Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-04
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Ex-CADET WHITAKER, of West Point
notoriety, has become a teacher in a
Charleston, S. c., school.
PETER COOPER is to have statue in
Stuyvesant Square, to be known as
Cooper Square, New York.
THE custom of gentlemen friends en-
bracing each other at meeting and part
ing is dying out in Italy, as people are
tired Of having their pockets picked.
AN attempt to raise prairie chickens
in large Numbers will be made in Bed
ford County, Pennsylvania, this sum-
mer.
A HYDE PARK farmer Duchess
County, New York; had to pay fine Of
$40 for tying up the mouths Of calves
for market.
LOUIS ROBINSON, Of Hopkins County,
KY, is 1O4 years old, walks about as
briskly as a young man and reads with
out glasses.
OAK placed in the Rhine 1000 years
ago by Roman bridge builders is being
taken out and made into pianos, to be
thumped by conquering young women
who play ''Mollie Darling. "--Mu85cnI
Note.
The New Orleans mint has pair of
scales which will weigh the 1O,00Oth
part of an ounce. The wonder is that
more rich men don't have 'em and use
'em in weighing their donations to char
tiles.
A PIECE of oyster ground off Milford,
Conn.,, containing 600 acres, has been
sold to parties in California, who have
been shipping seed oysters quite extep-
sively to that coast to plant In San Fran
cisco Bay.
The heirs of Capt. Aaron Biddle,
revolutionary officer, claim about nine
miles square of land In Salem County,
New Jersey, including large portions of
Pennsgroye and Pennsville, under title
found recorded in Salem.
The standard silver dollar is eccen-
trio. A Syracusan, crying 'Sheads or
tails, :" tossed one in the air the other
day. When it struck the sidewalk it
broke in three pieces. Experts pro-
nounced it a genuine coin.
For having two slungshots concealed
on his person, Mr.. Naegerer, Of Balti-
more, was fined 800. He thinks of
leaving for Chicago, the home of the
brave sand Dagger and the land of the
free footpad.-NeW York advertiser.
A HoRsE-THIEF IN western prison
complains bitterly that the chaplain is
Presbyterian, while he was brought up
Methodist. When it comes down to
matters Of religion, remarks q Texas
paper, the conscience Of a horse-thief
seems perfectly square.
| ALITTLE girl unconsciously and touch
ingly testified to the excessive drudgery
Of her mothers life when, OH being
asked, SIS your mammals hair gray?"
she replied: 81 don't know. She's too
tall for me to see the top Of her head,
and she never sits down."
| A LADY stopping at hotel in Austria
| liza was bitten by rat, and has sued
the proprietor of the hotel for $4,000
damages. The bite was not severe, but
her fright was so great that her hair
| hanging on the back of a chair-turned
gray before morning. -NOYrS8t0aOn Her.
aid.
| In order that the declimated sheep
folds of England may be filled the queen
has ordered that no lamb be served In
the royal household this year. The num-
Der of spring lambs in Wall and State
Streets is also limited, and the brokers
are obliged to feed on one another
which is pretty tough mutton.
C0Nr.
A YOUNG lady in Denison, Texas, re-
ceived note from young man she was
acquainted with, couched in improper
language, requesting an interview. She
made an appointment, and when he
made his appearance she drew revolver
and snapped it at him twice. Unfortu-
natety there was no explosion, and the
masher escaped.
| Col. CHAUNCEY P. ROGERS, of Cory,
| Pa, battle-scarred veteran of the SD
Pennsylvania Volunteers, cut his throat,
the other day, while shaving. He says
his little daughter, who was playing at
his side at the time, jostIed his arm,
causing the accident. Others place
different construction upon the affair.
The surgeons hope to save his life.
PITTsBURG happens to remember
that itsposBesses and neglects very in
teresting building. It is the old block
house once known IS Fort Duquesne,
which held an important place in certain
times which tried mems souls, and is
now hemmed in by dilapidated tene-
ments and itself occupied by poor
family. It is proposed to move it into
a park.
RICHARD RowIEY, the hero who, in
the memorable fight of the Kearsarge
with the Alabama, picked up 49,
pound shell from the Kearsarge's deck,
while the fuse was burning, and threw
it overheard, was up before the Bangor
municipal court, last week, on a charge
of drunkenness. He was let go with the
admonition to proceed to the Soldiers
Home, Togus.
IT is believed, at Richmond. Ark,
that Joe Young, the negro who was
hanged there May Goth, is yet living,
having been restored to life by the efforts
of his friends, who thought they noticed
signs of life in his body soon after it was
cut down and handed over to them at
the hanging. Young dropped seven feet
and was pronounced dead by the physi-
clan, although his neck was not broken.
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