Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-03-27


The angel Gabriel was in the act of
IA ng the trumpet to his lips for the
blast, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
One moment, sir, if you please,
shrieked a small man who suddenly ran
forward, vigorously waving his hat.
Whats the troube?" inquired the
angel without lowering the horn.
The biograph man is just swinging his
last camera into line" shouted the small
man. There, it's all right, now. loot
away.
Most of the stores in the remote bust
ness sections of the city are constantly
annoyed by children Of the neighb0rhood
coming TO the door and asking for cards.
empty boxes and similar articles, says
the Pittsburg Dispatch. The clerks are,
OF course, down on the Youngsters, and
the warfare never ends. The other day
a small boy poked his head in the door
of a west side store and called out:
Say, mister. got any empty boxes!
NO" said the clerk, not very politely.
Got any cards."
Got any almanacs?'
Got any empty bottles?'
<'Got any sense?'
"No.-yes- no-yes-you miserable lit
tormentor, but the latter had fed.
One Of the officials at the British colo
NAL office had occasion to consult Mar
wood, the eXecutiOner, as to the most
rapid way of putting a man out of eX-
istence. MarwOod expressed himself IN
favor of what he professionally called
1.-The long drop" and drove home his
argument by remarking: There was
Mr.. Peace. now, i small man; | gave
him Il six-foot drop, and | hassure you,
sir, he passed hoff like n summer heve."
In an interview in Success, Henry NJ.
Stanley describes the actual scene which
followed his meeting DR.. Livingstone
after the long search in the wilderness:
what were your feelings when you
first saw Livingstone"
That was the happiest moment of my
life UP to that time | felt like IA school
boy, and l could have jumped up and
down, and shouted for pure relief il |
had been alone.
Your first words?'
Were as commonplace as you can
imagine. / hardly knew now to address
the man before me, and l blurted out:
DIR. Livingstone, | presume
:" YeS.' he said.
81 thank God. doctor, that l have
been permitted to see you, | added.
IL am thankful that | am here to
y
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4 Scotch divine once took into the pull
pit Il sermon without observing that the
first leaf or two were so worn and eaten
away that he could not decipher or an
nounce the text. My brethren said
he. Il find that the mice have made free
with the beginning of my sermon. so that
| cannot tell you whaur the text Is; but
We'll just begin whaur the mice left off,
and We'll find out the text as we 90
along. Weekly Telegraph.
A well-known member of Congress. of
Hlbernian extraction, wore Il broad
smile the other afternoon, says the
Washington Post, as he exhibited
from Il mass of his old papers in the
course of a rainy afternoons rurnmaging
1t was note which his wife had writ
ten to him about thrty-fve years before,
at the tender age of or & and it seemed
to be a repl; 20 the congreSsman's for
NAL propose. of marriage, indited in his
eighth year. 1t read:
Il Doc luv You A Crate deel an
wud marry You only ma she says You
are a low Irish
''Think Of my winning out about ff-
teen years later III the face of such
parental Encouragement as that said
the congressman.
Prof John Smelling POpkin was pro-
fessor Of Greek at Harvard, some years
ago, and he was not without nickname,
which he accepted as matter of course
from the students; but hearing it on one
occasion from a man of dapper, jaunty,
unacademic aspect, Prof. Popkin ex-
claimed: What right has that chap to
call me old Pop| He isn't a student Of
Harvard college"
The Memphis Scimitar tells of lady
whose Christian name is Jane, and
whose little daughter is named after
her. engaged a housekeeper, who is also
named Jane.
Thinking that three James in one
household might occasion confusion, the
lady said TO the newcomer, who was Il
tall, angular woman, with rigid air
and an uncpnnromising cast Of coun-
tenance: Il think, Jane, it will be bet
ter for me to call you by your last name
if YOU have no objection"
Nom; | have no objection said the
housekeeper, standing stiftly erect, valise
in hand.
Call me Darling ma am, if you pre-
fer That's my name"