Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-12-31
General Items.

cnOlefa tnJs year, and Prussia SO, 624
Do DOGS think To be sure: have
you never heard of great tnln cur?
Miss ANNA MEHIIG has played at a
recent Gewandhaus concert at Leipsie
TAKE care of your health and your
wife; they are the two better halves
that make man of you.
The paper collar manufactures at
Troy, n. Y, employ 1900 girls and
are running full time.
IS DONALDSON, the Graphic balloonist,
now keeps the wolf from the door by
playing in q pantomime at Reading,
Ia.
The New Work Times estimates the
value of the church property of New
York at S46, 000, 900, all of which is not
taxable. 1888 AA k.lt
A GIRL at Vienna, Ind, lately swal.
lowed 81 wasp, which strlng her in the
throat, and She died from sufocation
on account7of the swelling aes alas
! SENATOR EDMoNDs has brought with
him from Europe a maIarial fever,
which quite seriously affects his
TIE girls in Syracuse, n. Y, amuse
themselves by blackening their faces
and going about in DISCUS for UNI
brellas to mend. tA
MALICIOUS to the last, the ST. Louis
/ diapers deny that Deacon Smith, Of the
Cincinnati Gazette, wrote Mary had a
/ Little Lamb, and accuse him of pla-
80 How does that look, Ell % said a
big-fsted Wall street man to another
man, holding up his fist. ssThat,
said his friend, CLOCKS as if you'd gone
short on SOAP es Is ~
BALTIMORE has an excess of nearly
10000 females, and it is proposed to
| organize a colonization society there,
composed exclusively of the softer side
of humanity.
WHAT kind of manure do you use,
that makes your crops so good?"
queried farmer Slowgo of farmer Pro
gressive: Brains, sir, brains!' was
the significant reply.
E'JoHN, said stingy old hunk to his
hired man, as he was taking dinner,
ode you know how many pancakes
you have eaten?' 'No.' "Well,
you've eaten fourteen" .sWell,n said
John, "you count and I'll eat.''
A FEW days since there was not
single prisoner IN the county jail at
of Anglesey and Beamaris IN Wales In
consequence the gates were thrown
open and white flag was hoisted. The
county has population of 50, 900.
CHINESE labor is found to be very
Improbable on the sugar plantations
of Louisiana. It cost two to three hun
dred dollars apiece to get the Celestials
there, and after few months they be-
came lazy and took to stealing for sup
port.
PEARL fishing will be actively CAL
ried on this season in the Gulf of Cali
fornia, a company having been formed
for the purpose. The pearls found in
the gulf are said to be of great value,
and to command a high price in
European markets.
TIE latest thing out in the way Of
paper-weights represent heap of
American gold coin fresh from the
mint. It is very tantalizing, and the
only objection to it is that it is not
true to the life.
AN old German while OH his way
from Indianapolis to Lafayette, froze
his nose. While thawing the frost out
Of that necessary member he remarked:
ssBy links! 1 hat carry dot nose forty
years, and he never freezed hisself be-
ore!"
A KANSAS City tombstone pays the
following beautiful tribute to 1nno-
cence:
''With yell and whoop
He died of the Group"
The lady friends Of Mr.. Bergh teach
their little boys these lines:
Up the hill, whip me not;
Down the hill, hurry me not
In the stable, forget me not;
Of hay and corn, rob me not;
With sponge and brush, neglect me not
OF soft, dry bed, deprive me not
With bit or reins, jerk me not;
And when you are angry, strike me not.
JUDAH P. BENJAMIN writes from Lon
don to p'lncture the story that two
Georgia ladies had fallen heirs to O.
great estate in France, and says,
7sThose ladies have been duped by a
swindler who has imposed on their
credulity."
Miss CARoLINE TALMoN, of New
York, has built, on the corner of Madi-
son avenue and Eighty ninth street, at
a cost of 100000, beautiful little
church, as memorial to her parents,
and presented 1t to the Episcopal de-
nomination. The stained-glass win
dows are dedicated to relatives of the
donor.
A CORRESPONDENT of the PhiIadel-
phia Ledger vehemently demanded to
know what the elitor Of that journal
thought the policy Of the government
toward Spain should be, and he is re-
ported to have replied
81 On little James too brief career,
The cur ain sadly drops.
She waitzed away to Paradise
From eating celery tops"
STATE SENATOR JARVIS LORD, of New
York, has brought suit for libel
against the Rochester Democrat,
claiming damages amounting to $685.
900. During the late canvass Mr.. Lord
was charged with being one of the
canal ring, and, The Democrat went so
far as ITO accuse him of robbery and