Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-09-07
WINNOWiNGS,

"a hAiIhESNAkE WAS reCoublY KILLED. ID
Sanford, KY, which had twenty -six rat
ties.
A SEAT In the New York stock ex-
change was sold for $4,000 the other
Gay.
AT Fort Yuma the thermometer regis
tiers 125 degrees in the shade. It's either
pretty hot there or something is the
matter with their shade
The next use of the Mayflower. after
her memorable voyage to America, was
to carry a cargo of slaves to the West
Indies.
THERE is lady residing in Clinton,
Iowa, whose youngest child is 81 years
old. The young mother is over 100
years of age.
HE bombadeer beetle when touched
produces noise resembling the dis
charge of a miniature musket, while a
blue smoke issues from it's body.
RUSSELL MAXWELL drunken exploit
at New Bedford was to destroy, with an
axe, 81 900 worth of his sisters paint
lngs, books, toilet articles and statuary.
CHARLES SUMNER wrote in February,
1861: "Not that [ love the union less
but freedom more, so I now, in plead
ing this great cause, insist that freedom,
at all hazards, shall be preserved" and
the autograph is now owned by gentle
man in Kingston.
Mrs. A. G. GooDELL, of Salem, Mass,
has sent to President Garfield a set Of
pillows, one for each day in the week, for
the sick bed. They are of different size.
filled with the best geese feathers, and
encased in white kid. On each one is
embroidered the initial SC"
A REMARKABLE discovery has been
made in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
1t is deposit of sulphuric acid in q
natural state. The ground is impreg-
mated over a large area-1OO acres or
more and parties have filed claims upon
it.
IT is the big watermelon season with
the Florida press. The ST. Augustine
Press has one weighing forty five pounds.
The Brocksville Crescent goes it better
with one weighing fifty-one pounds, and
the Jacksonville Union crows loudly
over fifty-nine FOUNDER.
A CALF was struck by lightning dur
ing recent thunderstorm at Newport,
and on eXamin alton it was found that
the electric fluid had singed off the hair
from the white spots, urning the skin,
but had left the black portions I'M
injured.
SIxTY-FIvE years ago gentleman cut
a rld1ng-whip from a tree near Geneva,
N. Y, and, after using it for some time,
he stuck it in the ground near the line
between Williamson and Marion, on the
farm of Mr.. Russell. The tree is
species of the balm of Gilead, and now
measures 115 feet in height and Is feet
in circumference.
APALACHICoLA, Fla, has population
Of only about 1000, but it contains five
large mills with a capacity for over 200,
600 feet of lumber day, and feet of
over fifty vessels engaged in the sponge
and fishing trades. Only two mills have
been running last year, but 20, 900 feet
OF lumber and timber have been ship
ped, and the sponge, oyster and fish
trade has amounted to over S500,0
The late widow of ex-President Fill
more LETT large collection of art objects
to the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, and
most OF the benevolent institutions Of
that city will benefit by the division of
her estate. The marble bust of Willard
Fillmore, cut by Selkirk, with $4,000,
goes to the Young Mems Association at
Buffalo.
ONE of the articles which has become
immensely cheapened in value of late
years is cocoanut oil. 1t formerly costs
as high as 25 cents pound, and is now
selling for 6. 1t is used principally as
material for the manufacture of fancy
and toilet soaps, and the objection to it
is that the soap from which it is made al
ways leaves disagreeable odor on the
face and hands after washing.
ACTING on theory that human beings
were made to stand upright, and there
fore ought never to lie down, CaliforD-
ian sleeps in an apparatus which sus-
tains him comfortably in perpendicular
position. A Nebraska physician is
equally certain that the vital organs are
injuriously affected by being jolted
downward in walking, and to countcract
this he gravely stands On his head I've
minutes every day.
The Biscuit-Bakers' Association of
Philadelphia has put into effect new
price-list, which increases the prices of
all sorts of biscuits, cakes and crackers
about two cents pound. The step, the
BAKERS say, was made necessary by the
increased price Of -four and lard. The
traffic in cakes is large and growing.
There are sixteen steam bakeries In Phil
adelphia, doing an aggregate business OF
about million dollars year.
SARN1A, Ont, has been invaded by an
army of garter snakes. Numbers of
them have been found lurking In out-of-
the-way corners in private houses, stores,
etc., and sometimes they cause a good
deal of CONSERVATION by appearing in
articles of clothing, in which they coil
themselves up very comfortably. 1t is
supposed that the drouth which has
prevailed inland has driven them in
the direction of the river in search of
water.
A FISH propagating company of Cali
fornia is experimenting with frog farm.
New Brunswick furnished the material to