Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-06
PITH AND POINT.

A0Nhh hopes 10 draw S25, 900 out of
the English.
In France widows are not permitted by
society to frizz their hair.
NELLIE GRANT SARToRIs' boy has been
christened Algernon Edward.
COUNTERFEIT anthony, lead and tin
half dollars circulate in Eureka, New.
The murderous Laura Fair, of San
Francisco, has closed up her speculations
in stocks and is running lodging house.
THE English Quakers have become re-
duced to about 1900 persons from co.
900 century ago.
licenses granted for England, and 152, 686
for Scotland
A PoUND-KEEPER- butcher who
gives you four pounds of meat when you
pay for five.
BURIAL at sea has one advantage.
our wife can't bring her second husband
TO look at your toombstone.-BoStou
Traveler.
KATE CLAXToN's route through the
country is said to be carefully marked
on insurance maps now.-Boston Com.
Bulletin.
ARE these soaps all one scent?" in
CURED a lady Of a juvenile salesman.
" No ma'am, they're all ten cents" re-
Piled the innocent youngster.
PROFESSOR BELL says he first made the
vibrating membrane of the telephone of
goldbeater's skin, and Snifkins wants to
know why a goldbeater's skin is better
than any other mans.
1T is useless for newspapers to say that
hair dyes are poisonous, because when
woman wishes to use them she will do it.
She is brave enough to brave anything
but boil on the nose
KANSAS CITY Times: Gan Iowa pa
per tells Of a smart wife who helped her
husband raise seventy acres of wheat
The way she helped him was to stand in
the door and shake broom at him when
he sat down to rest"
A MAN who will order ffteen-cent
drink, throw down quarter and never
wait for the change, will get down on his
knees In street car and claw around in
the straw for two miles and half, hunt
ing cent he has dropped.
COLLARS for the adornment of the
masculine neck are getting so high in
their build, that hats this summer will be
made without brims, for the purpose of
allowing the collar still more room for
its get-uptiveness."
AN English bride walked from the
Church door to the altar on a carpet Of
evergreens Powered with roses, lilies and
violets; but it won't be year before she
will be scratching her husbands back
with IN old clothes brush in the most pro-
file and satisfactory manner.
SWIFT was one day in company with
young coxcomb, who rising from his
chair, said, with a conceited and conf
dent air, II would have you know, Mr.
Dean, | set up for wit" ''Do you, in
deco" replied the Dean; "then take my
advice and sit down again"
AN English woman, who was born
without arms, has just had twins. She
wears her wedding ring on her toe, and
does all the house work with her feet
with dexterity that is surprising How
the will manage to nurse her twins is
problem to be solved.
The man who fondly confded his
buster last fall to the protection of one
OF those moth-proof chests, now seeks
the garment, and is surprised to find that
the chest was moth-proof, but the buster
wasn't. The moths did not harm the
chest bit, but they made the buster
look like a desi On for lattice work.
The Norwich Bulletin rises to remark
that the growing custom of putting the
choir at the pulpit end of the church has
the very serious drawback that it pre-
vents a man from turning around and
looking up at the organ in critical
just before the contribution box
approaches his pew.
JOHNNY, where's your father" asked
a Hill street mother of her son, unex-
pectedly returning from weeks visit at
the end of the third day. "Gone fishing
with the hired girl" was the laconic
reply. Lightning didn't strike that
house, nor an earthquake disturb it, but
the husband found devastation when he
-Reynolds Herald
WHEN woman drinks soda she HOSTS
the glass at an angle of eight degrees,
bends over, holds i'll her dress, and as
she looks out of the corners of her eyes,
seeming to be in an ecstacy of apprecia-
ton, little drop of soda runs down off
her chin and goes like pearl plummet
to the floor
YESTERDAY two rugged, sun-browned
men, friends of years, babe each other
goodbye in front of this Office. Their
horny, honest palms chung together, and
they looked into each others face with
that saddened expression which only
parting brings. Goodbye, Tom"
!" Goodbye, Jim, and God bless you"
Then each gave the other chew of his
tobacco, and they parted, perhaps for
ever.-OI City Derrick
GA LOVER writes us: "Suppose I
see young lady home from church, and
the night is dark and rainy, and upon
at her house she darts through
the door without saying as much as
good night leaving me standing out
side-what would you advise me to do
in such case?" You had better start
for home Immediately, if you have an
Under no circumstance
should you stand on the steps of the