Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-10-18
Freshest GIeanings.
AN uncreditable proceeding

AN uncreditable proceeding stealing
newspaper article.
JOAN OF ARC had grey eyes and yell
low hair.
The widow of Gen. Hindmar, who
was, In her youth, the toasted beauty
OF the Mississippi Valley, has just uied.
A DEApwooD CRY jury "honorably
acquitted a murde who killed =
man whom he mistook for the one he
intended.
HE English law now secures to any
wife her own earnings in any occupa
ZION which she carries on Separately
from her husband.
New YORK prides herself on g. new
and gigantic aquarium, full of curious
fish, great reptiles and mammoth
white whales.
A WESTERN man moves that the hick
DRY tree be made an emblem of the
United States, as the oak is of England
and the laurel of Greece.
THOUSANDS of deaths are occurriny
from starvation in the northern prov
lnces of China. A famine is raging
there.
Mr.. GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian.
is staying at Philadelphia studying the
Centennial Exhibition. He is rs Years
old.
A RICHMOND belle is to marry man
who spent nine years in prison for rob-
berry; but he has behaved admirably
since his release.
BUSINESS in New York is illustrated
by man who in Fourth avenue car
said, "Well, if you've got $500 note
to pay, make new notes for two
threes."
A NoRwALK (Ct) lady, eighty-three
years of age, totally blind, cuts and
makes her own dresses, and among
Other things, has made over one hun
dred quilts.
THIRTY.sIX casts of Greek SCULPTURE
have been added to the collection at
che Yale art school, and eight new
paintings also are now on exhibition in
the gallery.
A PHILANTHROPIST goes to Boston
every day from one Of the suburban
villages, and take with him basket of
choice fruit, which he distributes
among the children in the streets.
They who have seen Paris have also
certainly seen the house in which at
one time lived the Car Peter the Great.
1t is to be demolished to make way for
the new boulevard Henri ".
SEVERAL negroes were passing
through the Berlin geological gardens,
when the African animals, especially
the CRATES, the lions and the elephants,
became frantic and unmanageable, and
the negroes were hurried away.
A CHEMIST who, as judge in the
Philadelphia Exhibition, ate a great
number of samples of candy, has been
seriously i'll ever since. The perils to
health there seems not to be confined
to malaria
A FORTUNATE New Yorker, Peter
Campbell by name, has sailed for Eu-
rope, to make claim to the Breadal-
bane estate in Scotland, which yields
yearly the very cheerful sum of $780,
600.
AN artificial chicken-hatcher is exhib-
tied in Cincinnati. It consists of a
large glass box, holding 400 eggs on
wire trays. The temperature is regu-
lated SO accurately that it never varies
half degree from one hundred. The
machine works well.
THERE is considerable commerce in
toads between France and England. A
toad of good size and in fair condition
will fetch one shilling in the London
market, and dozen of the extra quail
ity are worth Ell sterling Market gar
deners employ them to keep down in
sects.
BEFORE killing himself George Rus
sell of San Francisco wrote to his wife:
Dear wife, prefer death to seeing
you and our children in want for food.
If [ could support you and them [
would like to live" That is misera-
BILE, cowardly logic, Mr.. Russell, or any
other man.
A FASHION writer says, to be well
dressed, you must have your skirts
tied closely together at the back, lust
under the bend of the knee. Your
corsage must be SO tight as to fit like
the skin, and the sleeves also must look
as if moulded to the arms. You must
be done up SO tight all over as not to
be able to stoop over or sit down, or
raise your arms to tie your veil, or
" vi w SAASSAS " POo OA4 yOO4 UOAuCUs
Women are to be pitied.
A LAWYER once built house of such
curious design that the passers involun-
tarlly stopped moment to gaze at it.
The lawyers patience was taxed so
much by the annoyance that, noticing
a gentleman from Limerick standing in
front of his residence, he sang out,
"Pat, what are you looking at? Did
you think this was church?" Faith
and [ did, till | saw the divil poke his
dirty head out of the window"
ADVERTISEMENT from Black Hills
newspaper: cit having been quite
generally given out that Captain Ben
had departed from this vale OF tears, an
is here offered to view his
remains and witness the urbane corpse
deal out tea, -four, shoulders, bacon,
hams, coffee, shelf goods, and COM
plete wholesale stock of the finest
liquors and cigars ever brought into the
Hills"
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