Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-07-16
BREVITIES.

Boston banks use postal cards to notify
their customers when their notes fall due,
and the customers are indignant at the
publicity thus given to their business af-
fairs.
| MRS LYsTER, aged ninety-one years,
was buried at Graysville, Ind, recently, in
her wedding garments, which she wore
seventy-three years ago. They were of
linen which she herself had spun and
woven.
A COUNTRY maiden lately drove an OK
team into Indianapolis hauling aload of
wood She said she cut the wood, and
with the wood she bought highly trim
med hat, and with the hat she'll cut a
country swell. 4
CAMBRIDGE, Vt, is proud Of a family
which has moved thirty times in eleven
years, has been in sixteen States; and
moved seven times in one year. The long
est time they stayed in any one place was
eighteen months. ~[f *fBn 80
The expectation Of Arab horses from
the provinces of Bagdad and Syria has
been prohibited for the next seven years,
with view to preserving the breed, which
has been seriously diminishing in those
parts of the empire. kg M
DANIEL BOONE's rifle, shot pouch, pow
der horn, hunting knife, andla section of
beech log on which he cut his name and
date, 1774, are in the public library at
Louisville, Ky. The wooden stopper of
the powder horn still bears th0marks Of
his teeth.
LOVERS Of claret and Burgundy will be
pleased to learn, on the authority of an
eminent French chemist, that red wines
nowadays are commonly colored with
rosaniline, which contains arsenic enough
to cause symptoms of poisoning if it be
taken in frequent doses.
A NICELY dressed gentleman applied for
a marriage license at. Dover, Tenn, the
other day, but when he spoke the lady's
name the polite County Clerk suggested
that, if it was all the same to him, he
would prefer that he should name some
other party, as the one mentioned had be-
come his wife the previous evening
A LATE Kentuckian bequeathed his two
daughters $4,000, and left debts of only
1858. The administrator prevailed upon
them to put the estate into the courts, and
it came out last week, after a two years
course, when every cent of the $4,000 was
found to have been swallowed by insatiate
justice.
EVEN burglars are sometimes handy to
have around. This was the case the other
day at the jail at Springfield, Mass, when
it was found impossible to open a locked
door Locksmiths were sent for and
worked hours without success upon it.
and finally the sheriff called upon an old
burglar who was in custody to try his hand
at it. He opened it in a few moments
WE read in the Utica a. " Herald
the statement that an Ayrshire cow be
longing to General ungerford, Of Adams
Jefferson County, averaged over eighty
pounds of milk per day, from that she
went to ninety pounds yield daily, and
under regular tactical inspiration she on
one day gave one hundred pounds and
eight ounces of milk 1t is averred that
no bovine in existence can beat that.
INCENDIARIsM-Th National Board of
Fire Underwriters, at their late meeting
in the city of New York, resolved to raise
a fund Of 500, 900 for the detection, con-
viction, and punishment of parties en-
gagged in the nefarious business of in
cendiarism and arson. The Executive
Committee of that Board, at their meeting
| on May Il, 1878, carried out the resolution
and opened the subscription. This is a
| step in the right direction
A LITTLE Too CANDID-Some time
since Greenfield farmer and his wife
came into the city and the man had the
| Woman's life insured for $1,000. Last
| week she was thrown from buggy and
| badly hurt, and yesterday the agent came
| across the husband on the street and in
| CURED how the wife was getting along
The farmer heaved sigh, looked put out,
and replied: Well Pm afraid she is go
ing to get we'll !''-Detaoat Free Press.
THE farm lands of California are gen
orally deteriorating, according to the San
Francisco Bulletin. During the last ten
or fifteen years the crops have constantly
been growing smaller. The trouble is at
tr1butable to bad system Of agriculture,
and the failure to SOW crops of fertiliz-
ing character. The evil is widespread
and serious, and if not abated will inter
fere with the progress and prosperity of
the State.
TEMPLE, Me, has an old lady named
hathaway, who is just ninety-nine years
Old She cheWs and smokes tobacco and
has done so since she was. a girl She
formerly drank spirituous liquors, but
ceased using them some years ago on &C
count Of the high price, poor quality, and
difficulty of obtaining supply under the
Maine prohibitory laws She does her
own work, building fires, sweeping, cook
ing, and discharging all the ordinary du-
ties of the head of a household. 49,
PROFESSOR W. c. KERR, State Geologist
for North Carolina, has discovered that
the supposed "silver caves in Mitchell
County are probably mica mines worked
by the contemporaries of the emeund-
builders This view is su5stantiated by
recent discoveries in the West of plates of
mica cut into different shapes, and posi-
bly, intended as mirrors and windows
Since there is none OF this mineral in the
Mississippi Valley, it's possible that
these Cal Dina caves were excavations
made in search of it.
THE New York practice OF using reg;
Hector and throwing a ray Of rose-colored
light upon the brides cheek as she passes
up the aisle Of the church was sought to
be introduced in San Francisco, but the.
man managing the reflector was little
nervous, and directed the rays upon the
nose of the bridegroom, and the conse-
quence was that those who assembled to
witness the marriage and were not N the
secret, thought the bride was throwing
herself away on a magnificent rum bios
somed nose.
CHRISTOPHER SHEARER, a fruit farmer
near Reading, Pa, has probably the larg-