Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-08-27
BREVITIES.

How TO become a real estate agent
Marry a rich wife. s. "a a.
THE export trade of Boston has more
than doubled in two years. # "a +
The internal revenue receipts for the
month of July amounted to $3.50 ,Oo0.
= RED foxes are becoming nuisance in
Kentucky: Pigs, poultry, and young
lambs suffer.
The richest man in Denver is a Mexi-
can with an Indian wife, and she leads
the fashion, Il ~ ~ n u
AsNow bank, four rods long, two rods
wide, and three feet high remained in
auckland, Mass, in the middle Of July.
~ MILITARY authorities are to- be found
everywhere, but c5uil authorities are not
to be found anywhere.
ALL sorts of notes from Watering places
are current, but the only notes that are
taken at the watering. places are green
backs
A CONNECTICUT paper speaks of the
reign of terror in that State becaasea man
has been arrested for stealing an UNI
brella. .d 49,, .a-
IF Saratoga is the Bethesda of our
nation, it is probably on account of the
number of pools gotten UP there every
summer. mfe r.ajrog ~ ~
DURING recent storm in North Caro-
lima every telegraph pole for mile on
one Of the railroad lines was shattered by
lightning. r,e
SERVANT girls in Montana get 500 gold
a month, with. the use of a piano and sew
ing-machine, besides three nights ''off"
in the week.
A MECHANIC in Portsmouth, n. H., has
not been able to do any work in eleven
years, on account Of friend crushing his
hand while shaking it.
A MASSACHUSETTS woman went before
justice the other day and swore that a
neighbor woman had bewitched her into
having cramps and spasms.
The great balloon excitement now pre-
vailing has one good thing about il, at
least; it turns attention from things ter
restrial to things celestial
PLAYING Cal dis with black borders is
late nebby convenience to people who
have lost friends and think they know
something about euchre.
ONE day lately Mrs Dr. Mary Walker
was arrested in Baltimore for wearing
pants. And the next day Baltimore had
her "conf1agration." Judgment.
A BLUE lizard, living on rock of
precisely the same tint, has been found
upon the Island of Capri, and is cited as
another instance of natural selection.
NOTHING more destroys the happiness
around about men than bad temper It
is in the power Of one person in family
to keep that family in smoke all the day
long. sf
The Transcript, Georgia paper, says
that it cant say as to the crops around
there, but Georgetown is the place to get
into fight if any one is aching for exer-
else"
TWENTY EIGHT different kinds of "bit-
tiers" sold in Rhode Island for "strictly
medicinal use' are undergoing analysis
by the State chemist from an excise point
of view. ss 80
A PIN manufacturer in Connecticut is
said to have made, this last year, over
100000. At this rate he will soon reach
the pinnacle of fortune. But where do
the pins 60.
A VIRGINIAN writes to a Richmond
paper that he is opposed to the election
of an unmarried man for Governor, and
that he would not vote for his own brother
were he bachelor
A CONTEMPORARY asserts that "half the
married women in the world wonder who
their husbands will marry next" The
other half more sensib1y wonder whom
they will marry next.
ONE Of the great luxuries of riches is that
they enable you to escape SO much good
advice. The rich are always advising the
poor, but the poor seldom venture to re-
turn the mpliment:-Helps = "a s1sS
Turn tor r,t1,1o n ,,,o1:u,o-+ 1:441o
beast. One came all the way from Cuba
lately to bite Portland fruit dealer. He
made the voyage in bunch of bananas
and took the first opportunity to. carry out
his fell design
have open top cars attached to each, one
of their passen ger trains for the purp r
OF allowing the passengers to view the
country and beautiful mountain scenery
as they pass along, ID, .-,es -. 10 s.e,-.s'.,
The way types cam be eccentric is
shown by an Iowa, special as it appeared
In a Chicago paper, about the arrest of a
mail robber, upon whose person was
found rifed letters and two mai, keqsn p
Mail keys of course. t.f ,sss
- A vERACIoUs New Hampshire agri-
culturist solemnly asseVeratessthatx efter
lue gIaSSHOpperS nau eaten up all his
hop-vines he saw them with his own eyes
making united efortsato pullathe poles
out of the ground.
Gov. WooDsoN, of Missouri, and Gen.
JAS. Craig, and several other gentlemen of
st. Joseph, Mo-, went across the line into
Kansas, recently, to shoot prairie chick
ems, and were arrested and fined for vio-
lation of the Kansas game lazy. ! e.
SOMEBODY says good egg is made up
of ten parts shell. s4sixty parts white, and
thirty parts lyolk. The white of an egg
contains eighty-six per cent. water the
yolk ffty-two per cent Z The average
weight of an egg is two ounces.
No PERSON should enter sick room
while in a state Of perspiration, because
in cooling off the pores absorb freely, nor
should a person sit between the sick and
the fire. Do not approach contagious
diseases with an empty stomach.
SPIDERS weighing three or four
pounds are among the. natural .attrac--
lions of Florida, if travellers tales NAV be
believed, though there is suspicion that
arachnid@ and arfack-punch somehow
got mixed in the heads of the observers.