Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-19
SAXON SONG OF SUMMER.
GLEANINGS.

The debt of New York city is officially
given as $1O3, 143, 392.92.
ARKANSAS has more miles of navigable
rivers than any other state in the union.
ONE concern in Providence makes 70
600 pounds of oleomargarine per week,
and the demand exceeds the supply.
HE presence of sugar has been de-
tecteel In the petals of flowers in considera-
BILE quantity, varying from seven to one
! per cent.
ONE hundred and fifty men were re-
qulred to repair the damage by musk
rats to the banks of the Erie canal be-
tween Lockport and Lyons.
THE acid poison of the cobra is so
active that one-ffth of grain injected
into mans veins would be sufficient to
cause his death.
A CITIZEN of Plymouth, Ind, fired six
shots at a supposed bur lar, and then
his wife called out: "See here, Sam, If
you don't stop shooting at me, you'll
have the house full of neighbors. ."
WITHIN the last five weeks no less than
six steamers have been in collision with
ice in the north Atlantic. Two of them
were SO badly injured that they were
abandoned, and the other four reached
port with their forward compartments
full of water.
AT New Milford, Conn, an infant SON
OF George Beardsley partly swallowed a
button hook on Monday last, which was
soon removed. In SO doing, however,
an arteryin the throat was ruptured, and
the child gradually grew weaker from
loss of blood, until death ensued in
few days.
The great Corliss engine, the centre
OF attraction among the machinery ex-
h1b1ted at the centennial, has been
bought by the Pullman Palace Car COM
pany for their works now going up at
Chicago. The engine has been idle dur
ing these intervening years.
A STONE from the tomb of NapoleonI..
at st. Helena, intended for the Washing
ton monument at the capital was pre-
sented to the monument society, re-
Gently. The stone was delivered to the
commander of the Mystic for this pur-
pose nineteen years ago, but was stored
away IN the Washington navy yard and
then forgotten.
MAN in Rochester has advanced the
idea OF Kidding sewers of noxious gases
by having movable furnace which will
get the air for it's fire from one of the
openings III the sewer, the others In the
ne1ghborhood being closed. It is be-
heved it would be an inexpensive and
simple method
A GEORGIA paper gives this description
OF hummlng birds nest recently
brought to it's Office: 1T was set upon
limb Of tree the size of a mans
thumb, and coated outside with the moss
OF an oak, SO as to perfectly represent
knot. 1t was about the size of large
hickory nut, an inch high, and construct
ed OF cotton and hair. It contained two
little white eggs, about the size of COM
mon snap bean.
Four locomotives were stopped by
drift in a snowshed on the Union Pacific
railroad. Snow covered the roof COM
pletely, SO that no air could get in and
no smoke could out. The engineers and
fremen soon became insensible. Fiji
teen Cinnamon went to the rescue and
were also overcome. ALI were nearly
dead from s11ffocation when finally taken
out
A LADY of Macon, Ca, was saying the
other day that her household, including
servants, are often imposed upon by the
hooking birds clever imitation of the
postman's whistle, which is as perfect as
the whistle itself. They go out to get
the letters and find Jack on spray near
the fence blowing his whistle and look
ing entirely innocent Of any intention to
play April fool on the household.
BERRY ScoGGINs had committed a
murder at Thomasville, Ga, and was a
fugitive in the mountains. At every
meal tune he boldly entered somebody's
house, demanded a place at the table
with the family, and ate with cooked
gun lying across his lap.s A sheriff and
large party at length went out to hunt
him down. He took position at the
top of hill and fired on them; but he
had only shotgun, and they could keep
out of his range, while still within rifle
distance. Their best marksman was
deputied to shoot him, and four bullets
were lodged IN him, causing death.
THREE Indians and their boat disap-
peared from Cape Hurd, on Lake Huron,
six years ago. A squaw said that she
saw the boat move out upon the lake, in
the night, and then sink out of sight.
Her story was believed by the supersti-
tious Indians, who conjectured that the
three men, being extraordinarily wicked,
had been punished with death by the
Great Spirit. Lately two white wood
men quarrelled, and each accused the
other of numbering the missing Indians.
The fact seems to be that together they
committed thr crime, fastened the bodies
in the boat, loaded it with stone, scut-
tied it, and set it adrift to sink
In 1853 four South Carolina clergy
men, who were old and intimate friends,
sent their four sons to the same boarding
school. From boarding school, at the
end of four years, they were transferred
to college. Through school and college
they were roommates and classmates,
and stood In the order of first, second,
third and fourth at the top of the roll.
They graduated together III the same
order of merit, entered the same law
Office and studied under the same chan
cellor. 1.-THE beginning of the war they