Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-07
FRESHEST GLEANINGS.

RABBIT shooting by moonlight is get
ting to be favorite pastime in the
western counties of Kansas.
A BOSTON young man got lawyer to
interpret his fathers will, and the bill
was $4,000.
THERE is an average of eight suicides
per week in the United States, and it's
better to reduce the population that
way than to go to war.
A JERSEY Chinaman says it takes
Mclean man seven years to learn
China, but China boy learn Mclean
very quicke. Yes, and practise it, too.
A BILL prohibiting the marriage of
second cousins has passed one branch
of the Michigan Legislature, and all the
cousins in the state are falling in love
with each other.
A New YORK doctor says that per-
son with a sore throat shouldn't kiss one
whose throat is all right, as the COM
plant can be communicated. Girls
with sore throats should wear g. bell.
A SUIT has been brought in New
York to restrain a man from "continu-
ing the business" of preparing old tea
leaves with poisonous substances, to be
sold to the public as good new tea.
TIE Louisiana orange crop of last
year is estimated to have been $4,000.
900 oranges, which would represent
about 20 900 trees, worth about $780,
900 on the trees.
For dangling at the train of Miss
promised, an old New York widower
and semi-clairvoyant named Strauss
has been compelled to pay 100000.
Miss MASON, "dressed in tight-ft-
ting suit of black alpaca, the skirt cut
short, and with heavy laced Shoes"
threw Henry Vidal, of Jersey City, in
two fair falls, according to the rules of
the wrestling ring.
WESTERN papers are boasting that q
Nevada man read newspaper while
tumor was taken out of his side. That
is nothing. A man in Rhode Island
whistled the other day while a Massa-
chusetts dog was taking off his legs.
Mr.. VANDERBILT got better as soon as
he read the obituaries in the papers,
and Alexander III. Steveng rallied at
once and is recovering on sixteen
obituaries day. Obituaries are better
than the carbolate of soda; but, like that
they have to be taken in Allopathic
doses. The Commodore's stock ran out
and then he died.
A Boston correspondent says in that
city woman with machine can
make, with hard labor, three dozen
pairs of pantaloons week, for which
she receives total of one dollar and
eighty cents. Good field for the Evan
gelists.
A PENrrENTIARY with a library Of f.
600 volumes, for the use of the pris-
oners, is to be found in very few coun-
tries, and fifty years ago could not have
been found in all the world. The State
Penitentiary of Western Pennsylvania
is thus endowed.
Congress last year invited all coun-
ties or towns where historical addresses
were delivered on the Centennial
Fourth of July, to file one copy of
such address in the Congressional IL
brary at Washington. Only about $50
such documents have been thus far re-
ceived.
A MAN in Cheyenne, Neb., went into
store to buy a barrel of apples. He
bit into an apple, concluded to take
barrel of twenty ounce pippins, went
away, and after being absent an hour,
came back and asked to see the apple
he had bitten into. On being asked
why he wanted that particular one, he
said he had lost his false teeth some
where, and rather thought he had left
them sticking in that apple. His sur
misses turned out to be true. SAT- Lake
Tribune.
Miss HELEN LOCKE, of Bristol, n. H.,
died recently, after inhaling gas from
"red fire." burned during the young
ladies' tableaux entertainment which
she took part. "Red fire" should be
banished from the parlor and the lee
ture room. Its fumes are highly
poisonous It is composed of nitrate
of strontia, black sulphide Or anthony,
sulphur, and chlorate of potash. The
crimson color is due to the strontia.
The latter is q salt of the metal stron-
tium.
MANKER, the pious young counter
feiter, who was detected IN Brooklyn,
has already been sent to the peniten.
tiary for eighteen months. The young
lady to whom he was engaged, Miss
Minnie Shaw, is dying of broken
heart snd exposure in visiting him at
the Jail. She became acquainted with
him while attending social meetings at
the Fleet street Methodist church, and
still protests her entire faith in him,
though he confessed his crime.
The landlady of Flushing { L. ~
hotel became offended at a guest VINO
registered as "a. Ward, Jr, ana
turned him out of doors. And now a:
I Ward, Jr., stands around in front OF
that house, and Injuries its trade by,
shouting "Turnips hash cabbage r
/ A dose of occasional police court does
no good to the man, and even blue
glass has failed. So he keeps up ms
revenge, and likewise the burden OF
his song, "Turnips! hash cabbage !"
And the landlady wishes A. Ward, Jr.,
were like A. Ward, not iunior-dead.