Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-04-25
FRESHEST GLEANINGS.

! CdVAiTy uOIS0S-
OHIO glass blowers are threatening q
strike because they can earn but 50 per
day at the present rates.
The Speaker of the Virginia House
uses q gavel made from the wood of
the rebel ram Merrimac.
A PARTISAN committed suicide bv
opening his veins and allowing the
blood to flow into ten wine glasses.
PROF. SWIFT, Of Rochester, has dis
covered g. comet near Cassiopela's face.
It is faint and moves slowly toward the
North star.
The greatest novelty Of the season in
Paris is the chameleon bouquet. Tt
bushes Or turns pale at every variation
Of the atmosphere.
BISMARCK gobbles w titles with great
avidity. King William has just made
him Pomeranian Master of the
Hunt"
A DISEASE has appeared in India and
Ceylon among the leaves Of coffee
| plants. It does not actually destroy
the plant, but weakens it and thus I'M
perils the crop. It is causing great
anxiety.
The shake has been condemned as a
headdress in the British army, and
will be replaced by modified German
"pickelhanlic." Hu5sar fusileer regi-
nnents and the rifles will still retain the
busby."
To an interviewer, lately, Alexander
Ell. Stevens said: "Please say to Sec
rotary Thompson would be glad to
renew the acquaintance of forty years
ago. That golden-headed, black wal
nat cane he presented to me [ have
used over thirty years."
The Englishman that has five min
utes to spare first refreshes himself at
the buffet with glass Of beer, sherry
or whisky, and then buys an arnful Of
papers. AT the great terminal stations
ike London Bridge, Cannon street and
Charing Cross the sale of papers is inn
mense.
AN English gentleman travelling in
one Of the petty states Of Germany dur
ing the days Of the Electots, at time
when nobody Was considered anybody
unless decorated Or titled, passed
triumphantly about the country by the
happy thaught Of inscribing on his
card: "Elector Of Middlesex."
A SYRACUSE undertaken advances the
novel theory that the steady decrease
in deaths which has been for some time
noticed throughout the country is due
to the hard times. There is more force
IN this than at first appears, since peo-
pie are now compelled by force of cir
cumstances TO indulge in fewer luxuries
and live upon rational diet.
AFTER punching g hole in the plaster
and being told that it was wrong to do
so, al Oil City three-year-old went back
the next day and worked two hours in
an honest endeavor to peck it out with
a fork. 1.-The only has the luck to keep
out Of the Legislature, be will doubtless
be great man some day. Els parents
3 nect it.-OJ CSty Derrick. 81
"SHE may be very good woman"
gasped Tonson, his breath almost
clicked off by the tightness of his new
shirt, while the wrists were 50 loose
that they seemed not to be buttoned at
all; "she may be very good woman,
but she don't understand the practical
application of Typographical engineer
ing to g. fine shirt" g.. a.1aE
The "pauper labor of Europe" has
received another blow an the ribs from
| American machinery. It has been
demonstrated that Ame-ican"made
boots can be sold in Switzerland at
| 81. so q, pair, Or cheaper than they can
be produced there, with all the lowness
of wages prevailing there. This puts
very sudden end to the expectations Of
Swiss boots and shoes, and throws the
native cobblers into despair.
The Charlotte IN. O. Observer says:
every now and then a new gold mine
is found 10 this country in place where
the metal was not supposed to exist
before. We were shown recently some
of the finest specinl ems We have ever
seen from any gold mine in this section
of the state. They were taken from g.
vein On the plantation situated about
seven miles northwest of the city. The
metal is Embedded in soft brown ore,
which IS easily worked"
The finer houses no longer have their
rooms covered with carpets fitted to
them and tackled down, as formerly.
This method Is obsolete, or at least
considered cold fashioned" Modern
houses have floors laid Of solid oak or
black-Walnut, or a naixture Of different
woods, or pine floors are stained to I'M
ltate the dark, rich woods, or they are
covered with parquetrie, or wood-car-
peting. The middle of such floors as
these only are covered with square
carpet Or rug, which can be removed
on the occasion of a dancing party,
and in any case leaves q margin on all
sides.
THE will of the Baron de II. r., who
died recently In Paris, says: II leave
all my fortune, consisting Of 100000
francs, to the bold man who will. in
presence Of a notary and another wit
ness, administer to nay wife fifty blows
with 3 stack. In case no one should
fulfill these conditions, I devise my pro-
perty to the state for charitable uses.
La order to avoid trickery on the part
Of my eventual heir, I declare the
legacy void IN case he should espouse
my wife" The will will be contested
by the Baroness as the work Of a luna
tic, although her husband was of ap-