Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-12-01
GLEANlNGS,

BALTIMORE has $4,000 houses
Boston burned 1,717, 497 tons of coal
last year.
''NIeeER TENT" is the name of atown
in California.
NO NEWSPAPER man ever was president
of the United States
Two THOUSAND buildings have been
erected in Kansas City this year SO far.
THERE have been 1924, 1872 arrivals Of
immigrants III this country since 1854.
The finest sugar crop that was ever
raised in Louisiana is now being gath
cred. The yield will be fully so ger
cent. beyond the average.
SOME cigars fifty-two years old which
have lain most of the time in garrett.
! forgotten, have been brought to light in
| Rochester.
| A HORSE rolled in brook at Topsham.
Me-, and was unable to get up. His
body made dam, which raised the water.
and he was drowned.
| DR. j. &. HOLLAND is having steam
yacht sixty feet long and nine feet beam
made for him by Hereshoff, the blind
steamboat builder of Bristol, r. I.
HE Boston Tr0veXe7 unkindly re-
marks; "Ihe general impression made
by the alleged naval review is that we
have water enough; al we need are
few ships"
WHILE chewing sugar-cane, young
lady OF West Point, Georgia, who had
been quite deaf for several years. had her
hearing restored very suddenly the other
day.
SOME Of the Chocfaw girls in "the Ma
tlon, as Indian Territory is called, are
highly educated, very beautiful, and
nearly as fair In complexion as their
sisters In the states
JUDGE ToURGEE's new novel, Bricks
Without Straw, is as much of success
as his Fools Errand-it appeared butsi
weeks ago and is LOW IN its forty-fifth
!, thousand.
A NEVADA widower took his four sis
ters-in-laws to Salt Lake and married
them all. The Oldest is thirty and the
youngest sixteen, and they profess the
most ardent love for their husband, as
well as for one another.
A POSER in a shoe shop: Customer
giving an order): cts not so much q
durable article that [ require, Mr.. Cris-
pin. ! want something dainty, you
know-something coy and at the same
time wee bit saucy!"
By way of revenge, discharged en-
ploye Of a Denver railroad repair shop
, opened the throttle of locomotive and
let 1t go down the track. It ran into
two other locomotives, and all were
wrecked.
A BOVINE virus farm is one of the GU
riosities of Alameda, California Boston
also has this sort Of medical farm. where
heifers, entirely free from lung trouble
or other disease, are kept to furnish vac
cine lymph by wholesale.
In Richmond, Va, an old colored
, woman has been going to the depot
!, daily for many years to meet the incom-
ing trains, looking for letter containing
S25. After the war she did the washing
for soldier, and when he went away he
declared that he would return and bring
the money or send it by letter.
A MAN in a pfayer-meeting at Great
Springs, Ca, declared that he was ready
to die, and awaited the summons with
impotence. He had barely uttered the
sentiment, when bullet crashed through
the window and grazed his ear. A neigh
Dor, whom he had sued for debt, had
taken him at his word. He hastily hid
!; himself under bench.
A MURRAY Hill, New York, girl has
, had one OF her shapely feet modelled in
, marble, and has presented it as birth
day present to her affianced husband for
! paper-weight. A st. Louis girl did the
same thing, but the unasthetic creature
, to whom she is to be united heartlessly
, utilized the gift as a foundation for his
new residence.
The late Scion Robinson, the agricul-
, tr1ral writer who died on election day at
Jacksonville, Fla, was very staunch
, Republican. On the night before he
died he gave instructions that If Garfield
should be elected on the following day.
he wished his body to be wrapped in the
American flag, placed in a pine coffin
and buried His instructions were care
fully carried out.
A SINGULAR case of death caused by a
bet occurred at Wilmotville, Ala. The
winner was to have the privilege of
striking the loser single blow on his
unprotected breast with the naked fist.
Both men were robust athletes, and they
did not regard fhe penalty as O very
serious matter. But the blow was SO
powerful that it killed the one that re-
! ceived it.
BEARS have been making sad havoc in
the apple orchards in Klngfeld, Me. In
one young orchard they broke down
, twenty trees in their efforts to get at the
apples. A Roxbury farmer named Locke
, set three bear traps a few days ago, in a
; piece of oak woods where acornss were
plenty. The next day he found large,
fat bear in each trap. He shot. chem and
set his traps again. The next time he
went to the woods he fordnd bear in
, each trap, but was only successful in
capturing one of them. The other two
/ broke from their traps and escaped.
If man wishes. to be thoroughly
comfortable In his own coffin he must
plant the tree from. which that article is
made At lenst that was the Conviction