Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-28
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1t was Prentice who declined to dis
cuss the question of woman suffrage in
MS journal, because he had considered
woman, from the creation, as a side
ISSUE
THERE are 100000 worth of shoe
pegs made yearly in the United States.
most Of them in Massachusetts, re-
curing 100000 cubic feet of white
birch.
The largest balloon ever made is to
be one of the attractions at the Paris
Exhibition OF 1873. 1t will be capable
OF starting for destruction with so per-
sons at once.
Two card-playing friends were pass
ing through pine forest, when one
asked the other this audacious conun-
drum: "Why cannot the proprietor of
this forest fell bis own timber?" "Be-
cause no one is allowed to cut when it
is his own DEAL"
A NEGRO about dying was old by his
minister that he must forgive certain
darkey against whom he seemed to en-
terrain very bitter feelings. eyes,
sah," he replied, g" if I dies I forgive
dat nigga; but if I gets we'll, dat nigga
must take care !"
The man who is hardest to find is
the one who has an "office," particu-
larl y if be has "ofice hours" When
ever a man wishes to conceal himself
from the world, he rents an office,
hangs out sing stating his Office hours
and then stays away forever.
QUEEN VIcToR1A's new title of En-
press has been improved upon in Ja-
maca. A recent proclamation issued
there commences thus: "Victoria, by
the Grace of God Of the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland
Queen, Defender os the Faith, and of
Jamaica Supreme Lady"
SENATOR FooTE, of Vermont, once
went to a party at Mr.. Stewards, escort
ing his two nieces of the same name as
his own. One of the state department
~ messengers, who stood at the door of
the drawing-room to announce the
guests, undertook to be very grammati.
cal, and as the trio entered he shouted:
"Senator Foote and the two Misses
Feet !" f
A M1sER who kept his money in a
jug has just d. d near Polrick, Va, and
among the 81. 70 found was the first
piece of mo,.ey he ever owned-a
dime. During his life it was not known
where he kept his money, and he al
ways said that none of his kinsfolk
should ever have any of it, but he once
expressed a wish to be buried near his
money, SO that he could guard it, and
hunt near the spot he designated as
his burial place disclosed the Jug. The
money was divided equally among
eight heirs.
The census of Pittsfeld school chill
Lahy, a graduate of the high school
who has no arms, having lost them by
railroad accident when a child. He
holds his pen in his mouth and his
writing is as legible as print He gave
not only the number but the names of
all persons in town between the
age of five and fifteen years, all
legibly written, and handsomely
as well. He found 2,50Olboys,
1882; girls. 1,268; colored, 81 boys, 81
girls. The census of last year gave
2,3e4
ONE mathematical genius ascertains
that by giving five minutes to each
contributor and using reasonable
number of hours each day, he could
survey the whole Exhibition in TWENTY
three years. Another found that by
giving one minute to each contributor
he could get through in five years. But
as the Exhibition will last only six
months, what then? The truth is, that.
with much that is beautiful and won,
erful in the Exhibition, it needs a
great deal of wedding out.
No woman will love man the better
for being renowned or prominent.
Though be be the first among men, she
will he prouder not fonder; as is often
the case, she will not even be proud.
But give her love, appreciation, kind
ness, and there is no sacrifice she would
not make for his content and comfort
The man who loves her well is her hero
and her king. No less a hero to her,
though his only kingdom is her heart
and home. It is mans own fault if
he is unhappy with his wife, in nine
cases out of ten.
"NoT many years ago." said Thomas
Darcy McGee oaly few days before
he was so foully murdered, there was
jolly bishop in Newfoundland, a good
fellow who knew what it was to have
liver, and he concluded a trade about a
piano with Scotch doctor, after an in
finite deal of haggling in which the
bishop got about two and sixpence the
better of the bargain. When the doctor
came to send home the piano there was
no vehicle big enough to carry it but
the .hearse, in which he sent it up to
the Episcopal palace, to the good bish-
ops great scandal. why did you select
such vehicle? Didn't you think it was
profaning the dead {? he asked of the
doctor. 'Weel, no, answered the doc
tor; just sent it We in the hearse be-
cause We got it at sic dead bargain
The Medical Academy Of Rome has
held an important meeting to vindicate
the health Of the city, Doctors Lanzi
Terrigi read papers embodying the re-
suits of minute analysis of air and
other sanitary conditions in the central