Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-05-21
BREVITTES.

IS
| A LATELY deceased millionaire's estate
III San Francisco is claimed by four lawful
widows already.
The new Gardner gun fires twenty-six
shots per minute. After it has banged
away at man two or three hours he be-
| gins to feel sick
A man was lined SIS and costs, at Dun
| lelth Ill, for cutting off a'colts ear with
jack knife, and perpetrating other cruelties
on the helpless animal.
THE Fairplay (Colorado) Sentinel boasts
that it is published at greater altitude
than any other paper in the world-1O,O6O
feet above the level of the sea-
Mr.. BERGH's latest proposition is that
dogs shall be caught with scoop-nets early
in the morning, and taken to a house
where they are to be gently asphyxiated
by pure carbonic acid gas.
INTENDING visitors to the great Austrian
exposition will do well to look to their
vaccination marks as we'll as to their let
tiers of credit the deaths from smallpox
IN Vienna, at last accounts, averaging six
| tr week.
THE salt well near Leavenworth
| Crawford County, Ind, which is 1865
feet deep, and has, for several years.
| yielded paying brine has suddenly ceased
| to be salty, but is pouring forth coal oil
| in strange abundance.
THE heirs of one Peter Gleason have es-
tablished their claim to 100000 worth
OF real estate in the city of Trenton, N J.,
which had mostly been leased for long
Germs by another party, who came into
fraudulent possession of it
A CORRESPONDENT suggests that all
hotels should be supplied with small bal
looms which should be so secured to the
windows OF the sleeping apartments as to
be easily entered therefrom In case of
fire dodgers could enter these balloons, cut
the cord, and in very few moments be
safe from danger of confagration.
WHEN fuel is burned in an open fire
place, at least seven-eighth of the actual
or potential heat passes up the chimney
unused. About one-half is carried off
with the smoke, onefourth with the cur
rent which flows in between the mantel-
piece and the fire, and the remaining loss
is represented by the unburned carbon
aceous matter in the smoke
A WOMAN in Reading, Pa, used to buy
| peaches when they were sixty cents a
quarter of peck; when her husband re-
monstrated with her for her extravaganza.
|
was not extravagant, because when she
bought those peaches she intended to put
them in the refrigerator and keep them
until they got cheaper.
| A PHILADELPHIA woman wanted a safe
place in which to secrete her money, some
| 81 400, and SO placed it in that ingenious
article OF feminine apparel known as a
hustle. Unfortunately another woman's
wit contrived plan to chloroform her
and relieve her of her funds, which was
successfully accomplished, and the dar-
ing operator got OFT safely with her booty.
WHEN Miss Faithful delivered her lee
ture in Cincinnati gentleman in the
audience was about to speak to a fashion
| able girl by his side in praise of the plain
| ness of the fair lecturess's dress, but the
words were taken out of his mouth in this
| wise: oh yes, am of course sorry she
| is not dressed in more style, but then you
know she is really very good" q
| NEVER Commemorative man the
necessaries of life, and he wants the con-
venlences; give him the conveniences,
and he Graves for the luxuries; give him
| the luxuries, and he sighs for the elegan-
cies; let him have the elegancies, and he
| yearns for the follies; give him all together
and he complains that he has been cheat
ed both in the price and quantity of the
| article.
| AT discussion by the jamestown Far
mers' Club, in Western New York, several
members stated that twenty pounds of hay
per day would keep an ayerage-sized cow
in fair condition. Two members insisted
that five pounds of cornmeal and eight
pounds of hay per day were equal to TWEEN
ty pounds of hay, or five pounds of the
meal equal to twelve pounds of hay.
Prices stated to be SIG ton for hay, and
| $22 ton for cornmeal.
SPACE FOR FowLs-The proper space
/ for fowls in confinement is set down by
Mr. Lewis Wright as half an acre to q
flock of fifty, which should be in grass
Those desiring to breed poultry on a large
scale can calculate from this basis why so
many failures have attended experiments
in this direction. One hundred fowls
need an acre range; one thousand ten
acres; and no doubt as the flock increases
over thousand, an average of more than
one acre per hundred would be the safer
plan.
PROFESSOR DONALDSON, an adventurous
American aerOnaut, intends to attempt
to cross the Atlantic this summer
in large balloon The balloon which
he has made for the purpose will weigh
about two thousand pounds, will contain
two hundred and sixty-eight thousand feet
OF gas, with two small reservoirs to pro-
vide against leakage and an electrical ar
rangement for light The Professor ex-
poets to accomplish the trip in from sew
enteen hours to two days and a half, and,
if the experiment proves successful, in
| tends to establish a balloon mail and
passenger line round the world! Yes, and
| If Neptune comes near enough in the an
preaching perihelion of the planets, we
shall get on that ball and see how it feels
two hundred and seventy million miles
! from the sun-AppIetos's Journal.