Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-12
GLEANlNGS.

| actly the color of old copper.
THERE have been 1,5OO cases of mea-
sles in Michigan City, Ind, during the
last three weeks
IT is hardly probable that there will
be much of negro exodus during the
watermelon season.
'fFIGUREs won't lie" is q mistake.
Some of the fnestfgures upon the street
are nothing but -!
SAVE the 2Ocent pieces. Only 2OO,-
900 were ever coined, and the govern
ment is remelting all turned in.
If Vanderbilt lives 40 years the gov
eminent will have to take him into part
nership or repudiate its debit Virginia
city Enterprise.
News is something Like the small BOYS
definition of salt: "That kind O. stuff
that makes things taste bad when there
amt any of it in EN-"
WHEN q man has done me | absolute
good turn he kant kross it off from mi
books, I don't care how mean he may be
afterwards. Josh Billings.
The great quantities of sweet-meats
sent for sale by England to the South
African colonies are said to have robbed
the young ladies of their teeth.
SOME Of Peter Herdics assets, repre-
senting a million and quarter dollars
on paper were sold at public sale in
Williamsport, Pa, last week, for s., 800.
A MAN of sanguine temperament is
digging in bank of earth at Hagers-
town, Ind, for a box containing $50, 900,
which he claims to have reason to believe
was buried there half a century ago.
A BRIDGEPORT, Conn, man is perse-
cuted by English sparrows. They have
nestled seven times under his caves, and
seven times he has torn away their nest.
The sparrows have commenced ON their
eighth nest.
PHILADELPHIA has several gangs of
swindlers who open tea-stores into which
they invite countrymen to see their
wares, and one Whit of a strongly
chloroformed sample of tea puts them
at the mercy of the sWindlers.
This pretty word, expressive, andmore
than expressive, of heinaaOeh, needs no
explanation. 81 couldn't stop no lon
ger in my place; [ was mothersick."
Said by a Surrey maid-servant of her
first service.-Notes and Queries.
Young gent: ''Might I ask you, Miss
all" Miss: ''Very sorry sir, but
I'm engaged for the next three dances"
Young Gent: cit is not dancing-ah-
it -it's-beg your pardon, Miss; you
are sitting on my hat.-Argonaut.
THIS is the year for the temperance
of the seventeen year locusts. The last
visitation was in 1868, and if the theory
of their appearance at regular intervals
of seventeen years is correct, they may
be looked for in the coming month.
A TOOTH of the first Napoleon was sold
at San Donate the other day for $50.
The Boston Post says if it had occurred
to his family to break the old man up
into small lots they could have realized
handsome thing by selling him at those
rates.
"WHY, you'd better knock the door
down. What do you want ?" "Och,
my darlingl don't let me wake any of
your family. I'm just using your knock
er to wake the people next door. I'm
locked out, dye see, and they've niver
knocker."
JOHN A. LOWELL, Of Boston, Mass,
has invented new system Of steel en-
craving by which wonderful effect is
produced by comparatively few lines.
Indeed, some engravings are produced
by the skillful use of acids, discardlng
the etching point.
VAssAR COLLEGE is the recipient of
generous gift from the two nephews Of
its founder, Matthew and Guy Vassar.
It is new laboratory for physicians and
chemistry in which each student may
.I.,Jr oh mo or 11xy op1 bova
complete little laboratory all to herself.
IT is claimed that, when completed,
the Johns Hopkins hospital Ia Balt;-
more will be the finest and best endowed
institution of the kind in the world.
The grounds cover an area of 141 acres,
and there will % buildings. For it and
for colored orphan asylum, Mr.. Hop
kins left $4.OO0,0O0
A FAMOUS fibber told an extraordinary
story which, strange enough, CHANGED to
be true. cit is so extraordinary" said
listener, that if I did not know it
to be true, should believe it false.
"Ah," said the narrator, eff it had been
false I should have told it in q much
more truthful manner than did
The Boston Herald mentions the fact
that while people were pouring into
the Music hall IN that city to hear
what Robert g. Ingersoll had to say
about the Bible, worthy citizen station
ed men at the entrance with 500 New
Testaments in hand, to be given to the
audience for use in verifying Mr.. niger
soils references to the Bible.
THERE is a man at Luray, Virginia.
who became convinced while young that
kissing was wicked, because Christ was
betrayed by kiss. He resolved never
to kiss anybody. Hehas been married
twenty years, and is the father of eleven
children, but he has never kissed his
wife or any of his offspring.
A PRETTY girl shook a towel, over
which she had been peelng onions, out
of second story window ON fremont
street, and seven bald-headed men across
the way waved their handkerchiefs III re-
turn, until the man standing beneath