Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-14

OOU year.
MELANCHOLY suicide-A little boy,
on oelng threatened with whipping,
hung his head.-Ks.
PROFESSOR DAwK1Ns lighted paper in
the ashes eight feet down in the crater
of Mount Vesuvius.
GEN. BANKS is the father of two
daughters who are said to be lovely az
dreams and graceful as lilies.
1t is estimated that the number Of
ladies' who can not pass mirror with
out glanclng into it averages about
twelve to every dozen.
GERMANY grunts under an annual
army expenditure of $8O,OOO,OOO, while
France strains herself vita a like dis
bursement of $108,00O,0OO.
SENATOR EDMoNDs looks intentlv at
the man with whom he is debating. and
puts vinegar into his tone.
Now get out your dictionaries. The
spelling match wave is on it's travels
again.
ONE of N. Y. Herald's personal ad-
vertlsements reads: "Dear Robert
bring me new bustle."
SAILOR-HATs trimmed with cardinal
red, are new importations for the little
folks.
HE new style of spring silk hat is
less "belled in the crown than last
year, and 5he curl in the brim ia
greater.
The son of Charles Dickens, Charles,
Jr., finds that he cannot write as his
father wrote, successfully, and has left
literature for business.
FRIDAY has been BID unlucky day for
Mr.. Tilden. All three of the decisions
of the Electoral Tribunal have been
given on that day.
Mr.. GAT11NG, inventor of the gun of
that name has brought out new mi
trailleuse, from which 800 rounds a
minute can be fired.
A New YORK street car, loaded with
passengers, was lately thrown from the
track by the explosion Of torpedo
which had been placed for the purpose.
CHRISTINE NILSSON, has sent to Wegio,
the town wherein she was born in
Sweden, three magnificent chandeliers
in front of the church.
IT is being observed by the Treasurer
of the United States that the econ
science Fund" is not amounting up as
it ought to. Parties interested will
please take notice.
In the economy Of nature nothing is
lost. The inside of an orange may re-
fresh one man, while the outside of the
same fruit may serve to break worthy
mems legs.
CONGRESSMAN WALKER, of Virginia,
over six feet high, and, though we'll
made, is slim. He is forty-four and
handsomely gray.
The Austrian army is gradually to
exchange its well-known white uniform
for blue. Half of the infantry will re-
ceive blue tunics thisyear, and the rest
of the troops will receive them in 1873.
"IN the spring the human fancy
lightly turns to lamb and peas" And
in the spring the bummers fancy
strongly turns to beer and cheese
No7r. Herald.
THERE is time for all things. The
time for an ink-bottle to tip over on
your writing paper, says the Oil City
Derrick, is just when you have finished
a letter.
DOCTORS say that out Of twenty men
shampooed by BARRIERS at any season of
the year fifteen will catch cold, and at
least two will die of pneumonia. Read
this to the barber who says you have
lots of dandruf.-DeiroH Free Press.
AN Indiana genius has whitfield q vio-
lin out Of an old maple bedpost, and it
is now worth seventy-fve dollars a.
month to live next door TO him. All
his neighbors have moved away, except
a deaf and dumb family.-Norr. Herald.
NANTUCKET, Mass, is one of the Isles
of the Blest, for it has jail without a
prisoner. The whole expense of the
establishment last year was only $685.
AZ. Part of this sum was expended in
withdrawing the outside of the build
ing, which is certainly no whited sepul-
chre.
A YoUNGsTER being required to write
a composition upon some portion of
the human body, selected that which
unites the head to the body: GA throat
is convenient to have, especially to
roosters and ministers. The former
eats the corn and crows with it; the
latter breaches through his'n, and then
ties it up. This is pretty much all I
can think of about necks."
THERE are now sixty-nine daily,
weekly and monthly periodicals In
Bengalee and Tamil, the two languages
of India in which the greatest literary
activity is at present shown. Twelve of
these sixty-nine are devoted to Mussul-
man interests, and about twenty to
Christian. All the rest are purely
Hindoo. By far the least important
are the journals representing Mussul-
man opinion. which are badly edited,
and have a very small circulation.
ABOUT twenty years ago somewha.
abusive opponent Of the Baptists was
publishing a book against them at the
Office of the printer of the acts of the
Mississippi Legislature. By some in
advertence the sheets got mixed, and
before the confusion was detected
several copies of the acts were so bound
as to exhibit the following astonishing