Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-12-06
VARIETIES.

gether.
The Chinese laundryman is about to
enter London.
A FREE shave and chrome is the
latest in New York.
AN expensive piece of furniture
The Pension Bureau.
You can always find a sheet of water
on the bed of the ocean.
IHE remains of the Baron de Palm
will be cremated in New York.
ITALY DOW possesses 1926 periodical
publications, including 367 diurnals.
GEN. MUNRO, an English botanist,
says there are 5000 species of grasses.
OAKLAND, CAL, girl-thieves at night
pull off false hair from ladies and run.
CYCLONES which kill over 100, 900 peo-
pie are things which we all feel like
guarding against.
The great Brooklyn bridge will prob
ably be opened for travel in tho fall of
1879.
The eucalyptus tree is doing wonders
IN purifying the pestilential Roman
Campagna.
WHEN Peter Cooper hears it suggest
ed that he may be counted in he grins
clear back to his ears.
BASE BALL and cricket are not so far
apart after all; one depends upon the
pitcher and the other the bowl.
A PLANT has just been received at
Paris, from China, which changes its
color at regular hours during the day.
Mr.. HOLMAN HUNT, who is now in his
newly built studio in Jerusalem, will
probably return to Europe for short
time in the spring.
ANOTHER Mormon wife has followed
the example of Ann Eliza Young. She
is Mrs. Thomas, of Ogden, Utah, and
she sues for divorce and alimony.
WATER must be growing more popu-
lar as a beverage in Frisco. They're
about to conduct it thither by 100 miles
of pipe, all the way from the Sierras.
| IT is singular that the more you
damp the ardor of a troublesome
talker, by throwing cold water on his
efusions, the sooner he dries up.
AFTER all last winters scare about
an ice panic, it's aggravating to read
| that about 5000 tons remain unsold at
Belfast, Maine, alone.
The inhabitants Of the Salt River
region, after anxiously watching week
for the boats arrival from the States,
have taken down the flags, put on their
coats, and gone home in disgust.
The news of the drowning of motor
iously dirty man on one of the Western
lakes was doubted by his friends be-
cause the dispatch stated that he was
washed overheard"
BRIDAL trips to a distance are be-
coming questionable. OF eleven
fashionable brides in New York last
only four went out of the city on
trip.
A MEMBER of a temperance society
excused his frequent drinks by saying
that the doctor told him to take LIQUOR
as a medicine, and ne never told him
to stop.
No man can stand under q leaky
umbrella and denounce the enemy of
his country for more than half an hour
at a time, without feeling that if whisky
were only five cents a glass he would
oftener drink.
ATTENTION company, and tend to
your rollroll," said an Irish sergeant.
"All of ye that are present say, Here,
and all Of ye that are not present say,
Absint,'"
! WHEN two or three little boys get to-
gether in the afternoon the chances are
that there will either be fight, win
dow broken, or some stray dog will have
pan tied. to his tail.
A PRETTY Wisconsin school-marm, to
encourage promptness, promised to
! kiss the first scholar at school, and the
big boys took to roosting on the fence
sill night.
New Medicine.-A lady said to a
gentleman who was suffering with the
influenza, Ny dear sir, what do you
take for your cold?" Five pocket
handkerchiefs a day, madam"
WHEN coal dealers appear cold in
manner, and reply to questions by
freezing remarks, remember only that
it is their business to bring on cold
snap.
ALL hair-pins look alike to men, but
let wife 60 off on visit and come
home and find hair-pin near the gate.
and she can't wait minute to grow
red in the face.
A SWEDISH bark is now loading at
Portland, Me-, with 1000 barrels of
herring for Sweden, they having almost
deserted their usual haunts on that
coast this season.
! A GENERAL order has been issued by
the Duke of Cambridge, that until
further orders the standard for admis-
sion to the British army be reduced TO
FIVE feet four and a half inches.
IT is related of Dr. Garth, in his last
illness, when he saw his fellow-doctors
consulting together at his bedside, that
he raised his head from his pillow and
said, with smile: dear gentlemen,
let me die natural death"
A MAN in Boston advertises that he
will furnish genuine titles of Earl or
Count for $4,000. European orders
for from $3.50 to $4,000, and member
ship in foreign scientific and literary
societies at $3.50. He warrants the GER
tificates genuine