Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-07
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600.
SEVENTY new lives are ushered in
every minute of the "a hours.
A PREPARATION to make the hare
come out could he sold to sportsmen.
| THE pin is mightier than the sward.
You can sit on the sward with impunity.
| SINCE the war of the rebellion $780,.
GOO, 600 have been expended for pensions.
| CHARLES F. BRUSH, of Cleveland, has
sold his English patents for electric
lighting apparatus to company in Lon
don for 100000.
RECENTLY young woman In Balti-
more, after suffering from severe pain in
the region of the heart, coughed Violent
ly and released from her left lung an
oyster pearl as big as pea.
A WRITER truly says that there Ia no
need to go beyond the farm yards and
stables to estimate the condition of the
farm or to Judge of the success of the
owner.
| A NIAGARA FALLS photographer
claims that there has not been the least
change in the general appearance of the
Falls for at least Is years, which he can
prove by his old negatives.
| A DAKOTA paper asserts that 1000
pitchforks were sent to the Santee In
dams, and that there are net over 900
Santees at the agency, counting both
sexes and all ages.
AN Iowa bridegroom who meant to
throw I" the marriage was run down by
two dogs and eight farmers, and married
with his feet tied together. The girl was
no sooner made his wife than she made
for his hair and pulled out great hand
fuls.
Miss Lillian WHITING, on the edito-
rial staff of the Cincinnati Commercial,
stays at her post until II o'clock at night.
She is said to look the picture of strong,
healthy, fresh young life, and has proven
by her work that a woman can do wei
on daily paper.
THERE are cooking, sewing, shopping
and numerous other unitarian schools
for women, but what is most needed is
an institution for teaching the fair ones
how to carry umbrellas without sending
half the pedestrians they meet to the
eye Observation-Disclosures Nesos.
ONE-THIRD of all the gold that is
mined goes to wear and tear, one-third
into circulation, and one.third into the
arts and manufactures. AL the gold in
the world would make pile only twen-
ty-fve feet wide, forty-fve feet long and
twenty-five feet high.
ACCORDING to Cincinnati paper one
of the ablest divines in that city started
out the other nightto explore the wicked
places of the city in order that he might
better attack them In his sermons. He
| OF inch H0
. swindled out of $40.
A YOUNG lady in Chicago, when asked
by the officiating minister, "Will you
love, homer and obey this man as your
husband and be to him a true wifeT'
said plainly, Yes, if he does what he
promised me financially" -Goh Hill
Neaos.
A JUDGE in Providence the other day
found another judges dog under his
chair and kicked it aside. It returned,
and then he picked it up and hurled it
over desks and chairs and railing to the
floor. He has been prosecuted for cruelty
to animals.
A PANTHER entered the house of Mr..
Dobbs, near Damascus, Ala, ran Mrs.
Dobbs out and took pc session of the
place. Her husband being absent she
went to neighbor's, got several persons,
and returned to her home and found the
vicious animal quietly gnawing bone.
From some cause it escaped before it
could be killed.
A WEALTHY man who lived in Chester
field, Va, had two sons, Tom and Jack,
both fond of playing poker, but Jack
was very sharp at the game and Tom
very fat When the old man died he
left Tom 100000 and Jack only 81, 900,
but he explained at the foot of his will
that ST. 900 was just stake enough for
Jack to win verything that Tom had,
and it was wise provision, for 80 it
turned out.
AN ingenious person has pointed out
the fact that an orchestra is complete
representation of society. Thus the
army is represented by the kettle drum,
the magistrature by the ophiclide with
it's grave notes, finance by the big drum,
criticism by the fife, love by the violin,
hunting by the horn, poetry by the harp,
the exact sciences by the triangle, and
mendicity by the clarionet.
GENERAL ROGER A. PRYOR, of
Brooklyn, has received from Virginia
friend CURES relic of the war. 1t con-
| sIstS VI Two UuIl6ts tuat 0FluoutIy u0t
in the air over some battlefield, and,
happening to strike each other on their
conical points, were firmly welded to-
geth. The ball that, from it's shape, is
supposed to have been fired from Union
soldier gun, apparently was going With
greater speed than the other, and ia
more conspicuous in the relic. The base
of the balls are split apart and fattened
against each other. The relic has been
mounted in gold as pendant.
A WOUNDED puck was seen by q
young man named Pittenger as it
bounded down to Mill Greek, near Will
Transport, the other day. Pittenger gave
chase and got hold of the deer, when
violent struggle ON the ice followed.
Joseph Hyman appeared on the scene
and while Pittenger still held the animal
Lyman shot it. Just then two other