growing up loyal and useful citi-
zens. To emphasize his remarks he
pointed to large national flag spread
out on one side of the room, and IN
ouired: "Boys, what is that flag for ?''
< little urchin who understood TIE con-
ditions of the house better than the
speaker, promptly answered: '.To hide
the dirt, sir. !"
HERE is what Bowen once wrote to
Theodore: 81 sometimes feel that I
mast break silence, that I must no,
longer suffer as dunab man, and be
made to bear load of grief most a,a-
Justly. One word from me would make.
a aevolutiop throughout christendom, I
had almost said--and you knoW st.
You have just title of the evidence
from the great volume in my posses ION.
7 Inn not persuing phantom, cuf
emnly boding oyar an awful realisy..