Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-04
WINNOWINGS.

v.
Texas, are building 800, 900 cotton fac
tory. sY
IT is said Italy mas surplus of 49,
OO0,OOO hres. Some of them will come
to this country and pass themselves off
| as counts.
A LITTLE boy in Middletown, n. Y.
| TOOK his little hatchet and chopped three
fingers from his little brothers hand.
He said he didit "just for fun
AN idiot of hideous aspect hid in a
house Owingsville, Ky, and, when found
by woman, threw up his hands and
hallowed at her. The fright killed her
on the spot.
CANOEING 8 becoming popular in
various parts Of Connecticut, and canoe
clubs have been formed in Hartford and
NorWlch. Paper canoes are more popu-
lar than those of birch bark.
EvERGREENs are good for Christmas
decorations or for cemeteries, but it's
mistake to use them as an article of food.
A young lady in Rome, Ca, recently
died from eating sprig Of cedar.
LAST week John Nance, of Chicago.
gave his wife $500 to put in safe place.
Having one hand full of papers she in
tended to burn and the money in the
other, she threw the bills into the FIRE.
A RHODE ISLAND clergyman was given
permission to sing "The Sweet Bye and
Bye In an insane asylum. Many pa
tlents were moved. So was the clergy
man. A lunatic moved him clear down
stairs.
JAY GOULD sent his check the other
n To 40
In letter. If this sum had been paid
IN lawful silver coin it would have re-
CURED six full-loaded freight cars to
transport it.
A CHESTNUT tree cut down in Sand
bury, Sullivan county, made 1900 mar
ketable fence rails, besides much firewood.
The tree contained 1000 rings at the
butt, indicating, it is claimed, that it was
1900 years old.
THERE are in Yates county, n. Y,
about 1000 acres Of grape vineyards,
| yielding annually about one and one
quarter tons of grapes per acre on an
average. Of this crop it is estimated
that per cent. is made into wine.
AT Washington, D. c.. the Young
woman who is each day shot from the
reaching terra frma, had her arms and
hands considerably lacerated. She re-
peated the act, though, the next day.
PRoTEsTANTs and Catholics of Hop
klnston," says the Boston Journal
''united in giving silver tea service to
Methodist preacher who was about to
leave for Boston. The presentation
speech was made in the town hall by the
Catholic priest"
A Texas girl, merry young thing.
who ''did not know it was loaded"
pointed revolver at the head Of her low
er, and remarked, 90 I am going to shoot
you, Jim AS they do not hang people
for murder III that state, she will live
and die spinster.
JUDGE ToURGEE recently said of his
books: 1.-THE Fools Errand has
reached a sale of 100000 or 27O. 900
volumes. It has had a marvel
GUS sale. Bricks Without Straw has
reached greater sale In three months
than any other novel that was ever print
ed-80,0O0 copies"
AN ingenious machine has been In
vented in Middletown, N. Y, for the
use Of tannery men. It is miniature
steam engine, and is used for applying a
rubbing motion with pressure to the
surface of hides in process of tanning
and it does the work for several hands.
A FILE of old concert bills shows that
the first concert in America in which a
strictly brass band took part was given
in Boston, March %, 1886. They didn't
have the telephone or the French opera
boufe previous to 1885, but after all,
those were pretty good times to live.
The authorities of Lawrence. Mass,
are testing the quality of the vinegar
sold in that city. Of forty-two samples
examined the other day. fifteen con-
tanned sulphuric acid and were unfit to
be used. The penalty for selling an
adulterated article is $100 for each Of
Tense.
The difficulty about secret is that it
takes SO many men to keep it. II it has
been poured into your ear you wrestle
with it for while, but it is too much for
you. The man to whom you tell it
wrestles with it, and it is too much for
him also. He tells it, and the man to
whom he tells it tells it to someone else,
always in the strictest confidence, until
at last it ceases to be secret.
ONE day last week horse owned by
DR.. Whiten, of Nokomis, H., became
detached from the halter and assembled
the stairs leading to the hay loft. After
searching for the animal in various parts
of the county he was discovered in the
second story Of the barn in good condi-
ton. A block and tackle were brought
into requisition and the nag was low
cred to his accustomed sphere in life.
IF you ask at London grocer's for
crackers he will inform you with a mild
contempt that they don't keep the Fourth
of July in England; and it is only after
an elaborate explanation that you can
buy them under the name of biscuits,
while biscuits in the American definition
are unknown. "Canned" fruit or can
ned anything is not understood; your re-
quest must be for 'stinned" fruit or fish;
and at the bakers graham bread is
unknown; all that is not pure white is
'sbrown," and pies without top crusts