Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-27
FRESHEST GLEANINGS.

Cleveland to Caddo parish, La.
A LIVERPOOL banker has just left S.
600, 900 to his nephew, besides making
him residuary legatee of an estate valued
at over $12,000,00O This is the kind of
an uncle worth having.
SOMEBODY has written an article on
the subject, How to Keep Boys at
Home" To tie them to a gate post
would be good way, but shoot them
and pack them in salt, with a little
saltpeter, would be more effectual
Now, Ulysses" said Mrs. Grant, II
have no objection to your dining with
Mrs Guelph, Arthur Wellesley, or any
other respectable people, but don't you
come kiting home again at o'clock in
the morning and tell me you have Bin
tn lodge 18th Wales It's to thin. Do
you hear ?"-Boston Bulletin.
GATH, writing from Easton, where
the late Governor Andrew H. Reeder is
buried, says: Here ne lies in the GEM
etery among the hills, against the coal
measures, lulled by the bells of elderly
churches, and saluted by the whistles of
many converging railroads. No grave
IN the old Commonwealth Of Pennsyl-
vania has more honor, more reverence,
and bears more fruit for history"
The Gar and his eldest son, the heir
apparent, have no fixed allowances of
pay. They take what is necessary for
their expenses out Of the rents of the
crown domains and out of the treasury,
the sums taken from the latter being
named indemnities." All the other
members of the imperial household have
their allowances regularly fixed, and are
not permitted to go beyond the limit.
COUNTESS MARIE Won BISMARCK,
daughter Of the Prince, it is said, is to
be married to Count Lehndorf, one Of
the handsomest men in Berlin, and the
favorite aid-de-camp Of the Emperor,
who for several years has never gone any
where without him. The Countess
Marie is now nearly 80 years old. Her
former betrothed, Count dEulenburg,
died of typhoid fever in 1875.
A NEWLY invented fre-escape consists
simply Of piece of gill Irvine, with two
India rubber pieces for grasping and
saving the hands in descending from a
window to the ground. It can be tied
to bedstead In moment, and its in
ventor says a life rope Of seventy-fve
thread gill Irvine, more than hundred
feet in length, will bear more than four
hundred pounds, and not occupy so
UGH space as two pairs of stockings.
The hotels of Maine have suspended
the publication of wine list on their
bills of fare in Difference to the new
liquor law, which makes such publica-
ton hollow mockery or criminal Of
II
leading hotels in Bangor, keeps up the
head line, "Wine list,'' and publishes
beneath it the sadly suggestive line,
owe would if we could"
A SUNDAY school teacher was explain
ing the omnipresence of the Deity to his
scholars, and ended by telling them He
was everywhere. Whereupon a red
headed boy asked: "Is He in my
pocket?" The teacher replied that the
question was rather profane, but he
would answer eyes. He is every
where" "Pve got you therep' said the
boy, | hain't got no pocket"
A VERY singular feature in the ma
rine landscapes between Terra del Fuego
and contiguous mainland, is the float
ing gardens Of seaweed. The plant fire.
quently grows to a length of between
800 and 400 feet. It gives cover and
pasturage to every species of crustacea,
great and small, while the intertangled
mass, swaying like ponderous curtain in
water, effectuslly breaks the shock of the
most tremendous rollers.
The monotomy of existence at the in
sane asylum of Pau, France, has been re-
heved by singular incident. A keeper
put an insane woman in a bath, her
hands tied, she being violent patient,
She complained that the bath was cold,
and the nurse turned on the hot water;
then, her attention being attracted else
where, left the room. Result-a boiled
lunatic, and an official investigation not
yet concluded.
The liquor manufacturer by the Car
thusian monks, in the department Of
Isere, France, has obtained world wide
The manufacture of it is a
secret which is known only to the head
of the monastery, the recipe being kept
sealed under stone in a great altar.
The death of the chief has rendered it
necessary to break the seal, which is
done with great pomp. The sale Of
chartreuse is immense, and nearly one
hundred thousand dollars of the profit
is annually sent to the Pope. It is three
centuries since its manufacture was COM
menced by these monks.
EAGLE BRIDGE, N. Y, has new coat
of arms-a mailman with a carving
knife, gules, rampant, regardant, on a
housetop of the first, proper. His name
is Lafayette Witheral. He induced a
neighbours wife to let him have 81 calf
for $3.50, converted the balance of the
trade into rum, and displayed such symp-
temps of madness that the neighbors
were fain to bind him to bed with
seven new ropes. When he became, as
they thought, calm they united him,
whereupon he seized a carving-knife,
drove them out and stabbed one Of them,
Henry Eddie, thrice. The mailman
allowed them to remove the body, but
intrenched himself in the house and babe
difance to the authorities, who have
fearlessly encamped round the building
and are waiting till he is starved out or
has the Oood SanSa tO ont his throat