Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-02-22
Gleanings.


A FLEETING sHow-A travelling circus.
A woMAN's bow ideal-The marriage
tie.
THE best vegetable to raise (s)teers
on-onions.
A-MoosE-MENT- the 'mon-
arch of thewoods" down east.
If a woman were to change her sex,
of what religion would. she be? A he
then
The fowl interest has an organ of it's
own-the Poultry Bulletin. 1t is given
to growing.
FERNANDO E. STREDA, one of the Gu
hon leaders, has been captured and ex-
ecuted at Morton.
SAN Francisco has ten savings banks,
containg sS1, ,2S9, $50, deposited by &c.
S62 persons.
PHILADELPHIA calls upon the insur-
rance companies to bear part of the
expense of its paid fire department.
A CANADIAN editor thinks it worth
while to explain that when he. wrote
The Loaves and Fishes"
AN old lady in New Jersey has given
up snuff, and sends the savings to the
American Board of Foreign Missions.
A MAN in Columbus, Ohio, died of
too much laughing gas in dentists
chair, last week.
NELLIE HARLOW, of ST. Johnsbury,
Vt, fell on her way to church on Sun
day, and broke her arm for the fourth
time.
"I CAME near selling my boots the
Chow 500" "Well, had them half
soled."
A NEGRO, on being examined, was
asked if his master was true Christ
ian g No, sir, he is a politician, was
the reply.
AN unpleasant feature of wedding
party in Troy last week was the depre-
dations of burglars, who stole $57 and
some jewelry.
THE champion "knittest" of Yer
mont is Mrs. l.. FL. Orcutt, of South
Barton, who knit in nine hours nine
double mittens, mems size-one an
hour.
A LIVELY Hibernian exclaimed, at
party where Theodore Hook shone as
the evening star, "Och! Master Theo-
dore, but you are a hook that nobody
can bate"
THE deposits in the savings banks of
Massachusetts, last year averaged about
-, II i'll s. 4
on which they were open for business.
PHOEBE HAUBER, ninety-fve years old,
residing at Hornellsville, N. Y, has
lived with her husband sixty eight
years, and counts up 145 living descend
ants.
A GENTLEMAN of Memphis sits in his
garden under the shade Of castor
bean plant twenty-three feet high, with
fragrant foliage spreading over eircum-
ference of 35 feet.
LAST summer poor Welshman paid
his last money ($75) for few acres of
poor land at Monson, Maine. He soon
opened splendid quarry of slate, and
has lately sold the property for SIG, 900.
A LITTLE son of William Curtis of
Westford, N. H., while playing with
screw last week, put it into his mouth,
when it slipped into his throat, the
head stopping his breath and causing
death in a few moments
A CHURCH. GOING man is said to have
offered 5000 per annum for the use of
certain pulpit for advertising purposes,
agreeing to present no "notices more
" worldly" than some which were read
there every Sabbath.
A DRUNKEN student in the University
of Virginia wantonly shot a colored man
on Monday, and one of the local pa
pers treated the crime as very anus
ing event, under the caption, "Run,
nigger rum Another paper in the
town, however, characterized it as an
outrage.
A FEW days ago in Jackson, NH,
the house of H. G. Fernald, situated
about eight miles from the Glen House,
was totally destroyed by fire, with the
barn near by. The morning was SO in
tensely cold that the family, who es-
capped in a half-clad state, were badly
frozen before they could reach the next
house, which is quite distance Off
The Lowell Mass city government
is asked to prohibit theatrical and
Ethiopian minstrel entertainments on
Saturday evening, because they are
Especially detrimental to the moral
welfare of the young who frequent
them, and who are thus untitled for any
proper observance of the Sabbath, and
SO inclined to desecrate the day, and
imperil their moral welfare"