Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-21
Gieanings.

ure called the umbrella bird.
| A man has just been paid the boun-
ty for | ,O6l crow-scalps in Dorchester
county, Md.
A new English newspaper is about
to be published in Paris. 1t is to be
called the Bouleuarde.
Crickets are reported as appearing
on the west side of Sierra valley in con-
siderable numbers.
A Nebraska man, with the aid of
sixteen men, planted $4,000 trees Gu
his claim in eight days this Spring.
Pennsylvania Will hereafter pay a
pension of S75 to its veterans of the
Mexican war and their widows.
Skepticism in Germany has had the
effect Of diminishing the number Of as
pirants to the clerical profession.
A revival is now in progress at Da-
mariscotta. Me-, which is stirring the
community as it has not been stirred
for years. The churches all unite, and
three services are held every day.
A wonderful table-c cloth was lately
shown at New York church fair.
The bodv is blue, with white border
embroidered with flowers. The lady
who made it first painted the flowers
from nature, and then made the exact
copy of the painting in needle-work.
The Midnight Mission in London re.
ports that during last year II 900 poor
women were advised with in the streets
ninty-two were admitted to the night
refugees, sixty more applied for admis-
sion, thirty four were sent to homes,
and tweaty-six ''otherwise disposed Of
or sent to friends
The Fall River (Mass.) Ne,cs re-
la.es the following az y fact: Two
men were conversing about the antici-
pated strike the other day, when one
of them, mule-spinner, remarked
that he had been in swenty-six strikes
during his lifetime WELL said the
other, did you ever make anything by
it, Not once was the reply; lost
every time. -"
The New Haven Journal says that
two passengers, strangers to each other
on New York and New Haven train,
had dispute over package, which
each claimed to own, and it resulted
ia showing that both had bought trou-
sers of the same pattern of the same
firm In New York city, aud the pack
ages had been done up alike One of
the couple had lost the pair he bought
but which, remains mystery.
There are off the cost of Kerry. Ire
land, little islands called the Baskets,
inhabited by very poor and primitive
population, whose nearest church is on
the shore of the main land. On
stormy Sundays they cannot cross to
Lear mass" but they kneel by their
rocky coast barebeaded, in the open
air; the progress 'of the ceremony is
made known to them by flags, and
their prayers accompany those of
the priests.
The Darlington Is. C Ne,os says:
"More negroes have bought mules
this year in Darlington county than
ever before. They buy them from
merchants On time, IN most cases, Civ
ing a lien on the crop, and at prices
ranging from $40 70 $780, And
in another connection it thus laments,
seeming 10 willful blindness: "In
some sections of the county farmers
fiud it almost impossible to hire hands
from the fact that nearly every negro
10 his nelghborhood is renting land.
IF this state Of things continues to be-
come more and more general every
year, it does not require the prophets
aid nor that of his son either to fore
tell the inivitable result-worn-out
land, poor cultivation, poor crops, and
poor people.
POISONED WITH A POSTAGE STAMP.
Young ladies who think proper to
correspond with rejected lovers would
perhaps do we'll to take hint from
the following curious case, which is,
however, authentic. Mile. Felice
Maxy, who lives on the farm of Pente.
cote, on the Belgian frontier, was ca
the point of being married, when she
received letter from an old suitor
asking her to reconsider the matter.
and send him an immediate reply. A
postage stamp was gallantly inclosed to
defray the cost of transmission. The
answer duly written, Mile. Maxy ap.
piled the stamp to her fair lips; but
hardly had she done so when she felt
sharp pain in her tongue, and in less
than no time that interesting member
became horribly elongated and infam-
ed, and covered with poisonous sores
: The disconsolate one. Alfred Camin
by name farmer at Pichon, in the
Nord, has been arrested; but he de-
clares that he used no obnoxious drug
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