Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-22
WINNOWINGS,

The night-key Stays more men than
the musket.
THREE hundred and ffty-six murders
are reported from Texas for 1881.
PRESIDENT ELLIOT says that, with
strict economy, it costs about $500 a
year to be student at Harvard.
SENATOR DAVID DAVIS is going to i'm
prove the grounds around the Lincoln
monument at Cambridge, ILL.,, at his own
expense.
To W. W. Gardner, now of st. Louis,
has been awarded the contract for the
statue for the proposed Blair monument.
The statue Is to cost about 81, 500.
A PRISONER at Sing Sing prison has
fallen heir to fortune of 1913, 600, and
what worries him is how he is to.give
any champagne suppers behind the
cross bars.
NOTHING tickles northern visitor to
Florida SO much as to find pea soup ON
the table In February. If he happens to
see the cans afterwards in the back yard
the tickled feeling is lost in about a
minute and half.
By breathing as rapidly as possible,
DR.. Yates was enabled to endure stlrgic-
al operation. He says; 81 heard the
knife, rip through the flesh, like the
sound produced in cutting leather, but
I did not feel the pain
A CALIFORNIA man worth nearly o
half million dollars, recently attended
the funeral of his son. Just before the
coffin was lowered he unscrewed the
silvered handles and taking them to
town sold them to an undertaken.
NEVADA has about ], ZOO, 900 acres of
salt land, and could supply the whole
earth if necessary. Besides this she has
about 1,000,0 900 of soda and birthstone
deposits, sufficient to run hades for the
next 100000 years.
AN examination of the books of the
Philadelphia Almshouse keeper, shows
that short time since he purchased,
ostensibly for the use of paupers, eight
hundred yards of Brussels carpet. What
luxurious life paupers must lead there.
In Yavapai County, Arizona Territory,
north of the Little Colorado River, there
is valley some ten miles in length,
where potatoes are growing wild. The
valley is north of the Moqui villages,
and west of the Navajo Reservation.
The Navajo Indians collect large GUAM
titles of the root.
Two little brothers broke through the
ice on which they were skating in Gin
cinnati. While they were clinging des-
perately to the edge of the ice and
efforts were being made to reach them,
the older one cried oui: "Be sure and
take Willie out first" But both Willie
and his generous brother were drowned.
A JERSEY schoolma'am of Paterson,
n. J., found her school-room SO cold the
other day that studying was out of the
question. She arranged her pupils in
line and set them to dancing the Virginia
reel, while one of their number played
the piano. She soon had them well
warmed by the exercise, and they went
to their studies again in comparative
comfort.
A FANoIFU1 story comes from Akron,
Ohio, that freedman who had lost all
traces of his family since the war and
had forgotten the name of his last
owner, had dream not long since in
which the name Alcorn returned to him,
end that he straightway wrote to ex-
Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, and
through his assistance has reioined his
mother, brothers and sisters.
A STOUT, 1ne-looking young man pres
ented himself at {, Cincinnati police sta
ton the other day and asked to be sent
to the workhouse, declaring that it was
impossible for him to obtain work of any
kind to do. He had wife and baby in
the home for the friendless near that
city. He asked to be sent up for thirty
days, as he was positive that at the end
Of that time business would open up
again briskly and he could obtain profit
able employment.