Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-14
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THERE are over 100000 peasant
land proprietors in France.
MANY Vermonters are raising sheep
in Colorado.
The question is, did the horseman
that secured the plains put soap in the
sand?
The Independent says that for mauy
years Commodore Vanderhilt's bene-
factions averaged 81 900 day.
Do LEWIS has rendered possible the
town Of Oatmeal, Backbone Valley,
Texas.
IT is estimated that $3O,OOO,OOO of
capital are invested in the mines of
Utah.
WOOD & livery are dealers in coal,
iron and bricks, at West Bromwich and
Oldbury, England.
The man who ate his dinner with the
fork of river, has been trying to spin
mountain top.
HE Eucal yptus GlobuIus, or Austria
liam fever tree, has been killed this
winter by frost at Charleston, s. G.
farming pays" A bald head presents
clear field for action.
INDIANA proposes to establish state
polytechnical institute to include metal
lurgy, mining, modelling and ARCHITECT
ture.
A MICHIGAN farmer has held on to
eight hundred pounds of wool since
1863, expecting to get two dollars a
pound.
AS an outlet for the over-crowded
California grape market, they have be-
gun to manufacture syrup. Three gal
Ions of grape juice make one of syrup.
GEN. QUERoGA, of Mexico, finds his
name suddenly made famous. But,
unfortunately, he had to be shot first,
to acquire this general mention by tele-
graph.
The dull times has reached the
Pacific coast, and some of these bust
ness men with cellars full of wine and
stables full of fast horses are looking
pale around the mouth.
A KENTUCKIAN is in India knocking
over tigers, and if the varmints don't
give out be will soon bankrupt the
Queen. His scalp bounty averages $50
per day, even when it rains.
AN Irish sailor just arrived in Cork
tells the people there that on his last
voyage he saw a monster sea.serpent
swallow full-sjzed sperm whale. Of
course everybody believes the yarn.
New YORK city shows an increase of
So 100000 debt during the past year.
The whole city debt, after deducting
the sinking fund, is put down at the
enormous total of Sis, 81 ,31O39.
The Iron Age says that paper car
wheels have run over 800, 900 miles,
| and promise to run over one or two
! thousand more without new set of
tires.
| A MARYLAND mule slipped on the ice;
its fore-legs straddled; its body was
split, and there was that phenomena to
all observers in natural history-a dead
mule.
HERE is a good business-ike epitaph:
"Here lies Jane Smith, wife of Thomas
Smith, marble cutter. This monument
was erected by her husband as q tribute
| to her memory and speciment of his
work. Monuments of the same style,
$3.50"
Mrs. CHARLES McVIcKER of San
Francisco, the other day presented her
husband with lot of three girl babies,
all healthy, bright children, weighing
twenty and a half pound. The Nc
Vickers had been previously pleased
with children to the number of twelve,
| of whom bat two are boys.
DURING the circus performance in
Philadelphia, last week, Mss Ella
Stokes, the equestrienne, was married
in the ring at the close of the perform
ance, to Mr.. Rudolph Mettee, an
! equestrian connected with the circus.
The wedding was witnessed by a large
MAMMA tsWhat is the bay crying
for, Maggie ?" Maggie-"I don't know"
Mamma-"And what are you looking so
indignant about?" Maggie That
nasty dogs been and took and eaten my
'punge cake. "-Mamma-"Why, I saw
you eating sponge cake minute
ago." Maggie-O, that Was baby's!"
By curious slip in the law relative
to the Pay Departm ent the Paymaster-
General only holds the rank of colonel,
and is entitled to the pay of that Of
fee, while three bureau officers under
him rank and receive pay as brigadier-
generals. A bill has been introduced to
correct that mistake, and to give the
Paymaster-G General the full rank and
pay of brigadier-general.
AN old man in Watson, Lewis county,
, New York, having conceived the absurd
idea that certain parties are intent on
poisoning him, has adopted peculiar
way of living remote from the world.
He digs hole and burrows during the
winter in the earth, and roams about
the woods in the summer, subslsting on
potatoes and other vegetables and such
food as he believes not poisonous. He
has lived thus for several years.
A sUB-EDIToR and reporter were
! quarrelIing one day in the editors
) room. "You are donkey |" said the
sub-editor. you are another re.
, piled the reporter promptly. "Pooh
5 pooh!" retorted the suo-editor; you
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