Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-12
GLEANINGS.

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By the management of its own gas
works the city of Manchester, England,
has, in its last fiscal year. realized the
handsome balance of $476,O
MIR. CoGswELL, of Pawtucket. r. T..
has given $4,000 to build q drinking
fountain which he will present to that
city.
A FIvE-YEAR old girl, left alone in
house at Holyoke, Mass, drank whisky
from bottle that she found, got drunk.
fell down stairs and died.
In England portable gas is now sold
and delivered everywhere. Country
residents receive it from the city in COP
per cylinders
IHE late Il. Chambers estate is valued
at two million dollars, including his
large city business blocks, Michigan
farms, bank stock and mansions in Wash
ington and Detroit.
AT Senioa, Ga, few days ago, a col
ored man wounded crane, and as he
took hold of the bird it suddenly stretch
ed forth its long neck, put out one of his
eyes and then made its escape.
Mr.. AND MRS. GOODWIN of Green's
burg, Ind, deaf mutes, lived four years
In noiseless disagreement and finally had
desperate parting fight in which he
was scalded and her skull was fractured.
In the neighborhood of Sebastopol the
pedestal of bronze statue has been dug
up, which is coveerd with old Hellenic
inscriptions belonging to the second
century &. @. The Odessa arch Biological
society is busy translating them.
MRS. GEN. JOHN @. FREMONT is very
popular In Arizona, where her husband
is governor. She is very handsome, has
beautiful gray hair, and is brilliant
conversationalist. She labors most among
the poor and uneducated.
A BRILLIANT Paris hotel keeper, after
having tried everything to draw people
his way, has just opened a large eating
establishment, and his signboard outside
informs the public that from the dining
room Of this place the firing of the artil-
lery cadets can be heard"
Col. INGERsoLL's edible" lies on the
center table in his parler. In it, at the
appropriate places, are leaves for the
family record, and on the cover, in raised
gilt letters, is the inscription, "This is
q
copy of Shakespeare.
Four bands of Nihilists have been
hunted down and dragged into the
prison yards of Kiev. They lived in
earth huts in the woods and were re-
cruited from the peasantry. They had
large sums Of money, but refused to tell
how they had obtained means to carry on
the work of revolution.
SENATOR CHANDLER was over six
feet in height, well made, with light
brown hair and blue-gray eyes. Part of
his face looked as If it had been disfgur-
ed by the smallpox. It was, in fact,
caused by a terrible burn he received
many years ago in rescuing his little
daughter, now Mrs. Hale, from house
on fire.
THERE is young man in town of such
susceptible and sympathetic physical
time to abandon a position in a drug
store for the novel reason that he could
not handle any medicine without being
affected with all the consequences it was
calculated to produce On the party for
whom it was intended.-Cadiz, Ky,
Democrat.
THE Bavarian railways are not famous
for express speed. A student st the
university of Wurzburg made wager
with some of his fellow academicians to
beat the locomotive in race with his
velocipede from Wurzburg to Kaisers.
lantern. The student managed to ar
rive at the destined goal before his COM
panions and received them with triumph
ant competency as they stepped out of
the railway carriage on the platform.
In places where wood has become very
scarce the use of straw for building pur-
poses has been suggested. Sheets of
ordinary straw board, as produced in g.
paper mill, are softened by chemical
treatment and pressed into bricks of any
desired thickness, varying with the num-
Der of sheets taken. This process pro-
duces material closely resembling wood,
which is impervious to moisture, and is
capable of taking fine polish.
DUPUYTREN, the famous French sur
geon, was painfully careful as regarded
his own dignity, and maintained it with
great energy. In the very cold winter
1819,when the thermometer was Ice below
zero, he found waiting for him at the
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assistants whose hat remained uron his
head. Dupuytren looked at him fxedly
for moment, then with one angry ges-
ture swept the hat from the mans head.
The dull assistant started but he did not
venture to resume his head gear. The
great surgeon, despite this punctilious-
ness, was not always mindful of his own
politeness. He is described as lecturing
at the school of medicine seated in q
chair with his back turned to his
audience. sf.....a
THE deep mines of Nevada are places
of frequent and fatal accidents, and Of
wonderful escapes. Patrick Holland,
miner, was riding up through shaft, a,
few days ago, with several companions.
The cage lurched unexpectedly, and he
was thrown over the edge. As this hap
pened 900 feet from the bottom, his death
was not for an instant doubted. His
comrades rose to the mouth OF the shaft,
obtained a box for his remains, and
started downward. When near the
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