Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-10-27
GLEANINGS.

OhI1oNS Ol -AduSaS nave Doo0 visited
by clouds of butterflies of large size.
with long black bodies and brown spot
ted wings.
A BOY in one of our public schools.
having been told that reptile '.is an
animal that creeps," on being asked the
baby"
A NEW YORK reporter has discovered
mat when borax Is called for in q pre-
scrlptlon 1t is charged for at the rate of
S65 per pound, and it doesn't 90 as far
as arsenic either.
AN Oregon ranchman threw a lasso
clumsily, and the moose fell around his
own neck. Just then his horse unseat-
ed him, and, one end of the rope being
fast to the saddle, he was choked to
death.
Mr.. VIM FL. VANDERBILT has DIP
chased IN Vienna a boudoir set of Aus
tral1an bent wood furniture which is
sad to be duplicate of the one made
for the emperor and exhibited at the lost
Paris exposition.
IHE remains Of Mr.. Meeker, the muir
dered agent of the White River Utes,
have been taken up from the place Of
burial where his body was found after
the agency massacre, and sent to Greeley,
Colorado for interment.
A YOUNG lady of Troy, N. Y, was in
suited by matinee masher at the en-
trance to the theater. She punched
him In the face with her parasol, and the
point put his eye out. "Mashing'' is
not so popular in Troy as it was.
SUSAN GLADDEN., of Unionville, Ohio.
being very angry at Forest Morfet, told
him she would shoot him or his horse
with the gun she carried, whichever he
chose. He said, "Neither," and she
mercifully decided on the horse, sending
o bullet through it's heart.
PEOPLE who are troubled with cock
reaches are advised that fresh cucumber
parings placed where they can get at
them will completely rid the premises of
them. The reaches such the poisonous
juices out of the cucumbers and die
probably from collie.
The real name of Powhattan's daugh-
ter was Matoaka. Their tribe had a
superstition that any person whose real
name was unknown could not beinjured
by an enemy. They therefore told the
English that Matoaka' s name was Poca-
hontas.
WHEN Sarah Be1nhardt was aboard
the Amerique, the steamer in which she
sailed, in place of the usual ugly berths
she found dainty bed, pretty, and
hung with dark red curtains and lace.
The floor was covered by soft, luxurious
rugs, with boquet of blush-roses upon
the mantelpiece.
The Schenectady locomotive works
are building large locomotive for the
New York Central road to be called the
William H. Vanderbilt" The front
end is to be mounted on thir y-three inch
paper wheels. The ordinary sizes of
engine truck wheels are twenty-six. and
twenty-eight inches, and latterly thirty
inches.
The will of the late General Albright.
of Mauch Chunk, Pa, leaves 1egacies of
$500 each to three relatives, the use of
his estate to his widow during her life,
and the reversion at her death to Dickin-
son college to educate poor young men
without regard to race or color. Should
the college make color distiD elton the
bequest becomes null.
EX-SENATOR SIMON CAMERON recently
bought dwelling house built on the lot
of ground in Maytown, Lancaster county,
Pa, on which stood the house in which
he was born, in 1899. He presented
the house the Lutherans in Maytown,. to
be used as Lutheran parsonage and to
stand as memorial to his wise, Marga-
ret Brue Cameron, who was devaut.
Lutheran.
CAPT. JAMES F. STEELE, who COM
manded South Carolina company dur
ing the war, has sent to Miss Lucy Sims,
a teacher in one of the public schoolsso
Brooklyn, sword lost by Captain Sims,
her father, at the battle of the Peters
burg mine. Captain Sims was killed at
Petersburg, and his motherless child vas
adopted as the daughter of the Regi-
ment " by the Thirteenth New York Vol
unteers. The regiment educated ner at
Vassar college.
PROF. G. T. ATKINSON was principal
os Oakland seminary, in Warren coun-
ty, Ky. His boy pupils asked for
holiday, and it was given them. The
boys then demanded that Professor At
kinson should 'treat." The professor
refused, whereupon the boys carried him
to mill pond and "ducked'' him-the
professor being soaked from his oiled
hair to his polished boots. He now sues
the trustees of the school and the faith
ers of the boys for SIS, 900 damages.
The visit of President Hayes and par
ty to the cascades and dales Of the CO.
lumbia river, Oregon, was enlvened by
many curious scenes and Incidents
Nearly the whole population of the
country gathered on the river banks to-
salute the president, There were many
shotgun salutas, and at the new locks
thirty seven resounding blasts were fred
in succession. At the cascades an old
Indian gazed with awe at the president,
and it is said almost tainted when the
white father grasped his hand.
A ROMANTIC relic of Cowpens battle I
was shown by Mr.. VIM. J. Randolph at
Kings Mountain during the centennial
observance recently. The relicis aplain
% karat gold ring, which was found ON
the Cowpens battlefield in 1921. The