Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-20
FISH-BAIT,

HE Marquis de Mo1res is making his
mark out IN Montana. He manages sew
eral stock ranches, upon one of which he
expects to place IA, 900 sheep before the
end of the summer.
A DANsyTLnE IN. 7. merchant is out
Just 5000. He placed it in a stove for
safe-keeplng, when a cold day coming
on, he built a fire, forgetting all about
the cash, which was consumed.
WHILE blowing in a meadow recently,
farmer in Crawford County, Pennsyl-
vania, found twenty-six Indian spear
heads Ofsflnt from six to eight inches in
length and about two inches wide.
The church papers Of Salt Lake are
recommending a S., 900 subscription for
Belle Harris who is now In the Utah
penitentiary for contempt of court for
| refusing to give the name of her poly.
| gamous husband
A MEMBER of Harvard freshmen have
| been fined $40 each for thieving. While
riding out from Boston they ragged
lot OF signs on the way, being about
| to carry off a tobacconist's Indian as a
policeman appeared. Their carriage
was full of barber poles, gilt watches,
grocers' signs, and so on.
A PARTY were telling trees in forest
County, Pennsylvania, last week, when
q Swede was killed by falling tree.
The body was found with limb of the
| tree sticking through it. It was i'm,
possible to withdraw the stick, and it
was sawed off on each side and the re-
mains buried in that condition.
WHILE playing around the watts of an
old tannery building at Greensburg,
Pa, recently, 2-year- old girl fell into
vat partly filed with water. The
child's 4-year-old brother, who was play
ing with her, scrambled into the vat and
catching her by the hair, held her head
above water until assistance came.
FREDERICK Dough ASS retains his apti-
tude for bright sayings in his public ad-
dresses. At a meeting of free religious
thinkers in Boston the other day he said:
al came here not to speak, but to listen,
to learn, not to teach; in fact, D he added,
s" l came here merely to give color to the
occasion"
A WOMAN who said her name was
Stearns, and that she lived at Utica,
kicked open the door of disreputable
house in Syracuse, n. Y, about 2
o'clock the other morning and informed
the inmates that her husband was there,
and that she wanted him. 1t turned out
that she was correct, and she got him.
The drain of laborers from Jamaica to
Panama, is so great that the planters in
that most favored of the West India Is
lands are about to make an effort to re-
place the twelve thousand that have
gone there with negro laborers from the
sugar plantations in louisiana will be
preferred
BISHOP ELDER, of Cincinnati, has di-
rected that no Catholic entertainment
shall be given in any hall or garden
whose proprietor is unwilling to close
the place up before dark. This regulation
is intended to remove the temptation to
the young to remain and dance in the
evening, which is contrary to the rules
/ of the church.
TALMAGE repeats the old idea against
a quartette choir by saying: "When [
hear that four angels are doing all the
singing for heaven I'll permit four peo-
pie to do the singing for my congrega-
ton" Talmage will hear that as soon
as anybody hears that one preacher is
doing all the praying and shouting for
heaven, as Talmage does for his taber-
nacle.-LoaOeU Courier.
ABOUT twelve years ago Mr.. Royal,
of Ellsworth, Me-, while fishing off the
coast near Prospect Harbor, lost over
board III from six to ten fathoms of water
silver watch and silver chain. A day
or two since the watch was returned to
it's former owner (Mr. Royal. The
finder says he found it in his potato
patch, where he supposes it became
deposited by being attached to the sea-
weed which he used for fertilizer, and
which he procured upon the shore
/ abreast the place where the watch was
originally lost.
JACK HARKEy. queer sort of old fell
low, who lived alone iii d cabin located
in desolate place in Union County, n.
| c., died last fail, and his shanty re-
manned vacant all winter. Not long
since a new tenant took possession OF it,
and while removing an old cupboard
discovered tin box containing 81, 200
in gold pieces Although he was poor
and needy and could have kept the treas
ure without any one knowing anything
about it, he posted off and told the ex-
ecutor, who went and got the money
and never paid beans to the finder, and
the finder is considered by the neighbors
to be a revolving idiot.-Bo8ton Post.
WHILE David Fink, living near Read
ing, Pa, was driving to market one day
last week, swarm of bees the size of a
half-bushel settled on his horses head.
The animal began to kick and howl in a
fearful manner. Mr.. Fink, with his
naked hands, drew from its nostrils hand
fuls of bees, but the more he strove to
remove them the closer they stuck.
Fink took off his coat and succeeded in
pulling off the swarm and getting the
horse out of danger. Mr.. Fink was
blinded by the stings received, and the
animals head was so badly swollen that
it could not get its nose in a water
bucket.
CONSIDERABLE sensation was created
at Lexington, KY, one day last week by
the announcement that the grand jury
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