Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-06-03

the dining room. "Ah," he said to his
host, you have a remarkable work OF
art there. 1t is evidently a masterpiece.
Who is the artist?'
''Sir Joshua Reynolds was the re-
ply. 1T is portrait of one of my an
cestors.'
HE came very near being one of my
ancestors was the tart retort, ''only L
was hard up just then and could not
afford him."
"Got a highly laudatory letter from
Statesman Banks in response to our pres
ent of a copy of a dictionary said the
secretary.
Good said the publisher. Have a
Autograph copy of it made and print it
in every paper in his district
Cant do it. He has misspelled four
words. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Once at a meeting in connection with
the University college. London, Palmer
ston took the chair. He was not at home
in this learned body. and was evidently
occasion. SO he began: ut has been
said that a little learning is a danger
Gus thing-ahem!-is a dangerous thing,
but it is better than-better than-bet-
ter than Here his lordship came to
a dead stop. Lord Brougham sat next
to Palmerston. In low tone, but III
his penetrating, squeaky voice, he came
to the speakers rescue. Better than
a great deal of ignorance" he suggested
This of course brought down the house;
and during the laughter that followed
Lord Palmerston recovered the thread
of his discourse and finished brilliantly.
Rev. Robert Collyer. who looks some
thing like the late Henry Ward Beecher,
was walking through Central park last
summer. 1t was a dreadfully hot day,
and he had his hat off 20 cool his brow.
Suddenly, at sharp turn of the road,
he came plump upon an old lady seated
on a park bench. She jumped up, eX
claiming, Goodness me! 1t is not Mr..
Beecher" mo, madam" Collyer an
swered, 1T is not. | hope Mr.. Beecher
is III cooler place"
Word comes from Paris that at last
there is a reaction among women who
ride the wheel against the knickerbocker
costume. Whether it is due to the vul
garizatiOn of the culotte by the eXtraor-
binary costumes affected by shopgirls
and cheap actresses, or to the growth of
anglomania among the fashiOnables, or
simply that the amending search for
novelty has brought modesty into fash
ion again, the fact remains that French
women of position no longer ride in the
DOIS III DreecneS. lneV nave taken up
instead, the divided skirt. and. short
ened and made practical and graceful,
it is now the garment most Worn by
women of the better class. That is.
in the Bois iii the country the women
who have worn knickerbockerS in The
hunting field for ten years past will
not abandon them when they take Il
spin on their wheels down quiet country
lanes.
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1t was announced III Leavenworth.
has., that Nine. Caroline Won Weber
would sing at the Sunday morning serv.
ice of the First Presbyterian church. and
the church was crowded. When the
service began the pastor. Rev. Page. an
nounced: Il regret that Nine Won
Weber will not sing at the morning serv-
ice and | think we will have to worship
God
At the Oklahoma City convention one
of the old ''mossbacks,' who did not
like the way the energetic young chair
man was conducting matters. finally
arose, and Indignantly said to the chair
man: Young man, | was a Republican
before you were bornr' "Shut upr re-
turned the young man. with more vigor
than politeness, Il will be a Republican
when you are dead. Sit down.
A good bull was made recently in Par
lament by Mr.. Murnaghan. member for
Tyrone, who, on being stopped by the
speaker. said: Il bow, sir. to YOUR rul-
ing, and merely beg to reiterate what
was about to observe"