Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-08-15

At one of his famous little dinners
prominent professional man of Washing
ton was greatly pleased with the salad, as
were also his guests, tells What to Uat.
Evidently it was partly meat and partly
vegetable, but the flavor was new, dis
tinct and understandable. This was so
faint that one guest declared, Its not
taste at all; only smell"
At length someone suggested that the
chef be asked for the recipe, upon which
the host remarked
'My man greatly dislikcs being asked
for recipes. On TINS OCCASION however, Ti
his vanity may overcome him If we tell
how greatly we have enjoyed the dinner
and the salad in particular. At any rate,
Wen see"
The Frenchman soon appeared and was
visibly affected, not to say eiated, by the
compliments. ga
fell how / max re salad. Eet YER seem
ple. | hat re laitue 'rrange ready; an l
hat re meat chop YER fine and dry: re
celcrai | haf chop YER fine; an | hat ze
pomme de terre, re palate, an stan,
ieetle an dry; zen | mix zem up. Zen l
max re dresseeng mayonnaise; madame,
she know. | hat all YER col ready as &c
feesh ees serf. Zen as re sal-lad ccS to
serf. | tax une tete dali. pardonnezmoi,
one leetle cloaf Of re garleek an needle
him in re front mouth, so. an breathe
gentle. YER gentle, on re salad. Zat gif
eet re favour defeat
On the road to q country market place
a youth was tryln. to get cart OF veg
etablcs along. but his donkey was stub
born and would not move. says Spare
Moments. A crowd of people gathered
round him, some sympathizinG and 9TH
ers jecrinS.
At last a man in the crowd shouted:
Hi, boy, how much do you want for
yeur donkey?'
The witty youth answered.
Before You think of buying my dom
key YOU had better go and ask your
mother if she can afford to keep two
| was whispering low to the girl in
the gauzy glimmer of lace and tulle, says
writer in London Answers. She had
bent her lovely. swanlike neck TO catch
my words. unanimously they floated
outward and fell upon the pearly, pink
white ear crystal drops touch silver
chords and waken sweetest music sleep
ing there.
You are so much to me- / said. I'm
all the dozen years since first my heart
responsive grew to Women'S sweet sollcl-
tude there has been none whose fingers
Spanned the octave of my soul and
wrought the many harmonies dormant
there into a living theme.
NO face but yours has brought to me
the face of angels, fair and pure beyond
the skies that bend above the earth, far,
far removed from all its sordid thoughts,
its groveling cares, its motiy cless materi-
alism. In you concentered all my
dreams are realized, my hopes to full
frEtion come, my dearest wishes made
my own.
Slowly she lifted that fair, sweet face,
until her soft blue eyes looked into mine
: a In my
arm.
William" she murmured, won't you
please come off the roof
And as | cambered down | recalled the
fact that l had tackled an American girl.
Miss Springer-'Can you say, rapidly.
She sells sea shells, without getting
your tongue twisted!'
Singer-"No. nor can you, either
Miss Springer-"Well, can you say,
What am | doing over and over again
without getting tied up?"
Singer" 'M-m-don't know I'll try.
What am | doing, what am L doing,
what am / doing =
Miss Making a fool of your
self. Judge.
A physician connected with univer-
sity extension movement reports that in
one very poor quarter he found the chief
authority on children's ailments a wom-
an whose claim to skill ia such things
came from the fact that she had had
eleven children, Of whom but one was
living. With so much sickness her
neighbors conceded that she must be an
authority on the subject. This principle
is of frequent although unconscious aD-
plicatiOn.
Why is he such great superintend-
ent of the fire departments" asks a
stranger in a small city
why, he was in charge here when we
had the big fire.
But that does not make him big
superintendent? ?"
Certainly. But for him it would not
have been big fire. youths Compan-
ion.
"AIaude," said the one girl. sis so
stuck up since they put her picture in
the paper that there is no getting along
with her.
"Goodness"' said the other girl, what
has she been cured OFF,
Cured of nothing. You remember the
masquerade last winter? Well She has
friend on the paper, and they have
gone and published it as the Empress of
China .'-lndianapolis Press.
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the other day one Of the students, who
was by no means a dullard, was asked
by the professor, How much is dose
Of p" giving the technical name of
strong poison.
"a teaspoonful," was the ready reply
The professor made no comment, but
the student, quarter of an hour later,
realized that he had made mistake, and
straightway said:
Professor, [ want to change my an
swer to that question:
IT'S too late, sir" responded the pro-
fessor, CURLY, looking at his watch;
your patient has been dead fourteen
minutes. ''-Tit-Bits.
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The transatlantic steamer had just left
port. Mamma was setting the stateroom
to rights. "Elsie," she said to her little
daughter, where's your papa?"
Why" said Elsie, "hes upstairs on
the side porch. Philadelphia Press.
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Briggs is dreadfully near-sighted. You