Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
WINNQWINGS.

LIE IALoTeSG Oh GHo DrOOhIyu Drluge
is said to amount to 100000 year on
bonds already sold on account of it, and
it will not be opened until 1883.
A PARROT believed to be ~ years of
| age recently closed it's career at Naper-
vile, LII. It was brought from South
America In 1852 by Michael Hines.
THE Zuni Indians go thousands of
miles to pray to water, while their more
fortunate brethren of the north only go
up to the agency to pray for whisky.
AS high as eighteen per cent. of some
of the cotton shipped to England of late
has been dead loss on account of sand
and dirt thrown in to increase weight.
The man who leaves dirty water in a
wash basin gets much shorter pair of
wings than any of the other angels
Louisville Courier Journal.
TEACHER to a small boy: "What
does the proverb say about those who
live in glass houses ?" Small boy:
"Pull down the blinds"
AN exchange says in startling head
line: "Smile Whenever You CAN"
Now what kind of advice is this from a
temperance sheet ?-Lockport Union.
"DINNER-PAT1ERs is the pleasant
variation on " carpet-baggers applied
ia New York to the city officials who live
and pay taxes over the river in jersey.
A VALUABLE nickel deposit is said to
have been discovered in the vicinity of
cold Piney," high and rugged noun
tain just north of Canyonville, Oregon.
THEY have new game in Indiana. A
man who can hold an egg in either hand
and Jump five feet without breaking the
eggs by involuntary squeezing wins the
| bet.
CAPT. Richard BOOTH, of Old Tampa,
| Fla, has grated in grape fruit tree
six varieties of the citrus family. Grow
ing from the same stump we find the
shaddock, lemon, lime, citron, sweet
and sour oranges.
All SAM, of st. Louis, having accumu-
lated So, 900 in the washee-washee line,
is about to return to China to marry his
old sweetheart, who has been writing
him letters in tea-chest characters, but
who refused to marry him until he had
made fortune.
The Middletown, n. Y, Press reports
that an ounce and quarter bullet Which
entered the left eye of Peter Wander
mark, of Fallsburg, at the battle of Fair
Oaks, May 81, 1862, made it's appear
ance March 18th under the skin below
the collar bone.
The Connecticut legislature has re-
jected bill which provided that man
who did not slaughter the woodchuckg
on his property, should pay extra
taxes, and the woodchucks Will
be left to the tender mercies of the boys
and the dogs, as before.
In excavating for drain in cellar on
Collins Street, ST. Louis, workmen came
upon nearly bushel of gold, silver, and
paper money, estimated at ST., 900. The
house was for many years occupied by
Montgomery Blair, but is now rented by
ex-Alderman john 2. Hagerty.
The exploit of Grand Rapids dog
was to run up one aisle of a church dur
ing services, upset the contribution box,
run down the other aisle, go up stairs
into the gallery, look over the railing,
fall over with yelp into the congrega-
ton below and then get kicked out.
The Indian peace medal, which was
ordered during the Garfield administra-
ton, has just been received from thu
Philadelphia mint. 1t is of silver, and
bears the name +" James A. Garfield ION
the face, with raised medallion of the
late President in the middle, with the
date below. On tbs diverse side is
design of an Indian and white man at
agricultural employment.
DURING the recent food in Arkansas
farmer got his family and effects in a fiat
boat and sailed around for number of
days after the style of Noah. Finally
having no dove on. board, he strapped
demijohn on his sons back and sent him
on mission of discovery. When the
boy returned with the demiiohn full
| they knew that the waters were subsid-
ing and that the crossroads tavern was
still safe.
A PITEoUs Renaissance of Mr.. Long
fellow is related by Mr.. G. W. Childs,
who several years ago entertained the
poet at dinner in Rome. He was walk
ing to the dining-room with Mr.. Childs,
and on their way through the corridor of
the hotel they passed a series OF lighted
wax candles placed In candelabra sur
rounded by flowers. Mr.. Longfellow
Immediately shaded his face with his
hand and begged his. companion to has
ten his footsteps. 1t was through the
flame of lighted candle when in the act
of melting some sealing wax, that Mrs.
Longfellow was burnt to death.
A CASE of singular honesty came to
our knowledge few days ago. In 1755a
gentleman failed in business and COM
promised with his creditors, among whom
was firm of merchants then doing bust
ness in Danville. The unpaid balance
of their claim amounted to $500. A
week or so ago member of the old firm
received through the mail check paya-
BILE to the firm name for $174. 40-a sum
double the original debt. The recipient
of the check is now wealthy citizen of
our town, and the maker is president of
banking institution in Louisville
| D17aValLe .AdUocate.
Mrs. ERNEST NORRIS, who has just
returned from Brazil, where she spent
the winter in explorations with her hus-
band, has rather poor opinion OF the
people among whom she has been So
journirg. She found the women inane
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