Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09
FROM ALL SOURCES.


A PENNSYLVANIA young lady signif-
cantly added to her wedding invita-
tions the line, ''No pickle dishes as
presents"
A SILVER shoe buckle, supposed to
have once belonged to Gen. Washing
ton, was recently found among some
rubbish at Mount Vernon.
THE Kansas legislature will have an
extra session early in 1886 for the
purpose ofreapportioning the state for
members OF the legislature.
IT is estimated that fifteen American
colleges are seeking presidents. A
presidential course Of training should
be added to the curriculum.
A sUBTERRANEAN outlet to the Great
Salt Lake of Utah has recently been
found. The lake was discovered by
Col John G. Fremont in 1916.
A GEORGIA man has kept bale of
cotton for twenty years, thinking that
each year would see the article at the
price which he thinks it is worth.
A TITLED pair journeyed all the way
from Europe to New York to see if pa
had relented. He had not, and SO
they took a Cunarder back again.
IT is proposed to enlist professional
cooks and bakers in the army, as q
means of preserving the health and in
creasing the efficiency of the troops.
4 New YORK policemen are to be en-
powered in the absence OF the coroner
to take the dying dispositions Of per-
sons injured by accident or assault.
IT surprises the New York Mail and
Express to learn from Paris that an
American young lady in that city has
become engaged to an American man.
MEXICO has under way a scheme for
importing Chinese labor for the de-
velopment OF her agricultural and
mineral resources, native labor being
inefficient.
A MAINE newspaper says that the
village of Prospect Harbor, Goldsboro
County, "has no chu, CHI society, no
temperance society, no gin-mill, no
drunkard, and no pauper."
The skeleton of a man was recently
found in the Dead River region, Ore
gon, caught in q bear trap. The ap-
pearance of the skeleton indicated that
he had devoured his own flesh.
THE editor of the Grass Valley (Cal.)
Tidings has received d letter from Sal
isbury, N c., saying that Cinnamon
would be welcome there and could get
rs cents to ST a day as laborers.
A NEwBURY COUNTY, S. c., man, who
has more children than he knows
what to do with, went the other day
to buy winter stock of shoes for his
family. He missed the count by one
pair.
THE geological museum at Cam
bridge, Mass, which Agassiz began in
1858 on gift of $50, 900, now repre-
sents an investment in buildings, etc.,
of over 100000, and has 5000, 900
of invested funds.
A RECENT investigator into the
causes of consumption says that the
disease is often inherited because the
heir has taken for his personal use the
descendants old mattresses. uphols-
tered chairs, and carpets.
A SACRAMENTO lottery speculator,
on being asked if he was not afraid of
the hand of the law, replied that, as
liceman on the beat in front of his
house, he didn't see why he should be.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, has a thief named
Sturgess, who makes speciality of
wedding presents. He was a regular
attendant at church, and never missed
a wedding. His house was found full
of beautiful articles stolen from vari-
Gus wedding feasts.
A YOUNG Salvation army girl re-
Gently fell very i'll in Portsmouth,
N. III. The captain refused to permit
her to go to the hospital, and said she
must work till she died. She there
upon deserted, and the Indignation of
the people is aroused.
SOME men at work in a Georgia vii
lage cut down a tree in which they
saw that piece of a different kind of
cut out, and thus found more than
ST. 900 which had been secreted ap-
parently twenty or twenty-five years
ago.
A CERTAIN blind preacher is consid-
cred by the New Orleans Picayune to
be proper candidate for the chap
laincy of the house of representatives,
since he will be happily ignorant that
the morning prayer is usually made
before the congressman take their
seats.
A QUAINT musical instrument has
been found in Mexico. It is in the
shape of pipe, the body and head of
which represent the inferior extremi-
ties OF a grotesque figure OF human
form, terminating in a leg, which, with
the foot, forms the mouthpiece. The
instrument is supposed to be of Aztec
origin.
A New YoKK leather dealer said the
other day that there had not been a
dozen channels pelts imported into
this country in as many years, for the
simple reason that the channels have
become so scarce that successful