Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-04-28
GLEANiNGS.


wire is vernal curiosity in Carlisle. Pa
a MiDDLE-AGED German couple who
arrived at Baltimore from Bremen the
other day had with them Is children.
VANDERBILT will soon invest six mil
lions more Ill government Is. RUNNING nm
his account III these securities to 81
100000
LIE greatest trouble about the fox-
hunting clubs in New York is, first to
find a fox which won't run into some
! grocery store, and, second, to convince
farmers that a ride over wheat field
helps the crop.
A CITIZEN Of Illinois, has an ambrotvpe
portrait OF President Lincoln at the age
OF 81 years. 1t represents him as tall.
gaunt man, dressed In worn out clothes.
and with his hair standing out in all di-
rections.
WILLIAM PLUMMER, of Dover, Me-,
made his own coffin several years ago,
and placed it In his stable loft. He cot
the dimensions wrong, however, and it
could not be used when he died the other
day.
The people of Lexington, KY, mourn
the loss of Bulger, a sad dog. who for
years has followed every funeral process
sion to the cemetery. The first funeral
attended by Bulger was that of his
owner, and ever afterward the dog has
seemed to be looking for his master.
A TELEGRAM from Hillsboro, Texas.
reports that a very brilliant meteor fell
and burst, IN the day time, near Rich
land Greek, in Hill county, and that one
piece as large as mans head had been
found, which had penetrated the earth
five or six feet.
SIX HUNDRED barrels of whisky were
lost by the sinking of the steamer Ara
blan IN the Missouri river TWENTY-FIVE
years ago. All attempts to raise it
failed; but now the course of the river
has changed, and the whisky, which now
lies forty feet under the sand is to be
dug for.
TULARE LAKE bed in Hanford, CAL, is
five miles from where.it was four years
ago. On the land reclaimed by the
change are found the remains of a corral
and cabin, and irrigating bitches can be
Traced running IN straight lines. Wheat
is now growing On the bed of the old
lake. w
The dog lives in Sardis, Miss, ana L,
pointer named Jack. It was a cold,
rainy day that he spent with an old
hunter by the freside The old man
walked up in the night and hearing a
slight noise at the fire, he looked and
there sat old Jake. The fire had nearly
died out, and the dog was putting the
chunks together with his paws and actu-
ally blowing the dying embers.
MARGARET DEGAN, an old woman who
died in Kingston, n. Y, recently, was
worth great deal Of money-enough to
have kept her comfortable for 100 years
but she had mania for collecting old
tin cans. At her death the neighbors
found every room in her house stocked
with the cans, of which there was one
for the establishment of about every
dogs tail in the United States.
| IT is said that when General Grant
took the train at Morgan City for New
Orleans a crowd of colored people
pressed up to the car platform, and an
old gray-headed man shouted: "Gin1,
don't you recollect me?" Grant shook
his head. "Why, Gin1, Use A1ick, de
boy dat rode de dun horse in de army
Grant said, "No," but rejecting a few
moments, remarked without a smile,
"But think [ recollect the dun horse''
THE s'dark day. in America COM
menced at about 10 A. NJ, May -, 1850,
and continued until the middle of the
next day. The Arizona Miner says wo-
man living on the Little Colorado was
% years of age at that time, and remem-
bers the circumstance. She is now 1913
years old. The darkness created great
CONSERVATION among her people, the
Spanish and the Indians The Spaniards
buried their saints and the Indians took
to feasting.
A LAWYER of Kingston, n Y, says he
won recent case through a dream.
There was one point he had to make clear
to the court in order to win, and for some
days he studied it, but without any Con-
clusion. One night he went to bed some
what restless over 1t, and dreamed all
night, and Ill the morning, remembering
| the dream, he found that in his sleep he
had solved the problem, and that. too,
in way he had never had the slightest
idea of before. When he argued the
case he did it i'll the way the dream had
pointed out. The judges based their
opinion in his favor on that very point.
| A CITIZEN of Watertown, n. Y. re-
ceived through the post-officc of that
place recently, letter mailed thence to
him at Alexandria, Va, in 1862. It bore
the Washington postmark of Is years
ago, but penny stamp had been placed
over the 3 cent stamp, and the word
Getty written on the envelope, Alex
andria scratched out The presumption
is that some Watertown soldier was in
trusted at Washington with the delivery
of the letter, and forgot to do so, and
while looking over his old papers, dis
covered it and dropped it into the Water
town postofice.
DIR. HUNTER, who eloped with Miss
Emma Androvette, of Huguenot, r. l.,
became known to her when on board the
steamer, on his way to Bermuda, in this
way: He and Miss Androvette had
registered as Mr.. and Mrs. Huntington.
Just before the steamer arrived at Ber-
muda, the passengers passed vote of
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