Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-12-06
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.


SEwNa-MAoH1NE classes are forming
to improve poor sewers.
THE new Russian uniform is said to
be the oostliest ever worn by an army
A NEPHEW of DR.. Livingstone, the
African explorer, has been arrested in
New Bedford for drunkenness.
A COMPANY of Cinnamon have COM
menced drying and smoking wild geese
in Los Angeles for shipment to China
THE value of the direct importation
of dry goods to the Pacific coast is es-
timated at more than 500, 900, 900 an
nually
A MUSICAL whisky bottle is the latest
ombination of art and convenience in
Macon, Ga. Everybody is drinking out
of it and wondering.
! CINCINNATI burns soft coal, and is
very smokey. It has just discovered
that the yearly lnj ury to the city from
this cause is $3, 900, ,OOO
DELMoN1oo's (or any other man's)
oysters q la poulette are anything but
fowl, though they are generally picked
by ludlclous gastronomists.
ANTHONY TRoLLoPE has safely arrived
at Melbourne, having written an entire
novel on the voyage. He will return
to Europe by way of the United States.
A NEW drama, founded upon Charles
| Dickens unfinished novel, is in prepa-
ration at the Surrey, London. It will
be called sThe mystery at Cloister-
! ham"
ALEXANDER DUMAS, the elder, died
with only one gold piece in his pocket.
His son is millionaire, and his daugh-
ter is married to one of the wealthiest
landed proprietors in France.
FIVE fashionable and leading New
York clubs have succumbed within the
past four years, which speaks well for
the increase of domestic virtues and
married felicity in Gotham.
A NEW YORK butterfly, giving her or
ders to her modiste, said &c want
all the lace on my dress you can get on
[ want real lace; I do not limit you in
price I leave you to select it"
NEARLY all the young gentlemen have
their overcoats made with pocket in
one side, lined with flannel or fur, in
which a lady may slip her hand when
walking on cold winters evening.
EDWARD BRYANT was buried at the
bottom of well forty feet deep, in ST.
Johnsbury, Vt, last Wednesday, His
body was recovered after twelve hours
unceasing toll by large force of neigh
bors.
The young ladies' cooking match for
the $75 silver set, at the Columbus
(Ga. fair, commenced few days ago.
There were number of entries. and the
young ladies were serving up some ex-
cellent eatables.
TIE late Mr.. Buckingham Smith,
formerly lawyer In Portlam, but of
late resident of ST. Augustine, Fla,
has bequeathed about $35, 900 to erect
hospital for the exclusive use of col
ored people at st. Augustine.
VIM. A. W. WHITE, New York news
boy and bootblack, has just been in
formed by relative, that conseqent
upon the death of his grandmother, at
Mullinavat, Ireland, he is the fortu-
nate heir to e23, 398 or SIG, 400.
A MOVEMENT is in progress in Texas
having for it's object the erection of
monument to the memory of Deaf
Smith, the celebrated spy, who con-
tributed so much by his endurance and
bravery to secure the independence of
Texas.
The little "rodent' squirrels that
swarm in California, are being turned
to account for glovemaking. A COM
| pany of French tanners pay fifteen
cents a skin One farmer has trapped
and skinned 10000 of the little pests of
| the grain fields within the last fifteen
months.
A LITTLE girl was told to spell ferment
and give it's meaning, with sentence
in which it was used. The following
was literally her answer " Ferment.
A verb signifying to work. [ love to
ferment in the garden. "
The French army is soon to be uni
formed anew as follows: Dark blue
cap with red turban, ornamented wit h
| a tri-color and cocks feather; blue
| tunic. with two rows of brass buttons
and red trimmings, and gray trousers
with red stripe.
A MAN once went to a lawyers Office
and told the legal gentleman that he
had been insulted by a man who had
told him to go to -, and desired to
know what he should do. The lawyer
suave1y se:l: "I would not advise you
to go; the law don't compel you.''
THE New York Evening Post says =
/" H. W. Robbins has recently finished
a fine cabinet picture illustrating an
Autumn Sunset, for the Chicago art
lists relief fund. James r. Brevoort
has finished his fine marine view, In
side of Eastern Point, Gloucester Bay
He has given the picture to the Chica-
go Artists relief fund"
! CYRUS W. FIELD is going to Rome to
attend convention of the principal
telegraph companies of the world, which
is to be held in that city next month.
Mr.. Field is pushing forward his scheme
of telegraph around the world, the only
link yet to be furnished being that be-
tween San Francisco and China, by way
of the Sandwich Islands.
4 A LADY, sitting in the same box of an
opera house with French physician
was much troubled with ennui, and
ma am, said the doctor, g I am glad
yousrelf no uneasiness,' said the lady.
~ am Jewess, and never eat pork. y
In advertising his stolen coat, man
of Rochester says that if the party who
took the garment will only return the
contents ia the pockets and pay for ad-
: vertising the loss, he can have the coat;
or if he will answer the letter which
the owner received from his little
brother, he can have the coat, con-
tents and all, providing the photographs
which were in the pockets are not
9 palmed off as originals of the thief.
T A PREACHER, whose business II was
to indulge in very long sermons, e2-
ones At about the usual time for dis
!, missing, the audience began to go out,
mil nearly all had left, when the sex
! ton. who had stood it as long as he
= could, walked up to the pulpit stairs,
, and said to the preacher in whisper,
when you have got through, lock
I'D, will you, and leave the key at my
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