Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-03
GLEANINGS.

ONE of the oldest truths nowadays Is
Soiourner.-LoarsUC Courier.
PETER COOPER will add another story
and dome to the Cooper institute, New
York.
GEORGETOWN, Col, has its advant-
ages There isn't enough level land IN
The place to permit of laying out base
ball ground.
A MAN in New York who considers
himself the boss whistler wants some one
to tune up against him for 800 side
and the championship of the state.
In cornfeld at Browns Cross roads,
South Carolina, stands an old dilapidat-
ed building, which used to be court
house. In it Andrew Jackson delivered
the first speech of his life.
GRAvEsTONEs do not mention the
fact, but there have been men whose
dying was the only good thing accom-
plished by them.-Nee0 Orleans Ptca-
yune.
The coolest inhabitant" now predicts
an early fall, giving as q reason that
robbins, meadow larks and swallows are
aocking fully month earlier than
usual, preparatory to their migratory
flights.
The purest white table linen should be
used for the tinted and painted china, or
white and green is favorite combina-
ton, then the delicate colors can be ar
ranged in exquisite and picturesque re-
lief
In Hunt against the state (Texas) the
defendants cracked and ate pecan nuts
in church during service, disturbing the
congregation, and causing the minister
to demonstrate. This indulgence cost
the defendants twenty-five dollars each.
Opossums are so plenty in Petersburg,
Va, that it is not uncommon to ran
against them in the streets at night.
Rabbits and cartridges also abound, the
latter being found in every yard which
affords them food.
The cottage in which lived John
Mackey, the "Bonanza King" when he
used to dig gold in the Red Star Gulch,
is still standing. 1t is tiny shanty,
about l2x16 feet in size, with a little
porch.
Two little boys thought it good sport
to play in great bin of grain in an ele-
vator at Goshen, Ind, but one day they
did SO when the grain was being drawn
off through an outlet underneath, and
they were irresistibly pulled down and
smothered to death.
In these words correspondent lately
introduced piece of poetry to the no.
tiee of the editor of newspaper: "The
following lines were written fifty years
ago by one who has for many years slept
in his grave merely for his own amuse-
ment."
Bob MCCoRKLE, lately hanged at
Taylorville, n. c., was one of the few
murderers who did not feel sure of going
from the scafold direct to heaven.
"Kind friends" were his last words,
remember me in your prayers tonight,
for don't know where Pm going"
THE Portsmouth Times says there isn't
man in New Hampshire who can an
swer all the questions asked at the exam
nation of candidates for West Point
cadetship in that district. If any boy
could answer them he would be better
fitted for the presidency of Harvard col
lege than cadetship.
LAWYER L. n. DENBITz was arguing
a point in the Louisville chancery court
few days ago when terrific clap and
long lingering roll of thunder inter
rupted the proceedings. Mr.. Dembitz
waited patiently until the noise was
over, and said in all earnestness: "Gen-
| tlemen, please excuse this interruption"
A LADY who lays some claim to hav-
ing studied human nature in its mascu-
line development, says that the man
who is Of a sufficiently calculating mind
to ask his sweetheart before marriage
how many yards it takes for silk dress
will snort terror into her soul after
marriage if she asks for six penny cal.
ico.-AasdrcaUs' Bazaar.
JOAQUIN MILLER says: eff 20
were to take newspaper in your hand
and crumple it up, and then spread it
out again, the creases in it might fairly
represent the streets and lanes of Lon
don, so angular, so awkward and irregu-
lar in this, the greatest of all cities of
the world.'' The Philadelphia Belletin
says: eff you were afterward to turn
it upside down and read it backwards, it
would fairly representsom of Joaquin's
poetry"