Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-11-10
NO.. B..
q Foolish Undertaking.

Away out ON the Pacific coast poor,
weak man sought to disprove the alle-
cation that women by choice always
sit down on the floor or ground to put
on or off shoes and stockings He
placed some benches on the beach,
where number of young ladies were
in the habit Of occasionally going to
wade in the water. They came and
gleefully took possession of the
benches, but when they made up their
minds that they wanted to wade, down
their shoes. Next day this poor, weak
man had his servant spread broken
glass, oyster shells, etc., On the beach,
and then waited to see the girls at
wading time industriously clear away
the stuff until they had room enough
to sit down. Then he went away and
marveled.-N 7. Sun.
The clothing of a mill-hand in
Three Rivers, Ont, was caught in q
revolving shaft, and he was carried
around with it until every particle OF
clothing was torn from his body, and
dropped to the floor, distance of ten
feet or SO. Although the space be-
tween the beams where the shaft re-
yolved was only about two and half
feet wide, he escaped almost unhurt.
"A. q. Nye, of Weymouth, Mass,
claims to be the first inventor of the
Morse telegraphic instrument. If it
was Bill Nye who made such claim
people would understand it, for Bill is
a great inventor, but it is a little late
in the day for A. G.-Detroit Free
Press.
"A Harvard professor and his wife
were guests at a reception in London,
which rad been given in their honor.
A hundred men and women had been
invited by the hostess to meet them.
But there were no introductions, and
the Harvard professor amused himself
during the evening by talking to his
wife. Harper Weekly.
Mr.. Moody has received from Will
liam Mackinnon, Scotch ship builder,
a model of Solomon's Temple, made of
cedar overlaid with gold, with many of
the smaller articles of solid gold 1t is
one-fifty-fifth the size of the original,
having the court, tabernacle, altar,
laver, ark, holy of holies, mercy seat,
and cheruhim in proportion and rela-
ton to each other.
Alexander Stewart, of Staunton.
Va, aged ninety-one years, recently
attended the funeral of S. G. Wayland,
aged eighty-one years, WHO had been
his best friend for half century. The
next day while Mr.. Stewart was re-
calling to a party of visitors scenes
and incidents in which he and his
friend Wayland had participated, he
fell over ol the grounds and died in q
few minutes Washtndtom Post.
Tom Scott, of Waco, Tex, had q
rather unusual experience recently.
He went to see his mother, who is
sixty years old and resides in neigh
boring town. On arriving at his home
he found that the old lady had eloped
with a man half her age. When MIR.
Scott returned to his own home he was
paralyzed by the information that his
wife had gone with a handsomer man.
Then there was music in the air.
Teras SJtings.
The Rochester Post-EGpress says:
A life insurance agent states that he has
just concluded an insurance upon the
life of man aged 1O2 years. The.
centenarian enjoys good health and ap
pears to be in the possession of his fac
ulties. He states that his father lived
to the age of 10, and met his death by
an injury due to the breaking of mill
some. His grandfather was, he asserts.
accidentally killed in his mill at the
age of 126. His great-grandfather-
lived to the age of 1873.