Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-15
GLEANINGS.


AN Iowa woman has named her baby
" Pinafore."
IT is estimated that there are about
thirty thousand convicts in the various
state prisons.
HE herring schools off Gloucester are
SO large that nets are hauled in with
great difficulty.
A MAN who runs bucket-shop is out
side the pail of respectable stock brokers.
-Phsladezohio Bulletin.
HE latest Dakota contribution to
fantastic newspaper nomenclature is the
Jim River Blizzard.
THERE have been 81 900 bouquets and
plants distributed among the sick and
poor by the New York flower mission
this season.
YOUNG ladies Who are always sweet
sixteen until they receive an offer of
marriage, are wearing sashes again of
very wide width and very snowy colors.
Some of the New York shop-keepers
advertise an opening as an exposition.
One of them has had a pageantry of
head-gear fnery" for sale.
In Richmond, Va, court, the other
day, for the first time on record, a pris-
oner was both prosecuted and defended
by colored attorneys.
A BIG Salem rat tried recently to
breakfast of a young woman's ear as she
lay asleep. Her screams brought in the
family, and she was found with her face
covered with blood and her ear badly
lacerated. -
T. STEWARDS cathedral at Garden
City is to have one of Roosvelt's organs
at cost Of $35, 900, to be, when completed
next autumn, the fnest in America.
1t is at least one third larger than the
great instrument in Boston Music hall.
MARRIED three times and but II years
Of age is the sad history of Mrs. Rhodes
now confined at the New Hampshire re-
form school. She was sentenced on COM
plant of her husband for disorderly
conduct. ..s..E-
a DENIsoN (Texas) girls foot was
badly wounded, resulting in lockjaw.
A physician was called, and terror at the
sight Of the edged instruments produced
a reaction and the girl was well before
anything could be done for her.
SIR CHARLEs-"I should like of all
things to see you in parliament, Charlie"
Son and heir" Well, sir, I don't mind;
[ believe it's very good sort of place;
and then it's so handy to the aquarium"
Punch.
/ A BosToN druggist sold an ounce of
laudanum 70 boy who brought writ
ten order for tincture Of rhubarb, and
! the widow Of the man killed by the
blunder has obtained verdict of $5,208
damages.
AN amateur in rife practice st War
rem, Conn.,, few days ago, took a grape
arbor for target, and unsuspectingly
brought down boy who was hidden
therein, feasting on forbidden fruit.
The youngster will recover.
The owner Of the trotting horse
Young Brutus being too late to properly
enter the beast for a race at New Bar
rington, Mass, hired post-office clerk
to set back the date of the stamp
on the envelope in which the entrance
fee was sent; but the cheat was discover
ed and the horse excluded.
A GENTLEMAN who was interceding
, with Bishop Bloomfield for clergyman
!. who was constantly in debt, and had
, more than once been insolvent, but who
was man Of talents and eloquence, con-
cluded his eulogism by saying: elm
fact, my lord, he is quite St. Paul"
Yes" said the bishop, dryly, in pris-
ons off"
A PRETTY incident occurred at
Lebanon, Ont, the other Sunday. Into
Methodist church few robin during
service. Perching on rail opposite the
pulpit, it sang loudly when the people
sang, was silent during prayer, but while
the minister preached it chirped occa-
sionally as if to encourage him. It
remained until the congregation was
formally dismissed and then flew away.
In the midst of the performance of an
extravaganza at Boston theater an old
man rises in the parquet and says that he
is displeased with his seat, as he is unable
to hear well. One of the actors invites
him to sit in a chair on the stage, which
he does, and finally takes a ludicrous
part in the acting. It is not until the
close of the piece, SO clever is the i'm
position, that the audience sees the old
man is member Of the company.
TOBACCO has some some distinguished
female devotees in Europe. Emily
Faithful, it is declared, smokes like a
Michigan tugboat; The Duchess of Edin-
burg takes a quiet puff now and then,
and the Princess of Wales keeps little
cigarette-case which she hides profound.
~ from the smoke-abhorring nose of her
royal mother-in law, while the list might
be extended by nax2ing Elizabeth
Thompson, the artist, Nine. Ratazza, of
Italy, and others.
A CONTEST between rattlesnake and
SOW and pig lately occurred in Mont
gomery county, Georgia. The snake first
bit the pig; then the old SOW attacked
the snake, and in her turn was bitten.
She succeeded in killing the snake, but
when Mr.. Bridges, the owner of the
farm, reached the spot he found the
reptile and the animals side by side dead.
| This would seem to contradict the opin-
ion that the hog is proof against the bite
of the rattlesnake,