Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-04-20
THIS AND THAT.

SIX Jerseymen have banded together
to raise one million watermelons for this
years market.
A YOUNG man who invested 500 in an
oil-well at Summit City, Pa, is now
worth 100000.
A MAN at Lincoln, Neb., Quoted pan
lie In church by knocking down the man
who yelled fire and then threatening to
shoot any one who rushed. In three
minutes after the last one was out the
floor was ablaze.
The City of Berlin received gold
medal for her handsome and complete
model at Paris in 1878, and has hereto
fore held her place in the first rank of
the lnman fleet, but she will soon have
to give place to the palatial City of
Rome.
SAMUEL J. TILDEN was publicly heeced
at Center White Greek, Washington Co.,
recently. He is a ram, and has a
right to appeal to the society for protec-
ton of dumb animals from the biting
winds of April. Samuel J.'s fleece
weighed 25l pounds, and bereft of it he
weighed IS pounds.
Two men at Waynesville, ILL.,, through
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soaped the rails, and thus delayed the
trains. Every morning they went out
with brooms and pals of soft soap to
coat the track for a distance of half
mile. Their mischief was finally stopped
by arrest.
BoArswAIN FL. P. GRACE, of the navy
has sent to the Hon. Alexander Eel. Rice,
of Boston, as token of his personal es-
TEEN, a cane made from wood cut from
the frame of the United States steamship
Kearsarge directly after her fight with
the Alabama.
WHEN the Rev. Mr.. Silver, pastor of
the Church of New Jerusalem, In Bos-
ton Highlands, was drowned, recently,
he had In his pocket sermon prepared
for the next Sunday. On a recent Sun
day this sermon was read to his congre-
cation from the authors water-stained
manuscript
THE following is placarded in the the
atre at Durango, Col: ''From and after
this date all persons who wish to gain
admittance to the auditorium of the
Coliseum must leave their weapons at
the front bar, where checks will be given
for them
The bill for furnishing the new house
OLD. 0. Mills, the New York millionaire.
is 1926, 900. Mr.. Mills thinks the Up
holsterers have been piling it up little
too steep, and he intends to have the
charges examined in court to see that he
gets the worth of his money.
A YOUNG German who was witnessing
the shooting of a horse was struck by
small particle of iron, which penetrated
the pupil of his eye and buried Itself
deep in the body of the organ. In an
eye hospital at Wiesbaden the extra
ordinary operation of withdrawing the
iron by means Of magnet was recently
performed with entire success.
A VERMONT clergyman makes the flu
ture OF good Christians clear by saying:
CATER crossing the mystic river, we shall,
go on from the man to the angel, from
the angel to the archangel, from the
archangel to the celestial, from the celes-
tial to the divine, and then gathering the
stars in clusters about our heads, dream
out the endless dream of eternity"
A TELEGRAM from Ottawa reports that
s short time ago young man in Glou-
cester township, Canada, had the breech-
pin of gun, two ahalf inches in length,
imbedded in his skull, the skull being
fractured and the brain penetrated, and
that the pin was removed by a surgeon,
and the young man revived from his
comatose condition and is now about all
right again.
Mr.. JAY Cooks seat, Ogontz, IS still
unsold, and is likely to remain SO until
he buys it again, as he does not intend
any one else to have it, and has always
taken measures to prevent it's passing
into other hands. At one time Roman
Catholic institution desired to get it, but
the neighbors and Mr. Cooke adopted
measures to Illustrate the scheme It
was named Ogontz after an old Indian
chief with whom Mr. Cooke was well ac-
quainted in his childhood at Sandusky,
Ohio
GORDON l.. FORD, the New York T1.ib-
uaae's business manager, has the richest
autograph collection in the country. 1t
contains not less than %, 900 bound vol
umes, $4,000 pamphlets, $4,000 steel
plate portraits, and $4,000 autographs,
letters and documents. The room con-
tains only town and local histories; of
these there are $500. Another room is
devoted wholly to autographs and steel
portraits, and it is packed full of shelves
and tables.
u REMEMBER, says Labouchere, in
the London Truth, sbeing once at a ball
given by the empress of Russia to the
ate emperor on his birthday. j was
playing at ecarte, when the emperor,
who was wandering about, came behind
me to watch the game. My adversary
and were both at four, and it was my
| deal Now said the oJOnRrOr LEFT rs
see whether you can turn up the king.
card, observing. Your orders, sire, have
been obeyed.' A dozen times afterward
the emperor asked me- how managed il,
and he never would believe that it was a
mere hazard, and that I had taken the
chance of the card being king"
To ascertain whether " strong