Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-23
Odds and Ends.

MEN of cold passions have quick
eyes.-Haaut1ao1ne.
FAME-a flower upon dead mans
heart.-Motlaer7oeH
FALSE modesty is the most decent of
all Acknowledgements.
ALL things are in fate, yet all things
are not decreed by fate.-PhHo.
In polite society they are not called
the Black Hills, but "colored eleva
tons.
The present population of the United
States is estimated at 100000. Good
many Of U. S.-Aka- California.
GENERAL KAUFMAN will take COM
mand of southern Russia and the eau
casus in the spring
A WOMAN of forty applied to the Chi
cago county clerk for license to marry
a boy of sixteen. and didn't get it,
A COLD door-key held to the nose of a
tainted woman On the Lake Shore rail
road had the effect to revive her. The
chivalrous owner of the key refused to
take a cent.
AN Illinois woman cut her baby's
nose off while slicing bread with the
little fellow in her lap few days ago.
A physician pasted the nose on again,
and thinks it will stick.-Boston Journal.
LIST left Rome for Pesth at the
beninning of this month. From Pesth
he proceeds TO Dusseldorf, on the LIST
| of April to be present at the perform
ance of his Prometheus" and "Graner
| Festm esse."
PROF. DENTON said, at st. Paul, Min
nesota, that the mound-tuilders were
Mexicans, who came north for Superior
copper, and that the Americans In
dams are descendants of Asiatics, who
came over when America and Asia
were connected by land.
BOSTON Transcript: Why should the
| beehive be taken as symbol Of indus
| try? Not bee is to be seen all the
winter long, while the cockroach is up
at 5 o'clock in the morning, and never
goes to bed until midnight Let's change
this thing.
LYCURGUs being asked why he, who
in other respects appeared to be so
jealous for the equal rights of men,
did not make his Government demo-
cratic rather than oligarchical. eco,
you,' replied the legislator, "and try a
democracy in your own house"-PEu-
| tdTch.
''WHAT beats a good cup of coffee ?"
| said Mrs. Spilkins to her husband, the
other morning at the breakfast table,
said she. "What beats a good wife?"
queried spilkins. She gave it up.
Two good wives," said Spilkins, and
then she got mad and sulked, nobody
knows why.
FLOWERS should deck the brow of the
youthful bride, for they are in them
selves lovely type Of marriage. They
should Irvine round the tomb, for their
perpetually renewed beauty is symbol
of the resurrection. They should fes-
toon the alter, for their fragrance and
their beauty ascend forever before the
Most High.-llrs. L. NJ. Child
PA, will you get me pair Of skates
if [ prove to you that a dog has ten
tails % Yes, my son." "Well, to
begin with, one dog has one more tail
than no dog, hasn't he? EYES,"
Well, no dog has nine tails; and if one
dog has one more tail than no dog, then
one dog has ten tails.
A RECENT Spanish medical journal
says the tallest living specimen of the
human race is a young man from Al
cocer, twenty-six years of age and nine
feet two and one-ffth inches in height,
named Augustin Luengo Capilla, who
has lately been presented to his Males
ty the King Of Spain.
GOETHE, after having passed fifty
of the happiest of his life" as Weimer,
concluded that GO the soul is an abso-
lutely indestructible essence, continuing
to act from eternity to eternity, like
the sun, only disappearing to mortal
eyes, but increasingly tightening in its
course" Darwin's theory Of human
evolution from the monkey was I'M
known to Goethe.
EXTREME old age is childhood; ex-
IRENE wisdom is ignorance, for so it
may be called, since the man whom
the oracle pronounced the wisest Of
men professed that he knew nothing,
yea, push a coward to the extreme and
he will show courage; Cypress man to
the last anu he will rise above oppres-
sion.-J. Beaumont.
WOOD burns because it has the
proper stuff for that purpose in it, and
q man becomes renowned because he
has the necessary stuff in him. Re-
nown is not to be sought, and all pur-
suit of it is vain. A person may, in
deed, by skillful conduct and various
artificial means make sort Of name
for himself; but if the inner jewel is
wanting, all is vanity and will not last
day.
A GENTLEMAN who roomed with Sena-
tor Salisbury said one day: "Senator,
l often meet servant in the morning
taking two cocktails into your room.
Dou you always drink in duplicate ?"
Sir" replied Salisbury, 81 order two
cocktails every morning, and, when /
have drank one, it makes me feel like
another man. Then, sir, I am bound
in courtesy to treat that other man, sol
drink the second"
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