Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-04-21
Odds and Ends.

| FoIiI4LWATBR has voted 30 DTllQ q
bridge acro> Lake S.. Croix.
ALTHOUGH the law is fine thing it
can always be had at cost
IL. J. BYRON has written a new comedy
entitled g Our Boys 1893 -
AND now they say Baltimore is to De
the Liverpool of America. Mersey on
Truth. crushed to the earth. shall rise
again. SoJournors as well.-DetrO1
Tribune. .....-
CORRECTLY don't seem like q hard
word; yet they all go. down because they
can't spell correctly.
The fellow who asked for o lock of
his girls hair was informed that ssit
costs money, hair does. -
A BosToN pawnbroker recently charg-
ed $3.50 as interest of SIS, borrowed for
seven months on a silk dress worth $50.
. MAY heaven bless and keep Won
! from your own true love, Benjamin
Herrick, was the way the letter ended
GOLD has been discovered in paving
Iauantities at the Notch in the White
Mountains, II what is known as the
"Frankenstein cliff" ..s... ..-. ....
/ HE furniture recently sold at the
Astor House, in New York, was rich
with historical "reminiscences and ia
sects. s.- .....ss-.- 81
The uncertainty of the known. makes
US more anxious concerning the certain
ty Of the unknown sa..1as .s
The infant sovereign of China ascend
ed the throne under the honorary title
of Kwang Su, the best Translation Of
which is g Continuation Of Glory"
A GERMAN geographical square mile
contains 1861 Austrian catastral joch.
Of these jochs 100 equal 142 English
acres. .--.- r., -..-..
IT is pleasant to reflect that 1876 will
be leap-pear and that consequently win
ter will have more time IL which to do
| is chilling work. .,.-,....r.. ........ s.
ToRPEDoEs are now sent into whales
at the end of newly invented harpoon
in use at Norway. They kill the fish
without delay.
A RUSSIAN six feet ana five inches
high has just died at the age of 115, and
another, born IN the same year, IS still
hale and hearty
PRINCE NAPOLEON, who was made a
general Of division by Napoleon III, is
to be struck out of the French army
list
EDWARD KING will commence a series
Of papers on American cities in the
April Scribner. The first paper viii
DO on Baltimore, which city he calls
the Liverpool Of America.
DREAMS OF THE PAST.
/ cannot sleepl my fever'd brain
Calls up the vanished Past again.
| And throws its misty splendOrs deep
| Into the paliid realms of sleep!.
BROTHER J1M-For mercy's sake,
Clara. what are you wearing those
earrings for ? They weigh half pound.
Clara Modification of the flesh, jim;
it's Lent, and besides Jane Gray's are
| half al inch longer
4 DETROIT paper has an article head
ed ga Young Girl Made the Victim Of
Bogus Marriage" This is shocking.
In these days of dissolute young
men it is quite bad enough for a
young girl to be made the victim Of
genuine marriage .-C0urie1' Journal.
A KINGSTON clergyman, the othe
Sunday, used in his sermon the express
sion, cit isn't worth a dime;" and as
he hung fire on the d, half Of the con-
gregation looked round n startled
sort of a way, imagining ae was going
to say something else.
HERE is simple rule to detect
counterfeit fifty notes: On the
counterfeit the lock of hair in the
corner of Dexter's forehead touches the
hair at each end. while IN the genuine it
is co. shaped lock, and touches only
at the lower end.
VISITOR: "Well, Miss Polly, won'tyou
says kissings only for children. Visit
or: 'And arn't you child?" Polly:
"Perhaps, but I don't call you one
Visitor counts his gray hairs next
morning.)
On Ash Wednesday, when no stage
plays are allowed to be played in Lon
don, Moore and Burgess Minstrels
moved to the Theatre Royal, Drury
Lane, and played to an immense house.
! On the same night Sothern migrated to
Nottingham and had a packed house at
double prices.
WHEN the songs gone out of your
life, you can't start another one while
it's a-ringing in your ears, but it's best
to have a bit of silende, and out O that
maybe psalm Ii come by and by.
ABOUT six weeks ago, a literary cou-
pie boarding together at Chicago no.
tel, concluded to marry, and, last week,
the following scrap Of matrimonial talk
between them was overheard: She
You lacerate my soul with your vulgar
sneers." He-"You have superhu-
man power for evil over my sensitive
nature.
Nothing is more common than for
great thieves to ride in triumph when
; small ones are punished. But let wick
edness escape as it may, at the last Il
never fails Of doing little self-justice,
for every guilty person is his own hang
man-Senec0.
BEWARE of liquor. Julius Caesar con-
uuered. Gaul, and dcnned the imperial
purple, to fall at last by the Roman
punch-given him by Brutus.
THE greatest feat in eating ever re-
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