Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-20
FRESHEST GLEANINGS.

IHE L hlladelph1a nickname tor James
is Jamesie.
A TOWN is looming up in the Black
Hills under the name of "New Chicago"
"A MASSACHUSETTS parson declares
that he will not marry men under 22 or
women under 20 years Of age.
If you 90 down into Maine and malici-
ously kill another mans dog, you will
be liable to a heavy fine and imprison-
ment.
The will of Fletcher Harper makes
no public requests, the bulk of the
property being left the widow, children
and grandchildren.
Hon. HUGH J. ANDERSON, who is now
in his 18th year, is the oldest surviving
ex-governor Of Maine. He was govern
or from 1914 to 1S47.
MISS NELSON has a diamond weigh
ing 81 karats, the largest worn by an
actress on any stage. It is set in frosted
gold leaves, and is valued at $4,000.
AT Utica on Sunday man caught a
dog which exhibited supposed signs of
insanity, and held it while his wife
chopped its head off with al axe.
A MERCHANT in Easthampton asked
his Sunday school class: "What is soil
tude?' and was answered by boy that
reads newspapers, "The store that don't
advertise"
AN old lady in Harlem, who has past
ed nearly 5000 medical recipes in book
during fifty years, has never been sick
IN her life, and is growing discouraged.
She says that some people are born to i'll
| luck
A STONE obelisk, bearing on one side
basso-relievo portrait of Prince Bis
marck, and on the other the words, eve
shall not 60 to Canossa," has been placed
on the summit of Harz Mountain. The
cost OF the monument was covered by a
public subscription.
AN American law student named Eos
ter has Just achieved the laurel of LID.
at Berlin University, astonishing and
delighting a large audience Of learned
Germans by the success with which he
passed an examination and the briliancy
of his dissertation.
The jury which sat upon the remains
of a Mr. Modem, who shot himself in
London, Canada, recently, brought in
the following verdict "That the death
Of W. E. Morden was caused by bullet
hole in his head, discharged by his own
hand, while laboring under fit of tenn
porary insanity"
A YOUNG man went to see his sweet
heart in an adjoining town the other
night, and the family were not inclined
to let him in. Grieved at so cold a re-
ception, he pressed them to know the
reason, but did not inger when in
formed, "We've got the smallpox
Springfield Republican.
A WOMAN in England read notice in
newspaper that her husband, from
whom she had been separated for II
years, was lying i'll in a San Francisco
hospital. She fastened thither, and
found that he had been discharged. She
continued the search found him, and
they were reconciled.
THE Adyautico describes a beautiful
statue which is to be raised to Titan
this year, the 400th anniversary Of his
birth, in the little town of Piove di
Galore, his birthplace. The head looks
toward the house where he was born, on
the walls Of which, tradition says, that
his earliest efforts appeared.
ROBERT BROWN, a colored waiter in
an Indianapolis hotel, in passing along
the third story balcony of the hotel on
his way to his room, the other night, &C
cidentally slipped and fell over the rail
ing to the pavement below, distance of
50 feet. Strange to say, although stun
ed for a moment, he was not seriously
hurt, and was heard to say as he walked
off, 'Pl have that pavement fixed in the
morning"
QUEER postmaster out at False Bottom
postotfice, in the Black Hills He never
has any postage stamps, but always tells
the man calling for them that the gentle
man On the outside of the delivery who
deals in stationary, has few, which he
will sell at five cents apiece for three
cent stamps, three cents apiece for two
cent stamps, and two cents apiece for
one-cent stamps. The attention of the
Postmaster General is respectfully di-
rected thitherward.
WISDOM is fox who, after long hunt
out it is a cheese, which, by how much
the richer, has the thicker, the homlier
and the coarser coat; and whereof to a
judicious palate the maggots are best. 1t
is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you
go you'll find it the sweeter Wisdom is
a hen, whose cackling we must value and
consider, because it Is attended with an
egg. But lastly it is nut, which, IN
less you choose with Judgment, may cost
you a tooth and pay you nothing but
worm
A PARIS highwayman surprised an old
gentleman at dark corner, felled him
with violent blow and turned his
pockets inside out. He found very little
money, but papers disclosing the fact
that his victim was wealthy citizen
without heirs. "Great Jupiter!" I've
made an ass Of myself" exclaimed the
assassin. He felt the body, and found
that life was not extinct. Hal" said
he, with feverish anxiety, ''now the
question is how to bring him to and get
the old buffer to adopt me-
THE officers of the wrecked steamer
San Francisco claim that the rock which
the ship struck was upheaved by volcan-
ic action just in time to hit her. This