Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-09
All Sorts of Notes.

girls applied at the Grand Opera House,
New York, in answer to an ADVERTISE
nent for 100 young ladies to dance in
Che ballet
The Catholic priests of Chicago are
engaged In circulate, 6 among the work
men Of their congre atoms pledges not
merely to refrain from the use of liquor,
but from temptation also.
AMONG the effects Of a gentleman who
recently died in Paris, and which effects
were sold at auction, there was a num-
my, understood to be the mortal re-
mains of a very distinguished person
of the thirty-second Egyptian dynasty.
THIRTY-Two very happy little fellows
rode out of Paris the other day. They
were italian music boys on their way to
Italy, and when they found themselves
out Of the reach Of the padroaa5 and
actually started for their own country
they were almost crazy with JOY.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS has accepted
an invitation to deliver the grafton at
the Concord and Lexington Centennial
celebration in April next. Ralph Waldo
Emerson is also expected to deliver an
address. Judge Charles Devens, Jr.,
Of the Massachusetts, Supreme Court,
will be the orator at the Centennial
celebration of the battle of Bunker
Hill
The Paris Figaro relates the tragic
history of a magpie. It was great
favorite of the butcher who owned it;
but boy who had "received notice."
and who was to leave in q short time,
taught the bird to say, cts cows
meat. y These provoking words it an
nounced whenever the butcher showed
to his customers his prettiest cuts, and
the juvenile Iago thus compelled that
butcher to murder his favorite.
THERE is curious case in Detroit. A
colored man having lately been married
for second time, no funeral having in
tervened since his first, is accused of
bigamy. His defence is that the first
wife, so-called, was a white woman that
it was illegal for a negro to marry a
white when he did so, and therefore
that he has now at last only secured his
first legal partner. The judge has laid
the case over for meditation.
A LADY and her eight-year-o daugh-
ter were among the passengers on
Woodward avenue car, in Detroit, a
few days ago, and presently the little
miss observed man take out his hand
kerchief, flourish it around, and then
wipe his nose. The child leaned over
to her mother, and whispered &c Nam
ma, that gentleman is trying to firt
! with me, but shall give him the hand
kerchief signal that / distrust his mo-
tives p
The city of Paris spublishing its own
history at its own expense, and the is
sue has reached the " Mayoralty Of Ste
phen Marcel" but at the request of the
government the Project of the Seine has
stopped the publication for the present.
They do not want the attention of the
public especially called just now to that
sturdy fight for freedom. They confess
their fear Of great example.
LAIRD, the builder of the Alabama
and other pirate crafts of dozen years
ago, gets this appreciative notice in the
Lond on Figaro: son Thursday last died
Mr.. Laird, the Member of Birkenhead.
The public life of Mr. Laird was with
out reproach; in private life he built
and dispatched the Alabama. His
memory will be long kept green In the
budget, and he has an enduring monu-
ment in the taxation of his country
men,"
A FAIR and buxom widowin Portland,
who had buried three husbands, recent
ly went with gentleman, who paid her
marked attention in the days of his
adolescence, to inspect the graves of her
dear departed. After contemplating
II R,,1 1,1,
she murmured SO her companion, "Ah,
Joe, you might have been in that row,
if you only had had little more cour-
age.
AN erring husband, who had exhaust
ed all explanations for late hours, and
had no apology ready, recently slipped
into the house about one O'Clock very
softly, denuded himself gently, and be-
gan rocking the cladle by the bedside,
as if he had been awakened out OF a
sound sleep by infantile cries. He had
rocked away for five minutes, when
Mary Jane, who had silently observed
the whole manmuvre, said, :" Come to
bed, you big fool, you! the baby amt
there"
The subscriptions to the memorial
statue OF the late w Villain Il. ooWsuu,'
which is to be placed in the Central
Park, have nearly been paid. The
Committee on Funds, which consists of
George J. Forrest, William III. Apple
ton. and Lawrence r. jerome, have re-
ceived about $4,000, which has been
deposited with the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company. Mr.. Randolph Rog-
ers, the sculptor, who has the order for
the statue, is making very satisfactory
progress on it at Rome, and it is ex-
pected that it will be completed before
another year has passed. The statue
will be made of bronzes, sixteen and
half feet high, and is to be delivered
and put up in the Centrrl Park for $780,
600.