Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28
PERSONAL AND; sgMpERsoNAL

Worth, the Partisan dressmaker.
says he leaes ferry Thousand; dollars .
year through. bed dehks. ,.v'-! $.
General CRAFTS ,Aurial at Riverside
PatkIhas esassA the sxtsRsioa thhAes
'S4 street r1ilwsy.-k Y. Es~a1d. -
An outdoor Carnival of Giterx-
ture" was recently held ins4 one of. the
Sooshssn States Thoss,who attended
were expected 20 come dressed to rep
resent some standard hooN. or depart
sRent Of literature, During the swans
in2 D tramp shufied into the gayly-
dressed ASST H,sss, and when an at.
tempt was made 10 hustle linn cut, no
vigorously resisted, declaring that he
represented - Summer Idle. Hs
was allowed to stay.-CAieaso Jonrno.
The total energy stored up in gun
powder is about three. hundred
and forty thousand .kilogrsmme-
metres per kilogramme of powder, or,
in English measure little under five
hundred foot-tons per pound Of pow
der. The potential energy, of one
pound CT gunpowder is as nearly as
possible one-tenth of that of ono
pound of coal, and one-fortieth of that
of one pound of hydrogen. 1t is not
even equal to the energy stored up in
the carbon which forms one of its own
constituents. .'
. "A gentleman stopping at the Kill
kenny Hotel. Tramore,. Ireland, got
out of bed between two, and three
o'clock the other morning while in a
state of somnambulism, and lighted q
candle, after which he opened and
dropped out of the window of his room
into the road, falling some eighteen
feet. After standing for a. couple OF
minutes as if stunned, he proceeded to
the pol &c station of the town, and de-
manded admittance. 1t is stated that
he was greatly embarrassed when re-
stored to consciousness.
When Vestryman Green bowed his
head to read the responses of the litany
last Sunday he was very drowsy in.
deed, and he had repeated Lord have
mercy upon US miserable sinners" but
three times when he fell asleep. His
wife nudged him with her parasol with.
out success. When the preacher
reached. And now seventeenthly, my
beloved brethren" Vestryman Greer
awoke,, and being unconscious of the
lapse of time responded in sonorous
and fervent voice: Lord have mercy
upon us miserable sinners. IN Y
Times.
OF course. on such bright morn.
ing she couldn't resist calling around
to see how many of her friends had
returned from vacation. "Why, Cice.
ly, DEAR" she exclaimed, $50 you, too,
have returned?" "Ye-es, I-I-thai
is, haven't been away" but yor
ion." "Oh, yes. That cost me TWEEN,
ty-five cents. while vacation would
have cost hundred and twenty-five
dollars. I'll have new cloak this fall,
and you'll have to fix up your old
one" It was cool enough to put the
cloaks on immediately.-Har ford Post.
The laughing plant of China is so
called because IS seeds produce effects
like those produced by laughing gas.
The. flowers are of bright yellow, and
the seed pods are soft and woolly, while
the seeds resemble small black beans,
and only two Or three grow in a pod.
The natives (Chinese) dry and pulver-
ize them, and the powder, If taken in
small doses, makes the soberest person
behave like circus clown or mad.
man. for he will dance, sing and laugh
most boisterously and cut the most fan
tastic capers, and be in an uproariously
ridiculously condition for about an
hour. When the excitement ceases the
exhausted exhibitor Of these antics
falls asleep, and when he awakes he has
not the slightest remembrance of his
risky dninos- Boston .LoakrzaHl