Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-23
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OF the $4,000 persons employed in
matchmaking in Switzerland one-third
are women.
EMILE OLIVIER married one of
LISTS daughters, and Won Bulow
married the other
The owners of the steamship lame en-
lque had better make a canal boat of
her.
HOLLAND has among its educated
| population greater number of lin
gusts than any other country in Europe.
IT is expected that Queen Victoria
will pay a visit to her eldest daughter
at the Imperial Court during her ex-
pected trip to Germany.
IT is calculated that there will be H.
600, 900 cubic feet of white and 2,OOO-
600 feet of red pine square timber taken
out on the Ottawa river this season.
J. j. KING, teacher of negro school
near Westville, Miss, eloped recently
with sable pupil named Minerva
Berry, IL years of age.
| EXPERIMENTS with young grasshop-
pers at Jackson, Maine, have shown
that they may be frozen and thawed
several times without impairing their
power to return to life
The Detroit Tribune reporters have
gotten together lumber statistics of the
past year for that city, showing that
over 2S,OOO,OO0 feet Of lumber were cut
there, and over 100000 lath
A MAN in White county, Indiana, re-
Gently had the coffin opened so as to
remove a brass breast-pin from his dead
wife's body. He said it was all right to
give her a respectable burial but times
was too tight to put on any extravagant
airs"
AT the mint at Carson, Nevada, set
of scales has been set up by which the
difference between two apparently
equal human hairs can be readily as
certained, and difference in weight
of a milliOnth of grain can be meas
ured
AN Albany minister said in recent
sermon "What is the tendency of
the present fashions, in reference to
assisting or retarding the race for sal
walton? Our beloved sisters are many
Of them SO apparelled that they can
hardly walk, much less run. There
seems to be tremendous pull-back
som eWhere."
A LADY in certain church not long
ago destroyed the devotion of a portion
Of the congregation by sitting in front
pew in summer time with child's doll
stuffed in her skirts in the place of the
conventional hustle. There were the
head and arms appealing to the con-
gregation, and the lady, all the while,
was singing like an unconscious angel.
A LITTLE six-year-old boy went into
the country visiting. About the first
thing he got was bowl of bread and
milk. He tasted it, and then hesitated
a moment, when his mother asked him
If he didn't like it, to which he replied,
smacking his lips, Eyes, ma'am; | was
only wishing our milkman in Allen
town would keep cow Chronicle.
The daughter of a Scotch baronet
named Agnew recently died in damp
cellar in Wooster street, New York.
The unfortunate lady had contracted
marriage distasteful to her relatives,
and with her husband had come to
America A draft for ESQ sterling
arrived too late to save the unhappy
woman from pauper's grave.
A MAN and wife in Eastonton, Ga,
were recently remarked after two years
of matrimony, the first ceremony hav-
ing been In some way informal, and
the inheritance of large amount Of
property depending upon the validity
Of their marital relations. They had
a brilliant wedding, and went Of on a
honeymoontour.
IT is estimated that every time a
train of cars of the average length stops,
it costs, in wear and tear of material
and loss of power, fully rs cents. This
is what makes conductor always look
SO cheerful when he hauls up at flag
station, in the middle of snow-storm,
to take on string of onions and mar
with dead-head pass.-N. Y Com
Advertiser.
A FRENCH paper tells the following
" A Frenchman who had purchased
country seat was complaining of the
want Of birds in his garden. Set some
traps replied an officer, and they vii
come [ was once in Africa, and Their.
wasn't supposed to be a woman within
two hundred miles. [ hung a pair
earrings and bracelet upon tree, ane
next morning [ found two women un
der the branches"
A LAWRENCE secondhand clothe
dealer showed a customer pair
pantaloons which he said had bee
made by fashionable tailor for
wealthy gentleman who had brougl
them back after wearing them once, 9
they did not fit him. The custome
pivoted himself around before the mi
ror, examining the length of the leg
sounded the depth of the pocket
and closed the bargain. When well o,
of sight of the clothing store, he exar
ined for the first time an article whic
as he revolved before the mirror,
hands had encountered in one of t
pockets. eyes," the customer h
said to himself, !" thar's pocket-boo
I know by the feeling of it. Mr..
must have left it in here the night
wore these pants" The reader c.