Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

Among the features of the sound money
campaign in Minnesota and the Dakotas
were the speeches Of Paul 3. du Chaillu,
the African explorer He found himself
very much at home among tn Scandina-
VANS who are numerous i'll that region
and sometimes talked to them in their
own tongue, while he never allowed them
to be bored. If his statement Of financial
views was not wholly to their taste he
favored his speech with tales of gorilas
and aroused the patriotism of his audi
ence by stories of their viking ancestors.
In an interview in Chicago on his return
Mr.. du Chaillu said his most convincing
currency argument was his story Of a
lunch at Delmonico's i'll 1865, when he
paid SD III greenbacks for four bottles
of wine-claret and Burgundy of an or
binary vintage.-Harper's Weekly.
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Attorney Bezaleel Wells teaches a
class in the Sunday school of Christ
Episcopal church, Tenth and Park
streets, in Kansas City, and one Sunday
afternoon he talked to the children in
the class about the protecting hand of
God, how not even a sparrow could fall
to the ground without him taking note
of it and how he numbers each hair of
every PERSONS head. At the end of the
lesson Mr.. Wells asked few questions
in review to see how much of what he
had said had stuck in the memories Of
his little pupils.
Nov who is our great protector?" he
asked
"McKinleyr' promptly answered the
smallest boy in the class.
The Sunday school lesson for the day
was about Solomon's temple, and after
the teachers were through the pastor of
the church spoke q few words to the
l,n1A IL I'D
in general review Part of the lesson
had told that the great temple was over
laid with sheets of pure gold, and the
pastor asked:
''How was Solomon's temple roofed?'
with sound money! answered a big
boy.
An Irishman who was laying brick
about four stories above the earth hap
pened to lose his footing He fell more
than fifty feet to the hard ground below.
A policeman standing across the street
saw the Irishman fall and ran toward
the spot where the poor man had struck
the ground. The Irishman was stand
ing up, busting his clothes, when the
policeman arrived on a run. When he
saw the policeman he jumped back and
threw up one arm to guard his head
from the club. "Phat's the matter?'
he asked. did I come down too fast?'
Chicago Record.
At an Armenian meeting in the east
end of London the other night Mr.
Benn relieved it's seriousness by the re-
lation of an incident at once grotesque
and pathetic. At a Salvation army
meeting recently, he said. Il fervent Sal
vationist prayed with all the intensity
Of his faith that God would "break the
Sultan's heart" with a view of course to
the conversion of the barbarous Abdul
The prayer was interrupted by an addi-
tional petition from one Of the devout
company, and it ran thus: ooh, God,
break his neck."-Tid-Bits
Darkest Africa-"And how did Won
like my predecessor, King Totem %
asked the missionary.
''He was very NICE returned the Can,
nibal King, though little stringy!''
A Vienna paper relates an amusing in
cident which occurred to great lady
who had just recovered from a long and
severe illness Seated in her boudoir.
she was looking over the cards of condo
lence that had been left for her while i'll