Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-09
Odds and Ends.

Loving hands adjust the pilfew,
And we've fitted rockers to IT,
q = - Odds and Ends.
. BUNoo men are operating with con-
siderable success in Charleston. South
Carolina. = = 500 49,. ~
THERE are GIL professional femals
models in Paris. Forty of these arc
Germans. r. S41EGLB 8 -
A GENERAL reduction of salaries IA
the Executive Department is proposed
in the Massachusetts Legislature. Tho
Governor is to receive "a, 600 instead of
s., 900 as now. aa'i9 u9i SRI
SoHooNERs can be built in California
for $65 ton, which would cost $76 IN
the East, and there is every prospect
that California as ship buiRling point
is destined to 60 ahead. ~
We hear of a merchant who reioices
that this is Centennial year, for he says
he has number of customers who set
tie their accounts only once in hundred
years. Houston Times. es. >, RE.
A MAN at Warren, r. l., was buried q
few days ago ia coffin which he order
ed for himself more than twenty years
ago, ana local journal says " although
little old-fashioned, it was very good
it,"
"HAvE you taken any remedy 2"
asked physician of sick person whom
he had been called to visit. No,
said the patient / haven't taken any
remedy, but I've taken lots of doctors
stuff" t afaa.2 4aa
FIRST jolly angler with empty creeD
Well, we've had very pleasant day.
What delightful pursuit. is Second
ditto with ditto -Glorious I shan't
forget that nibb1e we had just after
lunch as long as I live Both-Ahl-
Punch.
A OHINAMAN in California, whose life
was insured for a large amount, was
seriously hurt by falling from wagon.
There was some doubt of his ever get
ting better, and at length one of his
friends wrote to the insurance company,
Charley half dead: like half money"
Mr.. A. T. STEWART is now IS years of
age, but looks not more than so. He is
hale and hearty. Lis habits are excel
lent Coffee he eschews. Wine he
drinks in moderation at dinner, but
never at any other time. Hence his
remarkable state of bodily preservation.
AN establishment for reducing ore is
being erected at Uarien, CT. Several
car loads of ore arrived last week from
Omaha at an expense of between $500
and $500 per Car. This will be re-
duced by a peculiar and cheap method,
and there are hopes of founding a new
industry. SIS ~
ONE Of the young men employed in a
Danbury hat factory discovered brass
collar-button in a piece of mince pie he
was masticating, the other day. He IS
looking for new boarding place. BE
says what he wants are the comforts of
home, and not the excitement and con-
fusion of dollar store.
SOPHIE ENDERsoN, a Logansport, Ind,
woman, became intensely Interested in
religion recently, from the effects of
which excitement shs became a raving
maniac, at times requiring the united
strength of several persons to restrain
her from acts of violence. She has been
sent to the insane asylum.
MORE than 800 different kinds OF
spectacles and eyeglasses are made by
the Birmingham (Ct) Optical and
Needle Company. The establishment
is one Of the most Aourishing of the
kind In the country, now running eighty
hands, and turning out fifty dozen spec
tacles and 5000 or 1900 needles per
day. the needles being adapted to all
kinds OF sewing machines.
MARSHAL SoUIT, once showing the
pictures he stole in Spain, stopped be-
fore one and remarked: ssI value that
picture very much; it saved the lives of
two estimable persons. An aid-de-
camp whispered in the listeners ear:
!" He threatened to have them both shot
Immediately unless they gave it up"
THE Legislature of Vest Virginia has
adopted the design for q state flag re-
portec BY the Committee on Military
Affairs. The design is nine feet long,
three feet wide, four diagonal bars, two
red and tWb buff, with white ground
In the upper part of the right hand
corner, with the state arms andmotto in
gilt. a =.
Mrs. HORAoE EVERETT, of Angelica,
n. Y, whose husband served several
OIA0 40 1opICk3cuG6t1Y0 ia OOuKIO56
from Vermont, has the original commits
sion given by General Burgoyne to
Colonel Baum in 1777, ordering him 30
proceed to Bennington, vt, to take
charge Of the stores of goods there;
stragetic movement which led to the
battle at that place. - ssss - 4sl.5
The Indianapolis Herald commences
an obituary thus: He was man who
had hosts of warm friends, and his
death will be sincerely regretted" and
winds up, San Hunnitigated rogue,
wholly bad in everything, is much less
dangerous than q man who coolly per-
petrates the most monstrous frauds
and yet is not lacking in those virtues
which make his fellow-men love him. ~
ssMADAH, ''he said, ssyou SEQ before
yen bighted fellow creatureia I ain.t
. tramp, marin, I ANTI I have had my
little store of wealth laid away for these
rainy days; but all nArm, e rela-
tive and speculation brought me to this
sad state in which you see mel was
long on e. Railroad stock, marin,
and--Eh?D Wood :? Nal Me saw that
wood g. Madam. I feel, you cannot
realize my .situation! Good morning +
G. H. HAzzIroN, Ct Greensboro.