Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10
WINNOWINGS.

OF the forty generals furnished by
Texas to the confederacy thirty are dead.
CALF oRNIA spectators in stocks who
invest large sums are called "high-
rollers"
The Boston Post recommends red
nosed men to battle the organ in butter
milk
The men who cornered opium last
year, at IS. SO, are not happy, the price
having declined so per cent.
THOSE who have tried it confess
that large, healthy mustard plaster
worn at the back contains more heat
than heavy overcoat.
The wharves at New Orleans are to be
lighted with electricity, so that vessels
may be unloaded at night, when the hot
sun is not shining.
A9-YEAR-o1D Boston girl of good train
ing and pleasant home surroundings vol
unfairly went went blind beggar to
lead him and hold his cup.
AN industrious laundryman in Detroit,
Mich, staggers to the washboard under
the weight of the name of Eldersley
Clinton Dorlard De Clements.
THERE is an artist in New York who
makes speciality of whitening noses
which are over-red. His business is said
to be hourishing.
The Chicago boy who made gun out
OF a gas-pipe will recover, but his eye
isn't good any more, his scalp isn't COM
plete, and his nose is broken. The
neighbors miraculously escaped.
A FELLOW representing himself to be
commercial traveller is v1ctimizing many
hotel keepers in Massachusetts by taking
a room and then stealing all the bed
clothes and other small articles.
CHEF Moses, of the Washington
Territory Indians, has sent word to the
President that =" the red mans heart is
sad to think of the arrow aimed at the
Great Father"
Mrs. GARFIELD has just received
gift of beautiful glassware from some
American manufacturers who were so
considerate that they sent the ware
through another firm, and would not al
low their names to be mentioned.
A SAN FRANCISCO bad boy hit China
man in the eye with a soft tomato. It
took long time to convince the =" al
mond-eyed" that he had not been shot,
and that it was not blood that was trick
ling down ms face.
THERE is wild excitement at Cheyenne
over the discovery of copper and silver
near Fort Laramie. Ore from the grass
roots pays; the city of Hartville has been
laid out, and tender-feet are offered So
per day as miners.
Two babies were born in the same
house at Oakland Tenn. The mothers
were sisters, closely resembling each
other, and the infants were both girls
In the excitement of the occasion the lit
tie ones got mixed, and now neither
mother knows which is her own child.
The average weight of Philadelphia's
fifty reserve policemen is 200 pounds.
The tallest measures 6 feet = inches.
Two others measure feet 7 inches each,
and all but four of the fifty measure
over six feet, the average being 6 feet 2
inches. jra
A SAN Francisco man writes that
Morgan, who was said to have been
killed by the Masons, died in Smyrna,
Asia Minor, one Sunday morning, on
bench in front of a Turkish eating
house. He had agreed to remain in
that part of the world on condition that
his captors should spare his life. 81.
A MAN wagered that he could crawl
through a drain 500 feet long at Steuben-
vile, o. He went in through an
aperture scarcely larger than his body,
and the spectators waited an hour for
him to emerge at the other end. But he
got stuck in the centre, and had to be
dug out. The job lasted all day, and
when reached he was almost dead.
A WORKMAN rushed from a burning
building in Newark, N. J., Saturday,
leaving his coat, containing 1910, hang
ing by his workbench. His charred
coat was found in the debris with the
money only slightly injured in conse-
quence of a stream Of water having
fallen directly upon it. The bills are to
be redeemed by the United States
Treasury.
GRANTS income cannot be far from
$4,000 year. He has an active inter-
est in a New York business house which
has been very successful. He gets per-
haps $4,000 a year from the railroad
company, and the two funds raised by
Jones and the Drexels for him amount
to $330,000 1t is not true that he has
sold his ST. Louis farm.
ROMAN gladiators received sometimes
as much as $4,000 per year by the sale
of the mixture of oil and sweat. called
strigamenta, which was scraped from
their bodies after their contests. This
mixture was made into pills which were
sold as a tonic for endowing strength and
prolonging life. People nowadays pre-
fer something of a botanic origin.-Dr.
Foote's Health Monthly.
A WOMAN who exhorts among the ne
groes of southern Georgia wears on her
head halo made of FURNISHED brass.
which seems to impress some of her
hearers profoundly. She tells them that
it was given to her by an angel in WIS.,
ion, as reward for her superlative
piety, and is positively the only one ever
conferred upon anybody before reach
ing heaven. She claims that its posses
sion enables her to intercede with GER