Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-28

THE Pittsburg Board of Health an
nounces that the meats in a gallon of
oysters should weigh eight pounds and
three-quarters.
A YOUNG married lady of Youngstown,
O., has been suddenly stricken with
paralysis of the tongue, and is unable to
articulate word.
The inmates of a tenement in New
York, from which eight smallpox
patients were taken the other day, were
nearly all cigar makers.
A YOUNG man rushed eagerly for a
front seat in an Albany theatre gallery,
fell over the rail aud was killed by the
fall.
AMONG the members of thelower house
of the Tennessee legislature are white
man and negro who held the relation
of master and slave before the war.
A DETROIT dentist has just extracted
the aching tooth of black and tan
terrier, and cut off some troublesome
teeth of pet squirrel. Nobody has yet
brought him any old hens.
AN Alabama paper says that wagon
making in the south is a lost art. So,
as the old song says, down south they
have to 'twait for the wagon until it
comes from the north.
New HAMPSHIRE has young lady in
good circumstances who, upon gradual
ing from school, thought that for a case
of emergency she should have a trade.
She is learning to clean and repair
watches.
The following homiletic hint is re-
ported as having come from President
Lincoln: CT don't like to hear cut-and-
dried sermons. No, when / hear man
preach, [ like to see him act as if he
werefghting bees"
SMALLPOX is sweeping otfthe Indians
of Northern Michigan, twenty having
died out of the tribe located near North
port The quarantine established cut off
all medical aid, and a Catholic priest
gave up his life in battling for the red
men.
THERE seems to be no occupation so
dangerous as that of brakeman on freight
trains, and many insurance companies
refuse to take the risk of insuring their
lives. 1t is said that only twenty five
per cent. of freight brakemen die except
by accident.
A WHOLESALE grocery firm at Erie,
Pa, has steadily missed bank bills from
its cash drawer. On Saturday workmen
discovered large mouse-nest made en-
tirely of paper money, Immediately back
of the cash receptacle. Many of the
notes were uniniured.
Mrs. HOOKER, the wife of Col.
Hooker, the new sergeant-at-arms of the
l. 81 l. &c
the handsomest ladies in Washington
this winter. She is tall, well proper
toned, graceful blonde, and half sister
of the late Col. Jim Fisk.
GEN. SHERMAN's army saddle, Sheri-
dams sword, Clusters cap, and Grants
cigar are exhibited among the relics of
the Soldiers Bazaar in Boston. Not the
least interesting thing in the collection
is the national flag which was worn as q
petticoat by Mrs. Briggs, of Richmond,
III order to save it from rebel searchers.
IF men will use tobacco and thereby
make their breath offensive, it would at
least be kindness to their friends If
they would adopt the suggestion of a
Chicago physician who says that the use
of 90 or 80 drops of bromo-chloralum in
lent deodorizing mouth-wash. DR..
Foote's Health Monthly.
IT is stated as a fact by jailers that
when husbands are incarcerated, no
matter what their crime may have been,
they are constantly visited by their wives,
while women who are under sentence
are very rarely visited by their husbands.
| This sounds too bad, but perhaps 1t is
not true.
THE afectionate nature of a pair of
geese was alluded to by an eloquent
speaker at a dinner table, CT knew
these interesting birds in life," said he;
"they were model spectacles of connu-
bal bliss; they were lovely and pleasant
in their lives, and in death they were
scarcely to be divided, for Ismashed the
carving knife in the attempt"
The young lady students at the Pres
byterian college in Ottawa, Canada,
learned few days ago that poor wo-
man, who obtained living for herself
and children by washing, was laid up by
sickness, and the next morning they
went to her house, did the washing and
ironing for her, and sent the clothes
home.
CALIFORNIA cowboys shoot at and hit
pipes that strangers smoke That is the
way in which they have little fun.
But cowboy who tried it on stranger.
recently, wished he hadn't. The stran-
ger was from the Maine lumber regions,
was athletic and walloped that cowboy
till he couldn't stand. He said he didn t
mind joke, but he'd be hanged if he
wanted his pipe broken just after he'd
taken the trouble to fill it.
THE reading of the Presidents mes
sage was one of the prettiest farcea