Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-07-21
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can religion ''pewlsm."
JUDGE ALEXANDER, of New Oorleans.
Is getting up a history of the war.
A FRENCH constable recently seized
the wooden legs of an old soldier for
pebt.
:" MATCHES are made in heavt n" and
that, says Pat "accounts for their tin
der passion"
In Mexico all the vices are attribut-
ed to "the bad influence of American
example," 20
Gov. TnDEN is so unwell that his
physician has ordered perfect rest for
some days to come.
PRINCE LEOPOLD, Queen Victoria's
youngest son, has thoroughly recovered
from his recent illness.
= A MAN who habitually gets drunk at
night is Like worker on morning pa
per-he turns nights into daze.
The choir of Rochester Cathedral has
been reopened, the work of restoration
having been completed.
Mr.. Arthur ARNOLD, who since 1868
has been the editor of the London Echo.
will shortly retire from that position.
The grand essentials to happiness in
this life are something to do, something
to love, and something to hope for.
NINE. JANAUsoHEK leaves for Austria
liza next month on tour which will en-
brace India and China and terminate at
the Haymarket Theatre, London.
SENATOR INGALLS,, of Kansas, is nom
mated by the Leavenworth Times as the
Republicans candidate for Vice-Presi-
dent, since ''as a presiding officer he
has no superior in the Senate, and but
few equals In the country"
THE chief engineer of New York re-
ports that the portion of the city below
Canal street is lily supplied with by
dran6s in case of fires, and that the
most valuable districts are those which
are inthe most danger. -,
ThE score of the American rifemen at
Dollymount is the best on record. The
score at Creadmoorslasty ear-934 to
93l-was the best on record at that
time, and the Americans have surpassed
themselves by 80 points.
A BERLIN paper cautions It's readers
against trick now very, successfully
practised by sellers of blooming plants.
The camelias and tulips make fine
show in the pots and fetch handsome
prices, but when the purchase is taken
home, the flowers are found to be at
aehed to. the stalks with fine wire.
The dead walls of Hyde Park, Bos-
ton, bear poster with this startling le-
gend: 3 "Kill your eaterpillars Don't
let them oyerrun your: own grounds and
those Of your neighbors. Burn 'em
Squeeze EN-! Stamp EN-! Crush EN-
|, Rub 'em out III And meritthe gratitude
Of r. coming generations = boz
OPERA Bouffe music has. grown stale
in Europe and America. The Japs have
already takentto it, and John Chinaman
is to haze g dose in Pepin; and when
the war shall have been carried into
Africa by1a hand organ and monkey,
theIfour continents will all have been
duly lnoculated against any outbreak.
A 'coUNTRYMAN purchased, new hat
at a burlington, Vt, store, the other
leaving his old one with the merchant,
who kicked it under the counter. The
next day the customer came back, and
after poking about among the rubbish,
found the old hat, and turning down
| the band, took out $50 bill, quietly
remarkmg: s.I came pretty near for
getting where I put that money"
t9ssA Han97 KIND WORDS.
hard How softly on the bruised heart
A word of kindness falls,
EiaiAnd to the dry and parched soul
The moist'ning tear-drop calls
I Oh! if they knew who walked the earth,
T. Da Mid SORROW, grief and pain,
The power word of kindness hath,
! trQra Yaraf4 ian farrAip s.
l. The peach growers. havefgured it out
that Boston will want twenty one cars
of peaches day, Springfield one, New
Haven four, Middletown one, Hartford
three, and Worcester, two.o The Della
ware and Marylan crop is estimated at
100000 baskets. stif
How shall six million j baskets of
peaches be transported to and distribu-
ted in New York during the present
feason with reasonable profits to the
railroad companies, growers, commits
sion agents and cartman? was prob
lem which meeting of growers, COM
mission merchants and cartmen in New
York struggled with. ON Wednesday
evening. a good way to put up with
them is to put them up. 1919
In Spain poor musician hanged
himself at night with cord made by
rolling together a number of fiddle
strings, but favorite monkey amused
himself by playing with bis masters
bow on this. new sort of fiddle, and
made such a row as to wake UP every
one in the house, and the fiddler was
cut down in time to save his life.
A LADY was telling a friend from the
country of a very grand party she had
given recently. eve had two gen.
erals, one Judge, popular = author, and
wicked son, sand there was q deputy
sheriff, too, who said he wanted to ses
dad, and they went out before supper,
and da hasn't come back yet" When
that youth went to school the next day
with his head all tied up, he told the
boys he had dreadful toothache.
A BOY got his grandfather's gun and
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