Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-16
Gleanings.

IL IL reported that all the men en-
ployed On the Concord Railroad have
been required to sign the temperance
pledge.
A BERLIN Barnum has secured NOS
session of the clockwork Of the Bremen
haven internal machine and has it on
exhibition. va
The latest project for tunnelino the
BRITISH channel contemplates two tubes,
not under the bed of the channel, but
upon it.
EIGHTY tons of goods, representing
the products and manufacture of New
Zealand, are on their way for exhibit
ton at Philadelphia.
MONEY is very scarce in Howell
county, No, and COWS form the princi-
pal circulating medium. Calves are
used to make change with.
The late Mr.. Ralston's residence near
San francisco, is now occupied by Budd
.Doble, the horse trainer.
THE Victoria tubular bridge at Mon
treal is to be altered to admit of double
railway tracks and footway to accom-
MEDIATE the immense and daily increas-
ing traffic
A MYSTERIOUS subterranean dungeon
or tomb has been discovered in the
town of Dedham, Mass, and is attract
ing the attention of archeelogists. It is
thought to be of prehistoric origin.
EDITORS do not like to print an article
lazlly long, and the general reader does
not care for couple of yards of song;
SO gather your wits in the smallest
space, if you want little renown: and
every time you write, my friend, boil it,
boil it down.
IHE female principal of d ward
school in Virginia City New was tried
last week for fiogging pupil She her
self testified that she used a whip, but
the jury thought that she used it with
good judgment, and acquitted her.
The Spencer (Ky.) Journal relates a
melancholy incident. Frank Conrad, a
boy aged Ii years, while wrestling with
another boy, threw him, remarking.
Z" Now, 1 have thrown you. ;" The little
fellows neck was broken, and he smoke
ne more.
A YOUNG lady of Steubenville O., in a
tit of somnambulism the other night.
went into the room of young gentle
men stopping at the house, and carried
OFT all his clothes. He explained his
non-appearance at breakfast mex.
through crack in the door.
A COMPANY is about starting a great
farming enterprise in the foot hills be-
tween Marysville and Smartsville, Cal,
where they have in body LOO acres
of land. Orchards of orange trees,
English Walnuts, almonds, and pecans
will be laid out, and much ground de-
voted to wheat, clover, alfalfa, and
sheep raising
AT 5 o'clock the Fulton, N. T., fer
riage changes from two cents to one.
There is not a more pathetic spectacle
inzNeW York than to see one of the
solid men of Pearl street lean against
Fulton market every day waiting for
8 o'clock. 1t is strong soul capable of
a great endeavor. Young man, initiate
him.
Two brilliant New York youths at a.
party the other evening rang the dis
trict telegraph fire alarm, the machine
being in the gentleman's dressing-room.
In the midst of the German the police
and fire brigade arrived, and every
body had frst-class fright except the
two youths, who put. their listers on
and went home.
HERE was CONSERVATION in Verona,
n. Y, when an old barnyard ram was
found standing like an angel with a
flaming sword, at the doorway of a
Presbyterian Church, butting fercely at
everybody who attempted to enter the
sanctuary. Finally two of the brethren
seized the wicked intruder by the fore
lock and returned him to his fold.
A POOR bale. girl recently met with
q terrible death at the Alexandria
Opera House, Sheffield, England, in the
presence of thronged house. She
represented some" fairie queen" and
was suspended in a basket of flowers.
which caught fire through the stage
lights, ignited her highly combustible
1rapery, and MORALLY injured her be-
fore the panic stricken and distracted
audience.
GAIL ScHURz is a fine pianist; Gen.
Banks once taught dancing school;
Henry Watterson is a fine musician,
and Thomas Jefferson, when young
man, carried violin to many a social
2eoaOAiIS t1LIu pidy0U 1Or Tile dancing.
Perhaps it is going too far back to speak
of Nero, who iddled while Rome was
burning. Many a famous leader has
been musical.
The last wordssof George Washington
were: Never trust a negro with
gum. We would add an equally
solemn and important maxim: Never
trust a woman with an umbrella. Tht
most dangerous and reckless thing il
nature is woman with an umbrella
If she don't charge on you and goug
your eye out with the point Of tn
ferule, she'll whirl around rapidly an
abrade your nose with the points of til
swift-revolving ribs.
WHITFIELD, the great evangelist, h
bean dead hundred years, but it
With difficulty he has been kept in Il
crypt where his body was laid, in Il
old church at Newburyport. Parts
his skeleton and chips of his ton
have been carried away by rel
and the sexton has orders
watch every visitor. Somebody on
stole one of the arms, but, after bei
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