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

| w HIN is balloon not Il balloon w 0o0
/ it's a-loft
A FEMALE fire company is talked of al
Lewisburg, Pa.
! A FAyoRITE dish with the ladies'
Tongue sandwiches.
! A MASSACHUSETTS State constable fright
ened woman to death.
! WHEN is a fowls neck like a bell =:
| When it is rung for dinner.
THERE were only 179 divorces granted
! in'New Hampshire last year. II % {
Moss agates have been found in the
vicinity Of Clear Lake, Iowa, -.
A FISH recently caught in Red River,
| Texas, had centipede inside. 2f.sfs5g
SOME men are fond Of their species, but
| all men are fond Of their specie.
THE, latest scientific discovery is that
the man in the moon" is a woman.
KRoUGHKAIG is the way they, spell a
| popular game in a western locality.
A BAND of wolves has taken possession
of the poorhouse at Oskaloosa, Kansas.
A NAN with one leg celebrated the
Fourth of July by climbing to the top of
Pixies Peak. o...gs ts.e.v
THE guests at Mount Washington have
ments.
WHAT clever paraphrase that is which
/ tells us that In the midst Of life we are
in debit" 1886 8 aaas
MONEY is reported to be very "easy" in
Wall street, but it is very hard to get it,
nevertheless.
! a wELL-KNowN belle is writing "the
American society novel" Won't the crit
les have fun? ,5d&
WILLIAM BUTLER, of Lenoxa, Kan,
| raised 1,342 bushels of oats from twenty
acres Of land.
THERE is a man O. in Hartford who
drinks a key of lager-about seven gal
lons-every day.
A CYNIC describes marriage as an altar
on which man lays his wallet and woman
her affections -uI sHl
CALIFORNIA, after electing a Legisla-
ture in September, will elect a Supreme
Court Judge in October.
| THE arkansas Gazette reports its State
scrip as advanced to As cents" There
is room for future advance.
THE Catskill Mountain House, at this
season of the year, is sufficiently warmed
by two old-fashioned stoves. n
A YOUNG gambler, aged fourteen, lately
feeced member of the Texas Legislature
of 81 200, at ga little game"
DR.. Hermann KLEIN concludes that
the earth has been 2,000O0OOOO years
forming since first it had crust.
DURING the last six months 1850 Chi
nese emigrants have landed in California.
of white folks there were 600 less.
GIVE us water or give us DEATH" cries
the Denver Tribune. Most Western men
would prefer the former alternative.
AN Ohio woman fears to 90 overland to
California this summer, because she
would have to go through Cholerado
THE grasshoppers of Iowa are addicted
to bad habits. They chew tobacco, and
are making a bad raid upon that crop as
it grows.
A GRAIN dealer at Davenport, Iowa, cot
neatly swindled out of $50 in money and
fifty grain sacks, by an ''honest farmer
looking fellow. ~
A HoTEL-KEEPER in Sterling Mass, got
up few nights ago to take some essence
OF peppermint, and swallowed corrosive
sublimate instead.
MAN is, physically as we'll as metaphy
sically, thing of shreds and patches
borrowed unequally from good and bad
ancestors.
AN Ohio man who had his choice be-
tween marrying a writer for the maya
zines and girl who could bake bread,
wisely chose the latter
A WASHINGTON paper announces that
the public printer will shortly issue a
complete complication Of the postal laws
Of the United States"
|. A FLORIDA, paper has ascertained that a
healthy alligator can eat seven negro chill
dren inside of seven hours and not display
any symptoms of disquiet. Ha
A New HAMPSHIRE paper speaks of
the Idiots who are climbing the White
Mountains to get aview of the COWS pas
turing in the meadows below"
THE new $40 National Bank bill is to
be issued about the LIST of September No
issue. of other denominations is to be
made before Congress meets 10
THE. Missouri State Editorial Conven-
ton recently presented to the officer at
tending them on their late editorial ex-
cursion an elegant gold headed cane.
AN old couple living near Sparland,
Ill, We're recently divorced The hus-
band has since married the hired girl and
the eN-wvife taken the hired girls place.
A FARMER in St. Clair County, Ill, has
Just harvested from twelve. acres of ground
$3.50 bushels Of wheat, being but a frac-
ton less than forty-fve bushels per acre.
Two. Kentucky youths were invited into
the bushes to see serpent They didn't
see the snake, but saw pair of pick
pockets decamp with their money and
things. 'a7
SOUTHWESTERN sanitarians have settled
it to their own satisfaction that 'indigen-
Gus cholera" owes it's origin solely to eat
ing fruit containing the ''germs of cater
pillars" v@s.- al a. r,
THE golden. sand-ridges Of Morgan
County, Ind, are selling for more money
than business lots in Indianapolis. The
people are still excited over the gold dust
Of those parts. 9e 80 vb4 Ill a
A RESPECTABLE English magazine re-
cords, with evident pleasure, that of the
80, 900 clergymen of the Church of En-
gland fully 1000 abstain from the use Of
spirituous liquorsn' fszs 5sfN S9E
A CURIOUS sight is to be seen at meal
times at any OF the seaside hotels, when
seven or eight hundred ladies are sinful