Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
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The Boston Post has. noticed that
"this mortality among Gen. Gordon is
increasing terribly"
MORE than 10000 New Workers live
at hotels, and there are 100000 strangers
in town every night.
A MAN in Tallahassee, Fla, in digging
well the other day, struck a deep
layer of oyster shells.
A 14-YEAR OLD lady and 17-year-old
gentlemen recently assumed the holy
bonds of matrimony at Kennebunk,
Me.
Hay is being transported into the
upper counties of Canada, the scarcity
there being due to drought last sum-
mer.
AMERICAN oysters are being shipped
to Germany alive for the purpose of
being acclimated in the waters of the
Baltic.
No more professional coachers will
be employed by Harvard athletes, a
course adopted some ten years ago by
Cornell.
The Vermont legislature has just
voted-113 to 69-against giving wome
the right to vote at municipal and town
elections.
A MEMBER of the Manhattan Athletic
club earned his Thanksgiving dinner
by jumping twenty feet and six inches
on one foot.
A RESOLUTION was recently presented
in the Alabama legislature to establish
commissioner of fish and fisheries for
that state.
J. E. FEM, of Columbia, S. O., has
just cut bullet out of his leg which he
accumulated in one of the battles of the
"late" war.
THOMAS LAHEY, a 10-year-old lad at
five years in the penitentiary for habit
ual thieve-y.
On Thanksgiving day every convict
at Sing Sing, n. Y, was given two
cigars, besides a dinner of chicken and
plum pudding.
SEVEN Philadelphians out of ten wear
badges of some sort. One Chestnut
Street jeweler makes $4,000 worth of
badges annually.
The president has been wary in re-
ceiving presents, but has just consented
to accept ten pounds of North Carolina
state fair prize butter.
A NANA1Mo (B. CO. man applied to
the operator at that place, day or two
ago, to have three-pint bottle of medi-
cine sent by telegraph.
STUFFED canaries are now being uti-
ized for left-shoulder ornaments on
many of the imported evening dresses
of Parsian dressmaker,
As celery is known to be beneficial to
nervousness, it is now claimed by those
protesting fair trial that cranberries
assist in curing dyspepsia.
PtTTsBURGERs find much fault with
ing that the companies mix natural gas
with the manufactured article.
JOHN JACKSON, of La Grange, Pa,
keeps barrel of sweet cider on tap by
the roadside with cup beside it for the
refreshment of thirsty travellers.
THERE is a wild woman screaming
through the forests around Hamilton,
Tex, and the owner is requested to call,
prove property and take her away.
A CHINAMAN who was arrested for
drunkenness frankly expressed COM
mon disposition. He said: "He no
workee, but hkee dlinkee, alice samee."
ONE reason why no editor of the At
lanta Constitution ever takes in Boston
is because $4,000 females in that city
are continually engaged in learning to
play the piano.
A NEW HAVEN druggist says he has
many calls for cigarettes from actresses
and also from young ladies of good
families. Some married ladies smoke
with their husbands consent.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton of Little Rock, Ark, are very
active, and are constructing building
for the association to cost when COM
pleted, 100000.
THE free textbook experiment in
Massachusetts is said to be success. 1t
has resulted in larger attendance in
the schools, and it is more economical
than the old system.
AT an auction sale of books in New
York the largest price paid was ST ,008,
which was given for three volumes OF
"Dibdin's photographed Decameron,"
printed at London in 1917.
A COLLECTION of bugs and insects for
GAO NOW OI1Oduc OAPOoAU4OA4 40 OOAA6
made at Austin, Tex. It will include,
also, various stuffed birds and animals.
and rattlesnakes, centipedes, tarantu-
las, spiders, fish, etc.
THE farm known as "Springfeld,"
161 acres, in Fairfax County, Va, origi-
nelly part of the Mount Vernon estate,
was last week sold to j. @. Way for the
apparently small sum of $2,71O.
THE present population of the world
is stated at 1,294,533, 973, of whom
1881, $50 arr Jews and 37O,878,O66 are
Christians. These figures leave 915.-
724, 827 to be classed as heather.
TEXAS, the largest state in the union,
is to have the largest capitol in the
union. The cornerstone of the struct-
ure will be laid on March 2. Tt is now
found that it will cost 100000.
THERE was difference of eighteen