Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-15
GLEANINGS.


sells theater.
FRANCE has 40, 100000 hens with only
5000, 900 million women to throw things
at them.
IT is expected that $50, 900 barrels of
oysters will be shipped to London, Liver
pool and Havre the coming season.
SMITHERs believes in unlucky num-
bers. For instance, he says, it's un-y
lucky to have thirteen persons at table
when there is only dinner enough for
ten. 7Hafr-
A PROFESSOR stated recently before
the New York oyster commission that
100000 oyster eggs may be slowed
away in the space occupied by watch
spring.
MEMORY is great thing, as exempG-
want girl suddenly recollected, just as
twenty people were sitting down to ice
cream, that she accidentally spilled arse
mic in the freezer.
A VIRGINIA farmer helped himself to
drink while the druggist was out after
change, and it cost him three months in
bed and doctors bill of $40 for getting
hold of the wrong bottle.
A WEALTHY Mexican, who lives at
Chihuahua, where Governor Shepherd
has his silver mi1ie, has offered So, 900 for
the scalp of Victoria, the Apache chief,
who is making so much trouble down In
that country, and $3.50 for the scalp of
each warrior of his band
MAYOR PRINCE, of Boston, the other
pay, received letter from an Illinois
woman asking him to get her small
piece of silk to match dress, inclosing
sample, and adding: "Please do look
well in all the stores" The mayor al
ways does look well.
CHARLES A. DANA. editor Of the New
York San, recently spent s., 900 in the
construction of cave for the cultivation
of mushrooms. He has employed pro-
fessional mushroom grower to take
charge of it, and naturally anticipates,
it may be supposed, after so liberal a
provision, that the results will prove
compensatory.
AT the funeral Of Adelaide Nelson,
man rough-looking and dressed like
mechanic, was seen towards the end fore
ing his way to the grave No one could
seemingly stop him, and he finally burst
his way right to the inner circle; then
he threw one rose on the coffin and as
quietly and determinedly as he had
come made his way back. NO man
knew him.
TIE prosperous housewife is now en-
gagged in canning peaches, pears and to-
matoes, boiling catsup and sweet pick
les and making her house redolent with
savory smells. By using strict economy
she can "put up fruit at about three
times the price it can be bought for In
" canned goods at the corner grocery.
But then it's nicer-if it keeps.-Neav
Haven Register.
THINGS d man never forgets-his first
snub, the first girl he ever kissed, his
first night at the theater, his first pair of
pants, the man who tipped him when he
was boy, his sensations upon smoking
his first cigar, the nights when he used
to kick his heels for two hours at the cir
Gus door, how much better he might
have done in the world had he followed
some other occupation, and, If he is a
true man-his Commercial
advertiser.
A NATURAL gas well, such as are SO
frequent in northeastern Pennsylvania,
has been discovered at Ocean Spray. a
quiet summer haunt near Boston. While
a well was being driven few days since,
at depth of 122 feet, vein of natural
gas was opened, and the flow is abundant
and strong. It was so near the house of
smothered, and he is now making ar
rangements to utilize the gas for light
ing, cooking and heating. The neigh
bors are all driving wells.
4 PLUCKy Yankee woman living in
Pittsfeld, Me-, scared quack out of
his seven senses one day last week. He
had promised to cure her of neuralgia
# she would lay roll of greenbacks on
the kitchen table. She put the money
on the table as he requested. He then
asked for pen, ink and paper, and when
she went up stairs to fetch them he dis
appeared with the money. In moment
she was behind him with revolver at
his ear, and she kept it there until ne
had crawled back into the kitchen, put
down the money and begged for mercy
A HUNGARIAN newspaper reports that
the ibis has settled down in great num-
bers on the thickly wooded shores of the
Plattenesse lake Balston), to the sur
prise and delight of the sportsmen of the
neigLborhood, most of whom had never
before seen their novel visitor. The
bird has a long beak, bright steel-colored
feathers, and resembles the snipe in its
habits. Its flesh is savory. They build
their nests of dry twigs, or of peat and
reeds, setting them in long rows close to
one another, and in a line as straight as
if it had been laid down by an engineer.
Toward evening they flock together, like
wild ducks, in great numbers, and they
are generally shot by the sportsmen as
they alight. The eggs are nearly as
large as duck eggs, and of bright sky
blue color.
A HUNGARIAN peasant, named Janosz,
being convicted of stealing, was SEN
fenced to receive fifty blows The Judge
carefully explained to Janosz that he
might appeal to the Oher tribunal,
should the sentence strike him as being
too severe. Janosz promptly took advan-