Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-03-06
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AMHERST COLLEGE now offers more
prize money for excellence in compost
tion and defamation than any other in
stitution in the country.
AN ivory manufacturer in New York
has a sc, 900 contract for outfits for a
gambling establishment in Saratoga.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES calls kiss
hsping consonant. He should have
added, also that it usually follows a
vowal.
THE Pilgrims Progress has been
translated into Chinese, and one of the
illustrations represents Christian with
pigtail.
A eoRREsPoNDENT criticising prima
donna rather deficiently in physique,
says, g a. chest iss as Essential to
singer as bureau to O. freedman.
WHEN Mrs. Moore, of !, Indianapolis,
thrashed her husband, that afflicted
man took enrevenge by ncalIing her
"the bride Of lam-a-Moore.I'
DIR. MARY. WALKER is, disguised at
the prospect Of tight pantaloons COM
ing into fashion again ssShe says they
make her look Like q pair of stongs.
JAMES Russell LOWELL has invented
new beautitude "Blessed are they
who have nothing toasay and who can
not be, pursuaded to say it'll
AS Mr.; Hopkins remarks: What
would the organ be-especially the
barrel organ--if it, were without Han
del? l.7. sass = 3aa sagd
A FEMALE Fond du, LAGER got mar
ried barefoot, the other day, for luck,
So she pretended ) but the fact was that
they couldn't get any boots in the vii
lage bigger than mems sixteens.
Mr.. A. G. HEAToS, a Philadelphia
artist, has painted az good picture of
John Burns, of Gettysburg, the hero of
Bret Harte's poems The Iold man sat
for the portrait.
san FRANc1soo gambling hdb5iiiib houses are
under cloud. The keepers of the few
that are still in operation, blind the
uninitiated by hanging out the sign of
sTo Let" a1Hs@
Two of Darwin's sons recently re-
turned to England from a. visit to Af-
rica. It is said that the monkeys recog-
nized them at once and asked kindly af-
ter their father.ii gzd3 leis
STRAKoscH has invested in some of
Louis Napoleon's goods, which have
been sold off very cheaply in Paris
He has one of the carriages on exhibit
tion in Newly York. s RI
Mrs. JAS. W. MAYEs, has amazed the
people of Fulton, KY, with her skill as
a marksmans Last week, with a rifle,
she shot several wild geese, hitting
each exactly in the head. .
Z AlPoRTsMoUTH (N. H.9idog, only six
months old, chews tobacco, and will
take, an Intoxicating, drink whenever
invited In fact, he will get Gas drunk
as a lord'a as often as he has an oppor-
Gun5y. 5.i7lziu b& sEs nis
An absent-minded resident of Dan
bury, Conn, shut down a. window re-
Gently, and forgoh TO drassin his head.
He was calling for Helen Heller Blazes when
A PHILADELPHIA girl froze her fore
head, while sleigh riding recently with
nothing on her head but fashionable
bonnet. The final result is insanity.
A COMPANY has been organized in
Cleveland for the purpose of buildinga
large steel screw factory. The uild-
ing alone Will cost $65,Oo0 thf con-
tracts forSwhichIhave been let The
will be known as The Uni
ted Steel Works, and viii employ a
force of from 800 to 900 o-wofkmen.
) 3 A LETTER from Menomonee, Mich,
states that the Breen Mining Company
is fully organized. There is little
doubt that the mine will be opened and
worked this summer The aofficers are
E. S. ingalls,, Prest.; BARLEY Breen, S.
P. aSaxton and Thomas Breen, Direc-
tors ;; S. p Saxton, Treasurer, and
Thomas Rice, Sec'y.
q Mr.. JoHN DuNN,' the Temperance
war horse" died in NewsYork on Friday
last. He was native of Ireland, but
has resided in this country for over
fifty years, waging an uncompromising
war against intemperance during the
whole of that tifne.f set hosS
They have aroem in the Insane Asy-
lum of Maine with six beds, in which
those patients, are placed who have an
inclination Is commit suicide It is
said they never attempt teiekil them
selves except when alone, and by Civ
ing them company all the time this
propensity is continually y counteracted.
The, Nashville Banner reports how
ex-Confederate. General Maury picked
a quarrel with Conductor iffee at Chat
tanoega,s abeut1the Davis scandal con-
nected with sleeping-ear under Trice's
charge, and how Tr1ce knocked Maury
down with ia spokersi and placed him
hOrs otI cO77o60t-s ssr sofs4eeg&
The Figaro states that official statis
tics show that between September II,
the date of the Investment of Paris,
and January %, the date of the reopen
ing of communications the number of
deaths recorded in the capital was 65,
291 The number of The killed in action
with the enemy and deaths in the
hospitals resulting from wounds was
Is, OOO
= THE following curious advertisement
is taken from a Paris paper: "Mar-
sisters, very distinguished,
of the first nobility, retired from the
world, aged nineteen and ltwenty-three
respectively, with: a fortune OF four
millions each, desire to be. united to
two young gentlemen, not older
than fifty, fpossessingsI1 TITLES and
fortunes, Address torlpart1eulars, &c
An American writer from Copenha-
gen says: io s I have noticed many
things which strike me as, being so en-
tirely different from what'I have seen
in America thatiI 4can not help making
mention of some of them: For IN
stance, carpets are not Tot .ntllucH worn here
even b Y the nobilty.oIlY lYouswill find an
occasional strip around the sofas and
tables, or a few mats. III front OF the
stoves and rockingchairs- GHOST OF the
wealthy folks have carpets, but care
very little about them. In very fine
bonses the floors are nicely colored and
.waxed, which; 1 think, Isl rather orna-
mental than otherwise, ere
Two newsboys, says the Commercial
Bulletin, were, standing before cigar
store, when one asked the other, 'sHaye
YOU cot three cents q" ssYesf' ''Well,
I have two, cents; give. mesiyour three
cents. and / viii buy a five-center."