Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-05-12

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Some of the possible dangers of the
| coming season are thus pointed out by
the Boston Herald: ''Unless you imme
diately paint or have painted the
wheels of your best coach vivid red
! hope not for fashionable recognition.
| Vermilion is now the reigning hue in
| London 1t is the color of royalty, and
it is the prevailing color with every
| thing else, from a Woman's hat to the
barouche in which she shows it off. This
note of warmth in the scale of elegance
is certainly CHEEKY if nothing more. But
| will it affect the hot, dry American wa
tering place this summer, and what will
| unattached cattle think of these scarlet
vehicles passing them along the road?
At any rate, the girl in red, if she spends
this season in the country, where wicked
cows abound, must make up her mind to
| some exciting adventures"
'At one period" writes Gen. Adye in
his "Recollections of Military Life
there was considerable dearth of re-
| cruits for the artillery-partly due TO
regulations as to the height and dimen-
sIons OF the men enlisted. Meeting an
| old recruiting sergeant one day | in
quired If he had been successful, but he
was by no means Sanguine; and on my
pressing him for the reason of his com
parative failure ne replied: Beg your
! pardon, sir, but the Almighty doesn't
, make the men the shape you order EN-
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The following remarkable epitaph is
from a tombstone iii one of the rural dis
| tricts of Georgia:
He kept a grocery in the woods
Until by death surprised;
HIS patrons always found his goods
Just as he advertised
Atlanta Constitution
Quite Different-Brown Ito DENTIST
Il won't pay anything extra for gas.
Just yank the tooth out even if it does
hurt a little" Dentist-'I must say you
are very plucky. Just let me see the
tooth" "Oh, l haven't got any tooth
ache; it's Mrs. Brown. She'll be here
in a minute. "-Tit-Bits.
About fifteen years ago there were in
| attendance at the Columbia law school
at New York two young students, one
from Ohio, J. j. Lentz, and the other
from Pennsylvania, e. Z. Robbins. The
fellow students were room-mates at col
lege and cultivated each others ac-
quaintance to the point of fast friend
ship. In discussing their plans at school
one day young Robbins asked Lentz:
What do you propose doing when you
Il am going back to Ohio and run for
| Congress" was the reply. "What are
your plans?"
Il propose returning to Pennsylvania
| and trying the same idea" responded
| Robbins. I'VE will meet some day in
| the House"
The other day, for the first time dur
| ing the session, Robbins, a representa-
| tive from Greensburg, Penn, met Lentz,
| representative from Columbus, O.
| ClasPing hands they simply remarked,
but in the same breath: ''Well, here we
| are, "-WaShingtOn Post
Mrs. Haggerty-"G mornin, Mrs.
| Casey. Ohm afther hearin' ut wuz an
Elegant wake yez attinded at Doolan's,
noight before lasht''
Mrs. Casey-"Indade, an ut wus thot
Shure .Casey's unconscious yit.'-Brook-
Ign Life.
The Kneipp cure is no longer a fad in
! New York. and while it is still practiced
by few the large majority of those who
| first took it up no longer care to arise
| before breakfast and walk barefooted in
| the dewy grass. Other and later cures
are more popular. For example, there is
| the mo breakfast cure" which is at
| tracing not a little attention, especially
| as it is declared to be good for any or all
| of the ills that flesh is heir to. It con-
| sists in merely going without your break
| fast-certainly a simple form of proceed
ure and one that many are compelled to
pursue without really having the fad. At
first this self-denial is said to produce
| headache, but later, on that is overcome
and the stomach is SO grateful for the
rest that it refrains from cutting capers.
| Then, too there is the five minute rest
cure" and this also is simple. All one
needs is to drop down on a couch and
| rest for five minutes at a time and three
| times a day. The rest must be longer
| than that, and if the prescription is per-
| severed with in time the patient is able to
| drop off into a short doze, lasting three
| minutes and greatly refreshing the tired
| body.
| A policeman was asked by q coroner
| whether he had taken any steps by way
| of attempt to resuscitate q man on
whom an inquest was being held. eyes,"
| said the constable, 81 searched his pock-
| cts. '-Household Words.
When Judge Pendleton grows rem
| iniscent he is always interesting. Court
| Tompkins walked in he said: Mr..
| Tompkins, your cousin, Louis Garth, was
| the only bully [ ever saw who was a
brave man. He was the most overbear-
| ing man | ever saw. He was in poker
game in camp with Lieut.. Forrest,
| called Forrest a liar. Forrest pulled his
pistol, double-barreled weapon, and.
| placing it to Garth's breast he pulled the
| trigger. The cartridge failed to fire, and
Garth spat out chew of tobacco, and,
without moving a muscle said: Lieu
! tenant, you had better try the other bar
rel. Forrest put his weapon up and
said: Garth, you are a brave man, and
[ will not shoot brave man. They
were inseparable friends forever after
| wards. '-OwensbOro Inquirer.
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