Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-10-26
q URRENT PARAGRAPHs
Miscellaneous Items.

FRUIT for newsmen-fresh dates.
i A CELEsTIAL urn-Saturn.
SOUP herb diet-vegetable soup.
FRENoH-CHNEsE war is looming up.
ABOUT eighty lives were lost by the Vir-
ginia floods.
WORCESTER. Mass. complains of the
census takers neglect.
The return of the cattle plague is feared
in England.
In Dresden, the American ladies are
] sewing for the wounded.
SPIRITS of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. excite
ment.
THE best commander-Genera Disarm-
ament
EVERY young doctor must get on if he
] only has patients.
AN off handed fellow-one who hasslosa
both of his arms.
The best thing to give to the poor-give
them employment.
CLERICAL errors-Three quarters of an
hour sermons.-Fdn.
INDIANAPOLIS has national convention
of spiritual mediums"
OUT West the grain is now raised at all
seasons-by the elevators.
BEYOND the powers of the most inveter-
ate smoker-A pipe of wine.
In England it is unlawful to poach game;
but you may poach eggs.
A TOWN in Illinois prohibits crouuet
among other games of chance.
WHAT the wild waves ara now saying to
the seaside hotels-'shut up -
ONE thing that an importunate Office
beggar can always get-''get out r
The heaviest notes of a bass singer are
those that go lowest down in the scale.
A CHICAGO daily paper has an enthusias-
tic column headed ''Our Murders!"
AN Ohioan recently threw up live frog
that had been for some time in his sto-
mach.
PRUss1AN investments-Metz, ,Strasbourg,
Verdun and Paris.
ONE hundred and three agricultnr al fair
are being held in Ohio this autumn.
Troy is raising money for an orphan
asylum by means of q match game of base
ball.
| A coLoRED man has been made one of
the trustees Of the Alabama Insane Asy-
/ lum.
In Boston horse cars are now driven
| on some OF the railroads without the use of
| poles
The New York Commercial translates the
Good Templars' 81. o. G.. T." as 81 Only
Get Tight"
| OWING to the war, New Jersey will have
to furnish all the French wine of the vim
tage CT 1870.
THIS season has proved to be the poorest
for cheese making known in Vermont for
thirty years.
RED noses are now restored to their
natural color in Paris by means of cleo
tricity.
WHY is the letter sd" like the marriage
service? Because it makes stWe" into
'wed,"
ONE of the oldest pieces of artillery in the
world is in Metz. It is called the s'Vogel
Greif.'
AT an exhibition in New York city re-
Gently, 121 different varieties of grapes we're
shown.
A CASE is reported of the proprietor of
a large aviary who has lately gone raven
mad.
A LITTLE BOY we know is horribly afraid
that when he is born again he will be born
a girl.
IT is fact not easily accounted for that
at parties, after supper, the guests begin
to grow thin.
TROY had a s'burglar's carnival" recent
ly, when six robberies were committed in
six hours.
BE deaf to the quarrelsome, blind to the
scorner, and dumb to those who are mis-
chievously inquisltive.
The New York Tribune laments the pre-
ponderance of horse trots over plows and
harrows at agricultural fairs.
HORSE CAR fares, upon the repeal of the
tax, have been almost everywhere reduced,
except in Philadelphia.
THERE was doll babys wedding at
Edgefeld, Tenn, the other day. Several
hundred little girls were present.
In Texas husband offers 81 200 reward,
and no questions asked, if the man who
took away his wife will return her.
NEWARK, N. j., is to have the largest ca
thedral in the country, and to spend ff-
teen years in building it.
The Illinois Condensing Company ship
six carloads of preserved milk from Elgin
to New York every month.
A MAN in Oxford was bitten by rattle
snake II years ago, and he is still taking
whisky to cure the bite.
IT has been decided to build scientific
ball in connection with the University of
Missouri, at a cost of $40, 900.
THE French now make sartifcial India
rubber" which is said to be as good and
much cheaper than the real article.
WHY are husband and wife not one, but
ten? Because the wife is Number One,
and the husband goes for nothing.
THERE are reports that the Camanche
, Indians have abandoned all attempts at
scalping any OF the colored troops Oh the
, frontier.
IF all signs, Including shop signs, fail in
J dry weather, they frequently get entirely
} off the hook in windy weather.
WITHIN ten days, Elizabeth, N J., has
lost three of her oldest citizens, all resid.
ing in one street, and each over 80 years
old.
A CONTEMPORARY thinks it must be hor
rible- on the battlefield, s'to hear the stifed
, groans Of the dying and the shrieks Of the
, dead"
! THE respectable women of Hope, Ind,
; made savage war upon the houses Of i'll
fame in that city, recently, and drove al
? the inmates out of town.
, COLUMBUS, Ga. has chicken which
4 commenced growing like a growing chan
! ticleer the first day after it was hatched.
HAPPY Hollow, Missouri, is suffering
from combined attack of sky-rockets and
forty rod whiskey. 1t needs cleansing.
FROM the number who come to this
country to be educated, princes must be
: as plenty in Japan as they are scarce Just
: now, in France.
, A POLITE young man in New York re-
' auested married lady to elope with him
! She referred him to her husband, who
broke his nose.
A IT is comforting to know that King, the
: aeronaut, has been over the White Noun
= tains in bolloon-it shows that one mar
=, can go higher than even the hotel-keepers
in that vicinity.
S GEN. S1GEL, who declines to speak or
j politics in the present campaign, is pub
licly advocating the German aid cause fol
G the benefit of the sick and wounded Ger.
9 mans in Fatherland.
s The Russian Minister, M. de Catacazy