Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-23
CLIPPINGS.

IT has Jeen discovered that many of
the inhabitants Of Philadelphia do not
( use soap.
AN artistic lawyer can draw a con-
elusion wish the chain of circUmstantiaI
evidence.
h. b. HAYES wheat in Dako5a is COM
ing on handsomely. Joseph Bradley
and the sod of America have both been
good to Rutherford.
IT sometimes happens in this great
and glorious coun5ry that fools make
laws and vase men are obliged to obey
7 them.
WHAT the years viii bring man is
lnothing. How be is to get shat coal
stove out into the 5eck kitchen IS every
thing.
JAPAN wonders chat any nation will
/ hang murd erers when it takes only five
or SIX blows of a. sword to decapitate
'em.
! A MAcHINE has been invented which
takes In leather straps and turns out
alligator skin Of the incest pattern.
They even counterfeit the smell by using
onions and kerosene oil.
| THERE aEe over 200 sure cures for
cOrns in tlSepAmerican market. vet the
American nation does more Iimping and
| swearing over COINS than another peo-
pie on earth.
| HE philosopher who wrote the axiom:
Success lives two doors Beyond per-
severance, must have lived out on the
prairie, where the houses aye 100 miles
or more apart. Y. Com. Aa
! J.. BAfTB1Is,. Of Middlebury, VT. has
bought 1, 200 to I, 500 acres of wild land
IN Ripon, Hancock and Granville in a
body, and proposes to inclose a deer
park, using barbed wire, and stock it
with fifty deer, at cost Of 81 per head.
RIoHARDa lAPRIsE, of Lowell, Mass,
so years old, is sick frora the effects of
teething. He was taker. sick few DAYS
ago and sent for doctor, when it was
| discovered that four new upper front
teeth were growing; tho old ones LEFT has
service years ago.
The Prince of Wales new palace car
contains study, saloon, two bed
rooms, two dressing-rooms, and a. bath
ROOM. IF the conductor of the train
is in any hurry when he is collecting
tickets, he had better search the. saloon
first.
IN the Peck divorce suit in New
Haven, one day last week, Mrs. Peck
testified against her husband, and at
times was affected to tears. It came
out that her little boy had forgotten her,
! SO she repeated some songs 20 him which
she had sung to, his baby ears, but it
did not work. He did not remember
her, he said.
AN unusual case, illustrating the Ala
bama exemption law, occurred in Tusca-
loosa recently. A got B. to purchase
him COW and afterward refused to pay.
B brought suit and got Judgment for
S25, the value of the animal. A filed
his claim of exemptions, in which he
/ included the COW, and B can recover
nothing.
SEVEN years ago Lucius T. Howe
went west from Keene, N. H., and soon
word came that he had been scalped.
His wife took another husband and
moved to Windsor, VT. Now Howe re-
turns to Keene, 81 cattle ranger, presum-
ably prosperous, has gone to Windsor
''to see his family, ''and Will soon return
to his ranch.
A YOUNG bill collector of Stockton,
Cal, who threatened a debtor that he
would present the bill whenever he met
him, and would go farther and dun the
members of his (the debtor's) family, re-
ceived a sound thrashing at the hands
of the gentleman to whom the threat
was applied.
A wBEToHED old digger of clans, Asa
Dyer, has just died in New Bedford,
Mass, leaving several thousand dollars
in bank and several hundred hid away
in tomato cans and under the flooring of
his miserable howell, of which 5000 in
greenbacks were so mutilated as to be
worthless.
In Paducah, KY, the other day, two
sparrows got into fight and. tried to
drown each other in the stream flowing
down street gutter. After 3 long and
desperate struggle, one got the others
head under and kept it there until life
was extinct. A large number of bird
gathered around the victor and chat
tered to it as It sat on a limb rearranging
It's toilet. The fight was witnessed by
more than 100 people.
A CHICAGO exchange praises the skill
of contractor who raised a large dry
goods establishment six feet without in
juring the building or causing an hours
cessation in business, and an esteemed
contemporary in another city sneeringly
says that it is only in Chicago thas the
profession of shoplifting has attained
such perfection. IN. 7. Com.
The New Orleans Times Democrat
prints story to the effect that while
lady at Bronson, Fla, was leading her
4-year-old boy by the hand, an alligator
about six feet long rushed from fence
corner and seized the child's leg. The
mother pulled the boy away, but the al
ligator persisted In the attack, and was
finally killed by the father of the boy
with club.
IN digging railway sscut" in Ascen-
sion parish, Louisiana, three skeletons
were exhumed, supposed, from articles
found In the graves, TO be those of In
dian warriors. Beside one of the skele-
tons was an old flint and-steel musket,
and in burial ground near the graves
was found silver medal, with Latin
inscription, partly obliterated by long
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