Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-29
VARIETIES.


1t IS said that there are SO, 900 He
orews IN New York, and that of the
number one hundred have estates
valued at 81 100000 or upwards.
A PENSION Of seven hundred and fifty
dollars a year is to be given to the
widow of George Smith, the Assyrian
explorer.
PARIS has devoured during the last
half year 100000 kilogranmes of
horsefesh and $4,000 kilogrammes of
mules or donkey meat.
A PASSENGER on the Pennsylvania
Railroad secured q free ride by draw
ing a revolver and threatening to shoot
the conductor if he tried to collect his
fare.
THE cotton manufacturers of Column
bus, Ga, consume about IS bales of cot
ton per day, or nearly II 900 in work.
Ing year. The mills there are running
some $4,000 spindles and ], 200 looms.
A BRITISH scientist finds that the
brain of the dog is smaller than that
OF the wolf, and that the brain of
Newfoundland dog is very little larger
than terriers.
The wife is very anxious to stop
taking her medicine, because it is de-
stroying her voice. The husband SYM
pathizes deeply, but tells. her it is not
safe to discontinue it.
A PRIVATE letter from Mr.. Edwin
Adams, in Australia, states that he has
been shipwrecked and seriously i'll, but
is very much better and playing to
crowded houses.
GEORGE SAND says Of needlework:
II think that this exercise has natr-
raj attraction for for us, an invincible
charm, which have felt at every pc
Rod in my life, and which has often
tranquilized my strongest agitation"
BALzAC, in his prime, produced 37S
columns of feuilleton. for the French
newspapers in one month These col
umns represented five different novels,
and he has correcting the proofs of two
others.
CHILDREN must have love inside the
house and fresh air, and good play and
some good companionship outside
otherwise young life runs the greatest
danger in the world of whitening or
growing stunted, or at best prematurely
old and turned inward OIL itself.
HER Majesty Queen Ranovaloman-
jaka, of madagascar, has notified the
sellers of liquor in her dominions that
they will be held strictly accountable
for the fruits of their traffic. The test
of drunkenness is ability to pronounce
the Queens name.
The Turks have q battle hymn which
they sing when they 60 into battle. It
is said that the soldiers of the enemy
put their fingers in their ears and rush
madly upon the bayonets of the foe,
gladly welcoming death as an escape
from tne singing.
FATHER DABURY, a Methodist preach
er at Richland, Mich, IS years old,
carries on 8 farm during the week and
breaches on alternate Sundays at two
churches 6 and IL miles respectively
from his home, riding to and from
meeting, every Sunday.
A JEALOUS Baltimore husband, P. J.
Tracy, swallowed morphine after writ
ing to his wife: "It is for you that I
have done this, and when I am dead
you Can do what you like about marry
ing Schlutter." Mrs. Tracy got the let
ter, but before she had time to marry
Schlutter her husband had been pump
ed free of the poison.
Gov. T1LDEN is five feet ten inches in
height and is spare in figure. His head
is large and round, his eyes are blue
and his abundant chestnut hair is
sprinkled with gray. He is 63 years
old, and fourteen Of his ancestors at
tanned the average age of seventy-nine
years.
GEORGE w. DETrZ, the seventy-nine-
winter athlete, who walked all the way
from New Albany, Indiana, to the Cen
tennial, a distance of eight hundred
miles, during the month of May, has
recently made the circuit of the Cen
tennial Grounds, distance of A miles
on the outside in forty-six minutes.
A BRONZE statute of the poet Burns,
to be erected in George square, Glas-
cow, has been cast at the foundry of
Messrs. Cox & Son, Thames Ditton.
The artist is MIR. George E. Ewing, of
Glasgow, who has succeeded in produc-
ing a very excellent likeness of the
poet.
A SUNDAY SCHOOL teacher was giving
a lesson In Ruth. She wanted to bring
out the kindness of Boaz in command,
ing the reapers to drop large handfuls
of wheat. "Now, children" she said,
"Boaz did another nice thing for Ruth;
can you tell me what it WASP" Married
her p said one of the boys.
The Thames tunnel was flooded to
such an extent few days ago, as to
necessitate the suspension of the entire
traffic on the East London line between
Wrapping and Deford road station. The
inundation is attributed to some defect
in some docks recently opened, the
foundations of which are said to be
higher than the level of the tunnel.
The permanent pumping apparatus
has proved inadequate.
ECCENTRIC Either Moody used to be
the delight and guide of York, Me-, the
old seaport town which disputes with
st. Augustine the honor of having been
the first city in America. In it's ancient
meeting house he administered his