Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-06-02
GLEANlNGS,

snake was killed which measured II feet
long.
HAWKS can fly ut the rate of $50 miles
an hour, ducks 80 miles, and the crows
rs miles.
EDWARD KING Will soon bring out a
book of poems under the title Echoes
of the Orient"
| FARMERS, 5000 pairs of frogss rear
legs will kick further in the market than
an Armstrong gun.
/ On some farms In Georgia one mule
is made to draw two plows, each pillow
being held by a negro man.
FIVE carrier pigeons, liberated in
Corning, flew to Elmira in Is minutes.
The distance is II miles by rail.
AN editor who thinks that he knows all
about farming, says, in speaking about
strawberries, that the best way to raise
them is with spoon.
IT is estimated that the town of Ply
mouth, Mass, receives S., 1000 or So, 900
every year for it's fragrant May flowers.
Most of the flowers are sent to New York
city.
A BULL in Carthage, n Y, got loose
in the street the other day, and, after
calling at livery stable, went to hotel
and was caught on the second story ex-
aiming sewing machine
A BLIND girl has excelled all previous
members of the fourth class i'm the high
school at Portland, Me-, by attaining q
rank of 100 in all her studies for one
month, except Latin, and SO in that
A VERMONT couple put off applying
for divorce one term of court so they
could profit by their wedding And yet
they tell us the people of this country
are recklessly extravaganza and unthrfty.
GEORGE PEABODY WETMoRE's resi-
dence at Newport has cost about half a
million, the cost of the main stair case,
the wood of which was imported and the
carving of Florentine workmanship, be-
ing $40, 200.
ONE of the annoyances of owning q
trout preserve is shown in the case of
William Furman, who has fine pond at
Maspeth, r. I. Poachers visited the
preserve with nets the other day and
stole 1900 trout.
The Boston Traveller says that a sal
mon weighing % pounds was caught off
Gloucester, Mass, last week, and that
the appearance salmon at that point at
any time previous does not come within
the recollection of the oldest inhabitant.
1t used to be a common thing for sail
Ors to refuse to 60 to sea On q Friday
We hear nothing of this in these steam
boat days. Steam has made every day
alike. Wherever steamboats, and steam
engines appear superstitions disappear.
A CHICKEN in Derby, Conn.,, year
ago swallowed common glass alley, of
the kind which boys use in playing mar
BILE. Two or three days ago the hen was
killed and the alley was found in it's crop,
but SO worn as to be only the size of a
buckshot
WHEN John Thompson, of Middle
bury, VT, returned to his filthy howell,
after prolonged spree, his eight dogs,
almost starved, attacked him. It be-
came necessary to kill all the dogs before
he could be rescued, and then he was
torn from head to feet.
A PRIZE was offered at an Odd Eel
lows picnic in San Francisco, the other
day, of chair for the latest baby, and
when the award was made it was discov-
cred that the chair was SO narrow that the
winner could not sit in it. The
proud but exasperated mother de-
clared that the blunder was 'sjust like
the men,"
A11rTLE boy in Worcester, Mass, who,
six years ago, swallowed mixture OF
lime and sulphuric acid, which caused Sc
we're irritation of the throat and stomach,
and nearly cost him his life, has been IL,
with similar symptoms, at about the same
time each year since. The regular recur-
renee of the trouble is puzzle to the
physicians.
INOhio township, Iowa, last week acow
gave birth to 35 calves all at one time,
one of them being about two-thirds the
size usually attained by calves at birth,
mainder of them about the size of rats
and mice. They were all perfectly
formed.
A LITTLE boy and girl residing in the
northeastern part of Forest county, Pa.
aged about thirteen years, went out re-
Gently and caught sixty dozen of live
pigeons in one day, which they sold for
sixty dollars. A good days work. The
little girl wanted an organ, and took this
method of raising the money to purchase
it. They continued the business for
some days, but this was their most sue
cessful day.
A HORSE died in indianapolis the other
day from the effects of bite by cop
per-head snake. The animal was grazing
on the common near the house, when it
suddenly gave a neigh of distress, and
threw itself violently in the air. The
wife of the owner ran out to see what was
the matter, and discovered the snake
lying in the grass and killed it. A slight
puncture was visible on the nose of the
horse. In a short time his body began
to swell, and continued to do so until
death came to it's relief
AN ice machine just set at work II
New York produces 10 tons of ice in sc
hours It consists of a large tank IL
which galvanized sheet-iron boxes full Of
water are placed, each box being being
"a inches long, II inches wide and
, inches deep. A reservoir containing