Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-01
CLEANING

CLEANING
The Corliss engine of centennial fame
is now used to run the machinery of the
branch mint at San Francisco.
THERE are at present under pay in
the army 1874 officers, viz: 425 of cav
airy, 2S1 Of artillery, 852 of infantry,
500 staff officers, and 1926 retired officers.
MAJESTIC is to be the name of the
new White Star steamer. 1t is said she
will be the largest vessel afoat, with the
solitary exception of the Great Eastern.
IT is estimated that 81, 900 is wasted
every month in Bridgeport, Conn.,, in
the purchase of lottery tickets, mainly
by mill operatives.
A BRASS band atAustin, Texas, was so
delighted because of recent rain that
they went about the city in the shower
and serenaded the citizens.
DELLA WHITE invited her friends in
Greensburg, Ind, to what she called a
surprise party, and surprised them by
getting married in their presence.
PHILADELPHIA papers tell of the ar
rival in that city of party of Italian
children, all of whom had been pur-
posely MANNED by the loss of an eye or q
limb, in order to fit them for begging.
A FARMERS wife in Vermont was
beset by seven tramps in body, and yet
true grit and ten quarts of boiling water
cleared her house of the gang in two
minutes by the ld-fashioned clock in
the kitchen.
REST is never so sweet as after long
struggle; strength is never so strong as
through trial; Joy is blesseder thing
after sorrow; and the fair dawning of
sunny days could never come if we had
no night.
Six Iowa tramps had just got nicely
camped in a small field when the owner
turned in an old bull which was the
terror of the country. Some of the
tramps got into the road with as much
as pair Of boots on, but several didn't
AT the twenty first birthday party OF
Stratford, Conn.,, lady her health was
drunk from a bottle of champagne
twenty-one years old, which was present
ed to her father at the time of her
birth.
BRIG ALLISON cut his throat in
Louisville, but had not made mortal
wound when policeman took away the
knife. Allison was unable to speak, but
he wrote On scrap of paper, will
give you five dollars if you will give me
back my knife and let me kill myself"
PROF. MAYER, of Boston, recently
soaked a potato-bug in carboGc acid
three days and then boxed it up, and
sent it to Europe for a geological speci-
men. It was fifteen days on its journey
and on arrival was full of life and as
hungry as his fellows commonly are.
COLONEL FeRNEY's Progress relates
the following: A stranger asked 8
resident in Milford, Del, care you
always troubled with mosquitoes here?'
"Mosquitoesw was the answer, "swing
pint measure around and you'll catch
quart of them"
The trade in monographs, which a
little more than year ago were to revo.
lutionize the world, languishes very
much at present. A good one sells for
500, but they are made as low as $15,
and as high as $3.50, the price charged
for those made for Dom Pedro and the
Emperor William.
A TROY, N. Y, child was supposed
the other day to have fallen into the
cistern. A good crowd gathered while
the cistern was being demolished, and
sure enough the child was found, but not
in the cistern. 1t was in the crowd
with the other interested people who
were looking for it.
A MAN was found dead at Viewpoint,
Ind, with bullet in his head. A hint
at the manner of his death was given by
the evidences of an interrupted game OF
poker. In his hard were four kings
while four queens lay near by, having
probably been dropped by his exasper.
ated antagonist and murderer.
A Mr.. SoULE, of Elgin, I'LL, is in his
third year of frog farming, and his first
crop is now being marketed. He has
an acre and quarter devoted to the frog
industry. The kind grown is the " Cos
lin Frog" much larger than the common
sort. Mr.. s. will, next season, furnish
St. Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati with
frogs, and is confident of success in the
business.
THE following stories are told of two
of Hartford's rich but frugal citizens: A
Hartford banker, having reluctantly
given % cents to worthy charity
charged so cents for acknowledging &
deed few minutes later, explaining
that "as a rule there is no charge fol-
this, but was called upon for con
tribution just now, ard one must cover
these things" A wealthy citizen, hav
ing to take an old stock of cheap boots
!, worth perhaps 40 cents each at retail, i
} working them off as wedding presents tx
meritorious young couples.