Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-09-01
Odds and Ends.

THOUGH theatre has wings and flies,
its curtain always falls.
NORTH CAROLINA ships annually 49,
900 barrels of dried blackberr1es.
MERoY-NARY fellows Tenement land
lords.-N. Y. Com. Adv.
SWEETS IN ADvERs1TY-The sugar.
house failure.-N. Y. Com. Adv.
FIVE cents is charged for admission
to mass in st. Mary's Church. Troy,
except to pewholders
A LITTLE machine has been invented.
which, carried in ones vest pocket, will
register every step he takes.
The stars hang bright above, silent,
as if they watched the sleeping earth.
-Coleridge.
MooRE's Rural New Yorker prints a
picture Of Vice President Wilson, and
calls it Andrew johnson.
FRANCE keeps ship of war at Aiac-
clio constantly at the order of the Pope.
in case he should desire to leave Rome.
A cHARRED single fell over birds
nest in Ingleside, Mass, while build
ing was burning close by, and some
young sparrows were thus protected,
although the heat was intense enough
to destroy the leaves on the tree.
The Prince of Lichtenstein has set
the example Of disarmament to the mil
itary powers. His army Of ninety men
was dlsbanded astmonth, and they have
entered the service of the Prussian po-
lice, as spies in civilian dress.
Two hundred barrels of oil have been
poured into the basin at Baltimore to
destroy the effiuvia. The oil, 1t is SAID,
deodorizes the globules Of sulphuretted
hydrogen generated by the sea waters
action upon the organic matter.
The Oldest apple tree in Iowa is
standing near Montrose, in Lee County.
It was sat out by French trader
named Louis Handle lesson in 1893, and
was brought from France, A nice pal
ing fence has baen put around the relic.
LIEUT.. CoNDERs and the members of
the Palestine exploring party have been
attacked near Japhet by band of Alger-
ines. The explorers succeeded in re-
pealing their assailants, and none of
their party were wounded.
A CLEVELAND dentist committed sui
eide because lie failed in his efforts to
invent sovereign remedy against the
toothache. his success would have
ruined the pr, SESSION, and his colleagues
are not weaf.nl mourning for the de-
ceased.
AN unsolicited order for 10000 kegs
of nails was recently received at Pitts
burg, Pa, from South America, and it
is held up as strong intimation for
American manufacturers to seek for
new markets in Mexico, Central and
South America.
A MACHINE is being constructed i'll
England that will not only print an
illustrated paper upon cylinders, but
which will print both sides of it at once,
and deliver it completed at the rate of
twelve thousand per hour. 1t is said to
be modification of the Walter perfect
ing machine.
MAJOR L. A. BARBOUR, of Hartford,
lately had one of his fingers bitten by a
spider. The bite proved nearly as bad
as that of a rattlesnake. He was first
taken with sickness at the stomach,
numbness of The limbs, his face, arms,
and limbs began to swell, and his life
was for time despaired OF.
A PRESBYTERIAN minister, while
marrying a couple of his rustic parish
toner's. felt exceedingly disconnected on
his asking the bridegroom if he were
willing to take the woman for his we'd
ded wife by his scratching his head and
saying: cay, I'm wul'in'; but I'd
rather haze her sister.
SOME interest was recently excited in
the Bots de Boulogne, Paris, by the
appearance every morning, between
seven and nine o'clock, of woman with
a black velvet mask concealing her
features, and mounted on fine chest
nut horse The fair unknown is tall,
and, judging from her rounded figure,
she must be young.
The following is a simple mode OF
rendering water almost as cold as Ice,
without the use of ice: Let the jar,
pitcher, or vessel used for water be
surrounded with one or more folds OF
coarse cotton kept constantly wet The
evaporation of the water will carry OFT
the heat from the inside, anu reduce it
to freezing point. In India and other
tropical regions where ice cannot be
produced, this method of proceeding is
common.
Four men have had terrible expert
ence in Panamint Valley, California.
Wafer is scarce in that region, and it IS
customary for those who make the
journey to carry supply. This party.
however, took too little, and were soon
suffering with thirst. The first to sue
cumb was told by his comrades to lie
still and they would return to him with
water. Another very soon gave out,
and was advised to return to
where the other had been left. At
length another became exhausted, leav-
ing only one AN old mountaineer named
Phillips-to struggle on until he reached
spring. He filed his canteen and
started back to succor his comrades,
but when he found them one was dead.