Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

SAN FRANCIsnANs are luxuriating on
Strawberries at fifty cents a pound.
SNow-sHovELs have earned their
board this year. 10 Il n~5
CARL SCHURz is the only member of
the Cabinet who can play on the piano.
| FIVE brothers are now waiting to see
the present Sultan die and give them a
chance. ..t ..t.-. T..
SENATOR Dos CAMERON is fifty years
of age, and has an estate valued at 3d.
100000. @a} @fraa@.s oE5
STATUES Of Penn and Franklin are
to be placed in the Capitol at Washing
| ton.
SECRETARY THOMPSON says his ap-
| pointment to the cabinet came On him
like clap of thunder out of q clear
SKY.
LOTTA Miss Crabtree) is said to be
worth more than 100000, and only
last week sold So, 900 worth of property
to John Jacob Astor. e-
A REIDsvILLE (Va.) negro recently
ate forty-four hard boiled eggs at one
sitting. He then drank seven glasses
of water and called for more eggs.
SEVEN ex-Governors of Massachusetts
yet live, and breathe the vital air of
Yankeedom. They are Boutwell,, Gard
ner, Banks. Bullock, Clahin, William 3.
Washburn and CASTOR. r
Mr.. JOSEPH JEFFERSON, the noted &C.
tor, has made such q success in
England that he has decided to remain
q year longer Ia London and appear in
new character parts.
FREsCHMEN are eating more and
more horse flesh. The FIRST horse
butcher in Paris opened his shop in
1866. Last year 5000 horses, 643 asses
and 30 mules were eaten in France.
/ WALT WHIrNAN's hair is white, and
he walks with a stick like an lnfrm old
man, yet he is but fifty-eight, which is
q. number of years that many men
carry off jauntily. b. a5ss
The druggist VINO hasn't Invented
cough medicine of his own is some in
dolent man who had rather white a
single than wait on customers.-De.
troat Free Press. rr-
WHEN a Baltimore man dies he wants
four-fi1ths Of his property to 60 for
monument to his memory, and he then
puzzles to know how he can keep the
other fifth from any of his family.
A ST. LOUIS boy got up straw man
in the back yard, dressing it in his faith
er's Sunday coat and new spring tile, as
a target for practicing on with his new
bow and arrows. He is saddest when he
sits. vsj asa fos.a., ed 4r-ss oss~
A FRENCHMAN. has discovered that
human hair can be transplanted, and
bald-headed men can become reasona-
bly, hirsute by the process. It, however,
requires more skill than landscape gar
'dening, and only very rich men can
stand the expense. .lsaa
THE Japanese Minister, according to
the picturesque description of Mrs.
Mary Clemmer, looks little over twenty
years Of age, and is scarcely larger than
an American Or English boy of four
teen. His features are small, his eyes
and hair very black, his expression full
of gentle intelligence. "a ,s--
A REMARKABLE case Of inheritedI long
evity is reported from Kingston Me-,
where the last of family of twelve
brothers and sisters, named Woodman,
has just died at the age of sixty-four
years, the Oldest at the age of ninty-
three years, and the average age was
eighty-three years. ',o
PUBLISHING marriage engagements
is becoming almost d custom In this
city, though we believe thus far con-
fined to Hebrews. The average Amer
lean is not anxious to adopt the notion,
for he knows there is many a slip be-
tween the pledge and the ring, and
" sufficient. unto the day is the evil
thereof" ~. Y. Evening Mail.
HUMPTY DUMPrY Fox, with mis- brain
all correct again, is living quietly in
his own house in Brooklyn, in excellent
health and spirits. He thinks Of the
stage, but does not know when he will
jam his hands down hard into his
pockets, toe in, and assume diaboli-
Cal grin before an uproarious house
again.
"AND yet" writes newspaper cor
respondent from Texas, "this region
has it's drawbacks. Apples cannot be
grown here; and while cabbages and
potatoes grow luxuriantly, they will
rot within two weeks alter they are
taken out Of the ground. Residents Of
cities dare not allow the grass to grow
in the yards around their residences for
/ fear of furnishing hiding places for
tarantulas and centipedes. And at
present can say that have not tasted
well cooked beef steak since have
been la the state, and more than half
the time have not had milk enough to
color coffee, to say nothing Of the utter
impossibility Of having any to drink
A BERLIN dispatch to the London
| Times SAYS: General S. Berdan, of the
| United States, has been requested by
the British government to supply de-
tails upon the construction and appli-
cation o. his new range-fnder. TIE
average time required to place the in
| strument in position and take the dis
Etance IS less THAN two minutes, and the
time required to make the distance of
q second object, when the instrument is
once opened, less than one minute.
/ Only ol4e horse with dog-cart is need
ed for the transport Of this anstrume nt,
which, the, General asserts, viii double
the eff ectivea firing of the artillery and
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