Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-21
CHIPS.

Mr.. MATHEW ARNOLD celebrated on
Christmas Eve his ED birthday ami
versary.
The average glass of whisky for which
10 or 15 cents is paid costs the dlstlller
one-sixth of q cent
THE Cincinnati Associated Charities
has lately organized a volunteer force of
100 ladies to act as visitors to homes OF
the needy.
IT is a fixed law among the Apache
Indians that man and his mother-ln-
law must never visit each other If 1t can
possibly be avoided.
Miss EUGENE Snow, the German
novelist, whose nom de plume OF II.
Marlitt" is so universally known, was
once an opera singer.
AN old log Jail which was erected in
Crescent City, CAL, thirty years ago,
was recently blown down by the wind
and completely wrecked.
GIRLS in Eastern Kentucky are fre-
quently married at the age of IL years,
it is stated, and find husbands not great
~ older than themselves.
DISTURBANCES caused by wall paper
poisoning take the form of bilious fe-
yer, hay fever, or in the most severe
types of nervous prostration.
EUROPEAN steamers arriving on tie
Atlantic coast lately report seeing sail
ing vessels lying to under bare poles or
scudding for the gulf stream to thaw
out.
SMOKERS are warned by celebrated
optician from reading and smoking at
the same time. The blue of the smoke
imposes unequal work upon the two
eyes.
PROHIBITION seems to be gaining
ground in Louisiana, especially in the
interior parishes. It is estimated that
$4,O0O,O0O is spent for liquor in that
state every year.
AN enterprising picture-dealer in
London has imported from Berlin 10000
photographs of Prince Henry of Bat
tenberg, who is about to marry Princess
Beatrice, of England.
The highest denomination of United
States legal-tender notes or gold
certificates is $4,000. No bills of the
denomination of 100000 have ever been
issued In this country.
ELECTRIC clocks were started last
week in New Orleans. They have met
with public favor, and are being intro
duced into number of public buildings
and private residences.
Mrs. MARY SHUTToN, of Baltimore,
alleges that while seeking child for
adoption she found a woman with
photograph OF Charlie Ross, who said
that the boy was still alive.
CHINA starts the new year by using
postal cards, but it is doubted if they
will be success. The average China
man takes two days to write letter, and
it is most all signature at that.
THE Episcopalians of Charleston, s..
c., have started Church Burial Asso-
citation, in which the membership costs
81 a year and insures a hesrse, coffin,
carriage and grave in case of death.
TT is related by the staid Buffalo
Commercial that hound at Wellsboro,
Pa, ran down a deer after a long chase.
and then dragged the gamehome, where
the owner of the dog shot the animal.
A PENNSYLVANIA debating society re-
gently discussed the question: From
which do chickens suffer the most, min
sters or owls?" It was decided that
chickens suffer most from ministers"
Rev. JACOB HILDEBRAND, Baskerville,
Roanoke County, Va, has in his pos
session German bible printed in the
year 100. Mr.. Hildebrand proposes to
present it TO the library OF Roanoke
college.
MWILLIAM M. NELSON, who was Miss
Hills hacker in the suit against ex-Sen-
ltor Sharon, of California, has served
notice on Mr.. Sharon's lawyers that no
money shall be paid her until his claims
are settled.
THE Jaw compelling the erection of
fre-eecapes is to be strictly enforced in
Pittsburg. All persons notified to erect
fire escape, and who do not comply
with the order inside of ninety days, are
to be prosecuted.
The Rothschilds have succeeded in
preserving their old homestead, the
house of the red shield, in Jews Lane,
Frankfort on the-M lain, and will convert
it with the adjoining house into a re-
pository of family relics.
UTICA, N. Y, has an ordinance COM
polling all drivers of sleighs to put bells
on their horses, in order that pedes-
TRANS may hear their approach. Those
who heve neglected the law this winter
have been summarily dealt with.
A DEAF-MUTE, who is blind, attended
religious service for deaf-mutes in
Baltimore recently, and was made to
comprehend the entire service by q
deai-mute who interpreted by certain
pressures on the blind mans hands.
A DISTINGUISHED. divine of the Ouak-
er City was asked the other day whose.
style he would prefer to have, Emer-
sons or Oliver Wendell Holmes" IT
would prefer" was his answer, ito write
like Holmes, but to, think like Emer-
som. -
hWAsHReToNcorrespondenthas made
careful investigation of the wealth of
senators, and has come to the conclusion
that there are not dozen men in the
Senate who are in any way dependent
uron their salaries. Most of the Door