Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-05-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

MRS. UNLOCK CRAIK's husband is Is
years younger than she. She is now q
rich woman, having made great deal of
money from her books
Two Vermont men have swapped
wives. In order to make the trade legal,
they each paid the other nominal sum
and threw in the wife ''to boot"
The Black Hills are rolling over full
with men who haven't seen dollar or q
meal tor month, to say nothing of
change of linen.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Massachusetts legislature withdrawing.
from the hapless English sparrows longer
legal protection.
| PHELIM TOOLE, the St Louis fireman
who rescued the Reese family and six
other persons from the upper windows Of
the Southern Hotel, is native of Dub
lin, Ireland
PHILADELPHIA is reported to have
| 5000 houses untenanted or occupied bv
families who, unable longer to pay rent,
are permitted to remain in them on condi-
ton that they protect the premises from
the ravages to which unoccupied build
ings are liable.
AN immense African lion escaped
from It's cage in menagerie at Augusta,
Ga, into crowd of people few days
ago. The animal made snap at the leg
OF man and then attacked Tartary
yak and killed it. A rope was thrown
about It's neck and it was led back into,
its cage.
A HAPPY discovery is announced
from the Sutro Tunnel. If it, indeed,
be true that it passes through drift of
solid quartz worth $34 per ton, the
owners can now sit back in their easy
chairs and laugh at the croakers against
their daring enterprise.
A CANADIAN firm are endeavoring to,
get an order filled in Charleston, w. Va.
for 10000 feet of sawed lumber, to be
used for lock gates of the Welland canal.
The order was sent south on account of
the great dimensions of some of the
pieces, there being no trees sufficiently
large for the purpose in Canada.
A FACETIOUs telegraph operator fooled
lot OF Cincinnati reporters the other
day by treating them to some telephone
music from a neighboring town, which
the hoaxed newspaper men discovered,
alter their reports were nicely written,
animated from a concealed music-bOx
near the instrument.
SAYS the Norwich Bulletin: The un--
principled scientist who has discovered
new variety of cockroach in Florida,
probably would not have expended any
labor in such research if he had ever
been in newspaper Office and seen one
of the old standard kind rise up, over
the mucilage bottle, and enquire if there
were any new discoveries at Mycena.
CHARLESTON, S. c., peace having set
it, has now caught the seaport fever, and
is for SO extending its railroad facilities
as to become the great shipping point of
the country. ~ Norfolk, Va, some de-
c.des ago, decided to ruin New York by
suehsa plan, but the latter place is still
on our biographies. ..s,-. ,,-.ssfg,
A BED of yellowish colored paint, coy
ering an area of at least two acres, and
having thickness of four feet, has been
discovered near Cullman, Ala The
paint is found to be superior to ochre, as
it can be worked without adding white
lead, and cannot be surpassed for water
colors. E.SAJi 1904 II A@5 =
4 LIEUTENANT ZUBovITz, the Austrian
officer who rode from Vienna to Paris,
has crossed the Danube at the former
city mounted on horse fitted with new
floating apparatus, which Zuboyitz has
invented to facilitate cavalry crossing
rivers. It took him seven minutes to
cross the Danube, which was at its spring
level.
The japanese swashbuckler disposes
of his foe from behind. With two
rapidly delivered blows of his razor-like
sword he cleaves through the shoulder
blades and ribs of his former friend or
enemy, as the case may be, and there is
no more to be said If his aim is incor--
rect and he misses his victim, he usually
divides the door-past Of the house or the
nearest thing that receives his impetus.
THE dog fish which Capt Boynton en-
Messina was bravely engaged by the
famous swimmer, who gave the ferocious
animal prompt and telling cash in the
head with the long knife he carries in
his girdle. The fish turned and fed, but
not without giving its antagonist
heavy blow with its tail which bruised
one of the captains shoulders.
A PRovIDENT mind-Mrs. Muggins:
q We'll, Mrs. Gubbins, | was just agoin' to
whisper to you that our Mary Ham ere
is to be married Tuesday week. Mrs.
G.: Lawks, now! an I'm glad to hear
it, my dear, though you must expect
soight of trouble; and I do 'ope wot
with the railway accidents, sooicides,
hydrophoby, an things, let alone as
Hemperor even may have the measles,
bein' most dangerous to hup crowns
that your husband u'll subscribe reg'lar
to our burial society.-Fan.
The school house in Norwegian vii,
lage OF Ellingso was only half finished,
but the schoolmaster was unwilling to
postpone the March examination. The
stairway leading to the school room in
second story carried half way, and the
pupils had to Chamber up ladder and
enter by window. Twenty children
were in their places and the examination
was closing, when suddenly a dense cloud
of smoke enveloped the room. Rushing
to the window the schoo1master was
I 4 G. II had