Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-06-30
GLEANINGS.


BILE CONSERVATION among the players.
"A LOCOMOTIVE "went wild" and
dashed through the depot at Nashville,
at the rate of fifty miles an hour.
Or the 1000 convicts in the Virginia
state prison only two admit that they
merit the punishment they are enduring.
The bearded woman who used to be
with Barnum is now in all insane asy-
lum.
The book of common prayer has been
translated into more than sixty lam
guages, and million copies of it are
printed every year.
A SMALL cherry wood cabinet made by
President Lincoln fifty years ogo, and
used by him as a desk, is owned by
gentleman in Indiana.
A NEGRO man in Pointe Coupee parish,
La, pulled log out of the river the
other day and found in it $3.50 in old
French coin, much blackened with age
and exposure.
A New HAMPSHIRE firm of tanners.
who recently lost heavily by fire, has
notified its tenants thus thrown out of
employment that they need not pay rent
elAeA tHoy S0t WOrk again.
A TORONTO small boy stole ball of
Irvine from a store the other day. by
catching the loose end, and when he got
outside he deity proceeded to clay in "
the Irvine hand over hand until he had
secured the whole.
In recent railway accident near San
francisco runaway couple escaped un-
injured, while the stern uncle who had
caught up with them and was watching
their cooling from seat in the rear,
broke his leg.
ONE day last week six persons were
poisoned in York township, near Toron-
to, by the eating of a root dug up in the
woods in mistake for sweet ciceley.
Jacob Snider, farmer, aged about IS
years, dug the fatal root and died from
eating Of it.
A LADY and gentleman were capsized
in row boat on Onondaga lake at Sail
ma, n. n. A man heard cry and found
the man sitting on the bottom of the
overturned boat holding on to the lady
who was In the water. They refused to
give their names.
In answering the census man in New
York, one woman said that her husband
was gentleman. On closer questioning
he turned out to be a teamster. Ano'
er woman explained to enumeration the )
her husband was an ascender and de-
slender. He proved to be hod-carrier.
A WE'LL dressed man took three bars
OF what appeared to be gold into the
Philadelphia mint and asked 500, 900 for
them, but the suspicious of the officers
were aroused by the mans appearance,
and the customary certificate of deposit
was refused, and the man kept waiting
until 1t could be assayed, when the bars
proved to be nothing but copper, tin and
lead.
SToNEwALL JAcKsoN's last dispatch,
written by his own hand in pencil on
single sheet of English note paper, is
preserved in a case In the Virginia state
library. It was written to General Lee
just before the battle of Chancellors-
vile, where Jackson received his death
wound. 1t is short note, ending thus
devoutly: 81 trust that an ever kind
Providence will bless us with great sue
cess"
AT the dock on Canal street. New
York, recently, among the passengers
saved from the Narragansett was brute
in the shape of tall, well-built, strong
young man. 81 had secured two life
preservers, said he, Sand was floating
comfortably in the water with them, when
a lady drifted by. She begged to aid
her, or let her have one of the Efe-pre-
servers. NO. said I $50 and find your
own She drifted out of sight, and I
suppose she was drowned.
The Troy Times cautions it's readers
against a well-dressed man who is going
about the country claiming to be deeply
interested in the cause of temperance.
He calls at farmhouse, presents a
pledge for the farmer to sign, and when
this is done produces card, similar in
appearance, to which he also desires that
the signature be affixed, 'in order to
keep correct memorandum of his
work" The second card is a sight note
for any amount the swindler may see fit
to demand. Look out for him.
The New Haven Registers account of
the sound disaster contains the follow
ing: An old lady, Margaret Muir. of
Brooklyn, about 80 years of age, was
picked up while floating in the water,
holding high above her her infant grand
child, fifteen months old She besought
the men in the boat which came to her
rescue to save the child at all hazards,
saying: ooh, for Gods sake save the
baby! Don't mind me I am an old
woman, whose life is of no account! I'm
about done for anyway. Save the baby,
and if there's room for me TIL come,
too" Both she and the baby were res
cued.
The yacht Mohawk, which capsized in
New York harbor in the summer of 1876,
drowning her owner, Commodore Gar
ner, is now at Belfast, Me-, sailing under
the name of the Eagre. She is now en-
gagged in the coast survey service, under
command of Lieutenant S. M. Ackley,
United States navy. The yacht is of
$50 tons burden, cost when new $780,
900, was bought by government for $18,-
600 Immediately after the catastrophe in
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