Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-08
CURIOsITIES.

3 CURIosITIEs.
, a cAMPHoR tree is fourishing in Tam.
r pa, Fla.
JAMES DOUGLAS, of Cornwall, Vt,
recently dug from one hill 1OS potatoes,
one of the largest weighing two and a
half pounds. The potatoes were all
perfectly sound and good.
A NIGHT-BLOOMING cereus in New
buryport seems to have got bewildered,
for it persists in blooming by day and
IN closing at night as tight as morning
glory. o
A PROFESSIONAL ell-digger in Sander
sonville, Ga, is blind negro. He is
also a roofer, and puts on boards and
shingles in as straight line as though
ne had perfect sight.
A GERMAN medical writer, in work
published in 1877, says that there are
but two authentic cases known of five
children being born at one birth. A
third case is now, reported from Kettwig
on the Rhine.
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Sun and Press
asks: Will some medical man explain
why or how it is that the negro is never
known to sneezef Ask any old planter,
who owned scores of servants, and he
will tell you he never heard one of his
servants meeze."
those who like to delve into mathemat-
ical curiosities are perhaps aware that
1t you multiply any number of figures,
more or less, great or small by 9, and
that product is added together it will in
varlably amount to one or more 9s with
out remainder. Try it, and explain it
somebody!
AN egg has been Matched in mans
pocket on the North Carolina coast. He
found terrapin's egg beneath frag-
ment of rock. He put it into his pocket
in order to show it to friend, but forgot
to take it out. He was startled a few
days after to find a young terrapin
alive and kicking.
A CURIOUS discovery has been made
in Jacksonville, Fla, in carrying on the
excavations required for the water
works. At the depth of twenty-eight
feet the workmen encountered an ex-
tensive bed of oyster and clam shells,
mixed with pieces Of wood and charcoal,
showing apparently the ancients were as
fond as the moderns of these delicacies.
IT is rather a novel, if not unprece-
dented, thing for grandmother to at
tend the school taught by her young
lady granddaughter. Such is the case,
however, near Bellefonte, Ala, for Mrs.
Daniel Martin, having arrived at the age
Of 16, having been married four years,
goes to school to her step-granddaughter.
Courier Journal.
On the fy-leaf of savings bank book
recently surrendered to one of the Bos-
ton savings banks is memorandum
which forcibly brings up "war times"
it runs as follows: This first deposit
was the proceeds of So gold piece, ex-
changed for So greenbacks' with rebel
prisoner at Baton Rouge, by my brother
George. It was sold in State street
November %, 1868, for 81 81 and deposit
ed on that Cay by my father.
THERE is in the almshouse at Dublin.
Ga, a woman whese skull bones for
years have been gradually gaping open
both at the longitudinal and the trans
verse sutures, leaving the brain unpro-
tected save by the skin. One may place
the finger in the tissues and plainly feel
the throbbing of the brain. She keeps
a handkerchief bound tightly around
her head, complaining of great pain,
and she breads lest it Will burst open
when the band is removed for a short
time.
A DEAF and dumb girl in Dorsey
county, Ark, has recently begun to talk
in her sleep. There had been family
prayers for the restoration of her speech.
At midnight her mother heard her dar-
ling's voice. Arousing the old gentle
man, she entered the apartment where
the child lay. The deaf and dumb girl
very wonderful" Then turning sud-
denly in her bed, she added, Yes, the
old-time orchards are always in bloom"
The afectionate parent simultaneously
embraced the maiden. She awoke with
start. But she could neither hear nor
speak.
A CURIOUS instance of partial loss Of
memory is mentioned in the French pa
pers. A painter, who was visiting a
friend at Sceaux, was standing on
balcony on the second floor, when he
overbalanced himself and fell on the
ground below. Every one rushed down
stairs, expecting to find him dead; but
he quickly picked himself up, and SEEM
ed unhurt. When, however, he turned
to address his friends, he could not re-
member their names. He had forgotten
his own, and, to his utter establishment,
he also found that he cousi not recall
single substantive. He can pronounce
one after the other the letters of which
the names Of his wife and daughter are
composed, but he is unable to unite them
into one word.
How to Peel Onions.