Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-12-20
FRESHEST GLEANINGS.

FRESHEST GLEANINGs.
The Nevada linnet sings like canary.
GENERAL SHERMAN is again a grand
father.
BALTIMORE has trebled it's population
in thirty year
IN Scotland, as well as in Nevada,
rabbits are considered as vermin.
JOHN MoRRIssEY is said to have made
$4,000 in commissions on pool selling.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA will be the
greatest raisin-making district of the
world.
KING JOHN, the reigning monarch of
Abysinia, claims to be lineal de-
scendant of the Queen Of Sheba.
The Chinese spend their holidays in
paying their debts, forgiving their enc
mics, and shaking hands all around.
ACCORDING to the Rutland Globe there
are SO, 522 Green Mountaineers who can
neither read nor write.
The discovery is reported of a. vein
OF coal In Chesterfield county, Va, ff-
teen feet in width, and within three
feet Of the earth's surface.
Z OHIO boasts tailorwho has attained
the ripe age of 1O2. That may be
called the survival of the fttest.-Loau-
ell Courier. ata
On account of the suffering of the
people of Brunswick (Ga.) the Cover
nor has suspended the collection of
taxes for one year.
The Count de Paris recently shot 900
pheasants in one day. The birds, were,
Of course, tied in line, and the Count
used howitzer. as se2
A JERsEYMAN put his head too close to
a cage in which wounded snjpe was
confined, and the bird thrust it's bill in
to his eye, destroying his sight.
DR.. LIE MoYNE, of the Pennsylvania
cremation furnace, was once a candi-
date for the Vice Presidency on the Alb.
clifton ticket.
A FRENCH convict who attempted to
escape.from Cayenne became entangled
in the river weeds and was Gated alive
by the crabs which swarm in those wa
tiers. st
The editor Of the Hansboro (Miss.)
Democrat has a charmed life. Fifteen
attempts have been made to kill him.
and the last shot fired in his direction
killed boy instead.
A SHIP sunk suddenly and without
warning at her moorings at Portland
(Me.) wharf the other day. Rats are
supposed to be responsible for the dis
aster.
A MAN twenty-seven years old has
just been sent to the Massachusetts,
State Prison who has spent all but two
years and three days his life in reform
atory and charitable institutions.
THIEVES entered New York bar
room on Sunday night and carried off
a 900 pound safe. It proved to be
safe business for them, for nothing has
been heard of men Or safe.
THERE is q hermit at Greenwood
Lake, New York, who lives in a hut
that is hardly large enough to allow a
man to lie at full length or stand erect.
bis article Of furniture is a powder
keg.
In Porto Rico the ignorant people be-
lieve the storms are caused by the un-
dog of st. Michael, and in Sc
we're storms it is not uncommon for
them to pray: sSt. Michael, tie up your
dog"
SToNEwALL JACKsoN's daughter Julia
is now q pretty girl of sixteen, with
large eyes, a good head, and an express
sion full of sweetness and character.
She is said to be exceedingly gentle,
modest and thoughtful. She is living
with her mother in Charlotte, n. G.
The Boston girl is clever. She brings
her suit for breach of promise, and
then has the trial postponed until she
can reduce her weight sufficiently to 90
before the jury as fearful example of
the ravages of blghted affection.
A NICE young girl works studiously on
a motto for framing God bless our
the presence of Charles.
During Charles absence, she occupies
her time in spanking two little brothers,
and blessing members of the family
generally.
AT Los Angeles the venerable Pho
Pico, away back in 1852 or 1853, staked
$50, 900 on horse race and lost. Sad
Wv eSAASA OAAA4O VOAO USsACh OA tAlC WILL
ming horse and ne was turned out to
grass for the rest of mis- days by the
grateful winner.
CANON LIDDoN gives q glowing de-
scription of the splendor in which
Bishop Strossmayer, the Catholic Bish-
OBJ of Bosnia and Sirmia lives. He has
a revenue of 100000 a year. His
palace and picture galleries and gardens
and farms, his open tables with seven
ty-fve guests daily, and his stables
with one hundred horses, are princely.
DURING the Italian campaign a de-
tachment Of skirmishers, pushing for
ward by night, came to a river. No
bridge and no ford, but without hesita-
ton officers and men swim it and sur
prise the Austrians. At daybreak the
General sees that their position is too
much exposed, and recalls the COM
mander, whom he orders. to retreat
across tbs river. How General !?
There is neither bridge nor ford"
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