Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-15
WAITS.

In AIrlca breed OF SOber-minded
dogs without tails have been discovered,
There isn't wag among them.
A TEXAS marksman writes to Bo-
gardus, offering to "shoot him any
where in the state of Texas" but b.
gardus wisely declines.
The San Francisco Minstrels an
nounce that carriages taking up par
ties must form at the Battery, facing
Broadway and Twenty-ninth street."
AN English wife who gotta divorce for
cruelty, and attempted also to collect
personal damages to the. amount of
100000, lost her case.
Gov. BAGLEY, Of Michigan, urges
every citizen of that state, in CITY or
country, who owns a piece of ground.
no matter how small, to plant tree in
honor Of Centennial year.
The largest feet known to history
must be those of the Maryland editor
who writes: eve black our boots
with 100000 boxes of domestic black
ing year"
The high price of meat in England
has brought to light the fact that there
is at present less live stock in that
country than in any other in Europe.
The Sultan of Turkey is in very Door
health, and there is every prospect of
an uncommonly large crop of widows
weeds in his domain this year.
SOME thoughtful person says: cit is
unkind to ridicule those items in the
papers about centennarians. It is no
easy thing to become centennarian.
Several have failed.
A LOCAL debating society is preparing
to Wrestle with the following question:
'SResol,ed, That man who plays on an
ACCORDION and keeps barking dog
can't be a Christian" Four members
to one want to take the negative side.
ABOUT 10000 salmon trout we're put
into the Fulton chain of lakes in the
North Woods, recently. Boonville par
ties expect to receive 100000 salmon
and $4,000 speckled trout from Seth
Green, for stocking the lakes and
streams of the North Woods.
The Richmond Despatch announces
that the Dutch Gap Canal has, with
comparatively slight labor been en-
larged SO that it now contains more
than twenty feet Of water, and enables
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up and down the James River.
A DEATH from an unusual cause oc-
Cured recently at Lincoln, England.
A grocer named Picker, who keeps
fowls, was feeding them, when BAN
tam cock spurred him in the left thumb.
Modification set in, and all efforts to
save the mans life proved unavailing.
MRS. EMILY TUBMAN, of Frankfort,
KY, widow of Richard Tubman, for
merly residing at Augusta, Ca, has
presented the Christian CONGREGATION of
the latter city with a completely fur
nished church and parsonage, which
she has erected at cost of $101,8
In Cutobert, Ca, the other day,
live fish was found in an oyster shell,
and the scientists of that region are
puzzled. 1t had head like catfish,
but its body and the arrangement of its
fins were unlike anything ever seen in
those parts.
A TWENTY-FIVE CENT pamphlet, full of
thlnly disguised abuse of the Royal
family ofEngland, has attained in Lon
don circulation of over 10000 cop
les. A correspondent writes: cit is
as near treason as the author dare come
for shilling"
THE Mussulmans have permitted the
Christians to put up bells in the holy
sepulchre at Jerusalem. AS the Mo-
hammedans are opposed to bells the
sound of one has not been heard in the
building since Sultan Saladin entered
the city in the twelfth centuary.
A P1TTsBURG girl went through the
livery stables to count the white horses,
expecting to meet her future husband
when she had counted a hundred.
When she had reached the charmed
number, she fell fainting into the arms
of Chinese hostler.
He held the old shirt by the neck,
before discarding it forever. But he
wasn't mourning for his garment. He
only said: "I wish had all the drinks
again that have gone through that old
neckband.
PROFESSOR PoCToR says the moon is
dead, and has been dead for years.
Perhaps says the Danbury News, it was
the smell of its decomposition
which led people to infer that it was
made of cheese.
ARoUT 200 skunks have been cap
tured at Oak Grove, Dodge county,
Wis, this winter, and will be offered to
enthusiastic society ladies next fall, in
the shape of those "deah, lovely, black
fur sets, yah known
GLOW much are we paying that sales
MANI" asked the senior of junior part
ner Fifteen hundred dollars a year,
SIR" was the reply. All, yes, fifteen
hundred we better, as matter
of economy, take him into the con-
cern?"
The Liverpool Post says: While
some workmen at Dundee were the
other day engaged in cutting up large
log of Quebec yellow pine, they laid
open several sections of a wasp's nest.
The nest being near the center of the
tree, the insects (several thousand in
number) must ha We been inclosed for
upward of 100 years.
SAID his honor: "Mr. Peters, why
don't you sit down, sir?" 81 don't sit
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