Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-09-15
Miscellaneous Items

and petrltied, has been found in a st. Pete
quarry.
Within nine months q family in Jndi
ana has celebrated four weddings. tbre,
births, and two deaths.
At the recent Imperial ball at st. CIor6
the Duchess de MoUchy displayed $500 OOi
worth OF family diamonds on her head.
"A bereaved father in San Francisco sues
for 800, geo for the loss of his daugbte,
killed by a fire engine.
-Forty-nine is the number of Heber G.
Kimballs children and two of them a1e
called Sarah IL. All the rest have different
names.
"A young woman of Memphis has fol-
lowed the advice of the Revolution, sspro-
posed to man she liked, and married him
him the next day.
"A young man sent some money to a
| New York firm to get something good 'sfor
those contemplating matrimony." He re
! celyed several bottles of soothing syrup.
DO you ever take anything?" asked
Sharp of Snozzles '.Never, sir, except
I'm V.Awell, and then my weakness is cog
nae. Just now I'm troubled with hollow
ness, and l don't care III do"
There is said to be a young lady in JET
fersonvllle who can easily swim across the
Ohio River and back again without stop
ping to rest. The dear little " duck !"
"A Davenport paper is responsible for
tie following Calhoun county has q Pur-
gatory Swamp and a Hell Slough 1t
must be a devil of country"
"A drunken man, after trying IN vain to
keep on the sidewalk, was heard to exclaim
as he headed for the middle of the road,
M
tor
"A lady teacher was endeavoring 10 i'm
press upon her pupils the terrible effect of
the punishment OF Nebuchaduezzar, say
ing: Seven years he ate grass like a COW,
when boy asked, stDid he give milk?'
A NewBedford lady got pair OF white
pink gloves at q tore, to be kept if they
suited, and after they had graced the hands
of q corpse dressed for the grave, eeonomi-
cally removed them and returned them to
the shopkeeper.
"A Missouri deputy sheriff is after an
Arkansas girl of the period. She is thir-
teen years Old, without shoes, stockings on
bonnet, and was last seen trying to make
horse which she had stolen 'tgit up
A young man under age applied at q
Minnesota land Office for farm under the
Homestead law, but was denied on account
of not being married. He returned in just
an hour with o remedy for the difficulty
hanging on his arm.
It is told of a young lady in Newark,
that when her jealous admirers sent back
her letters with q request that sho would
return his, she answered that she regretted
that she could not comply Immediately, as
she had lent them to young gentlemen to
read.
"A California paper reports that there
were 50, 600 tons of wheat lying in sacks
along the banks of the Sacramento river,
in Tehama, Butte, Sutter, Coluia and Yoio
counties, on the 1st of August, and that
so, 600 more were to follow, making 110, coo
tons as the yield of five counties.
"A young man named Dressler in Pitts
burg, carelessly left his loaded revolver "
ing in his room on Monday morning, and
his sister Mena, eleven years old, strayed
into the room, got hold of it, and acci-
dentally shot herself through the heart
"A rich man who died lately in Inde.
pendence, No., left ten dollars each to his
two sons, who are working on q farm at
twenty dollars month, and the rest of his
property, worth more than half q million
Of dollars, to q married niece.
"A IitchfeId Comm clock dealer lately
sold a small clock to an Irish woman, who
walked off with it under her arm. On her
way she turned it bottom upward, aud
wire dropped from it's position, causing the
clock to strike without intermission There
upon she returned i'll trouble, complaining
to the merchant. 'sSure. an it's cryin
afther ye already"
The King OF Prussia has twenty splen-
did thoroughbred horses, each of which is
worth 50, 500. The Emperor of the French
has about four times as many, some of tho
animals being very valuable. The stables
OF the Sultan are said to contain no less
than three hundred splendid horses, the
finest collection of these animals in the
whole world.
"A Cretin recently murdered three
small children at MUrzsteg, Germany. The
children had teased him for some days
past. One morning, when he found them
alone, he cut their throats When the un-
fortunate mother of the little ones returned
home and found them weltering in their
blood, she went mad.
"A question for solution: Two ladies
were walking along o Chicago street the
other day, each having her child with her.
Soon they met two gentlemen. ''There,"
said one, ''are our husbands" eyes. "sait}
the other, land our fathers" 'tAnd our
grandfathers," said the children. All were
correct IN their statements. Who can solyo
this relationship sphynx?
In New York, on the Sd, large black
snake fell from the roof Of 184 Fourteenth
street, the residence of A. G. Dusenberry.
and struck boy on the knee. The bow
got up and busted" A Mr.. Butler saw
the reptile fall, and threw stone, but fail
ed to hit 1t. The snake rose about two
feet perpendlcularly, and with jaws dis
tended, was preparing to attack Mr.. Butler,
when cartman seized @ heavy ling and
struck 1t, causing its death.
"A constable in Willianantic, CT, made
a wager the other day that he could break
out Of the village jail in fifteen minutes;
and when it was accepted consented to be
a prisoner. No sooner had the door been
locked than he seized the leg Of n bedstead,
struck the bars upon the door, knocking il
completely off, and in three minutes from
the click of the clock he emerged, thirteen
minutes ahead of time, winning the bet.
"A boat race for $500 a side, was rowed
in the harbor Of Yokohama, Japan, on the
10th Of July, between the cutters of the
U. S. steamer Iroquis and her Britannia
maJestys frigate Ocean. The latter beat
the former in q five mile race four minutes
and twenty seconds. This result again
gives the boast to the Britishers in these
waters, which was won from them about n
year ago IN q contest between the Ocean
and the Oneida.
"A Yirgiuian patentmedicine dealer has
gone far beyond the wooden nutmeg trick.
He went to st. Joseph, Mo-, with lini-
ment which he claimed would cure all
earthly ills. He hired an old gentleman to
crawl upon crutehes, declaring that he had
been q cripple for ten years. The quaell
pretended to bathe the limb of the hired
cripple, who then threw away his erutches
and ran across the street. The ''doetor"
soon had not bottle Of his stuff left.
& "A man named billiard, while engaged
IN digging well on the turnpike, three
miles above Portsmouth, o., last week, be-
came affected by clamps" in the well, and
dropped down insensible. No one was
present but a Welsh woman, and she satu-
rated a handkerchief with camphor, went
down the well and Syread II over I,ic f,ca