Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-04
BREYTTIES.

tence, fallen heir to a fortune of
$4,000.
ADAM GRIM, Of Watertown, Wis,
claims to be the largest bee-keeper in the
United States, with the exception Of a
| California man.
THE Yoevil colonists English) have de-
cided not to allow saloons or drink
shops" as they designate such places,
within the colony limits. ..-.s,-.---
THEY feed their juries by contract in
ST. Louis The jailer receives the pro-
posals. The last job was let at the rate of
thirty-fve cents per juryman.
A NUMBER of capitalists in New Jersey
and New York have already consummat
ed project for the construction of ship
canal, running under the Palisades at the
rear of Weehawken and Hoboken.
IT NAV be worth while for scoundrels to
know in view Of the coming postal cards.
| that a London man was recently sentenced
to pay heavy fine and go to prison for
two years for libeling young lady on one
of those cards.
The other day countryman asked one
of Barnum's men, "Where is the num-
N.Y." The latter replied, Gle is dead"
and the inquirer passed on perfectly salts
mum could prevent an occasional death
among his curiosities
IT is said that full $4,000 Jews are de-
sirous of coming to this country from the
Old INDEPENDENTLY from Roumania,
| the scene Of their recent persecution-and
an organization of their friends in Amer
lea has been established to help them A
colony of several thousand will settle near
Lincoln Neb Most of them are expected
to arrive during the present year.
The latest "big thing" in California is
the enterprise Of converting Guadalupe
Island, lying Oft the coast Of Lower Cali
fornia, into one Angora goat ranch. The
island has an area of 166,4O0 acres, and is
the property of an incorporated company
1t is mountainous, well watered, and at
present tenanted by an immense flock of
wild goats, embracing, it is estimated,
| 100000 head
| SOHE time ago "canny Scott conceiv-
ed the brilliant idea of making fortune
by exhibiting the Pyramids, and proceed
| ed, with this view, to the land of the Pha-
raohs. But though the Khedive actually
sold him the exclusive right of exhibition,
the speculation failed to pay on account
of the scarcity of sight-seers, and the poor
man was compelled to abandon the enter
prise.
! The "Iron-Jawed Woman" who is en-
gagged in ennobling mouth performances
| in connection with travelling circus, was
married at Hustonville, KY, the other
day, to a gymnast connected with the
same show. An IRON aWed woman and
gymnast in the holy bonds Of matrimony!
Wouldn't you rather see one of their little
connubial disputes than all the balance of
the circus?
DEATH from lightning is thought to be
quite painless Owing to the velocity
with which the electric current moves, it
is believed that person struck by light
ming has no premonition Of the blow
which he receives. The nervous system
requires a certain interval Of time to be-
come conscious of pain. The time of an
electric discharge is but small fraction
of this interval; hence, as a sentient APP
paratus the nervous system is destroyed
before consciousness can set in.
A WILKINSON County (Ga) man be-
came convinced the other day that wO-
mans temper is very irregular. He had
been moulding some bullets, and had neg
lected to cool off the ladle in which the
lead had been melted. While he was
counting the bullets his wife came into the
room humming tender love song Sud
denly the song ceased, and the man was
made aware that something had happened
by catching an adjacent coffee-mill on the
and mother had taken this picturesque
mode of informing him that she had pick
ed up the ladle by the hot end.
CURIOUS INNATE OF A TOOTH.-As re-
markable case in dentistry is mentioned
by the New Brunswick IN. j. Times, of
citizen of that town, who, after the extrac-
ton Of tooth with which he had been
long tormented, but in which the only
part apparently unsound was so minute as
not to admit the insertion of a delicate
needle, discovered on cracking it with a
hammer that it was mere shell in which
lived nondescript sixlegged bug which
ran briskly about the table on being re-
leased from it's prison. AS the gentleman
is confident that the animal could not
have made its way through the perforation
from without, he considers this clear
case of spontaneous generation.
EXCESSIVE AMIABILITY-A traveller
coming up from the Central depot yester-
day stopped for a moment to examine a
coat hanging in front of a clothing store
The proprietor rushed out and asked:
"WOuldn't you try on some coats?" 81
dunno but [ would" responded the tray
eler, consulting his time killer, and he
went in and begun work. No matter how
often he found his fit, he called for more
coats, and after he had tried on about
thirty he looked at his watch, again re-
sumed his own garment, and walked off,
saying: II won't charge cent for what
I've done; hang man who won't oblige
another when he can do it, If Pm ever
around this way agin, and you've got any
more coats to try on, I'll do all I can to
help u!"-DetrOat Free Press.
WE had hoped to get along without re-
sorting to the terrible engine of destruc-
ton known as "Bogardus' Kicker" but
yesterday, when the same old chap came
in and asked for one of the two copies of
the Philadelphia Press we receive, he was
invited to sit down-the secret spring was
touched, and twelve kicks were admins
tered beneath him, that would have sent
an ordinary man through the roof. The
unsuspecting victim merely remarked
'Your Hoe press seems to jar the build
ing little to-day" Then, turning on the
full strength, we looked at him again.
Though split in two sections a smile was
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