Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-19
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

New YORK has new periodical, the
Dynamite Monthly.
ONE tenement house In New York
shelters 500 families.
SOME wag says the Queens book is
more Brown than read.
THERE are only go members of the
London fire department.
A PARhoT in a Fulton Street, New
York, restaurant screams: 'Don't tip
the walters.
New YORK CITY is to have a college
for women as soon as the necessary
money can be raised.
A LADY in Willimantic, Conn, lodged
the measles for eighty-four years, but
was caught last week.
Mrs. LAwDIs, of Red Bank, N. j.,
showed her one-pOund baby toe often,
and 1t caught fatal cold.
A FATHER-IN-LAw IN New York, after
thrashing his son-in-law, has been con-
graduated by magistrate.
A KENTUCKY jury gave damages of
81, 900 against young white man for
calling an old negro thief.
Two weeks ago butterflies were nu-
merous in England, peas were above
ground, and roses were In leaf.
THE first regular newspaper in the
United States was started in 1704, and
was called the Boston Newsletter
TOBACCO raising in North Carolina
beats gold mining. A Warrenton farmer
refused 1000 for his crop on seven
acres.
A MAIL pouch at Huntington, Pa,
thrown from a car, caught and was dis
tributed along the track for eighteen
miles.
Two enthusiastic girls from Texas
sold land and travelled 1900 miles in
order to become students at the Harvard
Annex.
AN old lady in Newport, KY, would
not consent to leave her fooded house
unless four cats we're provided with safe
transit also.
SIX children of Waterford, Pa, the
Oldest one u years of age, held a con-
cert for the benefit of the food sufferers
and raised S51.25.
A sH-YEAR old girl i'll Unionville,
Conn, has died from commissions caused
by drinking liquor which she found in
her fathers room.
A YOUNG dog was recently frightened
to death near Lafayette, Ore, by a child
who dressed up as a bug-a-boo and
chased the animal.
EVERY fresh trick the professional
roller-skater adds to his or her rep
ertoire is called new rinkle.-
Son1erUjLLe Journal.
TWENTY thousand dollars worth of
diamonds have just been strung togeth-
er on q necklace In New York for a
wealthy lady of that city.
a CONNECTICUT newspaper has put the
enterprise of its contemporaries to shame
by long article on "1he Next Worlds
Fair. "-NeoU York Post.
The 23-years-old daughter of Mr.. G.
O. Mann, died recently In fernando
County, Alabama, from eating flowers
of the common yellow jasmine.
''STINGY INDIAN is the name of an
Idaho mountain which promises to be-
come generous in gold, which is said to
have just been discovered there.
Two brothers In Connecticut married at
different times two sisters, and the first
son Of each couple, born III different
years, was born on the 29th Of February.
II DAN ANION1Os 4EAss 1dIy udS D0"
come affected with the old-time quail
eating fever, and is now performing the
thirty days feat for prize of a diamond
ring.
GEORGE A. THAYER, the man who ran
for mayor of Binghamton, n. z, on the
platform "Smash the Salvation Army"
has been elected by an overwhelming
majority.
IT is possible that Russia will have to
give up the Christmas tree, for the
government finds that the destruction of
fir trees is coming to be serious matter
for the forests.
THE great meteor which fell recently
at Los Angeles, Cal, is scientifically
described as being ''about the size of a
Saratoga trunk, T" but probably it was not
quite so heavy.
GEORGIA MAYS, a beautiful colored
Girl in Richmond, KY, committed sui
eide by taking an overdose of arsenic,
which she had been using to beautify
her complexion.
A SHOWER of white sulphurous ashes
caused great CONSERVATION at Queens
town, Cape Colony, last November. 1t
lasted but few minutes, and the sun
shOne throughout its duration.
A GOLD medal has been offered by a
Tonawanda, n. Y, paper to the cham
pion bean eater of New York, the ques-
ton Of gastronomic capacity to be de-
cided by contest at that place.
THE French ministry of agriculture
publishes some statistics which show
that the increase In population has fallen
off by a third since 1872, and that the
rate of infant mortality is Is per cent.
THE best musk comes from China.
Twenty-Five pods are packed in leaden
box. which is enclosed in pasteboard in
scribed with Chinese characters, and in
this shape the perfume reaches London.
DURING the reign of Queen Anne il
was an offense against English law to
educate an Irish Catholic child IN Ire