Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-05-19
Miscellaneous items.

leans, IS inspecting Colorado Territory.
sis this Jaggar or Jaeger I see
before me?"
BALzAo left an unpublished novel
which has just turned up in Paris.
PRESIDENT STEARNs, of Amherst Col
lege, goes to Europe in June.
The fellow who asked for lock of
his girls hair was informed thatit "costs
money, hair does. "-BostOn Post.
GOLDEN hair is getting dirt cheap
with the bar maids of London. They
dye it.
EDWIN BOOTH declined John McCu1-
loch's offer of 5000 a week for a
months engagement in San Francisco.
EUGENE is going to Scotland next
month, and the gossips say she will be
the guest of Queen Victoria.
MR.. J. FL. COLE, of Brooklyn, has
sailed for Europe to join Moody and
Sankey in their revival work in London.
GEN. SCHoFIELD has put money in his
purse to the amount of 100000 by
speculations in the great bonanza.
R1MnIEL, the perfumer, who was late
ly burnt out IN London, is going to re-
build On the old Strand site on very
grand scale.
MILE. SAY, daughter of NJ. Leon Say,
is to be married to the second son of the
Due de Broglie in June. Her dover
will be over 100000.
THE King of the Belgiums regards
the United States as one Of the most
wonderful countries on the face of the
globe.
THREE hundred thousand dollars is
/ said to be the value of the estate of the
late Mr.. George Curtis, of Nahant,
Mass.
The Attorney General of New York
has commenced suit against Henry
| Starkweather, father-in-l law of ex-Gov-
ernor Hoffman, for the sum of 1856, 6O8.
"WHY do you name your dog Back2"
"From necessity. He is always rnn-
ming away from home, and how could
we help calling nina Back?"
els this the Adams House ?" asked
stranger of a Bostenian. eyes," wss
the reply, ''it's Adams House until 5eu
get to the roof, then it's caves.
THIS is a description of Chicago
bride: The bride is semi-blonde beau
y
ing pride and modesty her new hnnors,
and the cream-white robe of silk over
cast with the bridal veil and decked
with orange blossoms.
Mrs JULIA WARD HOWE is troubled
about an error in the printing of her
Centennial hymn. She says the line
'sOur fathers met at the break of dawn"
is wrong. Our fathers did nothing of
the sort. It should have stood thus:
.'Our fathers met at the beat of the
| drum"
The following is the seating capacity
of the leading theatres of New York:
| Academy of Music, 2433; Niblo's
Garden, 1878; Grand Opera House
1888; Booths Theatre, 1907; Bowery
1775; Fifth Avenne, 1888; Lyceum,
1899; Union Square, 1910; Comque,
1905; and the Park 925.
A LITTLE girl. at school read thus:
s'The widow lived on a small limbacy
left her by her relatives - 'sWhat did
you call that word 2" asked the teacher;
s'the word is legacy, not imbacy."
ssBut," said the little girl, ''my sister
says I must say limb, not leg. "-Bostoaa
| Courier.
| PRICE OF GREATNESS.
| He who ascends to mountain tops shall find
| Their Hottest peaks most wrapped IN clouds
and snow;
| He who surpasses Or subdues mankind
Must look down on the hate OF those below,
| Though high above the sun OF glory glow,
| And far beneath the earth and ocean spread,
Round him are icy rocks. and loudly blow,
Contending tempests on his naked head.
THIS seems rather early for chewing
gum. but Road Commissioner Randall,
in rising from dry goods box on Main
street, Thursday, drew it half way
across the walk. One of the clerks had
| Just laid the chew there for moment
while he piled up some muslin.-Doaa-
bury Neaes.
81 HAVE come" said Scotch farmer
to neighbor laird who was just dying,
"I have come to settle about that bit
of land ''Settle't - cried the old
wrangler; show will you settle't? Your
father couldna settlet, and your grand
father couldna settle't, and how will you
settle't ?'' 'Oh." said the rival claim
ant, .I'n let you have it altogether"
sBut I'll no tax it" cried the stout old
litigant, and turned his face resoluteiy
to the wall.
A MAN in Nebraska, who dropped two
cents worth of mail matter in the Post
Office box, and had to pay six cents to
do it, went over and stood by one of
the windows, and said: 'May Hannibal
Hamlin, of Maine. have the bilious
collie, the ague, the govt, the jaundice,
corns, bunions, boils, and the buck
wheat scratches from this day noon for
the next fifty years to come
A FARMER near Tuscaloosa, Alabama,
recently struck his pillow upon large
earthen jar, of one hundred gallons
capacity, resting on smaller one, both
containing human bones. There were
three skulls in good state OF preserva-
ton. The colossal jars were covered on
the outside with hieroglyphics and tg-
ures, and the general finish was pretty
much after the manner of earthenware
| of the present day.