Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-11-17
Odds and Ends.

mortgage.
TRoUBADoURs should touch the light
catarrh with handkerchief.
CRANBERRIEs will keep all winter in
the cellar, it immersed in water,
WHEN you doubt, abstain. -Zoroas-
ter.
HATRED is self-punishment.- Hosea
Ballou.
FIFTEEN cents bushel is the price of
apples In some parts of Pennsylvania.
COFFEE can be cultivated in Louisi-
ana, Alabama and Florida.
A MAN who few years ago was worth
$50, 600 is working out fine on the
streets in Richmond, Ind.
A STOCK BREEDER in Texas lately
lost thirty-one head of cattle from hy-
drophobia.
CALIFORNIA will this year hatch out
9,OOO, GOO OF young salmon, 1000, 900 of
which are to come to the eastern states.
OVER 100000 Michigan pine shin
giles have been sold since April last by
a single firm in Milford, Mass.
AN old Indian burying ground has
been found in Hadley, Mass, with nu-
merous skeletons therein.
ALL the doors of public buildings in
New Hampshire must, by law, hereafter
open outward under penalty of $500.
FATHER LNKEN, German Catholic
priest of Springfield, ILL.,, has aston
ished everybody by marrying the daugh-
ter of his housekeeper.
A SQUARE of ground in Galveston,
Texas. which few weeks ago was held
at 100000, is now a worthless sand
heap.
A COUPLE of fellows out West-one
living in Detroit and the other in Du-
buque-have been engaged in game of
chess by mail for nine months.
A WOMAN In Massachusetts, fed
tramp the other day, after which he
asked if he might go to bed long enough
for her to. wash and iron his shirt.
GOLD garter buckles, upon which
there is delicate spray of flowers in
stones of suitable color, or the owners
monogram, is the latest in that line.
JANETTE PARKER, a Delta, (Mich.)
township girl, who weighs 400 pounds,
picks up barrel of -four by the {. hines
and plays with it over her head.
"S1R," aaid naughty dandy, refus-
ing the change for his bill, 'skeep that;
I never take change from tailor
ga sign of conscience, see" was the
reply, ''for tailor made you"
SERGEANT BATES must stand back.
BE only carries the American flag.
Stanley defes the wild tribes of Africa
with the British standard in one hand,
and the Stars and Stripes in the other.
philadelphia Inquirer.
Two sable philosophers took shelter
under the same tree during a heavy
shower. After some time one of them
complained that he felt the rain.
"Nebber mind" replied the other,
seere's plenty oh trees; when dis 'un
gets wet through we'll go to anudder."
SAID lady to gentleman who had
been too curt to please her: do you
know what kind of puzzle you repre-
sent?" ga diamond, perhaps" he
said, looking at the large one on his
shirt. "No," she replied, "a cross
stud suits you better"
In the Vermont Journal of March 81,
1874, is the following epitaph on a
lawyer {:
Beneath this stone lies Robert Shaw,
Who follow'd forty years the law,
And when he died,
The devil cried,
.'Ha Bob! give us your paw"
A LADY, thinking it time for her little
girl to put away childish things, in
formed her that Santa Claus was
'made-upa person-that there was no
such person at all. Upon which the
child, with becoming solemnity, asked,
Mamma, have you been telling me
lies about Jesus Christ, toos''
MARX the consrast-forty years ago
Monday, a mob was trying to hang a
man in the streets of Boston because
he was a friend of the sd niger"
Yesterday morning gang of forty-odd
men were at work In the streets Of Bos-
ton with g ID niger for boss.
Such is life.-Boston Herald, %.
DICKENS and Thackeray were walking
in Covent market one day, when they
came to place where there were two
piles OF oysters in window, one pile
being marked ninepence dozen and
the Otner SlXp0uc0 OOZ0u. 4udchoiay
stood with his hands behind him, and
said to Dickens: /" How they must hate
each other"
WHEN the law of Massachusetts pro-
viding that all railroad trains shall come
to a full stop before crossing track OF
another line was enacted, it gave much
dissatisfaction to railroad men. The
law has, however, proved a good one,
and it is said that no railroad man OF
the state would now consent TO Its re-
peal.
On the 18th of November. 56S years
viii have passed since Swltz rland de-
clared it's independence from Austria.
In the night OF this ever memorable
day, in the year 1877, thirty three Swiss
patriots Assem- bled at the mountain
meadow .Gruettf, On the Lake OF the
Cantons, to deliberate on the pest
method to free their mountain nome
from foreign tyrants.