Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-06-16
Miscellaneous.
THEIRS is worth 81, 900, 900.
JOAQUIN MILLER is in Boston

| LEIGH Hunt, grandson of the poet,
recently blew out his brains in London.
I MARX TWAIN is proposed as a candi-
date for Mayor of Hartford. /.
SEVEN years is the time counted for
the construction Of the tunnel between
England and France
Mr.. SETH GREEN has begun the
Matching and distribution of shad spawn
at Shad Island in the Hudson.
A FRENCH statistician has figured
it out that brunettes are more likely to
be married than blondes.
The Prince of Wales in his tour in
India will be dressed like an Eastern
Potentate, in big turban and baggy
trousers.
Mr.. THEODORE THOMAS was paid 49,
600 for his labors in Cincinnati during
the festival week. His orchestra re-,
ceived an additional sum.
A WIRE connects fourteen houses in
Waterloo, Iowa, and the young women
telegraph the freshest gossip to each
other.
MosT arts require long study and ap-
plication but the most useful art of
all, that of pleasing, requires only the
desire.
In his speech of acceptance of the
Mayoralty of Bridgeport Barnum is
said to have remarked: "And now /
will give you all separate cages.
GENERAL LOGAN threatens to write
reply to thai part of General Sher-
mans recently published memoirs
which refers to himself and General
Frank Blair as mere political generals.
| WHAT is the difference between a
sailor and plucky pugilist Zone is
dashed to the mast and the other is
mashed to the last.
A DISEASE resembling the murrain
spoken of in the Bible is causing great
Turkey. On the plains of Troy, tens
of thousands cover the ground.
TAKE life easy, and don't always be
trying to beat the sun up, says an ex-
change. You may win for while, but
in the long run you are sure to be
beaten, and some morning it will rise
when you don't.
The Gilroy, (Cal) Advocate asks it's
readers to believe that little son three
years old) of Mrs. Anna Badd drank a
pound of quick silver, gave no other in
dication of having taken the mercury
than drowsiness, and is still alive.
! BEDBUes- Beat the whites of five
eggs to a stiff froth, add to this one
ounce quicksilver; apply with feather,
in every crevice, and I think you will
find this an infallible remedy for bed
bugs.
SENATOR SHARON, of Nevada, in pur-
chasing the interest of Mr.. Ralston
in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, as
sumed mortgages to the amount of a
million of dollars held by the savings
banks of that city.
The Empress Augusta of Germany
sent photographs of herself and of the
Emperor William, which were sold by
the young ladies in attendance on the
German table at recent centennial tea
party in Cincinnati.
BROOKLYN great centennial will oc-
cur next year. It was on the morning
of the Both of August, 1776, that Gen.
Washington, then residing IN this city,
remarked to his wife: Martha, high
taxes will be the ruin of us here" and
moved with his family over to New
York. Brooklyn argus.
THIS question was lately put to can
didate for a position in the English
civil service: "What is the distance of
the sun from the earth +" The reply
made was that he couldn't tell the exact
distance, but he didn't think that it was
near enough to interfere with his duties
as post Office clerk.
The New York Evening mail has col
lected the current puns on the crooked
whisky business, and punches them to-
gether in this way: "The whisky
men are still making rye faces about
i Secretary Bristow's flank E-ovement ON
them. Their 'spirits are gone, and
they are now all convinced of the truth
of the cry about seizerism. .
A PARTISAN belle became the wife of
Tin Tun-Ling, from the Celestial en-
pire, in 1872. Their three years of
married life did not all prove a dream
of bliss, as Tin-Tun-Ling treated the
lady badly, and, to crown all, she found
recently that her spouse was an adept
in 6 ways that are dark, having left
wife in Canton. The fair Parisienne
has procured divorce.
| ONE of the college newspaper ex-
changes says that a clergyman IN Ger
tain church, on recent occasion, dis
covered after beginning the service
that he had fogotten his notes. As it
was too late to send for them, he said
to his audience, by the way Of apology,
that this morning he should have to
depend upon the Lord for what he
might say, but in the afternoon he
would come better prepared.
ONE of the most wonderful salt mines
in the world is located on the Island
Petit Anse, st. Mary's Parish, Louisi-
ana. It was discovered in 1862 by the
Confederates, while attempting to
deepen salt spring. The workmen
struck what they supposed to be rock,
but which on examination proved to be
bed of solid and almost pure rock salt.
It has since been ascerta;ned that the
bed is sixty feet or more in thickness,
and covers an area of one hundred and