Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-08-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

become part of the nobby tennis
suit
A HARLEM bride received among her
wedding presents a receipted gas bill OF
ST from her father.
UNDER the present statutes of Missouri
person can marry, be divorced and re-
marry In thirty-one days.
Four half-intoxicated youths paid an
old boatman in Boston Harbor half a
dollar for rescuing them from drown
ing.
DURING the row which followed a
Hungarian christening, at Middletown,
Pa, the newly christened child was
killed.
FIVE generations of one family sat for
their photographs in a single group at
| Springfield, Chester County, Pa, a few
days ago.
MANY New York people who have a
taste for ice cream are trying the fad of
eating Boston brown bread with cream.
A LUMINOUS buoy has been invented,
the light for which is produced by phos-
| phuret of calcium, and is visible two
and half miles away.
A CAIRO bachelor, who, the ad said,
was ''S7 years old, but rich,'' has re
ceived $50 applications from ladies will
ing to be his wife-and risk his dying
pretty soon.
A YOUNG man in Findlay, o., whose
affianced died about a year ago, has now
set all the gossips there talking by elop-
ing with the girls mother-a woman al
most 90 years old.
A PHOTOGRAPHERS in Klausenberg,
Pennsylvania, named Veresc, has sue
ceeded in photographing the shades of
color between deep red and orange, but
not yet to fix them permanently.
The people of San Francisco have pre-
sented to the new cruiser of that name
81, 800 silver service that is said to be
the handsomest thing of the kind
owned in America.
A FAITHFUL dog in Hamilton, O.,
didn't abandon its attempt to arouse its
drunken owner, who had fallen asleep
on the railroat track, until an engine
cut off its leg. The man escaped in
jury.
WILSON ZIcKERY (colored), of Sumner,
had leg badly burned when child,
but it gave him no trouble until he
severely injured it two years ago. The
sore refused to heal, and day or two
ago it had to be amputated.
THE only attendants at the funeral of
Jeremiah Miller, of North Mountain,
Cumberland County, who attempted to
kill his wife and then killed himself,
were the reporters acted as pastor,
pallbearers and grave diggers.
PARAsoLs made of the best linden
wood, manufactured by Finnish peasants
in the suburbs of Viborg, are in fashion
in the Russian summer resorts along
They are light, elegant, and very
cheap.
THE schooner Polly, which was built
at Amesbury, Mass, in 1904, is said to
be the oldest American-bu merchant
craft afoat She is in good condition
yet and delivered load of coal at Nan
tucket only few days ago. Two men
constitute her crew.
SIX years ago Fred Mcconnell, aged
10, of Washington, Pa, saw a circus
performer eat glass, and it SO pleased
him he determined to learn to do it.
The first attempt made him sick, but
since then he has experienced no i'll eff
feet, though he is no taller than boy
of s or 10 years.
Mrs. JOHN CARED, of Leoni, bled to
death in her sleep the other night. Her
condition was not known by her hus-
band until he was awakened by the
blood which was flowing from her leg.
The veins had broken by the force of
the life current, and she was dead in Is
minutes.
WHILE a roofer was at work on the
roof of a school at Greenwich, L. l.,
the other day. he was overcome by the
heat and rolled down the roof and over
the edge. His suspender strap caught
on hook in the roof gutter, and kept
him from falling to the ground. He
hung in mi lair until his fellow work
men rescued him.
Two sons of John Martin, of Easton,
Pa, aged respectively s and 6 years,
took a dog to the canal to give him a
drink, holding him by chain wrapped
around the cider boys leg. The dog
leaped into the canal and dragged the
boy after him. The younger boy be-
came alarmed and ran home, and his
brother drowned before help came.
AT Americas, Ga. as the work
roof of the furniture factory, which is
three stories high, a huge rattlesnake
was discovered coiled on the highest
point of the building. The snake was
soon killed Just how he got into his
elevated position is not easily under
stood, but it is possible that he may
have been concealed in one of the roles
of roof tin.
Mrs. J. L. PECK, of Conneaut, O., is
great fsherwoman. One day last
week she felt a stout pull at her line
while fishing. she worked him into
shallow water, and when about GLAND
the monster, he made quick rush for
deep water and broke the line The
lady, being little excited, jumped into
the water and caught the fish in her
arms. It was silver catfish and tipped
the beam at nine pounds, and in length
was nearly three feet.
A cJ.EyER swindler has been doing
Florida. He guarantees to rid cotton
fields Of caterpillars, and on receiving