Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-05-26
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THERE are thirteen American wome1
studying at the University of Zurich.
THE catch of shad in North Carolina
is double that of any previous year.
TIMOTHY SEXTON, of Dublin, has
left $4,000 for the benefit of aged and
infrm clergymen.
IT is proposed to lower Lake Weir,
Fla, about four feet by cutting ca
nal to the Oklawaba.
THE submarine divers OF New York
are paid as high as 1925 a week.
Wreckers receive 500 a month.
ACCORDING to eminent authorities
the plug hat conduces to baldheaded-
ness.
A GOOSE owned by Nelson Hoyt, OF
Craftsbury, VT, is said to be over so
years old.
No fewer than 100000 shade-trees
now make Washington glorious in
fresh green and fragrant blossoms.
BEN: PERLEY PooRE's reminiscent
ces have swollen to two volumes, with
an aggregate OF one thousand pages.
The enlargement of the Welland Ca
nal in Canada will afford summer
employment to two thousand work.
men.
AN ingenious notion has been put in
practice In the new circus in Paris.
The johnson sisters parform aquatic
feats IN a swimming bath lighted by
electricity from below, the theater
| otherwise being entirely darkened.
MISSISSIPPI adopted by popular vote
last year an amendment to the state
constitution providing for an increase
OF the school fund, and the legislature
this year has adopted carefully con-
sidered school law of seventy eight Sec
tions for the perfection of the school
system.
A CITIZEN of Mettacahouts, Ulster
County, N. Y, says that the sting of
the hOney-bee is sure cure for rheuma-
tism. The treatment is to expose the
part affected and induce bees to sting
it. He says this novel cure has been
tried by his neighbours with great sue
cess.
A LONG ISLAND man who recently
died left bequest of $500 to New
Jersey church on condition that the
church bell should be tolled for him
on each anniversary of his death. In
the event of this tolling being omitted
on any anniversary the heirs may de-
mand of the church the $500.
A YOUNG wife in Portland, Me-, was
told by her brother that her husband
gambled. She couldn't believe it, and
| to convince her the brother took her,
dressed in suit of his clothing, to a
gambling house, where she saw her
husband lose $500. Then she made
| herself known and marched her aston
ished husband home by the arm.
PHILADELPHIA fears thaG she will
lose her Zoo. The expenses last year
were 1000 more than the receipts,
| and it is thought that nothing but a.
permanent endowment will save it.
Last November a citizens committee
was selected to raise money for such
an endowment, but only $22, 900 has
been secured. There are ITO animals
| in the collection.
FRED FAUL, a California sheep owner
| found coyotes den, and in it seven
very young coyotes. His shepherd
dog Flora, who had recently given
birth to seven pups, four OF which had
been killed, was with him, and she at
once showed great interest in the
young coyotes, licking and fondling
them, and at length lying down and
sucking them. The little fellows were
carried to the house, Flora showing
great solicitude meanwhile. There
they were put in box and bed of
straw, and their foster mother, aban-
doning her own offspring, who are be-
ing brought up on g. bottle, is giving
much time and sustenance to the little
pups of the prairie.
AN American relates that he was
once travelling in England, and he was
staying for week at g. large country
house, which was, as usual at that
season, full of guests, invited, like him.
self. 1t was an old estate and had the
usual display of oaks, which are so
handsome and picturesque feature
of English country parks. He was
walking through the park one day with
g. naughty, aristocratic lady. "Have
you any trees in America? ?" she sud-
denly asked him. He was too much
taken back to speak for g. moment,
and before he could reply she broke in:
"Why, what g. silly question | have
asked you! OF course you haven't any
trees. The country isn't old enough"
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