Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
For an Idle M1m6nt.

A certain minister was deeply i'm
pressed by an address on the eviis of
smoking, given st recent synod. He
rose from his seat, went over to
fellow minister, and said:
Brother. this moruing received
a present of 100 good cigars. l have
smoked one of them, but noe IT go
ing home and burn the REMAINDER IL
the fire. -
The other minister ruse, and said
it was his intention to accompany his
reverend brother.
81 mean to rescue the ninety an
nine" he added.
Expecting VISIT from the superin-
tendent IF an adjacent SUNDAY school
one Sunday afternoon, an enteFprising
teacher, anticipating the line c. cues
lions which would be asked Of the
scholars, selected boy from her class
to answer each questi n. says Judge.
As she had figured it out, the visitor
would first ask the pupils the que
ton, "Who made you? and the
first pup wa. of course, to answer
"Gnd'. The next question was to
be, GOT what?'' to which the an
swer was to be "Of the dust of the
earth. - Unfor unately hetween the
time Sunday school was called to order
and the visiting superintendent had
taken the floor, the first pupil was
taken sick and Obliged to go home.
The teacher did not have the oppor-
Iunity to readjust her forces, and when
the first question was asked, the
second boy thought it as good oppur-
tunity for him to get in his answer
and get it off his mind; so to the
question. "Who made your" he an
swered, "Of the dust of the earth
"Oh, no, said the visitdr, "God
made you
ono, sir, he did mott said the
youngster. The little boy that God
made has gons home sick and | am the
OuSC OF the earth.
A Scotch farmer went to town to
have a tooth extracted.
81 would advise you to have it out
by the painless system. 1t is only
shilling EXTRA said the dentist.
He showed the apparatus for ad-
uninistering gas, remarking that it
would cause him to fall asleep, and
before he awoke the tooth would be
out
After reluctantly consenting, the
customer proceeded to open his purse
"On never MIND paying now.
"Huots wasna thnkin' o. thot,
but if I'm gaen tae sleep, thucht |
wad like to coont ma siller first
When the Lincoln log cabin was
taken from New York to it's final
resting place in Kentucky it reused a
great deal of comment and curiosity
as it passed through the different
cities. Many curious anecdotes were
told of the trip, but probably the best
one is this one, which is told with
keen relish by Capt. N. C. Bullitt,
of company A, 1st Kentucky infantry,
who WAS in charge of the detail of
five privates that guarded the famous
relic on its way south:
"Tne car on which the cabin rested
| was standing on railroad siding in
Baltimore, when MaHylander, who
had exhibited great apparent interest
in the cabin, approached me in very
timid manner and asked:
" is this really the Lincoln cabin?'
" Yes: it's the real thing / re-
sponded.
" And Ape Lincoln was born in
there?'
" Yes; right within those very
walls
d" We'll, WELL, said the questoner,
as he ruminatively stroked meagre
tuft of reddish beard, and | suppose
he cut those very logs with his own
hands. -
One Of the workers in a Chinese
mission in Philadelphia, became much
interested in two Cinnamon, who, she
found, owned fourishing laundry
business in her own home neighbor-