Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-15
Our Chip Basket.
Nor a bad-bred boy-Johnn,

Nor bad-bred boy-Johnny Cake
MoTTo for the Arabs--Up and Be-
douin
CARvERs of their own fortunes
Butchers.
The best PHILOSOPHICAL contented
mind.
Buffers Dutch Gap Canal will soon
be opened for navigation
CALIFORNIA spent $4,000 in hunting
down and killing bandit Chavez
A PHILADELPHIA woman swore that
her husbands conduct was enough to
irrigate an angel"
SOLDIERS ought to be good physiogno-
mists. They all know how to write
about face.
IT took West Virginia poet to sing,
"But the scent of the WHISKY hangs
round it's still"
Mr.. TROWBRIDGE, in his last poem on
a marriage, speaks of "glassy smiles"
But then you can have q CLASSY smile
in almost any corner grocery. :
The question is asked, WHY newspa-
pers will persist in abbreviating Son
of Temperance and make a S. 0. T. of
him.
WHEN a mouse makes it's appearance
in g lady's sewing circle, the women
with striped stockings on and the
prettiest boots always jump the highest.
"DID you notice how splendidly I
went through that last reel at the ball
last night, Tom?" eyes, and noticed
that you kept it all the way home!"
A VIOLIN Of Antonious Stradivarius,
with two bows, and bearing the date
1922 recently brought 5000 francs at
public sale in Paris.
| IT is the wife who has the making of
a mans home, says an exchange. True,
and now and then she makes his wig
warm, too.
A FOREIGN critic thinks that England's
boasted power was only moral influence
coming from Wellington's defeat of
Bonaparte.
"GoING for the bottom facts" is
what the conscientious Brooklyn mother
calls it now when she slippers her
eldest for fixing clothes-pin on pussy's
| TAIL
THIS leap-year rhyme is in every
body's mouth in the western states:
Mother, may go out to pop?
Yes, my darling daughter,
If you fail this year you must shut up shop;
You've kept longer than you'd orter.
A BIBLE, once in the possession of
Charles H., was recently sold in Lon
don for $50 Is. It was printed by
Field, Cambridge, in 1860, and the
plates were by Holler ard Vischer.
This is Washington joke: cit is
plain that journalists, as class, are
temperance men; else they would not
persist in putting the whisky matter
on their outsides."
."CAN you work miracles?" asked
Mr.. Sceptic, at camp meeting The
brethren kicked him off the grounds
with the reply, eve can cast out
devils" Z
A LADY teacher asked class of
juveniles if any of them could name the
four seasons. Instantly little fve-year
old answered: Pepper, salt, vinegar
and mustard"
THERE is something touching in the
plea of Boston chap caught zig -zaging
across the Common the other night:
"How's you 'spect a Teller (hicl steer
straight 'thout er Elm (hic), say"
AT the marriage of an Alabama wild
over one of the servants was asked if
his master would take bridal tour.
"Dl1nno, sab; when old minus's alive
he took paddle to her; dunno if he
take bridal to de new one or not"
AT young ladies' seminary, during
an examination in history, one Of the
pupils was interrogated: Mary, did
Martin Luther die a natural death g
"No,' was the reply; che was excom-
municated by bull
DELAwAREANs have exhumed, nea
Franklin, Del, the skeleton of an Ir
dian, and also tomahawk and severe
arrow-tips, all Of which, as matter
course, they will exhibit at the Center
NAL.
The Detroit Free Press has this: @"
Pennsylvania girl, worth 100000, say
leap year be hanged If any man wan
her and her money he's got to com
counting around and hang over the ga
and sing something soft under her vii
dow"
MDLLE. TIETJENs, the prima DOM
has brother who is a an old lnhal
tant Of Sacramento, California. Lear
ing that circumstances would comp
her to return to Europe without visitil
the Pacific coast, he has set out for t
East to visit her
A PARIS correspondent writing und
recent date, states that the fogs ha
been beyond precedent frequent a
dense as well as of highly noxio
character. Affections of chest a
throat have been unusually freque
and never, perhaps, have there been
many fatal examples of the dang
attending "slight cold.'
"HAvE you children" demanded
house renter. eyes," replied the
er, solemnly, "six-all in the cen
terry" "Better there than here" s,
the landlord, consolingly, and proce
ed to execute the desired lease.
due time the children returned FIR
the cemetery, whittier they had b
sent to have nice play; but it was
late to annul the contract ashin;
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