Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-05-16
FRESHEST GLEANINGS.

~! 10 VI d loW specie is SAID to have been
discovered in Algeria
a WITTY Frenchman says that music
Is like woman. In order to comprehend
1t one must sometimes love it.
"A NEBRASKA paper already complains
OF the number, vigor and persistency of
the mosquitoes.
| THIEVES Honest Labor society is the
title of new reformatory organization
in London.
ONE of the largest Sunday Schools in
the world is at Aintab, in India. The
number of pupils amounts to 1900.
IHE perslmmOn tree of Japan is now
becoming standard fruit tree in Cali
fornia. The fruit is like a small apple in
size. In taste it way be likened to a
cross between plum and peach.
HE Texas route agent who lost the
package Of registered letters has been
relnstated, and the fellow who took them
Tor joke has been held in $500 to ap-
pear.
AMONG the oldest churches in the
nelghborhood of New York is the Re-
formed Outch) church at Utrecht, L. I,
1t Will this year celebrate its two hun
uIeGn anniversary.
IHE sugar plantations of Louisiana
are fast regaining their former positions.
Since the LIST of January, $4,000 tons of
cotton seed meal have been used, which
Will 60 lar to compensate for past waste.
! THE oldest old maid in the world is
Rebecca Anderson, of Seneca Falls, aged
LIZ years. She is 80 old that it is up
wards of twenty-five years since a CEN
sus taker has had the courage to ask her
how old she was.
SOMETIMES, when a man is to be hung
for outrage and murder, churchly women
send him beautiful bouquets, while the
grave of the poor child and the home of
the heart broken parents are left I'M
adorned. What humbugs we humans
sometimes are.
The Russians, it is said, depend en-
tirely upon torpedo system for the de-
Tense of Odessa, the great grain mart of
the Black Sea- Odessa is about sixty
miles north Of the boundary established
at the close of the Crimean war.
The life of young man near Montreal
was despaired of, and he had become so
emaciated and weak that two Of the four
physicians who attended him volunteered
to invigorate him with their blood by
the operation of TRANSMISSION, six ounces
from each, but he did not recover.
The St. Bernard dogs at the house of
refuge over the Al s were very useful
last winter in saving several travellers
lives. A trial was made among the gang
Of the Newfoundland, but it proved a
failure, insomuch as this particular dog,
though very sagacious, has too much
curly, long hair for the snow to stick to.
VERY small green nasturtiuE1 seeds,
picked as soon as the flower has fallen.
and picked, make fine subititute for
capers In white sauce for boiled mutton.
The nasturtium will grow almost with
out encouragement, and trained on
strings against fences has brilliant
effect.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., is shocked at the
matter of fact way in which the dead
are being transplanted from the old west
burying ground. Thus the bones of the
ancestors are carted off in boxes labeled
7" Lion of the Day." "Mystic soap,''
" Best of ALL" II pairs boys calf
bOOts," etc.
THREE Russian officers inspected a
powder mill near Portland, Me-, last
January, and endeavored to purchase
improved machinery like that which was
there in use. This they were unable to
do, but they made contracts for the
manufacture and shipment of q large
quantity of powder worth $25O,0OO.
The wife Of the Chinese ambassador
at St. James went calling on the wife of
British magnate the other day, and the
butler and footmen of the latter lady's
establishment had to be locked I'D. as it
is not permitted that a Chinese lady of
position should be seen unveiled by man.
Maids answered the door and brought in
tea, and it is rumored that even "Mr.
Pug" was sent out Of the drawing room.
The ambassador has three wives, of whom
this is the third and favorite.
GEN. SIBERIAN takes the keen interest
of an old soldier in war, and has a mag
nifcent map of the theatre of war, sent
to him from Vienna, mounted at his
room at the war Office. He anticipates
a great battle in the next sixty days, to
be preceded by a number of affairs of
considerable magnitude attendant upon
the passage of the Danube by the Rus
slams. The grand affair will, he thinks,
engage at least 200, OO0 men Oh each side.
Mr.. G. S. BELLS, northern settler
residing near Littleton, n. c., has an
orchard of some twenty-five or thirty
thousand peach trees, embracing over one
hundred different varieties. He is going
North to make arrangements for his ship
ments and sales. He ships altogether by
rail, and expects to realize $40, 900 or
$780, 900 by his sales. He has also large
strawberry fields and a fine vineyard.
His success in fruit raising in the old
North State has aroused the interests of
the people there in that culture. Rich
mond Wing.
JOHN was an assistant bookkeeper in
down town store, and was greatly
troubled because he was occasionally
called upon to make out invoices that
would not bear close scrutiny. He
prayed over the trouble, and then decid-
ed what to do. The next invoice he
made out was an honest one. He took it
to his employer, who examined it, and