Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-11-17
ODDITIES.

AN tAeoUaHI IlSK fourteen feet i
length has been unearthed near Palouse
w. T.
THERE was young mother i'm Port
land, Oregon, whose age is but twelve
weight eighty-fve, yet her infant Sol
weighed nine pounds at it's birth.
The loser of Memphis bet is to stant
on his head five minutes, in a publ,
square, with Garfield banner suspend
ed from his feet.
In Oswego, n. Y, a groceryman be-
h1s store against ne1ghboring mea-
market that Hancock would be elected
He turned over his wager like a man
but the butcher declined to accept it.
A LARGE bird at Keokuk, Iowa, darted
swiftly downward in it's flight, and strik-
ing Lightning rod, the iron ran through
it's body, and it remained impaled, fut.
tering and struggling, until death came.
In Ogdensburg, N. Y, William Alger
bet his moustache against A. A. Bah
cocks whiskers that Garfield would not
be elected. On Wednesday morning be
had his moustache cut off and sent to
Mr.. Babcock.
A COMBINATION bet was made by ten
Democrats and ten Republicans in Hous-
ton, Texas. The losers were to harness
themselves to stage coach and draw
the winners through the principal street.
In both parties were some of the fore
most men of the city.
ELEVEN children at four births was
the feat of Mrs. Scannel Hickson. of
Shamrock. Mo. First birth, three: sec
ond and third, two each, and at the last
interesting occasion there were four. all
the latter being alive and doing well.
Ten out of the eleven are alive.
A WISCONSIN cow with a persistent
cough that baffied the skill of veteri-
nary surgeon to cure, died, and. upon
opening Der windpipe to discover the
cause OF the irritation, there was found
IN the upper part OF the lung a live
striped frog of ordinary size.
AN event probably without precedent
IN railway annals has just happened at
Provins. A passenger train leaving
Paris at 500 P. NJ. arrived safely at it's
destination, but on getting down to let
the passengers out Of the cars the guard
was astounded to find neither passengers
nor passenger cars. The had forgotten
to hook the cars on at Paris.
JOHN s. MILLER and Henry Klein
dents, of Rochester, N. Y, bet on the
election, the loser to walk block at
noon attired in his wife's night-dress.
Miller lost, and at noon on Wednesday
and walked in Mrs. Miller's
followed by a crowd of men
and boys
A wBEELBARRow bet in Baltimore af-
fOrded more amusement to the specta-
tors than had been expected. The loser
was annoyed, while wheeling the winner
over the stipulated route, by the taunts
of the latter, and followed up the pay
ment OF the wager by whipping him
soundly.
Two girls in All Illinois boarding
school had contest to see which would
dress quickest on wager. Three 9th
er girls acted as judges, and the air
seemed full of lingerie, pictorial stock
irgs and lots of things that no fellow
knows the names of, for seven minutes
and thirteen seconds, when the winner
smilingly emerged. faultlessly alfred,
even to bonnet and gloves.
WHILE riding horseback, John ElIer.
of Alden, Iowa, saw coming from the
sky ball of fire, apparently about the
size of a -four barrel. He was paralyzed
with fear, and saw the globe strike the
head of the animal he rode. when he
tainted. Upon coming to his senses he
found the horse was dead, the head of
the animal being scared as if by a red
hot iron.
A HARRISBURG man was caught by the
tricky offer of wager that one city In
the United States of over hundred
thousand inhabitants would not give 500
votes for Hancock. The stake was
a supper for the ward campaign club of
the winner. The city named was Wash
president at all. The victim said moth
ing, except to name the time and place
for the supper. On that occasion the
viands looked all right, and were just
such as the written terms of the bet call
ed for, but they we're found to be season
ed with snuff and all other unpalatable
substances.
In Lincoln county, New, there is
spring Of ice cold water that bubbles up
over rock and disappears on the other
side, and no one has been able to find
where the water goes. At another point
in the same county is a large spring,
about twenty feet square, that is ap-
parently only some eighteen inches
deep, with a sandy bottom. The sand
can be plainly seen, but on looking
closer it is perceived that this sand is In
a perpetual state of unrest, and no bot
tom has ever been found. 1t is said
that teamster, on reaching this spring
one day, deceived by its apparent shall
lowness, concluded to soak one of his
wagon wheels to cure the looseness of
it's tire. He took it off and rolled it into
the, as he thought, shallow water. He
never laid his eyes on that wheel again.
Look for the Shot.
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