Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-02-04
SCISSORINGS-

WENDELL PHILLIPS calls Balls statue
OF Josiah Quincy Ga dancing master
clogged with horse blankets. ~
EIGHT Little Sisters of the Pooro
have been sent from the parent house in
Paris to establish branch in BROOKLYN.
The Oil City Derrick reports q game
OF seveN-up at that place between two
oil princes for 500, 900.
ONE John CantreI1, a Texas road
agent, has just been sentenced to ninety
nine years imprisonment
"PRAY do not attempt to darn YOUR
cobwebs," WIS Swift's advice to gentle
man of strong imagination and weak
memory, who was laboriously explaining
himself.
Two German girls, sisters, got into a
rough and tumble fight in Buffalo recent
ly, over the question whether their father
was sick with, asthma or neuralgia.
They had to be separated by bystanders.
HOWARD CROSBY writes to. the New
York Tribune that an unknown elderly
gentleman handed him letter contain
ing 800 in bills, with the request that it
be deposited to the credit of the United
States.
A sCHOOLMAsTER at Sutton, VT, was
bound and put into coffin by six of his
boys, who intended to draw him triumph
antly through the village on a sled; but
a rescuer in the stalwart person of
woodchopper arrived just in time
A STRING of negroes, made up all sizes
and ages, arrived at Atchison, Kan, the
other day, having been five months
tramping the long distance from Bolivar
county, Miss. They arrived without
penny in their pockets, and all their
possessions were bound up in the little
bundles of clothing they carried in their
hands.
A NEW species of plant is called the
baby plant" Inside its calyx is tiny
figure that looks like baby, but there is
no further resemblance. It cannot
squall, kick and yell like baby, neither
can it Groom and crow like one of these
little pink darlings, but we sho1lld rather
have it in the house as far as good
nights sleep is concerned. Haven
Register.
AN enterprising English four-year-old
in Willhoughton got hold of bottle
about haf-full Of gin, fortnight ago,
and drank about half the contents. His
mother, finding the child smelling strongly
of gin, accused him of. having been at
dads bottle" He nodded assent, but
said nothing. He was put to bed, slept,
but awOke in couvulsions, and. though
doctor was at once called In, he never
rallied
A LITTLE girl, shut up as a punishment
for some fault, in her fathers barn, at
Baud (Morbiham), in France. was killed
by wolf, which, by climbing a rubbish
heap, was able to enter by the roof.
The family had been at work in the field
at some distance, and on the father open
ing the door to release the child the wolf
sprang out and made off, leaving ON the
floor the half devoured remains of it's
victim.
THOMAS VEAL, pirate. hid himself
and his treasure in cave at Dungeon
Rock, Mass, and, in 1858, by an earth
quake, both were buried. Such is the
story that Edward D. Marble believed,
and for twenty nine years he dug for the
loot, under spiritual guidance. He died
few days ago of consumption con-
tracted in the work. A hole in the
ground 1876 feet deep is all that he made
by his labor.
A FAMILY in Norwich, Conn.,, were
mystifed by the violent ringing of their
door bell each morning without appar-
ent cause, and the Bulletin says that
| they we're about to slide into a faith in
| spirits and demonstratively confirmed
| belief in the supernatural, when it was
discovered that the bell-wire passed over
a cTlrtain-cord, and that a knot in the
latter caused the violent ringing of the
bell when the curtain was pulled up.
one hundred and fifty years old. Erected
III l723, it can claim greater age than
any other church in that city. From it's
belfry were swung the lanterns that
flashed their signal to Paul Revere on
the night of his famous ride to Lexington,
warning of the anticipated British raid.
The furniture Of the chancel is plain and
antique, while the prayer-books and
bible are also honorable with age, and
were bestowed in 1873 by King George III.
A DRUNKARD at Battle Hill, Kan, re-
solved to reform or die. Putting some
deadly poison into glass with whisky,
he locked himself IN room with the
mixture. His plan was to conquer his
craving for alcohol if possible, and, if his
appetite overpowered him, kill himself
with the drink that satisfied it, He was
alone with the poison for six hours, and
then he drank it. His life was saved,
however, by the timely efforts of ply
stefan, and he was sent to an asylum for
inebriates.
Mr.. w. d. HowELL's home at Cam
bridge bears the quaint name of cred
top" The lower story is of brick and
the second of wood, entirely sheathed in
California shingles. In architecture it
is mixture of Queen Anne house and
Swiss chalet. Mr.. Howell's study is
large and charming room, with a wide
fireplace, filed at this season with
blazing logs, with pretty winter garden,
under glass, opening out of it, and
ceiling divided in ancient fashion by
! beams