Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-18
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CHICAGO has $4,000 girls working at
the various trades for average wages of
- week.
SUNDAY school teacher: Came, dear,
what must one do in order to forgive ?"
Anne: :" He must sin"
SUCH an immigration of cats was never
chron1cled at Lake Tahoe, before. They
come in droves, and are more audacioug
than tramps.
HENRY WARD BEECHER SAYS: 'Not
only do most men over-eat on the week
days, but on the seventh they gorge like
anacondas."
A YOUNG man who went west some
years ago is now an undertaken in
populous western. He is undertaking
$40 week living on ST week salary.
AN Emanuel County (Ga. negro split
2,OOO rails III four days, and cut his own
timber, besides walking six miles to his
work.
The American Linen Thread Company
is IN a paralyzed condition in Mechanics
vile, n. Y, and the property is to be
sold on mortgage of $4,000. The
cause OF this is that sewing machines
10.
A GIRL at Mt. Lebanon, Ind, swal-
lowed forty-six shirt buttons in an at
tempt to commit suicide. That was 60
ing to heap of trouble when she could
have swallowed a bureau drawer and
finished the job at once.-Detro5t Free
Press.
HENRY MACKINsoN, a Philadelphia
boy aged IL years, armed with pistol,
was discussing modes of suicide with his
aunt, to whom he said he would never
cut his throat, but "would do it in this
way" and, sUiting the action to the
word, he placed the muzzle of the
weapon to the back of his head and fred.
| The ball entered his skull and has not
yet been extracted.
The Detroit Free Press says: ''The
idea of Clara Louise Kellogg marrying
New York brewer is too vat" We
don't know vat he means; but if she
keeps "still when he comes home late.
they may get along without coming to
lagerheads. By the way, it was quite
natural that the brewer should make
''mash " of Clara -Norr5stoaUn Her.
aid.
INVESTIGATION Of the management of
| pant rascality and outrageous cruelty.
One mason was paid $4OO for 800 worth
of work, and another was paid for work
that he never did. An attendant used to
knock down aged and blind insane in
mates with club, and the rooms were
so cold that the occupants could scarcely
keep from freezing. The food was not
fit for hogs.
| A New YORK merchant doing business
| heretofore in Leonard Street, for whom
an immense iron building on the corner
of that street and West Broadway has
just been completed, has had a bridge
forty-fve feet long constructed from an
upper story of the new building across
Leonard street to the old quarters of the
firm, and over this trestle, which has
covered sides and is held up by iron
trusses, the removal of the stock and
other property is being made. The OBJ
ject is to save the expense of trucking.
WNNEMUcoA, chief of the piutes, is as
careful of his royal dignity as any Euro
pean potentate. When he travels he
does not herd with his subjects. Not
long ago freight train rolled into Reno.
On a flat car were squatted dozen
bucks, bringing In game from the sink
OF the Humboldt to sell to the pale faces.
Chief Winnemucca was on the train, but
instead Of riding with his braves on the
fiat, he was seen sitting cross-legged in
solitary grandeur on thehoor of an empty
box car.
On Oak River, in Manitoba, is a
reservation of refugee Sioux Indians
who refused to come across the line with
Sitting Bull when he surrendered. The
chief is White Eagle, and his people
number about two hundred. They now
have eighty acres under cultivation;
raised two thousand bushels of potatoes
last year, besides quantity sufficient
for their use of wheat, barley, oats,
maize, turnips, beets and cabbages, and
have fifty head of cattle, including six
teen working oxen. They appear con-
tented and cause no trouble.
JOHN JURGENs, who has just returned
to Winnemucca from Wood River, says
that country is destined to be the most
popular place in the world for bald
headed men. Owing to some peculiarly
of the climate or water, says the Silver
State, men who went there last spring
with heads as smooth as billiard balls,
now have fine growth of hair started.
Billy Powers, on whose Uranium quite
an alkali fiat had started before he left
here last spring, now has. luxuriant
growth of hair.-Austdaa, Nev., Revealle.
ONE of the engineering cranks of the
Atlantic states has invested his money in
a postal-card to the San Francisco
Academy of Science, and proposes to
reach the north pole by tunneling with
machinery similar to that used at Mont
Gents. He suggests that by this method
greater progress could be made under
and through paleoorystic ice than has
been made up to this time over it, and
he insists that the climate is mild, and if
sufficient inducements were developed
railroad could be ''put through it,.
Next
A YOUNG man at Paris. Tenn, called
on young lady, in company with
male acquaintance. After a couple of
hours of small talk, the first young man
was called out doors a moment by his