Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-09-23
Odds and Ends.

"MEELERs or borders wanted" is pla-
carded on Nashua house.
THERE are wild peach trees in Ne
vada. The peaches are small and
bitter.
The Swedenborgian church appears
to be declining in most parts of this
country.
The average interest on investment
in England has declined one per cent.
in the last ten years.
CHIEF-JUsTICE CHURCH declines to
permit the use of his name as candi-
date for Governor of New York.
A FIvE-DAYs- OLD infant in Tennessee
is said to have a fine alto voice. It
isn't going to Italy until it gets it's
teeth cut.-BOston Post.
M. ADoLPHE Levy, an operator on
the Paris Bourse, has dumped" as
they say there, with $500, 900 francs, or
$500, 900 and over.
"WHAT do you think is the best size
for man ?" drawled lazy fop who
was talking to his physician. sExer-
cise," sternly replied the doctor.
Mr.. I. B. CHAMBERLAIN, who was for
several years the principal writer on
! the New York World, has lately joined
the staff Of the Herald.
The st. Louis Republican says that
the strongest glass will sustain two
thousand pounds weight to the square
inch. It has also been known to twist
a mans leg so that he couldn't walk.
The fifth or "Inke1mann volume
as it is called, Of Mr.. Kinglako's "In
vasion Of the Crimea," work COM
menced some fifteen years ago, is now
announced for immediate publication.
CRoFTsBURY, Vt, has Crane City,"
where great number of cranes collect
every year to. rear their young. The
nests are high up In large trees, and as
large as bushel basket inside.
"LooK ere now, Salusha," yelled
Clay county. Missouri, woman to the
Oldest girl, "don't bend over that we'll
so fur. You'll fall in there some of
those days, and then we'll have to carry
water I"
A. PERSON pretending to have seen a
ghost, was asked what the apparit1on
said to him. GLOW should I know" he
replied CT am not skilled il the dead
languages %
:. PRoF. A. G. HOPKINS, son of the late
Milton B. Hopkins, Superintendent of
Public instruction of Indiana, is to be
appointed by Governor Hendricks to
fill the unexpired official term Of his
father
BERGH says that the popular mode of
killing mosquitoes by rolling them be-
tween the thumb and forefnger is bar
barous, as it only half kills the insects.
Tying shot around their neck and
drowning them would be more humane
OLD John Harper, Of "Longfellow
notoriety, breathed his last at his resi-
dence, near Midway, Ky, On the 10Th.
He. leaves property the value of which
can only be approximated by his exc
cutors, but it may be safely estimated
at more than $250,O0O.
| The statement that Yankee sea- cap
tain landed twenty-seven cannons for
the Carlists at point i'll the Bay of
Biscay is discredited. The marine
records show no such vessel as the Lon
don, Jefferson, Master, engaged in for
eign trade.
NOTHING made in vain-a Minneso-
tian has made drink from ground-up
grasshoppers, a half-pint Of which
makes a man hopping drunk. It is
much cheaper than corn whiskey, and
will probably soon find it's way to New
York bar-rooms.
The Southern Baptist Publication
Society was organized three years ago,
when it was decided to raise a fund of
100000. This amount has been OBJ
tanned, together with property worth
$50, 00O and an effort will now be made
to raise $4,000 more.
They are making a reservoir in the
southern suburbs of Paris to contain
100000 cubic metres of water. It was
to be covered with vaulted walls of
brick, and was nearly done, but 3d.
500 square meters OF brick vaults fell
in the other day. Nobody hurt, but
all Paris startled.
FARMERS will have to reap their har-
vests this fall without the benefit of adj
vice from the annual report of the de-
partment of agriculture, which is not
to be published until January. How
much loss and damage will result from
this unexpected deprivation may never
be estimated.
The Bishop of Strasburg recently
sent to the Pope 5000 francs ($13, OO0)
of Peters pence, whereupon the North
German Gazette observes that the
Oppressive taxes donot seem so
troublesome in Alsace as they were.
Alsatians may anticipate an increase in
the impost, for Berlin never INDUCES in
joke for jokes sake.
A SMALL BOY telling his pal how he
came to be detected stealing apples in
a grocery store, proceeded thus:
" Well, | didn't care so burned much
about bein' seen, but the clerk was
cross-eyed, and I thought he was watch
IN dorg fight cross the street, but he
was lookln' square onto me, an he
helped me clean into the gutter. y
In one of the Cape towns, young
scholar, thel first day at school, was
asked her name by the teacher, and
replied. Her fathers name was the
next question, and she did not know
his first name. The teacher then asked