Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-01-26
Odds and Ends.


THERE have been important Egyptian
victories in Abyssinia.
WASHINGTON will be enlivened on the
9th and 28th of this month by the
meeting there of the National Womar's
Suffrage Association. Matilda Joslyn
Gage will preside over the body, Ellen
Q. Sargent act as Treasurer, and Susan
B. Anthony be Chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee.
A MAN whom DR.. Chalmers engaged
to manage disorderly Sunday School
kept his eyes wide open during prayer,
and when one boy thrust pin into an
other ne marched up the aisle, still
praying, and cuffed the boys ears, and
went back again, praying all the way.
After that he was master of the situa-
ton, for the boys thought that a man
who could watch and pray like that
could not be put down.
THE hardest part of q cradle-The
rock. Sometimes gets out of temper
Steel. If you find it hard splitting
wool, suppose you split the difference.
A rair of pinchers-Those tight boots.
OF IN "hauled over the Goals The
poker. A bawl of worsted-The cry of
spanked child. The man who was
asked to sing solo said he would if
his friend would help him duet.-Bos-
tom Traveller.
THE Elmira Driving Park Associa-
ton have resolved to erect monument
to American Girl. It will be of bronze,
and cost in the neighborhood of So, 500.
Ihe design will be an appropriate and
bea utiful one. The body of the mare
will no, lie taken up from the spot where
it was laid, and the monument will stand
directly over !. It will hardly be
erected before e IN time for the first
meeting next year.
The conflicting rumors IN regard to
the mental condition of Mr.. Morphy,
the celebrated chess player, seem to
indicate that he is suffering from par
tial arrangement. though not of
nature to require his confinement. This
view of the case is borne out by pri-
vate letter from atriend of Mr.. Morphy,
which states that he has been, for many
years past a victim of delusions of
various kinds. He has abandoned chess
since 1858. The story about his being
drunkard is absurd, as he has never
been addicted to the use of liquor in
his life.
~ SAY, Higgins, said GLOW to al
aspiring, but as yet unsoph slicated,
tragedian, 81 met rich old gentleman
in the city who declared he would give
500 to see you perform "Hamlet."
(" You don't say 80 ?" Fact, I assure
you; and, what's more, I'm positively
sure the old chap meant i. " By Jove,
then, it's bargain !" Higgins cried:
"I1l play it for my benefit. But VINO
is hep" "Ah! to be sure, I didn't tell
you. "Well, he's a blind man." Hig-
gins never spoke to the wretch again.
TIE Franco American statue has
been awarded to the Abstain sculptor,
Barthold1. It will be a gradually
draped figure, of stern figures; one
hand (the Left is folded over the breast,
holding rolls containing the Declare
ton of Independence; the right holds
aloft the torch, and from the open
work of the diadem on the forehead
will stream rays of light. The figure is
to be of beaten copper, thirty-fve
meters high, making the largest statue
in the world.
A GOOD story at the expense of Rep
resentative Lamar is going around Con-
gressional circles. When he was re-
turning home at the close oil the session
of Congress in 1860, new ~ on the
Memphis and Charleston h. road in
sisted that he should purchase :, book.
Annoyed by his pertinacity and anxious
to be rid OF him. MIR Lamar said to
him, with wave of his hand, "Oh,
pshaw don't bother me SO, wrote the
book" Quick as though the little fell
low answered, 'Ah now [ know.
That's what makes it so hard to SELL
A GOLDEN helmet has recently been
added to the treasures of the imperial
museum of the Hermitage at st. Peters
burg. It was found near Kertch, while
building an officers casino last Sum-
mer, and is handsomely ornamented,
combining arabesque with foliage work,
but has been somewhat damaged by
fire. It is supposed to belong to the
period of Alexander the great, when
Parisedes the First, or his sons, Saty-
ros the Second and Enmelos, relgned
on the Bosphorus.
The Hinesville (Ga.) Gazette says
that rot long since Mrs. w. J. War
nell, OF Liberty county, that state, saw
an eagle catch chicken. She ran to
drive the eagle away, but upon her ap-
proach it turned and made an attack
upon her. It became entangled by its
claws in her dress, seeing which, Mrs.
w. e. Warnell ran to her assistance,
and by repeated blows frcm stick put
an end to the existence of the eagle. It
was an unusually large eagle, and had
committed repeated depredations upon
the poultry Of Mrs. Warnen and her
neighbors.
KING VICTOR EMMANUE1 is henceforth
to be counted among the sporting gen.
tlemen of Europe. A number of fine
English race horses have just been
bought for the royal stud in Italy,
among them Carlton, brother of the
wozld-famous Blair-Athol, purchased at
a very high price as stallion. Now
that the noblemen of France and Hun
go hove M III {foron% Tim oc hoo ION E,,or-