Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-21
Items Of Interest.

AUCno VI luUcICSls
EIGHT per cent has been fixed as the
legal rate of interest in Kentucky.
THEODORE THToN, it is reported, will
shortly take up his permanent residence
in Chicago.
ONE million Of dollars changed hands
in the shape of bets during the races at
Louisville; terrible hard times, too.
A PENNSYLVANIA horse dealer recent
ly hired a street orchestra to play in his
stable for the edifcation of his horses.
In French translation of Shaks-
peare, the passage: Frailty, thy name
is woman" is translated: Mademoi-
selle Frailty is the name Of the lady,"
A COCOON importer, who has just ar
rived at Omaha, has 5000 worms. For
PHYS sake, somebody, send the poor
man couple of dozen of vermifuge.
The first vessel built for bringing fish
alive IN wells to the New York markets
was the Amherst, and was launched
July Is, 1868.
SIXTY thousand newspapers were on
hand at the Newspaper Pavilion on the
opening day of the Centennial EXPOSE
ton.
THE whole of the ground not occu-
pied by bones in the Catecombs, under
the city of Paris, is used for growing
mushrooms of a peculiarly fine quality
for the table. #
JUDGE Have you anything to offer
to the court before sentence is passed
on your Prisoner" No, Judge. I
had $40; but my lawyers took that"
A CIRCULAR from wholesale station
er Of Boston, recently failed, says that
having settled with their creditors at
SO per cent, they are il position to
offer unprecedented bargains.
EVERYBODY knows that O. K. means
all correct out it is a question
whether K. K. means Kwite Korrect.
We shall have to ask the Honorable
Bardwell Slote about the matter.-N.
Y. Mail.
A MACHINE has been inverted, after a
study of ten years, for making seam
less paper boxes. It rolls them from
the pulp, and will make 900 an hour, no
matter whether they are large or small,
round or square.
Two BOYS (twins) came to school for
the first time. The master calls up thez.
tallest of the two and asked him what
was his name. Ans" john" "How
old are your" Very innocently)-
{" Ten minutes afore ebay"
EXPERIMENTS lately made in France
show that air laden with coal dust is
highly explosive. Several cases of ex-
plosion In coal mines have been traced
to the action of suspended coal dust
when no fre-damp ives present.
FREDERICK GoRUM, was not bride
groom to be fooled with A crowd of
young men serenaded him on his we'd
ding night near Alexandria, Va, using
horns, drums and other dinmakers.
He open fire upon them from window
with shot gun, wounding six.
QUEEN VICTORIA lately sent s3 to a
little boy who had been run over in the
streets, and writer says that since this
incident was made public the London
cab drivers have found it impossible to
get through the city for the crowd of
small boys waiting to be run over.
For the benefit of the ignorant
SLOUGH who never knows how to spell
the name of the great man for whom
he votes, the supreme court of Connec-
ticut had decided th at ballots evidently
intended for man who is candidate
for Office are to be counted, even if
there is an error In the name.
AT Leipsic there is a school reader
printed, now il its eighth stereotyped
edition, which describes Niagara Falls
in one chapter. It says of the cataract
that it might be supposed that it was
not navigable, but that some Indians
do, in their canoes, venture over the
fall In safety.
AN old farmer says of his boys:
"From sixteen to twenty, they knew
more than | did; at twenty-five, they
knew as much; at thirty, they were
willing to hear what I had to say; at
thirty-fve, they asked my advice, andI
think when they get to be forty, they
will acknowledge the old man knew
something.
BOYS and girls under ten years of
age are not hereafter permitted to work
IN the factories Of Massachusetts. The
law passed by the Legislature on the
subject has gone into effect, against the
opposition of interested parties at Fall
River and elsewhere, and it has already
taken many little children away from
factory work.
COLLEGE commandments, class DAYS
and good wood cup celebrations wi
soon be in order. There will be CHR
csc lantern illuminations, music an
dancing; long, lean youths in silk gown
and eyeglasses; fascinating little Iadie
in furbelows and frill; gratifed parents
consequential orators, and kegs of lage
in class-roOms.
JULIA SIcHEL, of San Francisco, avail
ng, herself Of leap-year privilege, asked
young man to marry her, and the
'esu!t was tragic enough to spoil the
,omicality. He declined the offer, and
'he killed herself, first writing letter
% her parents, to which she said: 81
pray you will forgive the sorrow ] cause
~ my rash act, but life is one dull
blank to me now. Do not blame Ben,
or he has tried to reason with me, but
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