Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-01-28
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white inhabitants, besides about 5000
colored men, Chinese, and Indians.
A JAPANESE youth who has been to
America is as great a bore at home as
q, Yankee STRIPPING who has dined in
Paris
d. HE Cleveland Leader claims to have
graduated fourteen distinguished men
Some OF them were so smart that they
didn't live out half their days.
The Maine State College of Agricul-
ture, at Orono, which has entered upon
its sixth year, has 100 students. of
whom four are women. , f'ai<
HE newest Iowa names for hog is
root-grubber, corn shelter, apple grind
er, gate-lifter, double. action back
spring sod pioW. --=-..-----~-----.
The law association of St. Louis re-
jected an applicant for admission, the
other day, because he had advertised
to procure divorces "with secrecy and
dispatch" 't'"
A PRETTY poem, lately published,
tills how little girl in Scotch kirk,
weary Of the minister's long prayer,
stepped softly to his side and SAID, 80,
sir, please say Amen !" "a....i
The business of book making in
Germany is almost at stand still, and
large numbers of printers are depend
ing tor work NANNY on the catalogues
OF the large millinery esta blishments.
The Alta California has recent re-
port headed "Sermon on Profanity by
the Rector Of Grace Church."
'sMY son, what shall the recording
angel write down this year?'' "WelJ
father, I've just sent her diary with
her name On it, and she may write what
she's a mind to-" ~. - ... r. rr
A MARRIAGE in buggy lately took
place in Virginia; but the vehicle soon
afterwards overturned, and the bride
became little sulky.-Syrocuse Coanr-
MIR. WALTER BRACKET exquisite
paintings of salmon, which were ex-
hibited in the Queens Corridor AT the
Crystal Palace when the banquet was
given to the Shah, have been bought
by Mr.. Richard Potter, President of
the Grand Trunk Railway.
SISTER MARY STAN1sLAUs, the New.
York nun, about whose sanity there
has been SO much dispute, has been
discharged from the asylum on Black
wallis Island, and Will soon publish a
history of her life from the time when
she entered the convent.
The Pail Mall Gazette makes the
james River & Kanawha Canal run
from Richmond, Va, via Vermont, to
the Ohio River, one hundred miles of
1t, being cut through solid rock. A
primary geography IS needed III that
Office. 'e
A NEGRO named Santee has been Gre
at1ng asensation in Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi by doing lively BUSINESS as a
prophet. The curious thing about his
prophecies is that they prove to be
true. He is said to have foretold the
pestllence at Shreveport year ago.
MEssRs. FoRDER & Co., of Wolver-
hampton, who took the prize at the
international Exhibition for an i'm
proved London street cab, have Just
completed one of these cabs ordered
by the Prince of Wales for his private
use. The new cabs cost but trife
more than the old ones, and weigh on
ly $50 pounds to the old weight of 600
OF 1000 pounds. They are larger, cas-
Ter to enter, and better ventilated.
The water at Vineyard Camp Ground
and Oak Bluff, which is obtained by
driving tabular wells, is OF singular
purity. An analysis made at the labo-
ratory of Williams College showed that
only eight parts of foreign substance
existed IN 10000. There is no better
or softer water in the world. It's bene-s
fetal effects on persons who are affected
with kidney diseases have often been OBJ
served, and are traced, not to any min
eral properties Of the water, but to it's
absolute purity. It is delicious to the
taste, and is almost icy in it's GOODNESS.
MEcHEILA's brain weighed within one
grain of ffty-three ounces, three
ounces less than Daniel Webster's.
This does not exactly prove that Me-
chella came near being person Of as
much ability as Mr. Webster, but it
adds to much other evidence Of the
kind, that the weight or size Of the
brain has little to do with determining
the mental capacity Of the person.
Mechella was but few removes from
olAS O. lliI0l h1uSuOu LII LILO CSSCIUldl
characteristics, and the vicious portion
Of it at that.
We have the best authority for
stating that in one Of the large retail
dry goods stores in this city the cash
boys are offered SIS for reporting any
person who may be detected in steal
ing. Some of the boys are wicked
enough to accuse innocent persons,
and thus great injustice has been done
One gentleman, who has some knowl-
edge OF this business, will not allow
his wife to trade IN that store, where
she is liable to be falsely accused of
theft by lads anxious fer reward
Boston Transcript. ..sr
A GENTLEMAN Of New York has in
his possession collection made by
himself of Learly three thousand books
bearing directly upon the late rebel
lion. Being constrained to part with
them he desires to sell the whole lot