Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-12-03
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the OK hide of beef
rlre this year,
LAKE ERIE is the home of thirty-fve
varieties of fish.
A DAUGHTER of General Rosecrans
has entered a convent
LIE ,embers Of the dying year-No-
vember and December.
WAX FLOWERS are used to trim new
winter bonnets.
IT is suggested that the name of
Washington should be changed to
Boss-t ton.
| IT is said that Prussia possesses
valuable coal deposits OF enormous
extent.
PARIS is flooded with pamphlets
devoted to Bazaine, his trial ana
history.
The prowling wolf is reappearing in
large numbers within the Michigan
borders.
A STREET sewer in Hartford, Conn.
has unexpectedly brought to light a
rich vein of coal.
NEARLY all the cider mills of New
England are deseI ted this fall on ae
count of there being no fall crop Of
apples.
DEAF MUTEs, it is now asserted, are
more numerous In mountainous re-
giOns than in low countries.
LOUISA MUHLBAoH had five different
books in a more er less forward state
Of preparation when she died.
TNuE Sulfan 10 abort To copH To tho.
Emperor Of Russia present of several
fine Arab horses of the purest breed.
"THE leopard cannot change his
spots, but the cook changes his pots
many times day.
The advantages of trades unions
were formerly seen in more striking
light than they are at present.
HENS never wear anything on their
feet, except when the farmers wife
drives them OUT of thegarden. Then
they are always shoo'd.
IT is reported in Rome that the head
establishment of the order of Jesuits
will be transferred to Malta.
In late severe gale a lady asked a
neighbor if he was not afraid his house
would blow away. ''Oh, no" was the
answer, "the mortgage on it is SO
heavy as to make that impossible"
MIR. CLARENCE Cook writes to the
London Athen@um that the sentence
in "Lothair," "You know who the
critics are-the men who have failed in
literature and art" was penned by
Balzac as far back as 1848 The Athe-
n@um thinks it occurs in some earlier
English work.
A WESTERN paper tells story of a
country woman VIII, made her first at
tempt to get in the courthouse yard
through the patent back-action gate
She opened the gate, went through, as
she supposed, and shut herself cut
on the same side seven times then,
calculating Merciful saints - climbed
over the fence.
The expenses of the Indian Bureau
promise to be greater next year, judg-
ing from the estimates, than they have
been for several years past. The esti-
mates last year were S., 100000. For
next fiscal year they are nearly $7,00O,-
900. The war and the interior depart
ments' estimates are also largely in ex-
cess of last year, all Of which goes to
prove that the estimates Of the old
fiscal year were put low for political
effect. Even the last session appropri-
ated SIS, 900, 900 in excess of the estl-
mate.
A coUNTRYMAN having applied to the
manager of bank in Glasgow to dis
count bill which had three months
and seventeen days to run, the banker,
after carefully looking at both sides Of
it, as was his invariable custom, said
1T was not usual to take bills of a
longer date than three months. Upon
which the applicant, scratching his
head and looking slyly at the manager,
said "That may be your usual way,
sir, but we ken the days are unco short
at this time of the year ~
GRAPE stones are said to be better
substitute for coffee than chickory is.
When roasted and ground, they are
said to possess an aroma very much
like that of East India coffee, and the
beverage obtained therefrom is about.
the same as coffee in taste, though in
ferior in quality. The beverage fur
nished by many of the restaurants is
very far from being ''about the same
as coffee in TASTE" and it is probable
that decided improvement could be
made on the present article by the use
of grape stones.
A CIRCUMSTANCE without parallel ID
the military history of this country is
recorded in Illinois. FL. M. Wheeler,
of Schuyler county, in that State, en-
listed in the United States Army un-,
der Gen. Lyon in 1861, was wounded,
captured and paroled, but by some
strange oversight was never discharged
from service until a few days ago, when
the proper papers were made out, and
his back pay and pension, amounting.
to nearly 81, 900, were paid him.
edward GARRETT is the name as
sumed by Mrs. Isabella Mayo, lady
aged about thirty years, the daughter
Of a London baker. the wife of a sohe-