Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-10-06
GLEANINGS.


AN $500 diamond ring hoated away
from Lafayette, Ind. A child tied it to
the string OF toy balloon, and let it
go.
MISS ELISA T. Hush, of Baltimore,
sued Clinton B. Larrabee, of the same
place, for $4,000 Cause, breach of
promise. Eliza wants big pile Hush
money.
g BUT for the execution of Hale, - said
Thurlow Weed in 1879, Washington
would not have executed Andre" So
said Lafayette. That declaration I
heard from his own Lips.
NEVER despise humble beginnings.
what at first you might call an old stick
Id the mud may in time grow to be
beautiful willow tree, shading the brook.
--Neao Orleans Pic0g/a.ne.
THE Empress Elizabeth of Austria.
whom Paris gossiper styles .the first
Amazon OF the world" is about to re-
ce1ve, 1t is said, the title of honorary
colonel OF a regiment of Russian uhlans.
HE president and Mrs. Hayes recent
ly visited Spring Valley mine at
Cherokee, Flat, Cal. Mrs. HAYES was
presented with handful of amalpam
worth probably $500. She also fired a
large blast of powder.
A RECENT spectacle in Boston was a
man asleep at the top of a telegraph
pole. He was a drunken repairer who
mad grown drOwsy at his work. Moth
ing was done to arouse him. and he
finally awoke in safety.
HERE is another instance of the terri
Gle effects of hard drinking: A young
lady OF Sandy lake, Mercer county, Pa.
lost her voice for several months, and
regained it by drinking a pint of whis-
ky.
SOME one in Harper's Bazaar is re-
counting under what difficulties southern
woman dressed during the rebellion. An
interesting item is that spool cotton re-
NAMED comparatively cheap, as it never
rose beyond twenty dollars spool.
The direct distance between the sum-
nit of Mount Washington and Fabyan's
has been approximately computed at
seven and half miles, the test being the
sound OF a steam whistle from the latter
point. Three experiments each gave
the time occupied In the transmission at
thirty six seconds.
SOME boys recently dragged out of
the bed Of the river near Saltwater vii
lage one of Burgoyne's four-pound iron
which has lain there for nearly
lob years. It is in good state of pres
ervation, and it has been proposed that
it be discharged on the anniversary of
the surrender.
On the Saw-Tooth mountains, sixty or
slxty-f miles from Bonanza and at an
Of nearly IL, 900 feet, is Ice Lake.
discovered and named last summer by a
party Of prospectors. The lake is a sheet
of perpetual ice. the surface of which,
it is said, never become even smooth.
except around the edges.
The curiosities of the postal service
was again illustrated at New Bedford the
other day. In op ening bale of cotton
at the Potomska mills sealed letter was
found, directed to lady in Prattville,
Ala. An uncancelled stamp adorned the
corner, and it was evidently dropped by
some one who was charged to carry it to
The postofice. It has been duly for
warded
The dangers of Paris streets are freely
rom the French capital and are declared
% be rapidly increasing. The taverns
wh1ch~are allowed to open very early in
he morning for the accommodation of
peasants going to market, are the resorts
IF the lowest and most dangerous char
acters, and early riding or walking in
Jhe Bots de Boulonge is often interrupt
ed by ruffians bent on robbery.
The fact that the bodies of persons
drowned in Lake Tahoe sink and are
never seen again has been planned by
/ Californian as follows: "The water is
20 pure that it possesses very little buoy
'ncy; it is SO cold at great depths that
body is frozen stiff; the great pressure of
he water reduces the size Of a body sub
merged I'D it to one-third its natural d.
nensions." It will strike the average
leader that the "explanation itself
leeds to be ''explained.
The way Texas COW boys cook their
neat is this: They kill and dress a one,
wo or three year old animal, according
Is their number needs, cut it in halves,
lang one-haf up on stakes, then build
/ fousing fire and roast the other half
Ill at once. At the next meal each man
axes his iack-knife and slices off for
himself. This is the manner of cooking
meats at the usual round-ups. The
practice, it is said, is not SO customary
IS it used to be, and is gradually dying
'ut
DIR. EMMoNs, the able New England
livine, met a Pantheistical physician at
he house of a sick parishioner. It was
10 place for dispute, but the abrupt
question of the Pantheist was, <sMr.
ammons, how old are you?" "Sixty,
reation, was the triumphant response.
Then you are the same age with Adam
nd Eve?' Certainly; was in the
,arden when they WERE" CT have al
Ways heard that there was third party
n the garden, but never knew before
hat it was YOU
On the slopes of AMETHYST mountain.