Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-01
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
1t has been showing in the Georgia
mountains. @
:, FIFTY ships loaded with wheat left
oan franclscofor Europe last month.
How to avoid mistaking toadstools
Tor mushrooms-let mushrooms alone.
LIE New York Compulsory Educa-
ton law is not enforced.
QUEEN ISABELLA wept when she re-
entered the Escurial after her long BAN
ishment.
MISS ALICE KINGsBURY, the actress.
has changed her work, and is gaining
renown as q sculptor in San Francisco.
A CHINESE plant that changes color
three times a day has been received at
the Jardin DIES Pantes, Paris.
THE Mikado Of Japan has put off
his heather garm ents and struts around
in hobby suit of plaid, like an Amer
lean swell of the day.
Do LDWIs is said to have become SO
dyspeptic over his Graham bread that
he has returned to hot biscuits and
mince pies.
MARSHAL BAzAINE is poor, but has a
rich mother-in-law. His wife's fortune
was sunk in meeting the expenses Of
his trial.
The claim of Mary Ann Foster upon
for $4,000. The whole value of the
property is $14,OOO,OOO.
CHAT was very greedy Of you,
Tommy, to eat your little sisters share
Of cake" You told me, ma, [ was
always to take her part" said Tommy.
JOHN RYAN, the man sentenced to
death for wife murder, at Toronto, on
the 18th inst, is q merchant of Peter
boro, forty.fve years old, and worth
, 100000.
, AN old Pennsylvania farmer found
pocket-book containing $50 hid away
in barrel of clover seed, the other
day, and has been in clover about it
himself ever since.
t Quotations from the toad market be-
, tween France and England show q
5 steady movement il trade for extra
quality goods. Al bring IS dozen.
: French market gardeners buy them to
/ catch bugs
: THERE is an evident desire in Phila-
q delphia to keep the main exhibition
0 building, and one Of the purposes sug-
e gested is its use as q music hall, an
:, institution which the city does not at
e present possess.
3 BUFFALO BILL, as a rifle shot, don't
Il appear to be a success, he having
> made only eighteen out of a possible
u thirty-fve at Rochester. Won't Sitting
y Bull laugh over his face when he hears
d this s?
q TwENTY-NINE thousand dollars have
L been received from a Virginia City,
: New, gambling saloon in one year by
: way of license. The money lis collected
). monthly and gambling is not restricted
= at all.
/ The design for the window in mem
= = DRY of Bishop Berkeley, which is to be
IL put in the new Yale College chapel,
| will consist of the coat of arms Of the
y see of which Bishop Berkely had
q charge in England.
= Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE has
- in her possession the famous anti
. slavery appeal to which 562,848 sigma
i lures were attached. Some Of the
e autographs are now rare and very
= . valuable, including those of nearly
. every woman prominent in ENGLAND
e A LARGE satchel was picked Up in
e, Central Park, New York, last week by
r. a patrolmen, who shook it to see
/. what it contained. He found out, for
straightway baby began to cry. Whip
# ping out his knife he cut the satchel
open, and found in it pretty little
baby girl. 1t was taken care of.
n A New JERSEY farmer and his fam
l. lily and friends have all been having
II turkey for breakfast, turkey for din
1t ner, and turkey for tea for a week past.
b A train of cars ran into flock Of the
n birds, and broke the legs of nearly the
e entire number, leaving the owner no
is alternative but to "kill and eat"
2, VISITORS to the Centennial Art Gal
II lery will be sorry to learn that the little
q statue of "Playing Cats Cradle" was
broken by the point of q parasol last
|. week: and the tiny bars Of marble re-
q placed by threads. But the lady who
/ unwisely meddled with it probably
y feels more sorry, as report says she
e had to pay $500.
= IT is said that hen held up by one
: leg will not squawk half as much as
? when both legs are grasped." Thanks
! giving Day is less than two months
: hence, and persons who are accustomed
to purchasing their poultry at night,
! few hours after the owner of the fowls
has retired, will do well to cut this out
paste it in their hats.
= THERE is always something new from
4 Paris. An eccentric old gentleman who
l recently died there forbade in his will
that shy priest should officiate at his
, funeral or that any person should fol
low his body to the grave. He did
: not wish any body to get cheerful on
the way home from his burial after
8 preserving a funeral aspect at his house,
> he said.
| THERE is new Methodist Church in
Ottawa, Canada, called the Dominion,
viii ch is built on the tabernacle plan,
and upon emergency will seat two
thousand persons. 1t has several
stained GLASS memorial windows and ia