Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24
A GOOD WIFE.
BY soPHoCLEs, B. C. 491.
[Paraphrased by Chriss Wilson. |
PICKED UP.

PICKED UP.
A 14-PoUND nugget of gold has been
found in Siberia.
THE United States is well bread with
$500 bake shops.
THE people Of the United States eat
ten billions of eggs every year.
COLLECTING dog photographs is the
latest fashionable craze.
A SOUTH HAVEN mich. man pays q
real estate tax of $3.50 and dog tax
of $13.
A Boston court has ruled that a. d.
vorce obtained in Dakota is not bind
ing in Massachusetts,.
A SINGLE locomotive recently drew
al cars in a single train across Louis
lana, at an average rate OF ten miles
an hour.
A WOMAN in New Y ork court talked
so last that the judge had to stop her.
The stenographers could not keep up
with her.
THERE is O. cellar under the court
house at Lexington, Ca, which was
dug by saltpetre makers during the
war.
PARIS is diverted by a. Russian
countess who drives with three horses
abreast, each horse having Siberian
fur blanket.
4 MARBLE dealer of Athens, Ca, has
a piece of marble, the veins of which
can be traced into a perfect picture of
a woman. The face, eyes, nose and
hands are plainly discernible. The
dealer says that he believes that the
marble was once q living being, but
that it pet-ifed into marble.
The San Francisco Alta tells this
story: A Sacramento car horse which
died last week had become so we'll &C.
quainted with some of the regular pa
irons OF the road that when they were
aboard the car he would stop in front
of their residences to let them off with
out any hint from the driver.
A MIsER who has just died in Canter-
bury, England, is reported to have
left an immense sum Of money and a
large number of valuable paintings,
including several Raphaels and Van
Dycks. He had walled up many of
the windows of his house, and only
one door was available for use.
To strangers it appears incredible
that snow should fall to great depth
all around us and seldom fall in Sail
da, says the Salida, Col, News, but
suchis fact. You cannot go 10 miles
in any direction without encountering
snow, while here in town the streets
are dusty and the sun shines bright
and warm.
A DAVENPORT (Ia.) man is the pos
Of 81
and good gait, with five legs, and ev-
quired. The horse is 6 years old, and
1t runs as we'll as a four-legged animal.
and to all appearances finds no incon-
venience in using the fifth leg.
THOMAS MEEHAN, the Philadelphia
botanist, concludes that the use of the
spines in the cactus is to break the
full force of the sun on the leaves.
Plant-lovers set out their treasures in
summer under "arbors" of fish-netting
of galvanized wire, knowing by ex-
perience how the moving shadows of
the Irvine or wire lower the tempera-
ture.
AN energetic pedestrian of Boston
provides himself with q paper bag
with ashes. When he reaches a slip
perry place he scatters his ashes and
walks across with safety and ease.
He thinks his method more efficient
than the usual plan pursued by the
city authorities, and believes that he
is bestowing q benefit upon his fellow
citizens.
JOHN O'HENLY, a Georges River,
Cape Breton, fisherman, while clean
ing catch of fish recently, found in
the stomach of q moderate sized coda
New Brunswick 20 cent coin of 1862.
Around the coin was something like
paper, perhaps at one time a five Or
ten dollar bill. The coin is now in the
possession of Wilson McKinnon of
North Sydney.
THE vaqueros, who meet at rodeos
or roundups, have names of their own
for the people of every section of the
country, says the Winnemucca New
Silver State. The residents of the Big
Meadows, from the Sink to Lovelocks,
are called "Slough bumpers from
Lovelocks to the Humboldt House
and Mill City they are designated as
"High Shoppers" from Mill City to
Winnemucca they are known as '.Sand
Lappers," and rom Wlnnemucc& TO
Golconda they are termed ''Ditch
Angels" Paradise people are termed
'Mud Waders," and residents of Quin
River Valley "Spouters."
DURING the recent freeze, says the
Viadosta (Ga.) Times, some darkies
ventured out on theic in a lake in the
lower part of Lowndes County, and
one of them fell in. The water was
over his head, but he was short dis
lance from shore. He Immediately
dived under the ice and swan toward
the shore. At length, finding himself
to be within his depth, he let himself
down, and, placing his feet on the
ground, deliberately battered hole
through the ice above with his head,
and escaped without a headache.
That is a hard tale, but darkey's
head is proverbially hard.
cARTEGRAM from Paris sionad