Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-08-20

more money.
i THE sidewalk brigade of Sullivan. Ind
S had its nerves shocked by notices signed
tx. *. K.,' warning all loafers to go to
work, and indulging in the direst threats
Iagainst thosexWho are not industrious al
/ leasttwo days.a week.
THE ''crushy" look which is considered
SO bewitching in French hats is said to be
attained by sitting upon them in an
artistic manner We expect great and
! widespread ruin of homemade hats will
| be the reslllt of this news.
IN a recent case of assault with intent
toskill in Indiana, it was shown that the
attray came about from a father insisting
on remaining in the room with his daugh-
ter and her beau The sympathetic Jury
acquitted the young man.
THE colored citizens of Summit County,
Ohio, have presented petition to the
State Constitutional Convention to have
the word NEGRO" prohibited by constitu-
tional provision, from being used in pub
lie documents and school books.
+ AT the Caledonian Club games at Scran-
ton, Pa, recently, the feature was a fat
woman's race for new bonnet. It was
an oily affair. The leanest contestant
weighed 1870, and three others weighed
respectively, 300, 24s and 251 pounds.
IHE Kansas woman who went to sleep
with one limb across a railroad track.
recommends that method of amputation
for its cheapness; the only difficulty
about It is, that it takes so long to get up.
That is what the man said who was struck
by lightning. I&a s.
a WEsTcHEsTER, Pa, paper states that
a. "Melanerpes Enthrocephalus'' has been
observed in the park; and then, lest this
portentous name should frighten away all
the women and children, explains that the
monster in question is only the red HEADED
wood-pecker. SO SIS &#N'S g
A MORTGAGE for $780, upon which
eighteen months interest had accumu-
lated, was declared null and void at
Lyons, N. Y, recently, on the ground that
$25 paid for services in procuring the
money for which the mortgage was given
constituted usury.
SIXTEEN years ago, a North Carolina
father, who knew the virtues of the rod,
thrashed his big boy, and sent him out to
hoe corn. The first seen of him since
was recently, when he returned from Cali
fornia with $4,000 on his hoe. The
moral is obvious 4 ~
AMONG the incidents of the cholera in
the South is mentioned the fact that many
hooking birds and canaries sickened and
| died, while those which frequented the
| gardens instinctively fled to the woods,
and did not return until the cholera took
its departure.
! FROM some of the letters which have
recently appeared in American papers it
would seem that European kings, princes,
| and statesmen are just now particularly
DESTROYS OF pouring their secrets into the
| sympathetic ears of American newspaper
correspondents.
THE Germans of Chattanooga have
wholly escaped the clutches of indigenous
cholera. They ascribe the fact to the use
OF lager beer instead of whisky and bran
dy, and not few say they owe safety to
onions. Such is the sober statement of
the Memphis Appeal.
E. ROBES & Co. have commenced suit
against the city of Cincinnati to recover
$4,000 for lumber destroyed by the
great coal-oil fire in June on the ground
that the oil was stored in violation of a
city ordinance. and that they repeatedly
requested the city to enforce the law
No ACTION has been taken by the New
| Orleans authorities in earnest to bring
| Rhett to punishment for the murder Of
Judge Cooley in the late duel Rhett
keeps shady, but yet edits the P5cayal7oe,
and is in no danger of molestation The
reports Of his having fled are sheer fabri-
cations.
CoNcERNING Wise's balloon project the
! Scientific american says: ''To us the
| probabilities of his success appear to be
little better than those of an Individual
| who, in an open boat, without sail or
| CHI off nj TO A.,
Atlantic upon the surface of the Gulf
| stream" So
| Ira Western farmer be asked which is
the most productive crop he. raises, IN
nine out of ten cases he will reply Indian
corn. Why? Because in his mind he as
| sociates the corn with his facilities for
marketing it. Hogs and cattle fatter on
| it, and walk off to the depot for shipment.
Country Gentleman.
/ JOURNALISM is an art Of modern growth,
springing from the demands ofsthe com,
mercial as well as the intellectual world
! 1t is in fact, so largely dependent upon
the commercial rather than the intellect
lual world that the mere scholar however
brilliant he may be, would make a very
poor Journalist Erc1sange. 80 q ssf =
AMERICANS do not like to stake a back
i IVY "AO gu Wdy ouA1ouo W UC
foremost in the fray. The Clock-tower,
at Westminster, has excited their emula-
ton. We hear that the new building of the
New York Tribune is to be adorned with
an Illuminated clock, set in a tower 300
feet high, built in the Florentine STYLE
THE alluvial bottoms Of the Mississippi,
the Ohio, the Tennessee, and Cumberland
rivers are more favourable to the acouisi.
ton of wealth than to the preservation of
health. A burning sun peuringnupon a.
steaming marsh speedily evokes the gaunt
spirit of disease, and the moist atmos
phere so indispensable to the rapid de
! velopement Of vegetable life. exercises a
| maleficent influence on the human organi-
zation..e fs@AAS4 5& @s90 os1>l
| To make a concrete house a frame is
erected as for AN ordinary house, but with
or without studding, as may be desired,
| and the concrete is filled in between the
timbers, and may be finished to show the
frame, or faced over all and pointed and
penciled to initiate stone or brick. AS
large house may be built this way as
any other. The cost will be about from
one-half to two-thirds that of an ordinary