Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-23
SMILES.
A COUP D'ETAT.

If little seeds by slow degree
Put forth their leaves and flowers unheard,
Our love has grown into a tree.
And bloOmed without single word.
/ haply hit on six O'Clock,
The hour her father came from town:
gave his own peculiar knock,
And waited slyly like clown.
The door open. There she stood
Lifting her mouths delicious brm.
How could waste thing good!
took the kiss she meant for him.
A moment on an awful brink
Deep breath, a frown, a smile, a tear;
AND then, 20. Robert, don't you think
That that was Tather-CdU0tier!"
-L0ndon Society.
At the BARRIERS: "How does monsieur
wish to have his hair dressed9" 'In
silence, please"
sob, yes, l have made faces my
study. Do you paint, Miss Brown?'
''Sir!" Il mean, do you paint pictures?"
Now do people begin to step on the
seasOnable banana peeling, and distrib-
ute their energies broadcast in the vari-
Gus walks of life.-New York Mail.
A gentleman, speaking of young
beauty's fashionable yellowish hair,
called it pure gold. cit ought to be-"
quoth a friend: cit looks like twenty
four carrots"
A bird that wouldn't sing and a wo-
man that wouldn't take up the carpet
such fine morning as this are uniting
representatives of their species.-NeW
Haven Register.
GLOW shall we train our girls ?" aske
an exchange. Train 'em with about
twenty two yards Of black silk, if you
want to please your girls. A silk vel
vet train would also make 'em happy.
If you are not wealthy enough to
keep a flock of hens and accompanying
gentleman attendant, keep baby. He
can ''crow' early enough to wake you
up in abundant season to see the sun
rise.-NeaU Hauen Register.
A young lady, who ought to know,
accounts for the disposition of the aver
age young feilew to put his arm around
girls waist by the supposition that he is
looking for that rib that was taken from
him SO long ago.
Since the announcement made by a
New York religious weekly a few
months ago that it would give pocket
pistol to each new subscriber, it has
more than double its circulation in Tex
as and Kentucky.
Arabella latter three months abroad)
-"Bridget, je vous prize to use extreme
care when busting the articles of virtu,
the bric-a-brac and ceramics" Bridget
|-"Sure, ma'am, | understand what We
say, but don't know what We NAME"
'.Dot 'Pinafore' expression vas noos-
ance," remarked a Teutonic gentle
man recently, to q genial coadjutor.
"Auf you tole a weller something's, he
speaks noding Won blaine Anelish, aber
he say: 'Vot, hardly, som etimes never?
Vot kind of language is dose?'
The time is near at hand when
glass of water, favored with .OOOOO1
cents worth of lemon extract, and i'm
pregnated with 100000 cents worth of
carbonic acid gas, is to fetch ten cents
at the druggists counter.-Jersey City
Journal
At the cooking lecture, lady solilo-
qulslng-"Now that she's got cooked,
l wish she'd tell us how to use up cold
mutton" Next lady overhears the re-
marks" have some infallible receipts"
First lady, alert with pencil and note
book: "Will you please favor me? ?"
Second lady: ':Six boys!"
The superintendent addressed the
Sunday-school on obedience to the NOR
al law, and urged the keeping and not
breaking of the commandments, and to
fasten the impression, asked: 'Is any
thing better for being broken % Eyes"
said little boy, "a nag" The address
proceeded no further.
lady Ito French governess): 81 am
shocked to find that my daughter has
been receiving letters in French from
young man." Governess: pardon,
madame. 1t is only my little ruse to
cheat mann 'selle into study. When she
would reply to an unknown lover-a
Frenchman, mon DIeu, how quickly she
will learn my language!"
Germany lifts its scholarly head from
amid the mists of philosophy to mingle
Its lIght-hearted jests and merry gayety
with the melodious chorus of drinking
songs and then dejectedly hangs or