Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-11-02

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Dess a sweet goodnight he means fo' yo'.
Sand Man. How do sub! Ill one am ready,
Ready fO' to dream'a night erWay;
Chune up yO' singin'!
Derry dunn! derry dum! derry ditty ditty
dunn"
OATS what'a Sand Man say!
Baltimore American.
To-
Dean Stanley once told how he first
saw Gladstone. The old Bishop of Nor
wich, having been very much pleased with
some of his sons performances, said that
as a reward he would take him TO visit
William Gladstone, the most eXtraordi-
nary schoolboy who had ever been seen,
says the Argonaut. They went to the
house where he was, and Arthur Stanley
was sent out into the garden to make
acquaintance with the prodigy, who was
said to be sitting in a summer-hOuse at the
end of a walk. He went, and, having
arrived at the summer-house saw Glad
stone reading a book. AS Stanley entered
Gladstone looked up and said, with great
vehemence: Little boy, little boy, have
you read Gray" Stanley, much startled,
faltered out that he had not read Gray,
to which the other, with increasing in
tensity of manner, replied: Then you
must read Gray"
"Are there any marks by which he
can be identiied?'' asked the chief of po-
lice, preparatory to telegraphing:
NO" said the father of the boy who
had started to Minnesota to fight Indians.
but there will be when | get hold of
him gain."-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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The Plain Dealer tells this story Of a
certain Cleveland man, whose mother was
one of the most particular women about
her household affairs that ever lived. He
had inherited this exaggerated popularity
from his revered parent, and his wife
was annoyed pretty nearly every blessed
day with some reference to the superior
way III which mother used to do things.
She was a good housekeeper, and prided
herself N her tidy home, and her hus-
bands comparisons annoyed her a great
deal at first. Then she became hardened
and didn't mind them so much. But oc-
c~asionally they would rankle.
One afternoon the husband came home,
and as usual prowled back to the kitchen.
His wife followed him to hear what he
would find to c%riticise. He took in all
the neat details with a slight sniff that
seemed to signify that nothing was any
better than he expected to find it.
well, Mary" he finally said, there
are things you don't do that mother al
well, William" said Mary, with forced
calmness, what is it?'
William smiled triumphantly.
you don't scrub the b~roomhandle," he
exultantly said.
And Mary laughed until she cried.
1t is said that the superstition that
"when a senator is going to die you will
always find others at his place origin
ated with Senator Vest. 4 never knew
it otherwise" he is quoted as saying.
when poor Walthall was dying his seat
was never empty. Nor was that of Har-
ris. And just now" he added, I've been
waiting for two hours for Daniel to get
away from my desk.-New York Trib-
une.
young man." said the peripatetic
evangelist, "do o ever reflect on
death?'
Il do answered Cholie. 'Horrifes
me, too. So doosid common. Indian
apolis Journal.
Here is an extract from a letter Of
Thomas Carlyle, in which he asks his
sister to make him some shirts and sends
the measurements. How many women
could make a shirt after them?
MY Dear Jenny: x * * In the mean
while [ want you to make me some fan
mel things, too-three flannel shirts espe-
cially; you can get the flannel from Alick,
if he have any that he can well recon-
mend. You can readily have them made
before the other shirts go off. | have
taken the measure today, and now send
you the dimensions. together with a meas
uring strap which | bought some weeks
ago Cat one penny for the purpose!
You are to be careful to scour the
flannel first, after which process the di-
mansions are these: Width when the
shirt is laid on it's back, 221a inches, ex-
tent from wrist button to wrist button
81 inches, length in the back 30 inches,
length in the front 25h inches. Do you
understand all that? l dare say you will
make it out, and this measuring band
will enable you to be exact enough
Atlantic Monthly.
Seeker-"I see that Shocks. the wife
beater, is to be taken before Judge Booze
for trial tomorrow; don't seem to me
that he's the proper man to try such a
case.
Sageman-"On the contrary, he's just
the very man; there isn't a better judge
OF lick-her in the country. Boston Cou-
rier.
In Germantown there is a youngster -
years old who sits at the head Of the
table and says grace whenever his father
is away, says the Philadelphia Record.
Recently his mother CAV a ladies' lunch
con. The boy, having been forewarned,
appeared in the dining room in his most
brilliant toilet, and, taking his seat.
hushed the feminine chatter and annoyed |
his mother not a little by assuming a
tremendously solemn look and extending
both hands over the board in imitation of
a clergyman p~ronouncing a benediction.
Then he chanted, not in his clear, child
ish treble. but in base tones, a string of
unintelligible syllables, which occupied
nearly FIVE minutes. His mother rebukpd