Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

! jf# pICKINGS AND, STEALINGS.
BUSINESS in Pittsburg is dull. Ten of
the nineteen window-glass factories
there are idle. 2f p4.a ay,s
bonner has just bought Eric, a bay
gelding who has the best record for 3
four year old-2:284. suo.3
They are already putting up seven
teen-inch ice at Wyandotta, Kan. to
| fill q 20, 600 ton contract.
JUDGE NYE, of Oakland, CAL, has
decided that poker bet is collectable
by law.
The ST. 500 organist and the $4,000
choir leader are to be dispensed with at
Mr.. Beecher's Plymouth Church.
GEORGE ELIOT Mrs. Lewesl is within
two summers of being sixty years of
age, - zai"@iba sat ~
A FRENCH paragraphist says: II
like q girl before she gets womanish,
and woman before she gets girlish."
IT is recorded of Commodore JUDD
kins, late of the Cunard line, that he is
the only living navigator who has made
500 voyages across the Atlantic.
SAN FRANCISCO surgeons are nom
plussed over Chinaman who walked
about several days after his spinal cord
had been cut in two.
MEMPHIS has on hand q stock of one
hundred thousand bales of cotton, the
heaviest that she has ever had to car
ry.
In Montana the winter is nire months
long, and it is there that churches are
built from the proceeds of public
dances.
ABOUT 1000 worthy poor are gratui-
tously fed daily by the butchers of Full
ton and Washington markets, New
York.
IT is sad moment for q bachelor
| when he finds that his hair is 80 thin
that he is unable to hold pen back of
his ear.
IF you were down on the Cape of
Good Hope and wanted half dozen
poached oyster eggs for lunch, it would
cost you just $50.
A YOUNG lady of Corinth, Miss, has
the photographs of seven rejected
suitors hanging on the wall, and she
wants an eighth so as to make nice
group. faJ ~
THIRTY persons in Leeds recently At
tended the wake of an Irish girl who
died of typhus fever. Every one of
them has since been sick with the fever,
and nine of them have died.
The drawing room and sleeping Car
conductors of the Wagner lines wear q
neat mourning rosette in memory of
their lamented associate, Harry Wag-
ner, who was killed at Ashtabula.
THERE'S no telling what we can do
till we try. An apple dumping eating
match recently took place at Allen
town, Pa, where the victor scored %
dumplings, and the nexs highest Is.
MIXED Relationship" Tell me,
auntie, why you are my aunt?" "Be-
cause your father is my brother"
"Then, for instance, was my father my
uncle before he got married."
THE best way to discourage boil is
to seek right slippery place on the
pavement, and then, when the boil
amt looking, come down on it-fop.
THE ruins of the Oldest settlement on
the upper James river were discovered
few days ago. They are supposed to
be the remains of an old stone house
or fort, which was erected by Colonel
Thomas Stage, near the Three Islands,
in the year 1868.
In Spain it is the custom to send q
Christmas present to the priest and the
doctor. Many Spaniards pay their ply
/ oic1ors an o,,r,,o1 O., NJ for otfop1;no ~ "a
family and servants and his salary is
sent him on Christmas Day, with tur-
key and cake of sweetmeats.
| A COLORADO cat lived alternately in
three families In q neighborhood. She
had four kittens, and, as soon rs they
were able to take care of themselves,
she carried one to each Of her two for
mer residences and left 1t, retaining two
with herself.
HARRY SANKEY, a son Of The evange-
list, lately spoke in one of the noon
day prayer-meetings at Chicago. Al
though only about twelve years of age,
he is described as engaged in very
successful evangical work among the
boys.
If there is anything that will make
man suddenly recollect that he il not
blue and gold butterfly in q rose pink
atmosphere, it is to have his wife yell
at him as he goes through the door,
!" Rem ember, George, the coal is out,
and we haven't got any kindling wood,
and there's not single potato in the
cellar. Remember that you don't for
get it now" ....a.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY the De
Smiths, to whose dinner party he was
invited, lived in the extsquare, Brown
thought he would walk over. Head
waiter (under wrong impression)-
This won't do, young man? We've
been expectin' O. you this Jour and q
'alf No napkins laid, no glasses, no
=! Drown never got over it all the
evening. Punch.
/ AMBITIOUS young women are turning
their thoughts to other vacations than
those of literature, law and medicine.
Miss Ellen L. Fletcher has engaged in
business as matchmaker in Charles
4 ton, New Hampshire. Having learned
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