Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-30
Odds and Ends.

III Florida is bearing fruit. Over a thou
sand orange groves will be planted along
the ST. Johns River
OXFORD University is ZOO years old,
and exults In an annual income Of
81, 900, 900, and q library of $4,000
volumes.
A PAPER can for kerosene oil, which
is claimed to be as strong as tin and
much cheaper, is among the latest in
ventions.
IT is difficult to calculate the intensity
of the grief of a young lady, but very
good idea of the signs of it may be OBJ
tanned.
AN Iowa woman sent her boy back to
school to be whipped, assuring the
teacher that she was ga believer in cap
ital punishment.
eff bust out latin you mustn't get
mao, mister" was the reasonable request
preferred by Fort Wayne bride to
the officiating clergyman.
The fishermen's wives and daughters
at Hyannis, Mass. propose Christmas
ball. That kind of Cape Goldfish ball
can't be bad to take.--Sauaday Times.
By vote of the faculty of Harvard 800
marks of censure will be sufficient
this year to prevent seniors from get
ting their degree, and 200 marks will
give special probation.
THE bark Amity, from Philadelphia
to Antwerp, foundered at sea, and
eighteen of her crew were drowned.
Two survivors of the bark have reached
Queenstown.
THE difficulties with the Turcoman
tribes in Khiva have been settled The
Attrak expedition has returned without
fighting. The Turcomans voluntarily
returned thirty prisoners.
The attention of the Japanese gov
eminent is now turning upon the estab-
lishment of representative assembly
of the Minsengi, which has been abey-
ance during the dispute with China.
( AN inebriate man, walking along the
street, regarded the moon with sover-
eign contempt. "Yon needn't feel so
proud" he said. "You are only full
once a month, and I am full every
night. ".,-s.5 n -a..er1
MR.. SKILLINes, of West Gorham,
4 Me-, fred into his poultry yard the
other night and brought down Messrs.
Perkins and Blake, two quiet citizens
who had got in among his chickens.
Perkins died in short time, and Blake
carries thirty-seven wounds
l. The man who invenys type setting
machine will amass untold riches. But
it will be an insignificant sum in COM
parison to the wealth which will accrue
to that Individual who discovers a
method by which a baby may be made
to consume it's own cry.
A NEVADA justice, when appealed to
to issue warrant for the arrest,of some
three card monte men who had swim
died a traveller, refused to do so, say
ing that the offense came under the
head of s'dispensations of Providence"
and he hadn't jurisdiction. -. ~
E. e HENUMBER of children enrolled in the
public schools of California is 1O7, 800.
About 10000 attend private schools.
The state has a compulsory education
law, but it is dormant. The school sys-
tenn has an annual revenue of So, 551.-
1919, and the schools themselves have
lately been improved.
A BALTIMORE groom, of high social
standing, GO smiled so often on the
way to the wedding that he got dis
couraged, and was carried home to rest.
Not being able to take him for better,
the bride took him for worse. He made
the responses with ''hic,'' and, as
Billy Emerson used to say, he'll be sorry
for It when he gets 'ober.''
ssHow you do, Sallie; how you doc
I amt seed you in SIGH time! How
is you, nohow?" Sallie, grasping the
old darky's hand and giving it cordial
shake, g Use still kicking, thank you,
Uncle Tom, but [ amt kicking high.
How you Citing on %" Uncle Tom, de-
iberately, "Well, Sallie, I'm still stick
ing together-in spots.
A GENTLEMAN at a public table, who
had exercised his jaws for some fifteen
minutes upon a small morsel of steak,
turned to neighbor and said: g What
a pity to kill this animal % "Why 2"
responded his friend. &C Because" re-
piled the other, cit would have made
such a good working animal"
HERE is an episode from a Palais
Royal farce: A is making love to G,
who is BIS wife, and scents BIS coat with
musk. A is on the point of kissing G,
when he smells mischief in the air. She
waits, expectant OF embrace. he turns
up his nose, snufs, and changes the
tone of his remark Tableau! II r -
''ls it true that since the introduction
of lady operators on your lines, there
isn't SO much vulgar talking over the
j wires?." asked a female suffragist Of
Western Union official Eyes, ma'am."
he answered; "bnt the conversation
makes up in length what it lacks in
breadth"
A coUNTRYMAN took his seat at hotel
table opposite to a gentleman who was
indulging in bottle of wine. Suppos-
ing the wine to be common property,
our unsophisticated country friend
helped himself to it with the gentle
mans glass. "Thats COOL" exclaimed
the owner of the wine Indignantly.
eyes," replied the other, q should
think there was ice in it. -
AN Akron physician tells of a little
Akron boy who came to him and said,