Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-02-12

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In thy remodeling hands thou tak'st thy kite;
| Amonlent to Thy bosom holds't me fast.
Thou fiingest me, abroad :-lol IL thy might
A strong-winged bird I soar on every blast.
Ide3sTisg qZSSc59bise'fJ0r February.
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Eel aga General Itemss
/ AN Irish trick--Patriek.
SENATOR BoGY pronounces it "Bo-
zhee," with the accent on the first syl-
liable. ID .9pS'AH 81 tt4At
SHIPMENTS Of coal from the Monon-
gahela. river last year amounted to 81
52S0s 300 bushels, EoRTa
HONEST farmers. in Iowa fill ducks
with water, and let them freeze before
taking them to market. $3.50
2 ENGLISH ladies wear paste diamonds
at the. opera and theater, and keep the
genuine Jewels locked up. at home or III
the bank. s9hleao3 eG ssa9ao
a1Iss England, the friends of Tennyson
and Joaquin Miller speak1ot them as
the "Poet Laureate ~ and the Poet
Lariat " respectively. y.aass7
IVORY CHAMBERLAIN, of the New
York. World, with his wife and Miss
Greeley, have gone to Florida on a
health and pleasure trip.am
IgeTHE g Autograph Es Waltzes :" of
Strauss are the rage Just now. The
Pizzicato Polka" by the Same author,
is one of the prettiest things ne ever
wrote.
DURING the past year the Augusta
F(Ga.1 cotton mill produced 21S, 146
pieces of goods, weighing 2,473, $50
pounds, and declared a dividend of
$120, 900.
JONES had his leg amputated and
then wanted something taken off the
surgeons bill. becausesh he didn't want
to undergo another pay in-full opera
tion.
Coz. D. MCDANIEL, Il the well known
turtle, and part owner OF Harry Bas-
sett, Joe Daniels, Hubbard and other
famous horses, is slowly recovering
from his recent severe Illness at Prince
ton, n. J.lsi % .s7gialeigs,l
, MISS LENA CLARK is cashier at bank
at Newton, iowa. Last week she
missed a train, and, determined to fill
an appointment, walked seven miles
when the, mercury was thirty degrees
below zero. 'ss1of
za AT Philadelphia, last week, dra-
matization of Z. Arthur's story,
9. Three Years in a Man Trap was
brought out With stl1t1nihg effects. It's
other-nA,1ae iswssOne NIGHT of Clap
trap.
A DISEASE prevailsin Detroit not un-
like the epizootic of last fall. The
symptoms are aieopious discharge of
mucous from the eyes and nose, hack
ing cough, together with sudden pros
tration and a Discrimination to move.
IT is proposed to station a steamer
2005or 300 miles east of Sandy Hook,
connecting her by a submarine wire
with the Signal Service Station in New
York, SO that she could give warming
of approaching storms to inwardbound
vessels
A JEWELRY manufacturing establish
ment in Newark, N. T., recently put
new flooring In their workshops, and
the gold they obtained in burning the
old flooring not only paid for the new
OF e, but for putting two coats of paint
on the entire factory gssE
MISS .LEoNoRA. METHUEN,Y. a young
girl of sixteen, residing near Marys-
vile, Cal. took her little gun and
dog, the other day, and, sallying out,
bravely pursued and slew a wild thirty
pound wild cat, the destroyer of her
pet lamb.sa3 goi6iT9 sd % s1
DIR. PARR, when o boy att Harrow,
had SO very old a face for his age that
one day his contemporary, Sir William
Jones, said, looking at him, &c Parr, if
you should have the good luck to live
forty years you may stand chance of
overtaking your face n So
DIR. Won GRAEFE, the celebrated
German oculist, who died few years
ago, leaves in his posthumous papers
the remarkable admission that he fire.
quently performed dangerous opera
tions when he despaired. of success,
merely to gratify the PATIENTS and their
Mr.. JAMES AsHBURr has sold his eel
ebrated yacht, the Iivonia, to Mr.
Thomas Brassey, M. P, taking in ex-
change theiatter's steam yacht Eothen,
which will be recollected as having
visited these waters last fall. Mr..
Ashbury also threw in his little steam
er Merlin to boot. ss aliaHa sfa
SOMEBODY has recently invented
very valuable Trunk. It is made with
an outside covering of cast iron, lined
with nitrolglycerine, and when it is
thrown from railroad car or a baggage
wagon this outside covering is torn to
piece, and the baggage smasher is
blown into very smalLfragments.
81 Rev. STEPHEN H. TYNo is about to
edit the working Churchman'S which
moves Theodore Tilton to say sc Sue
cessful ministers often make very stu
pid editors, as half of our denomina-
tional papers show. Somehow the
types refuse to reproduce their tones,
gestures and good looks.
= HARTFoRD has a landlords associa-
tion, organized by owners of tenements
for self-protection, which meets an
nuaI1y, and the man thatmoyess out and
don't pay, the man that stays in and
won't pay, the drunkard, the vicious.
the dead beat, are all reported and
placed on record! Amy house owner in
Hartford can become a member.
A NORWICH gentleman of broad social
views wrote note to the handmade
who wrestles with crockery, inviting
her TO take sleigh ride with him. I'm
fortunately the slave was unable to
read, and brought. the note to the wife
of his bosom to decipher. 4 Wretched
and, heartsick, the miserable woman
waited in agonizing suspense till her
husbands return, and the family ply
siciang says he didn't considerit pos
sible for a delicate female to do so
much damage.
The pedestal ofithe famous colossal
statue of Diocletian, in the Roman Fo~
rum, has been recently dug mp. This
is undoubtedly the most important dis
covery mado in the Eternal Citv for
many years. 1t is seven yards long
by five wide, and proves that the statue
must have been enormous; it is hoped