Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-07
Odds and Ends.
SECRETARY Don CAMERON has no

Odds and Ends.
SECRETARY Don CAMERON has no wife.
ADvICEs from the Black Hills region
continue to report massacres by the
hostile Indians.
THIRTY men have been killed by the
Indians at the Black Hills region since
May Goth.
MALE school teachers in Connecticut
receive $40 month, while females re-
ceive only $37.
DAN RICE's creditors have shut down
on his show at Louisville, and pre-
vented him fulfilling his engagement.
GENERAL EDWARD F. BEALE, who was
on the 18th, appointed Minister to
Austria, is an old army officer and a
great friend of General Grant.
IT is proposed to make Liverpool a
seaport by deepening the Irwen and
Mersey. The undertaking will cost
about $20,0OO,00O.
ALL the great oil refining establish.
n1ents at Titusville but two have been
sold out to the Cleveland combination
known as the Standard Oil Company.
The Commercial Advertiser says: "Sin-
gularly enough, runaway horse was
stopped in Troy the other day by one
Gallop." Then we suppose the horse
stopped the gallop, when Gallop stopped
the horse.-Macon Telegraph.
A GUSHING writer in New England
aper, evidently female, in describ-
ng a rainy day, speaks of "the caves
shedding tears Of crystal" She might
also with propriety have alluded to the
fact of the chimneys-weeping.
THERE is lady living in Richmond,
Indiana, who was married when twelve
years of age. When fifteen years old
she was the mother of two children.
and when thirty her children numbered
ten. Eight of her children are now
living.
A PHILADELPHIA fellow is trying to
creep out of breach of promise suit
by saying that the marriage agreement
was made on Sunday, and consequently
was not legal. Such plea as this, if
sustained, would mash half the we'd
ding rings in the land.
The following "estray" notice was
sent to one of the Denver Sheriff's Off
GERS: "Rund away red and vite CAT.
His tn behint leg vas plack, he vas a
she caf. Enipotti vot bring him pack
pals tollars. Clear Creek, tree miles
pehind te pridge-Jacob Zueerring."
POURING boiling water on the back
and COMPRISING the shins are still re-
sorted to in China to draw confession
from suspected persons. The boiling
water generally brings the accused to
an acknowledgment, whether he is
guilty or not.
A YOUNG lady assistant in one of the
Boston schools was sick one day
and substitute was sent in. There had
not been a single case of corporal pun
ishment in her room for six months,
but the substitute used the rod not less
than six times before recess in the
morning.
The practice of scalping is not pc
culiar to the American aborigines.
Southall, in his Recent Origin of
Man." quotes from Herodotus to show
that the Seythians used to scalp their
fallen enemies. In the present time
the wild tribes of Northwestern Bengal
use the scalping-knife.
EXPERIMENTS as to the penetrating
power of colored light show that the
blues are not visible half a league off,
and should not be used as lighthouse
signals. White, red and green lights
can be seen the farthest. The green
looks Ikea white light when at a dis
lance, and should be used only in con-
trast.
Do YOU want to know how the En-
press of Brazil was dressed at Mr..
Child's great party at Philadelphia on
the opening of the Centennial, in honor
of the President and his cabinet? Yes.
Well, she wore robe Of mauve MORE
silk and egregrine trimmed with lace,
and most superb necklace and parure
of diamonds.
! A EMBEDDING COMPANY" is proposed In
Paris. This corporation will get up
weddings of all prices and dimensions,
from the humblest marriages up to
nuptials fit for millionaire. A superb
restaurant and spacious ballroom for
the ensuing festivities will also form 8
J, part of the establishment. Carriages.
lawyers, priests, suppers, and even we'd
ding inery, will be furnished by this
enterprising firm.
A POOR tramp who obtained a supply
of food firm Prof. Perkins daughter, in
Iowa City, and afterwards obtained
employment in the neighborhood,
J hello the act of kindness in grateful re-
membrance when few days later the
child was drowned. He watched tho
river necessarily for days. Finally he
found the body in q tree-top. He
carried it three miles to house, and
then went and carried the news to Iowa
City.