Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-26

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Bromfield street, Boston, Massachusetts.
Now that the matter is fairly inaugu-
rated it finds no trouble in showing.
Friday night the feathery fakes began to
fall and it continued to snow more or less
all day Saturday, with now and then
slight furry during Sunday, until at last
we have a snowfall of sufficient depth to
give us run of most excellent slelghlng.
DIR. J. G.. Aver & Co., of Lowell,
Mass, have favored us with complete
edition of their Almanacs for 1881, neat
ly bound in one volume. Turning to Its
contents we find ourselves prepared to
discuss the weather with our afternoon
callers in English German, Dutch, Nor
wegian, Swedish, French, Spanish, Port
uguese, and Bohemian.
The entertainment by the members
of the Juvenile Temple at Good Templars
Hall Saturday evening, was largely at
tended, and the little ones performed their
parts to the infinite delight of all pres
ent, showing the great pains and care that
had been taken with their training as well
as their own aptitude and ability. The
Watertown Juvenile Temple is we'll deserv-
ing ofthe credit it has of being the leading
Juvenile Temple in Wisconsin both in
department and numbers.
In the same ratio that Scribner's
Monthly is prospecting, st. Nicholas, the
famous magazine for girls and boys, issued
by the same publishers, grows apace.
About 100000 copies of the Christmas
December) number were sold, while the
January number has been for some time
out of print. In February, there is a
full account of the Obelisk, richly illustrat-
ed from sketches and photographs, show
ing the great monolith in all stages of
moving.
The committee of ways and means
of the House CT Representatives, after
conference with Gen. Raum, commission
er of internal revenue, have about con
tluded to recommend the modification OF
the law in reference to "weisS beer" SO
that the tax will be collected by means
of strip stamps, similar to cigar stamps,
on boxes or bottled weiss beer, at a rate
proportionate to the amount Of alcohol
contained therein, instead of on the bar
rels, as heretofore, which necessitated the
brewer paying tax on unermented beer
and other ingredients introduced in the
mailing of the beverage after the barrels
leave the brewery for bottling establish
mentS.
The report of the Patent Office for
1880 shows that over seventy patents
were granted to women. This is large
increase over any former year. Most of
the patents are for household articles,
with which they are most familiar and
in which improvements would be suggest
ed by daily use. Possibly the old cry
that "Women cannot invent anything"
will in the future need a modification.
Many man has had his patent suggest
ed bv women. Heretofore women have
no. thought of getting profit from any
little ingenious cOntrivances they have
made, their only object being to lessen
the trouble and friction OF household
work. Possibly in the larger scope and
field for woman's work this latent power
will be more and more developed.
"A little girl was turned over to the
police in Chicago Tuesday of last week
who got aboard the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul train at Portage, with slip
of paper pinned on her cloak upon which
was written, "Will the conductor be kind
enough to see this child aboard the train
for Cleveland, Ohio, where she expects
to find relatives. She is an orphan"
On the inside of the cloak was a similar
slip, except for Cleveland was written
Ravenna There were no tickets, and
the only money about the little one was
forty cents, which she had tied up in
her pocket-hankerchief. Her only bag
gage consisted of lunch-basket filled
with food. Her father is a jeweler in
Ravenna, Ohio. She had been on visit
TO an aunt in Portage, who took this
means Of sending her home.
Jefferson it is reported has haunt
ed house. Curious lights have been seen
fitting through the house, and one person
very spiritously inclined claims to have
actually seen figure clothed in white
through window at precisely II O'Clock
the other night The inmates of the
house tell a queer tale. The man claims
to have been dreaming about twelve
sheafs of corn raising up and down be-
tore him, when the bed was suddenly
lifted up and turned over, pitching him
head first into wash bowl that was sit
ting on the floor. The youngest boy
found himself standing on his head when
he awoke one morning, and declares it
was just the reverse of the position he was
standing in when he sdssed his father the
night before One member of the family
says that she heard dishes rattle in the
cupboard, and the next morning all the
doors were found wide open and four
mice were caught in the trap.
Personal.
Thomas Hughes, the genial editor of
t.he Beaver Dam Citizen, with his wife,
has been on visit of few Gays in the
city with relatives and friends.
Frank w. Parkhurst, of Chicago, is on
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