Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-10
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gan.
The Paris municipal council has ex-
PEELED all foreign children from the
communal schools.
1T is full time for investors in Florl-
da real estate to exercise little COM
mon sense.-New York Herald.
AN English lady has arrived at Or
lando, Fla, with nine children, par
rot and forty pieces of baggage.
In Irish hunts, to warn the crowd
against q kicking horse danger signal
is hoisted III the shape Of 81 red ribbon
on his tail.
THE Pensacola (Fla.) Waterworks
Company has commenced the erection
of it's buildings, and will soon begin
laying mains.
A MISSISSIPPI letter says: "Our
white people are largely in favor OF
prohibition and the cOlOred people are
fast coming over"
AN Eastern insurance company has
collection of letters from second
husbands, warmly commencing it for
prompt payment of life insurance pol
icies.
PROGRESSIVE luncheons" are the
rage in Philadelphia. Four people sit
at each table, and at the end of each
course change positions, ii the manner
of progressive euchre.
LONDON has sixty seven hospitals,
with 6 ,588 beds; SO, 493 patients are
treated annually Tie number of
patients treated during the past two
years exceeds 100000.
KENTUCKY is said to have the best
country roads to befound in America.
TLey are made of limestone macadam,
and are described as "broad, smooth,
level, white, glistening turnpikes.
AN experienced vocalist, it is said,
during four teen years cured any num-
Der of cases of obstinate cough by pre-
scribing the free use of raw oysters AS
q diet. The remedy is easily tried.
THOMAS P. GILL, in the North Amer
lcan Review, proves by figures from Of
fetal sources that there are In the
United States to-day 100000 more
tenant farmers than in Great Britain
and Ireland.
The poor of Paris have lately had
a windfall of more than ordinary mu-
nifcence. A benevolent lady has be-
queathed 100000 francs for the
founding of an asylum for the aged
poor of both sexes.
DESPITE Vermont's stringent fish
protective laws, some scalawag depop-
ulated one of her lakes the other day
bv exploding a quantity of dynamite
underneath the ice. Every fish, ap-
parently, was killed.
MAssENETS new opera, Gle Cid, - Is
said to be one of the most successful
works produced in Paris for many
years. The receipts for the first ten
performances average $500 francs,
or more than 81, 600 a night.
THE Progress Medical says 81 method
of treating rabies by incubation was
discussed in q Leipsic medical Journal
as long ago as 1849, and the doctor
recommending it was stated to beCon-
stantin Herring of Philadelphia.
A BERLIN inventor has got up mu-
steal sewing machine, which turns out
tunes as fast as work. This is q COM
bination as novel as it is agreea BILE,
and it suggests besides endless cases
where the din of machinery may thus
be made pleasant.
THE people of Santa Rosa, CAL, have
been boasting of their artesian well
which reached but 40 feet into the
earth, but its abundant flow now
proves to be derived from the reser-
voir of the local water company
The we'll will be corked up.
A LIEUTENANT of the Eighth Infantry
is the Pooh Bah Of our army. He is
on duty at Fort Brown, Tex, where
he serves as post adjutant, post treas
urer, post range officer, acting signal
officer, recruiting officer and superin-
tendent of the post schools.
THE Plattsburgh Republican says
There is a long geared young man or
Isle La Motto who has rugged up a pair
of canvas wings, by the skilful use oil
which in combination with skates be
is said to be able to outstrip and sal
around the fastest ice boats.
In connection with the anti Chinese
movement in Sacramento, the Bee an
nouneed that it would print the names
of all white women who desired to take
in sewing, and many responded. Their
it made similar offer to washerwom
en-, and not one was heard from.
THE proposed anti Chinese ordinance
of Sacramento makes it obligatory
upon every Chinese person to remove
without the limits on or before the LIST
of March. For attempting to violate
this ordinance by living in the city linn
it's fine of from $50 to $500 is pro
vided.
A nihilist, named Manutscoarof
formerly student in the University
of St. Petersburg, has been sentenced
by the military tribunal of Odessa tc
be hanged. The trial was held with
closed doors, and all the entrances
and approaches to the court were
strongly guarded.
JOHN w. MACKAY of California will
it is said, give at least $4,000 toward
the proposed monument to John Nc
Cullough, which is to stand in Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia. Elliott
the sculptor, has almost completed in
clay the bust of the tragedian as V7r
ginius, which is to be the chief figure in
the memorial.
TlHERE Is no lioI1or law in the North.