Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-09-21
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United States 16 live in cities.
IT is popular mistake to call a thin,
t1aky, semi Transparent mineral isinglass.
lslnglass is fish glue, and has nothing to
do with the mineral, which is mica.
Two Newburyport men played 5, 1862
games OF dominoes last year. They
must reckon that year an Ammo Domino.
-LoaDeW Courier.
A PATERSON IN. J. youth, to abate
nuisance, dressed as a young woman, ac-
cepted the escort of pertinacious loafer,
and getting him to a lonely place, gave
the coward sound thrashing.
THE Indians of Nevada are preparing
for heavy crops of oily pinenuts and sue
culent beetles. They will sell to the
whites all the nuts and bugs which are
not consumed in their own feasts of cele-
bration.
THEY have started factory in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, for the manufacture of
sheep cheese. The manager comes from
Australia, whe1e the product of the
sheep diaries is a favorite article of
food.
IF any grocer, butcher, or general re-
tail dealer will establish a lower price for
all articles for which cash is paid, he will
find that "there's millions in it." It is
not fair that the cash buyers should pay
the bad debt percenta &c with which all
dealers load their goods. Providence
Sunday Star.
A NUMBER of dead deer have been
found lying along the banks of several of
the running streams in Tentress County,
Tenn. They had died Of black tongue.
1t is supposed that the drouth In the
lower lands of the state had driven them
to the mountain streams, but that they
had too long suffered for water to re-
cover.
A STEER from Texas, after some adj
ventures in Eighth Avenue, New York,
walked into dry goods store and made
for the rear door. The concern was
locked up until the arrival of the police.
In going out, the animal ran his horns
through plate-glass window. He was
tied to telegraph pole and shot by the
blue-coats.
A SMALL spider in Lebanon, KY,
livery stable ensnarled young mouse
by the tail recently, and after over six
hours of hard work succeeded in hosting
him clear of the floor. The mouse strug-
gled desperately to clear himself, and
the novel spectacle attracted hundreds of
people to the stable.
The champion bear-slayer of Calaveras
County, CAL, is James Champion. Last
week he went into the woods, tied
string to the trigger of loaded gun,
baited the other end of the cord with
delusive can of honey, and then retired
to place of safety. Two bears were in
the way when the gun went off. One
carcass weighed 900 pounds.
GEN. WILLIAM FL. GREGG, who died in
Tunkhannock, Pa, recently, was the
first man in Elmira to volunteer at the
outbreak of the war. He was saddler
by trade, and won his way by his energy
and pluck. At the charge upon Fort
Damnation, before Petersburg, he was
struck by shell and knocked senseless.
The same shell took off the top of the
head of soldier who was standing near.
A PkosPEcTING-DRILL is in demand in
the mining regions. A Colorado man
says it should be simple affair, worked
by hand, light enough to be carried by
man, and not cost more than $25 or
$50, as prospectors arc, as rule, poor
men. 1t should be capable of drilling
an inch hole, from fifteen to thirty inches
deep; thoroughly practical, and such as
one man can operate easily. Such a
machine, he is confident, will find ready
and renumeratlve sales.
The Uncompahgre Utes, of Colorado,
are being quietly transferred to their
new reservation in Utah, under the di-
rection of Gen. Mckenzie. The Indian
agent says that the scenes in the Indian
camp the night before departure were
narrowing in the extreme, She women
kissing the ground and giving vent to
despairing shrieks for departed rela-
tives they were to leave behind, while
the bucks sat stolid around the camp
fires.
B. G.. MERCER, the man from Mexican
County, Penn, who purchased the main
exhibition building at the recent auction
sale, is much pleased with his bargain,
and not in the least disposed to credit
the good-natured people who assure him
that he has a white elephant or. his
hands. Mr.. Mercer had no definite plan
for utilizing his purchase, but, to use
his own words, "simply thought that
chance to get eight and half pounds of
good iron at less than junk prices offered
a promising speculation. He says that
the iron alone was worth more chan he
paid for the entire structure, and has
since increased $50, 900 in value.
DURING recent storm In Orange, VT,
| a large meteoric stone fell IN the farm
of Smith Martyr. When it struck it
was somewhat shattered, and the frag-
ments cut large holes in the ground and
fences. OF the largest piece, CORES
pondent of The Montpelier Argus says:
"-At the time we visited the locality it
was 80 hot that we could not get within
twenty feet of it, but since then I have
been to the spot and made exact
measurement. It is eight feet and four
inches long, and two feet five and one
half inches in diameter. Of course from
it's size and from the force with which it
struck, it may extend eight or ten feet
| into the earth Tt stands at an ANGLE of