Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-21
CLIPPINGS.

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The grave of the late George D..
Prentice, is still unmarked.
Tom KING, who fought with Heenan,
Is now q florist in England.
The soul of Sergeant Bates is march
ing on, but his body is saving wood In
Illinois.
POTATOES sell at cent apiece in New
YORK this winter, and small potatoes
at that.
A SIX year old child has just died in
Barren county, Kentucky, weight 200
pounds.
TPERE is room for 100000 more
farmers in Texas, and each one can
have farm with race-course on it.
The University of South Carolina, at
Columbia has at present sixty-fve stu
dents, sixty of whom are negroes.
MRS. CLARA MORRIS HARR1oTT, &C
tress, will try California before starting
to Europe in quest of health.
THERE must be terrible dearth of
employment in London when a firm
who advertised for q gatekeeper in one
week received 900 answers.
FRANK WALwoRTH is still in the
State Lunatic Asylum at Auburn, and
Superintendent Gray believes he was
insane when he killed his father.
The wife of Mormon Pratt has just
come East to attend medical lectures
and fit herself to doctor the other
wives. The other wives had better
make their shrouds.
The cold spell has killed hundreds of
| thousands of cabbage plants in Virginia
and it is 1eared there will be con-
siderable advance in the price of pure
Havana cigare in consequence.
WOMEN are so handy in case of fire.
One in Hartford, recently, threw q
plate of raw liver out of the window to
save it, and then ran for her life, leav-
ing all her clothes and valuables behind.
I'LL take dollars worth of chips"
remarked 81 young Rome, New York,
blood at Presbyterian tea-party, as he
walked up to an accomplished young
lady who was selling tickets for cream.
The average Virginia beauis described
as genteel and lazy, loving to dance the
German when not leaning against
post, and able to fight but not willing to
work.
FIVE years each is what a Brooklyn
Judge lately said to brace of young
fellows who snatched a handkerchief
from the open side-pocket of Brook
lyn young woman.
The last relic of ancient Pompeii ex-
humed is drinking house, whose walls
are adorned with convivial scenes, and
in whose rear room the social table,
table, with it's earthen mugs and pots,
still stands.
Mr.. WALTER, of the London Times,
is not above learning, and one result of
his recent visit to America is a weekly
edition of his journal. The paper con-
taine careful selection of the news
and leaders published during the week.
Mrs. GEN. SHERMAN, who is a very
devout Roman Catholic, has written to
each of the Bishops and Arch Deacons
of the Church in the United States, ask
ing them to send Populations to the
Pope's jubilee feast on the fifteenth an
niversary of his conservation as a
Bishop, May 21st.
A DWELLER on Block Island has
found ], 23O gallons of kerosene, float
ing in the sea, enough to light the
island for year, and he has sold it at
auction for Is and 80 cents gallon,
and holds the money for the owner of
the vagrant fluid.
EDWIN BooTu and Sothern have each
given $500 to the fund for the erection
of Shakespeare memorial hall in
Stratford- on-Avon. Of the SUM re-
quired 100000, the land is gift) s6,-
900 has been subscribed, and Prince
Leopold will lay the cornerstone On
April %.
THIS is the way the Boston Transcript
puts it in behalf of Theodore Thomas
"Philadelphia is very nice city, it has
very nice candy, very nice ladies, very
nice terrapin soup, very clean white
marble doorsteps, and the front win
dow curtains all have two tassels and
fringe on the bottom edge. But yet
Philadelphia has no ear for music.
AN Irish glazier was putting pane
of glass into a window, when groom
who was standing by began joking
him, telling him to mind and put in
plenty of putty. The Irishman bore
the banter for some time, but at last
silenced his tormentor with "Arrah,
now, be off wild ye, or I'll pat pain in
your head without any putty"
A RENOWNED clergyman lately
preached rather long sermon from
the text "Tnou art weighed in the bal
ance and found wanting" After the
congregation had listened about an
some began to get weary and went out,
others soon followed, greatly to the
annoyance of the minister. Another
person started, whereupon the parson
stopped in his sermon and said: ''That's
right gentlemen. AS fast as you are
weighed pass out"
A SNOW STORM such as has not oc-
Cured in the memory of man. began
December 10, in Schleswig, Jutland,
the Danish islands, Sweden and Nor
way, and continued till Christmas.
During all this time travel by ordinary
roads and by railway was greatly I'M
peded, and finally at many places sus-
pended, and the steamboats, between
Copenhagen and Stockholm were OBJ
Iiged to discontinue their trips TOR
some days. On the Danish state rail-