Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-14
Freshest GIpanings.

| TIeSHeSC GleanlngS.
EGYPT's public debt, consolidated in
to stock bearing seven per cent interest.
amounts to about $300,OOOOOO.
The population of Pekin, China, is
reported to have fallen off from g, O0O,-
900 to 100000 in the last twenty years.
The barnacles on the bottom of the
snip Great Eastern form a layer six
inches thick in places, and are esti-
mated to weigh three hundred tons.
GERTRUDE MoREHoUsE, of Portland.
Michigan, is the first female LAWYER to
be made a Notary Public. She can
now swear fellow as we'll as at him.
The Chinese it is reported are Of
Tended at American competition in
the fire cracker trade. They must be
punk-tilious set Of fellows.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY issues a call
for fifty thousand girls to come out
there right away The girl who wants
to marry should get her bonnet on.
The Florida orange crop for the pres
ent season is 25,OOO,OOO the estimated
worth being 1875, 900.
The marriage in London, England,
of Nelson Bliss to Miss Susan Work,
was a happy Que for the lady. She ex-
changed life of Work for one of
Bliss.
News of the last missionary who pen
etrated to the Timbuctoo has been re-
ceived; but it comes from the natives
themselves. They say: "He was
good; send us some more"
CALIFORNIA wants law against wear
ing pigtails. This looks like a direct
thrust at the Chinese population. And
is, by the way, the meanest trick
thought of yet for discouraging heather
immigration.
The tusk of a mastodon, seven feet
long and eight inches in diameter, has
been unearthed in Yolo County, Cali
fornia. 1t is Of pure ivory, in excellent
preservation, and curved almost in the
shape of crescent.
4 COMPANY with a capital of one
hundred thousand dollars is in opera
ton in Detroit, which carries on the
business of tanning by a new process.
They use cheap chemicals, and do in
from two to six weeks what under the
old process requires six months.
A FRENCH surgeon publishes an
opinion in favor of horse-fesh as the
most wholesome meat for human
beings. 1t can no longer be considered
unacceptable to regale ones guests
with such meat.
IT is both gratifying and instructive
to see a $3OO-a-year economist sitting
upon a dry goods box smoking five
cent cigar, and hear him expatiate upon
the financial errors of Gould, Drew and
Vanderbilt.
SIDNEY LANIER doesn't like the criti-
clsms on his cantata. Any young man
can eta, ta,' to young lady, Sid; but
there are few young men who cantata
pinch write better words than YOUR
Goods " and "Bads."
Boy patrons of the free baths in
New York resort to various tricks to get
two baths in one day-which is against
the rule. After leaving the bath, they
dry their heads and besmear their faces
with mud, which so disfgures them that
they can slip back unrecognized.
AN Irish drummer, who now and
then INDUCED in noggin of right good
poteen, was accosted by the reviewing
general: "What makes your nose SO
red ?" "Please your honor" said Pat,
always blush when I spake to gin
eral officer"
AS THE dew falls noiselessly upon the
tender heritage, as the present passes
silently into the past, as the perfume of
kindly act rises heavenward unseen, SO
the hired girl slips out the backway
nights with little tea and sugar for
her relatives. .-Noraoich BoAet;n.
A GENTLEMAN, dining with a friend,
was asked what part of the fowl he
preferred. ooh, only BONE" This
request was literally taken, and bone
we'll scraped, was sent to him. "Half
Of that, if you please" said he, sending
back his plate.
A HEATHER Chinee interprets the
Scriptural passage, 1.-The wicked flee
where nc man pursueth, but the right
eous are as bold as ion," thus: THE
flea he much BADGE, he stand still ikee
stake; when many wicked man walkee
by, he shootee."
MARY K. DALLAS writes: "The mo-
ment a girl has asecret from her moth
er she is in danger" Pooh! Do you
suppose every girl kissed over the gate
is going to rush in and tell her mother?
And does it do any harm to kiss good
girl on the nose in the darkness ?9Er.
IT is said that one johnson, of Glou-
cester, Mass, will attempt to cross the
Atlantic in q dory soon. He might
take Sergeant Bates along, and bob for
whales with him on the way. The
country can afford to spare some of its
cheap sensationalists.
The English Jews want the King of
Spain to annul the edict of 1892, which
banished the Jews from the kingdom.
The petition requesting this comes
from the Jewish Board of Deputies,
which is largely composed of the de-
scendants of the Jews who were ex-
PEELED from Spain under the
edict. The Board repr esents the syna-
gogues of Great Britain, and it's annu-
ally elected body.
ONE of the stewardesses of the Gu
n ard line is about to retire with a for