Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-05-23
PICKINGS AND STEALINGS.

ORANGE peel on the sidewalk caused
the death OF well-known medical pub
Usher IN London, Mr.. Kimpton.
SUSAN b. ANTHONY registered at a
Western hotel, and some malicious male
creature started the report that the 'hos-
tile Sioux" had encamped there.
In Paris wines are circulated on the
dinner table in wicker chariots, decorated
with Grecian nymphs and cupids worked
in silk by the lady of the house
PER New Jersey State law, only fish
hooks may hereafter be used to catch fish
within Jersey limits. This is 'Jersey
Justice" to trout.
THE ship Lady Turner, from Mel
bourne to Ceylon, Sc days out, has been
lost by spontaneous combustion of her
cargo Of bone-dust.
The rays of the sun, shining through
an ordinary stereoscope, set fire to a
newspaper lying upon table in house
in Maine, a few days ago. An early dis
covery prevented the destruction of the
building.
GERMANY furnishes annually, 10000
fox skins, 10000 pine martens, 10000
stone martens, 100000 pole-cats, 5000
offers, 5000 badgers and 100000 hare
skins. In rabbit skins she sends out only
100000, to Frances 100000. The list
closes with 100000 domestic cat skins.
The danger Of a long beard was illus
trated in one of the Oswego mills day
or two ago. A workman, whose length
of beard is, or rather was, hispride, was at
work over a shaft, which caught his
beard and wound it round and round in
twinkling. Another workman thrust
a heavy stick into the cogs, stopping the
shaft, else the mans neck would inevita-
bly, have been broken.
ONE of Edwin Forests dislikes, Celia
that she is publishing in the Sunday Dis
many years manager of the Walnut
Street Theatre, Philadelphia. When
Forrest played there Mr.. Seton had to
keep away from the theatre. He did
nothing, and drew his salary.
THERE is a family now residing in
Freehold, Pa, who have packed up every
earthly article they possess and moved
them forty-two times, and all since the
melancholy days" of 1866. They have
lived in this state, been West several
times, yet they are not now, and proba-
bly, will never be happy until they have
astOnished the last tenement house in
the CONTEMPLATING Commercial.
A MATTER-oF-FAcT sailor, on vessel
lying at San Francisco, seeing man
climbing up the rail so as to jump off
and drown himself, seized the melan-
choly person and dragged him back,
with the following explanation: II
want you fellers to understand that this
ere thing is played out. We can't stop
to fool around to pick up every ninny
who jumps overheard, and if you want
to do this business just go down to one of
the wharves."
THE death, at fifty-four, lately occur
red of an Englishman, known as the Nor
folk giant He was a farmer, and often
loaded his own wagon by carrying four
bushels of wheat under each arm at a
time When in great haste to get farm
work done he has been known to harness
himself to one of his own harrows. His
weight was 1856 pounds; height feet, six
inches; width from shoulder to shoulder
across the back, twenty inches. He was
most amiable man.
AMONG the matrimonial announce
ments of Conjungo, the Paris marriage
broker the Petit Jounat, may be noticed:
Young lady, age twenty-nine, fortune
100000 francs; orphan, age twenty-three,
fortune $4,000 francs; widow, without
children, age twenty-six, fortune 100000
francs; widow, well preserved, age thirty
nine, does not look more than twenty
eight, no false hair, has preserved all her
teeth, plays the piano sufficiently for
dancing, temper quick, but heart good,
slight mustacher fortune 10000 francs,
and an uncle paralyzed on one side,
whose doctor gives him only three
months to live"
WILLIAM WYATT GILL, who was for
twenty-years missionary in the South
Pacific Islands, has written an account
of his life there, in the course of which
he relates many incidents and facts of
natural history. The most remarkable
of these statements is that certain ser
penis in Polynesia coil themselves up
when rain is coming on, collect water IN
the coil, and thus form a fatal drinking
place, to which unsuspecting birds are
attracted to assuage their thirst, and fall
easy victims.
The Berlin gorilla is going to London
for short season. His name is Pongo,
and he is the only gentleman of his race
in Europe. His education has been
completed at the Berlin Aquarium. He
drinks claret and water, turns hand
springs, swings on trapeze, drums on the
floor chaseS 2 little doc and behaves
like gentleman. His manners are very
graceful, especially when he has occasion
to drink wine with his little cousin, the
chimpanzee. Pongo looks like little
colored boy, and his hands are quite soft
and pretty.
A PARIS paper has devised an ingeni-
Gus mode of administering puff. A
doctor, it says, was called few days ago
to attend child which had sucked some
matches. When he arrived he found the
family disconsolate, thinking the matches
had contained phosphorus, which is a
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