Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
GENERAL PARAGRAPHS.

JUST now the commencement orator
is busy shaking his fist at his looking
glass.
A MAN in Ireland was recently confined
IN Jail ten weeks for disappearing the
queen.
MAINE trappers have been paid nearly
$4,000 during the past winter by sin
gle dealer IN furs In Boston.
THEY spell "Czar" FFTsar." But no
such disguise will put nihilist off the
scent.
A LATE fancy is to use many jet, gold,
silver or jewel-headed pins to decorate
bows of lace or muslin for evening wear.
Mr.. WADD1NGroN says that $50, 600 is
not nearly enough for the coronation
embassy from France to Moscow.
Ar London public dinners it has
ceased to be In order to rise to any toast
except that of the queen.
REPORTS up to date show go persons
to have been killed by tornadoes in this
country since January LIST.
THE museum of Comparative Zoology
at Cambridge, Mass, is to be open to
the public every Sunday afternoon I'M
til Nov. |.
NINE thousand Marshal Neil roses
were picked from one bush in year at
Newport, r. L, which at 10 cents a rose,
afforded a fair profit.
The newsboys of Dallas, Tex, are
not to be interfered with after this in
their business on Sunday, by the deci-
sion of Dallas Judge.
THE temperance boom has swung
around into Germany, and Bismarck
considers it more distasteful than Amer
lean pork.-N. 7. Com.
The taxable property of New Haven,
Conn, by the grand list for the year
ending July |, 1883, shows S4S, 1876, $50,
an increase of 81, 1875, 916.
Our of one hundred negro men in Ok
tibbeha County, Mississippi, who were
asked who was president OF the United
States, not one could tell.
ENGLISH ladies' who ride wear high
WeIlignton boots and wash leather trou-
sers. London Queen prefers soft wooden
twill made expressly for the purpose,
FIFTY thousand dollars worth of pow
der will be used in the explosion by which a
mountain of rock is to be tumbled down
into the Yuba River, near Smartsville,
Cal.
A YOUNG fellow in Montreal reversed
the usual proceedings of adventurous
youth, and rSn away from the city to
become farmer without consulting his
parents.
THEY catch sharks at Pensacola, drive
an iron spike into their heads, and let
'em go to watch their demonstrations of
dissatisfaction. The fish don't seem to
like it at all.
In the year 1880 there were only
eight insane asylums in the United
States. Now there are over ninety, six
ty-six of which are supported wholly or
IL part by state aid.
The deputy collector of internal rev.
enue at Frankfort, KY, reports that he
has collected 1871, 638.60 on whisky
taken out of bond from February 90,
1892, to April 80, 1883.
An Oneonta. n. Y, firm has Just
shipped 5000 worth of hop roots to
Kentucky. The industry Is new one
IN that locality, and the roots are to be
used as an experiment.
By a legal settlement at Providence,
E. l., the requests Of the late George
E. Wilson have been ratified, and Brown
University will receive 100000 and
Dartmouth College $4,000.
The corpses of two Hamburg women
were oremated the other day at Gotha,
which contains the chief cremation GEM
etery IN Europe. The number of bodies
which have been cremated there is liz.
The colored editors IN the United
States number nearly a hundred, and
= JnII T11C
Louis, in July, when topics both @s-
thetic and practical will be discussed.
A PRETTY schoolmistress of Is years in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has
been before the police court on the
charge of dielocating the Left shoulder OF
3 14-year-old pupil in Furnishing him for
an infraction of the school rules.
A DENVER Elnatic who thinks himself
the king of Sweden has been sentenced
TO Jail for three months and to pay fine
Of $500. The Denver Tribune calls the
attention Of the Humane S0ciety to the
case.
A BLIND chess-player in Pittaford,
Monroe County, advertised for oppo-
nents, and, as result, is
carrying on eight games at once by
postal card, one with resident of Cali
fornia.
Mrs. MARGARET GRAY, of Illinois, has
lad Taylor Groin, a prominent business
young man of Bath County, Kentucky.
arrested for the seduction of her 13-year-
old daughter. The baby was brought
along.
The merchants and tradesHen of
Rome, Lewis County, KY. refuse to sell
the saloonkeepers anything and the ho-
tels refuse to board them. They will