Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-05-28
BREVITIES.

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| New York has followed the example Of
Michigan in Furnishing those who point
gun, loaded or unloaded, at another per
| son.
| A BOY punched hole through dam at
| Sparta, Wis, just to amuse himself, and
in fifteen hours the dam was washed
away. MA
| CHARLES HEATH goes to the Iowa Peni-
tertiary for three years and six months
| for marrying four women. Rather mild
sentence.
| A PREcIPTTATE Detroiter is miserable at
| discovering that his wife inherited halt
million just after he had procured di-
vorce from her.
A NEW HAVEN man says the longest
| funeral he ever heard of took place week
ago. His hired girl went off to it and
hasn't got back yet.
A NEWARK man recently paid claim
of $500, all in old-fashioned coppers. They
weighed four hundred pounds, and it took
three men to remove them.
ONE of the corpses picked up at the At
lantic wreck had on a quilted vest, and in
every diamond of the quilting there was
sovereign, there being in all about eighty,
equal to about $400
AN inquirer after scientific. information in
Concord, n H., recently asked an apothe-
cary, "What is this new disease-this
Cerro-G ordo- final Macginnis the papers
say so much about?"
IT is asserted that Vermont family
living on retired road that had been
blocked with snow for several weeks, were
recently found to have been keeping Mon
day for the Sabbath.
A LOCAL paper warns Its fair readers
that the sidewalks of Omaha abound in
''holes the size Of a lady's foot''-and in
another column recounts that boy six
years old fell into one of them the other
day.
% A RHODE ISLAND editor, wanting two
lines to complete a column observes that
"a sensible woman is the most sensible
being ON earth'' Which, cynic says, is
as if one should write, "Hot ice-cream is
the hottest thing in the world"
A New YORKER has taken the contract
of furnishing two or three railroad COM
panies with all the tickets they require,
free Of charge. He gets his remuneration
from the advertisements he is permitted
| to print on the back of each ticket.
THE City of New York is to be enlarged
| by the addition Of that part of Westches-
ter County comprised in the towns of Nor
risiana, West Farms and Kingsbridge. If
no unforeseen obstacle intervenes, the an
neXation will take effect on the list of
July.
| AFTER thirty years Of welded life, and
half that number of pledges to the union,
Mt Pleasant Qowa) couple got married
again the other day. so as to be able to
send certificate to Germany before re-
ceiving heavy legacy. The old certif
cate had been lost
| A YOUNG lady living at Eau Claire, Wis,
| disappeared the other day, and after three
hundred people had searched for five
hours, she was found sitting on the bank
of the river with her lover, squeezing
| hands and talking nonsense as if nothing
had happened.
A VIRGINIA railroad conductor has in
vented a revolving signal-light, to be at
tached to the rear of trains, by which the
engineers behind them can tell by the
speed Of their rotations, as shown by the
succession of different colored lights at
what rate the trains are moving, and when
they are at rest.
WHILE tearing down an outbuilding at
the Marlboro House in Raleigh, N. c., col
| ored waiter found a package of money
containing some $4,000 in old State bank
notes, some Confederate bonds, $500 in
gold and silver, and two watches. There
is no clue as to when they were placed
there or by whom.
In recent suit for damages in Boston,
brought by a father whose son was run
over by heavy dray, the Superior Court
charged that inasmuch as the boy was in
stantly killed, without any interval of con-
be claimed, and ordered verdict for the
defendant.
A LA MODE OCTOsYLLABIC.-
Since the Modocs, concealed in their lava DEFY
Our troops meta!lurgic conchology
Let Science said JONES' with wink in his eye
Extract them by Modocimology.''
" That is clever said Brown; land I would not
be thought
To care what mode doctors barbarians:
But fear, ere they're extracated or caught,
They'll all be neutrality-suspicious.
-ORPHEUs q. KERR, IN the Graphic.
A MASSACHUSETTS medical man has re-
Gently been examining into the con- posi-
ton of the daily food of the average
Massachusetts person. He estimates that
every resident of the Bay State, who is
above the age of five years, is in the
habit of consuming pie at least twice each
day A more appalling picture of reck-
1Coo etIIA widespread I1clS
never before been presented. Yorz;
Times.
A CONNECTICUT man purchased horse
of a neighbor, which upon trial did not
prove the kind he anticipated. Not car
ing to keep the animal, he applied a dye
to his hide that made him lovely black,
and resold him to the aforesaid neighbor.
The animal was subsequently SOLD to the
first purchaser, his appearance having in
the meantime been again changed, and
now both parties desire to know (which
man should sue the other'
In France, the honey is extracted from
the hives by smoking the bees. DR..
Chairvou's system is now coming into
general use. Select bright, clear, sunny
day; place large tablecloth under the
hive, and introduce inside a good quarter
of an ounce of chloroform on pocket
handkerchief; then knot the table-cloth
on the top of the hive so as to exclude the
air; loud buzzing will be heard, similar
to when the bees are about swarming, and
at the end of few minutes complete sill
ence will ensue. Unite the table-cloth,
raise the hive, and the bees will be found
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