Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-07-30

| anu Ot1ef implements having bright sur
faces, always clean them thoroughly.
Wipe them dry, and before putting them
away rub Athem lightly with mp black
and fatty oil, or eyel lamp black and
Kerosene 1t will preserve the bright sur
faces intact, if they are kept under cover
as they should be, and save much- brick
dust and water or oil when they are to be
used again. Many good farmers have a
cloth moistened with oil in the field to
rub the bright surfaces of implements
! WITH at night, to prevent the rust that
often attacks'them after a days work, par
| t1cu1arly on soils that do not scour. It
Will be found to be paying Investment
FAMILIARITY with American geography
/ is not the strong suit of the literary
BrltOn, and in particular of Lady
Georgiana Fullerton. In her romance
! ''Too Strange Not to be True" Charlotte
OF Brunswick, early in the last century
settles upon the Lower Mississippi, where
the Rocky Mountains are visible from her
windows, and where, amid the gambolings
| OF monkeys and the tumblings of buf-
| faloes, she gathers the lotus flowers from
out OF the tropical luXuriance, and in the
twilight rows her canoe to the falls of the
Mnnehaha, narrowly escaping the ALI
gators, but returning in time for tea, and
to amuse herself, quoting Longfellow's
| song, 'Hiawatha," which she had heard
! the Indians chanting in their forest
! places.-Balt5naore Gazette. ~
| A BLACK AND WHITE Boy CoMBINA-
TIoN.-A remarkable boy was to be seen
at the Nashville depot yesterday; in fact
one Of the greatest curiosities of the age.
He is half white and half black, not in the
mulatto and miscegnation sense, but the
lower half of his body is whittier than
white folks usually are, while the upper
portion is black as midnight. His moth
er, a coal black negress, was with him,
and they left on the Nashville train at 7
o'clock last evening. He is but three
years old, and has already learned to make
money out Of his peculiarities He made
several nickels yesterday in very few
minutes. There is a round patch, about
three inches in diameter, of perfectly
beautiful hair on the top or his head,
which is surrounded by little kinky negro
wool.-Lou5su5Ne Ledger.
TALENT OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES years
ago an honest citizen Of Newburyport,
who had acquired a competence by hard
work, was appointed by His Excellency
Justice of the Peace. The appoint
ment. which had been unsolicited, was
regarded by him as very great honor,
andshe determined to make himself wor-
thy of it by retiring from active business
and giving his attention to books. His
first purchase was copy Of the general
! statutes-his next volume of the plays
of Shakespeare, about whom, as he told
his wife confidently, he had heard the big
guns say a great deal. The great poet
produced a powerful impression upon
him. II don't suppose" he said speak
| ing of it afterward to his friends, 'there
| are twenty men in Massachusetts who
could have written such book.'
AS Mr.. VIM. Stockdale was returning
! from visiting the circus at Peterboro',
Canada, he and the young lady who &C
| companied him met, says the Bobcaygeon
Independent, with rather singular acct
dent. He was driving in one-horse bug
gy and going at a good smart pace when,
from some unexplained cause, he did not
see four-year-old steer that was lying in
| the road, and before he was aware Of it
drove over the animal. The steer rose up
suddenly with the buggy on his back, and
Tor few yards horse, buggy, lovers, and
steer went together tremendously at full
trot, but the steer diverging destroyed the
| equilibrium, and buggy, steer, young lady,
horse, and VIM. Stockdale retired into the
ditch. Happily no bones were broken,
| though some bruises were received, some
fright occasioned, and a parasol injured
beyond all possibility Of cure
READING, Pa, has recently been the
scene of an incident which gilds with a
tinge of romance shadow of the darkest
crime. A young lady enters Bishops
Bank in that city, presents her fathers
bank book, with check for the balance
at his credit, and receives the money. He
having occasion, shortly afterward, to use
it, misses his bank book, and goes imme-
diately to the bank to make known his
loss. "9our book is not lost" says the
teller; 'your daughter brought it with her
when she drew out the money" Drew
out what money!" retorts the astonished
father; when the truth is incontinently
forced upon him that he has been robbed
by his own daughter, and that she is a
forger Of the cleverest kind. Subsequent
disclosures reveal the fact that she has.
.eloped with distinguished foreigner, and
left for parts unknown.
PHoTOGRAPHING A KIss.-In the neigh
borhood of Chiselhurst, one day, an en-
amored pair were walking pleasantly
along, quite unconscious Of the surround
ings, and more particularly Of the fact
that an gitinerant photographer had taken
up his position, surrounded by an inter
esting crowd. AS the swain and the
maiden took their way, what more natural
than that the former should imprint a
chaste salute on the pouting lips of MS
fair companion? What more annoying
than that the camera should have seized
them in the act and rendered it immortal?
The hapless couple became aware of the
fact from the loud outbursts Of laughter
which ran through the assemblage as the
plate was held up, and the girl at first
stormed and threatened, but, subsiding
into more reasonable mood, offered to
purchase the negative. But the photo
grapher was inexorable He was willing
to sell any number. OF copies, but insisted
upon retaining the original.
The Woolwich Eng) workmen have
lately been getting into place the great
plate upon which is to rest the anvil block
of the new thirty -fve-ton hammer. This
plate weighs of itself one hundred and
three tons, and had to be cast, of necessi-
ty, in an open mould. The surface which
is to receive the anvil block lay, there
fore, downwaros, and when, many weeks
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