Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-01-31
FRESHEST GLEANINGS.

Its days are numbered-a calendar
THE Hon. VIM. M. Evarts is a. bril-
liant success as raiser Of corn.
TEXAS papers say that peach trees art
blossoming in that State.
IT is reported that 400 national bank,
are preparing to retire their circulation
BRUSSELS has arranged to build 8
grand Museum of Art at q cost of 3
million odd.
MONACO now has the only licensed
gambling halls in Europe. This place
is but few miles from Nice.
BEAUTIFUL sentiment of milkman-
while the ship of state is in danger
let every man be at the pumps"
PATTI got over $4,000 worth of dia-
monds at her benefit in Moscow. and
over three hundred baskets of flowers.
FOUR deaf mutes were married in
Kentucky last week. It was a mutual
affair.
GRAPES, it has been discovered in
California, are equal to corn for fatten-
ing hogs.
MIR. VANDERBILT fixed his will to keen
the money in the family as much as
possible.
BUFFALO is grooming over a city debt
OF 81, 55l ,U6, of which $423,7S5 was
added in 1876.
LONDON is represented to be COM
mercially and socially very dull. Paris
is in a similar condition.
ALGERIA has ten million acres of
alpha plant which is used in the manu-
facture of paper stock.
The London Crystal Palace is to have
a clock, the dial Of which will be forty
feet IN diameter, and the hands nine
teen feet long.
WOMEN can't stand on the corner.
talk politics and swear, but they can
| stay at home and rip and tear and
darn their husbands old clothes.
EVERYBODY knows which is the wind
ward side Of cOal-ash seive, but no one
ever succeeded in getting there.-Da,s-
bury Neus.
PARIS gets $4,000 yearly from con-
tractors for the privilege of keeping
the streets clean. The sweepings yield
$6OO,O0
NURsERYMEN are cheating Kentucky
farmers by selling them fruit trees from
specimen fruit in glass jars. The Joke
of it all is that the glass of the case mag
mites the specimens.
ABOUT an acre of snow bank was dug
over near Pittsfeld, under the suppose
ton that missing girl was in it; but
she returned alive, having been on q
visit to a school-fellow.
In Virginia City, when strange &C.
tor fails to draw for the third night, the
manager meets him behind the curtain,
gives him weeks salary in advance,
| and proceeds to draw claret by mash
ing his nose.
ALL the notabiities walk along Penn
sylvania avenue, in Washington, the
thoroughfare that has long been the
exercising grounds of Presidents,
Cabinet officers, Senators and diplo-
MATES.
SOME Of the Boston hotel proprietors
have made the interesting discovery
that their servants are supplying res
taurants with meats, stolen from the
hotel larders.
lie A1$ACob 1OOlo DIX pIOS6u UykClGY
health statistics to be the healthiest.
Diphtheria, fever, and consumption
prefer the cellar. In crowded tene-
ment houses, however, the gain in
health is somewhat neutraized by the
risk IN cases of fire.
A MARRIED woman, now an inmate of
poor house in Illinois, has brought
suit against her father and brother,
who are wealthy, to compel them to
support her. She was once the belle
of her vicinity, and after short time
of married life was deserted by her hus-
band.
WHEN the late James w. Nye was q
Democrat he was very intimate with
John Van Buren,, and when he changed
his politics his relations with Governor
Seward were of the same character.
In a political address which he delv-
cred at Oswego somebody interrupted
him by saying: "You are Stewards
bottle-holder." "Well," said Nye,
"they used to say l was John Van
Buren's bottle-holder, but my duties are
lighter now. don't have to draw the
cork so often.''
The dog-pound of cultured Philadel
phia makes the following report fol-
1875, "Dogs captured during the year
1882; dogs received from city refuge,
80; dogs sent by private parties, 472
total number of dogs, 1858. The num-
Der of dogs redeemed, for which 81
each was received and paid to the May
or for the city, 576; dogs smothered
1899; dogs escaped, 3; dogs died 10
dogs on hand this day, 8; total $685.
CORNELIUS CASEY, Western Union
Telegraph messenger, only II years
old, deserves personal mention of the
most cordial sort. He WAS employed
in the Office of the company at Bruins
wick, Ca, and during the yellow feve,
epidemic there liz the Autumn, while
all the local operators and those sen
,, from abroad were struggling with tn,
disease, he took charge of the Office
and kept up communication, without
, which the town would have been en-
tirely shut away from outer relief. III,
sent and received dispatches correctly
although he had had no instruction ant
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