Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-05-09
FRESHEST GLEANINGS.

elSHI uOuES II Gay.
THE last legislature of Texas enacted
a local option temperance law. 1t has
been adopted IN two-thirds of the coun-
ties where it has been voted upon"
The total area of the discovered coal
fields of the world amount to 10000
square miles. The United States has
10000 of these.
A VESSEL is loading at Port Royal for
Holland 1t will carry 400, 900 feet of
lumber, and will be the first shipment
to that country. a'a.H ra "
A TEXAS sheep raiser says there are
about 100000 head of sheep on the
borders of the Rio Grande-the finest
sheep raising country in the world. 'a'
A GRAY eagle measuring eight feet
from tip to tip, was killed about five
males south OF California recently. He
and his mate are believed to have carried
off 100 lambs during the past season.
A BILL has passed the Common Coun-
Gil of Nashville requiring all barber
shops to be closed on Sunday. This was
done at the request of the BARRIERS them.
selves. '...EH -. g1f
z9 IT is said that upwards of 27,OOo
bushels of potatoes have been shipped to
the United States from the district
around Quebec since the first of Janu-
airy. 7 "#s 90
A PIECE Of coral five inches high, six
inches in diameter at the top and two at
the base, was recently taken from the
submarine cable at Port Darwin, Aus
tralia. The cablewas four years old. s
THE largest hotel at Bradford, Pa. ),
has taken in only $40 day at its bar
since the spread of the Murphy temper
ance fever. It's previous bar sales reached
800 a day.
The pOrtmonnaies composed of steel
scales are much liked as currency hold
ers. Silver change ruins purses, and
these pretty purses take their places adj
mirably.mos IS. gt.ar en- =. e.-~s,,. 81
A MAN was guilty Of a contempt of
court in London, recently, in throwing
an egg at Vice Chancellor Malin AS
the egg was a sound one, it is thought
the man was insane. rnay II i ~T r. rr..
THE willlwas lately contested in the
English probate court of a lady who
married at the age Of so, a man of 40,
and at his death married again and sur
vived her second husband. - .,..-e..-.-.--
THE pen with which Francis Marion
wrote the order disbanding his soldiers
after the revolution is owned by one
Georgian; and another, a descendant of
the general, has Mrion's camp-chest
with its frugal outfit of silver.
LET us discuss the question who wo-
man can pin on mans collar the first
time trying, when the very same pin, if
engineered by a man, would double up
and run backward to stick in his thumb.
The smallest Bible in the world,
printed on thin, unbleaehed India paper n
measuring four and half inches by two
and three-quarters inches, and only half
an inch in thickness, is published by
Thomas Nelson & Sons.
FARMER MGRAB: Dochter, all gle
We hummer pown if yell keep me ivin'
anither twalmonth Amiable NJ D.:
Pm afraid, Mr.. M'Grab, couldn't do it
for that. / might try if you made it five
hundred. Farmer NJ Grab (emphatical-
ly): I'd rather die Judy. ,.s.-
A HUGE .rhinoceros got loose in the
steamer Colon in storm off Cape Hat
teras, and killed two dogs and horse be-
fore being recaptured 1t seemed to be
Infatuated by the rocking of the vessel,
but became tractable when calm en-
sued.
A YOUNG lady at Holyoke who tried
to cure sore throat recently by wrap
ping it in raw liver on going to bed, was
awakened in the night by huge rat
that was lunching from the liver, and
she concluded that, of the two, she pre-
ferred sore throat as"
THE British Empire embraces $780,,
900 square miles of territory, and a pop
ulation of 234, 100000, Of which one
sixth are I, Christian, over one-tenth
Mohommedan, more than two-tifths
Hindoos, and one-fourth heathens of va
rious kinds. .-ar r...#-.,,
A MAN living in Nicholas county, KY,
AYERS that he glanced at every word IN
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, which
required three days work, and found
that there are 335 words Of seven sylla-
bles, twenty-four with eight syllables,
and three with nine.
The French society for suppressing
the use of tobacco, holding that smoking
among boys is pernicious to their health,
has prepared petition to be presented
to Parliament, asking for law to pro-
hibit youths under 10 from using the
weed in public places. aa.t.a
No wonder Germany is said to be such
a clean place in which to live. We read
in German exchange that e Bismarck,s
detectives are securing the country
Our detectives wouldn't do that, no mat
ter how dirty the country was getting Tor
want of cleansing.-PhIadelphla Bul-
letin
A ROBIN was shot near this city a few
days since. It's gizzard was enlarged to
three or four times the natural size, and
was utterly mishapen. A small moccasin
snake, in perfect preservation, protrudedl
from it about four inches. The head OF
the snake is still concealed in the cavity
of the gizzard. The specimen, in alcohol.
is carefully preserved by a gentleman OF
this city,-Richmond Wing.