Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-25
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perance pledge.
SOMETHING there's never any scarcity
of-W leather. ..E. @- ~
"CRUsHING the unholy traffic. is
what they call it out West.
BERKs county, Pa, has seventy-one
reformed " congregations.
COMFORT for ex-topers The sarsa-
parilla season will soon set in.
OREGON is forced to protect it's game
by the enforcement of game laws.
ENGLISH brewers are accused of put
ting too much salt in their beer
The emigration from Great Britain
was greater than in any year since 1854.
BITUMINoUs coal has been discovered
in Washington Territory.
AN Omaha man fell into well thirty
feet deep and came up smiling without
scratch.
GEORGIA negroes haven't that faith in
saving banks which they once had, and
they now trust to sand hills.
LINAMENT tables are said to circulate
freely among the Indians of the North
west, who take them for greenbacks.
A CHICAGO woman has just completed,
after years diligent labor, an afghan
the materials of which alone cost 5000.
In Utah a criminal condemned to
death may choose whether he will be
shot or hanged. 1880.
LONDON and it's suburbs maintain 4S
theatres, 295 music halls, and 1900
professional vocalists.
AMONG the attractions of sale of oil
paintings advertised in San Francisco
is picture of Gen. Jackson just from
the bath.
| The Massachusetts, House, by vote
of 81 to 50, refused to consider repeal
of the reading and writing qualification
for voters.
ILLINOIS husbands are on an equality
with their wives in relation to property.
Instead of courtesy the widower is to
have his dover II ght of thirds.
The deacons Of the churches in Sa-
lem, Oregon, have been appointed
special policeman. The congregations
will be compelled to behave themselves
hereafter
A NoRwAIK lady has not seen her
husband in nineteen years, but receives
letters from him regularly. He is a
hand on Liverpool packet, making
regular trips to New York and back.
In the spring young mans fancy
turns to love. To persons about to
marry, the following stanza upon the
Specification Of the days of the week
may prove Of service:
Monday for wealth. 1904
| Tuesday for health,
| Wednesday the best day of all
| Thursday for crosses,
Friday for losses,
Saturday no luck at all
The conductor and engineer of a
train in South Carolina are under in
dictment for the murder of colored
man, who was run over by their own
train.
IT is rule of etiquette in Arkansas
that no true gentleman will eat with
his leg thrown over the back of his
neighbours chair, if he can help it.
Sixty years ago every island in Poly
nesia was under the spell of heathenism.
There are now about 400, OOOPolynesians
who profess Christianity.
CARPENTERS, painters, plasterers, and
other workmen are Frightening up
things generally at Virginia City, and
lively business season is anticipated
AT San Francisco, the other night, at
a grand masquerade ball, the judges
awarded the first ladys prize to the
"beggar-woman," who proved to be
man.
How heroic that declaration of Brig
ham Young, that eff necessary to the
FBuilding up of the kingdom, I could
bury all my wives without a sigh or
tear Il
TEXAS has two New legal HOLIDAYS,
the I'd of March and the Dist of April.
The first is the anniversary of Texan
independence, and the second that of
the battle of San Jacinto.
ONE of the ornaments picked out for
the coming bonnet is the Russian pom
pom. It is of several colors nicely
blended, and stands upright from the
side of the headgear like an Illuminated
cornstalk. Of course it will be fashion
able. Anything imported and with as
high-sounding a name as Russian
oonapoaa" cannot fail to be.
Nv the market place of Coomassie
stands mOnstrous basin of brass, in
which pebble is solemnly deposited
whenever the Ashantees go to fight.
This basin is now so full that the stone
commemorating their invasion of Fan
iceland had to be placed with the great
est care to avoid overthrowing the
pile.
A PAINTING deer, chased by hounds,
came to woodman working near the
Umpqua (Oregon bridge, and after he
had driven the dogs off, the deer re-
manned with him all day, allowing him
to fondle it, and appearing to feel a
lively sense of gratitude for the mans
interference in it's behalf
The contract for building the first 40
miles of the Grand Rapids and Saginaw
Road has been let for s., 800 per mile,
the othes6O miles at 1000 per mile,