Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-08-23
enSa and Nonsense.


ARE you living within your income :
Ii so, you are Fastening on the good
times.
You can't eat enough in one week to
last whole year, and you can't adver-
t1se on that plan either.
CORRESPONDENTS should write onlv
On one side of a sheet of paper, and
only On one side Of subject at the
same time. s.s-re---,
AN Indian will love you as long as
you are good to him. But you must
not object if he wants to use your
scalp to trim his leggins with.
A SARATOGA girl writes home: "There
are plenty of males here-lisping silly,
hair-parted -1n-the-middle swells-out D.
for the sight of one genuine man."
The variety of pains and pleasures,
of fears and hopes, is the freshening
breeze that fills the sail of tt e vessel Of
life and sends it gaily on its track.
THERE are seven ex-governors of New
York living, viz: Hamilton Fish, Hora-
ito Seymour, Myron H. Clark, Edwin
D. Morgan, Reuben E. Fenton, John T.
Hoffman, and John A. Dix.
Miss CATHERINE BEEcHER, the only
member OF the Beecher family who
has never been married, was betrothed
IN youth to Prof. Porter, VINO persisted
in the wreck of the Albion. She has
ever since remained constant to his
memory.
e FASHIONABLE TAILOR: "I can't help
tttlr g s. figure like yours, sir, and Pm
willing to lose money for the sake Of
the advertisement sir" Freshman is
delighted, and he pays an extortionate
bill without a murmur.
INsthe Snohomish and Stillaguamish
region, Washington Territory, there
are twenty-eight logging camps in OPP
Grafton, which give employment to
four hundred and seven men and three
hundred and twenty-five oxen.
The bottle of brandy found in the
corner stone of the college building at
New Haven lately was put there fifty
years ago, so it is known that they hap
theological students there at that ii me,
-Noroich Bulletin.
The hot and cold salt water baths
are a great success at Long Branch.
They are very extensively patronized
by timid and modest ladies who wisely
prefer to avoid che ordeal of surf bath
ing.
A LIFEBoAT recently tried in London,
is 80 feet long, weighs two tons, and
righted itself Immediately When cap
sized in the water. Eighteen men
could not upset it, and the inventor
claims it will keep 200 persons above
water. 500 .teasa
p A MASSACHUSETTS man has been in
flating the currency by adding to the
volume pine-tree shilling which he
picked up in his back yard. The piece
bears date 1862, and the indications
are, that it had lain where it was found
at least since 1903.
IT appears that one of the easiest
deaths is to be drowned in barrel of
lager. After swallowing g. few gallons
Of the golden nectar the victim drops
off into familiar intercourse " It'll the
gods, and never knows just where and
of mortality.
The Duke of Cambridge has issued
orders to the British army that soldiers
may, on reauisition of civilians, assist
IN harvesting operations, providing
that the employment of the population
is not thereby tered with" The
permission will also be withheld when
strikes Or disputes exist
OLD fisherman will smack their lips
to learn that at Rocky Point, near New
port, there are served up daily during
the season 200 bushels of CLAIMS in the
shell, $50 to 200 gallons of open CLAIMS,
a ton of bluefsh, 600 loaves of bread
and three tubs Of butter.
CAPT. RICHARD YEAToN, of Belgrade,
Maine, aged II, and his wife, aged 20,
gathered 81 members of their family
about their board the other night, in
Guiding IA children with their husbands
Or wives, "a grandchildren, and two
yreat-grandchildren. s9is'
LORD WILLIAM PITT LENNox, now
nearly seventy-seven years old, godson
of the great English statesman, on
Wellington's staff at Vienna and Wa
terloo, and the author of about dozen
works of sporting, anecdote, and per-
sonal "reminiscences, has entered the
lecture field IN London and its suburbs.
WHEN corn arrives at full roasting
ear state it can be most proftably fed
by being cut and fed stalk
and ear together, since at no
period is there more sugar
which is necessary in fattening-to
be found in the plant, and then hogs
eat every part with an appetite that
shows their appreciation Of the dainty
food provided for them.
GENERAL WILLIAM III. F. LEE, eldest
son Of General Robert E. Lee, turned
his sword into pruning hook after the
war, and is now one of the most sub
stantial farmers in Fairfax county, Va.
A local paper describes him as having
"just passed our Office, sitting behind
a fine pair of mules that seemed to
know that a master hand held the rib
bons."
AN old lady in California refused to
allow railroad corporation to lay rails
through her property. The track-lay-
ers took adyantaoe Of Sun0av-c dav