Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-28
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A FRENCH scholar is the author of the
theory that bald-headed soldiers are the
bravest.
The women in the Isle of Man are al
lowed to vote upon proving the owner
ship of 800.
A VIRGINIA lady who has just entered
upon her Tooth year takes from six to
eight cups of coffee day.
WEES BARKsDALE, Laurens County,
Miss, negro, recently tied his foot to a
trigger and blew off his head.
DEEDS back as far as A. D. 1916 we're
searched to prove good title to the new
federal building in New York.
The President of France has salary
OF $12O, 900 year, with $4,000 more
for entertaining and travelling.
OF Ii 448 natives, who left Hamburg
for foreign countries during March, ali
but "a were bound for America.
Two brothers In Connecticut married
sisters, and the first son of each couple
was born on the goth of February.
The New York produce-exchange tow
or will have an electric clock connected
with the Washington observatory.
New daily newspapers were estab-
hshed IN this country during 1883 at the
rate of one new one every three days.
RIVER pirates are operating at Contra
Costa, Cal. Last week fifty salmon
were stolen from the fshermen's boats.
BEEBE, Ark, expects to ship Is, 600
crates of strawberries this season, which,
at only cents quart, would be worth
100000.
Four hundred Connecticut teachers
have begun to talk about going to the
national education meeting at Madison,
Wis.,, in July.
A SOCIETY belle of Columbus, O.,
hires messenger to carry her satchel
when she goes shopping, while she Jugs
nine-pound poodle.
STERNIAK endeavors to explain that In
Russia to cry out when a policeman is
numerically beating you constitutes
breach of the peace-a disturbance of
public order.
AN old duck shooter calculates that
broad bills fly at the rate of thirty-fve
to 10 miles an hour, and other varieties
from forty-fve or fifty to eighty and 100
miles an hour.
In recent bean-eating tournament at
Lockport, N. Y, Fred Baker won the
championship by eating six pounds of
baked beans In forty minutes. He must
have been Boston man.
THE black poodle is again becoming
fashionable in England. These animals,
to be in correct style, must have their
hair shaved into knots and knobs, and
be rendered generally hideous.
IT has been agreed by authorities in
Paris to purchase an estate in Algeria
for use as an agricultural school for 200
INDECENT children. The probable cost
of the estate is !, 100000 francs.
MORE activity exists now at the Rus
| sian naval dock yards than for some
time past. Before the end of summer
six new war vessels will be launched.
Two Of them will be frigates, two of
them cruisers and two gunboats.
NORA SPRINGER, of Lafayette, Ind,
was swinging in hammock when David
Everett passed her on horseback with
| gun across the pommel of his saddle.
The horse stumbled and Jared the gun.
It went off and killed the girl in the
hammock.
FISH aprons are to be placed on the
river dams at Troy, Mechanicsville,
Fort Miller, and Fort Edward in the
Hudson. In olden times shed and her
ring penetrated as far up as the Adiron-
dacks, and probably will again, unless
choked by saw-dust.
ARTICHoKE feasts are among the ira
ditional Lenten festivities in Rome.
They are held in the old Jewish quarter,
the Ghetto, where one celebrated eating
house prepares the artichokes s'alla
Giudea" by stewing them in vinegar
with sweet herbs and garlic.
The hour-milling interests of the
south are steadily increasing, and it now
looks as though in few years the
Southern people would be able to supply
themselves with -four instead of being
SO largely dependent upon the North
west as at present.
The chief of band of Yuma Indians
who have been taking in the sights of
Los Angeles, CAL, visited the offices of
the Times and left this request for a
puff: ''My name Charley, big Indian
from Yuma. These men my subjects.
Please give me favorable notice in your
paper"
A PACKAGE of greenbacks which had
been inclosed in a can and buried for
several years by a miner near Helena,
Montana, was resurrected the other day.
A mountain rat had secured nest in the
can and eaten one end of the bills off,
but fortunately their value was not de-
stroyed.
The Philadelphia Eastman Brother
hood" was started in 1856, with thirty
three members. Of these two resigned
and seventeen have died, leaving four
teen to attend the recent annual supper.
A bottle of wine laid up in 1858 is to be
opened at the last supper, when but one
man is left.
MIR. A. G. WALKER, an English gen.
tleman, was recently bitten by fly up
on the lip, at Greytown, Nicaragua,
while surveying the mouth of the San
Juan River. A swelling followed. He
consulted physician, who cut the
wound. Blood poisoning ensued and in
three days he died.
DURING the recent trial of Mrs.