Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-11
GLEANINGS.

GA BIRD In the hand is worth-S2. so
IT it happens to be canary.
In France they say, &" Garcon, will
you please catch me piece of cheese?'
A LARGE iron steamship will soon be
built at San Francisco, the first in the
Pacific coast.
A KIND of sandstone strongly impreg-
mated with petroleum has been discovered
In southern Utah.
LARGE quantities of willow leaves are
mixed with teas in Chinese ports previous
to being shipped.
SANTA BARBARA, CAL, has just held it's
| annual rose show, over two hundred
varieties being shown.
ONE billion picture cards are printed
annually for distribution by business
men for advertising purposes.
THERE are consumed In the United
States annually 1000, 900 ounces of quin-
inc.
A FEW Florida farmers who have plant
| ed arrowroOt make as much as 81 900 on
an acre.
A DOG stopped pair of runaway
horses 10 Clinton, Canada, by taking the
trailing lines In his teeth and clinging to
them.
A CH1NAMAN in Eureka, New, chal-
lenges all corners, of whatever ma
tionality, to play billiards, and puts up
his money.
SEAL hunting is becoming one of the
industries of San Diego. Within year
past over 100000 has been realized
from that source.
THERE is difference of from thirty to
fifty cents between the wholesale and re-
tail price of teas, and generally profit
of over 100 per cent.
DIR. PIERCE, of Buffalo, has received
$243, 701.99 from the insurance COM
panies on account of the loss and damage
to the Palace Hotel by fire.
A FEW friends of temperance at the
east have recently subscribed 100000, to
be held In trust as working capital for
the National Temperance society.
WHEN the old lady told her daughters
lover that she saw the villain in his face
he said, "Of course, it's personal re-
Election and naturally hard to overcome"
ENGLISH physicians report the obtain
ing Of purgative effects from the external
application of castor oil over the abdo-
men.-Dr. Foote's Health MonthLy.
A HUMOROUS writer once went to Car
lyle with parody upon famous and
sublime poem. The old Scotchman read
it, and handing it back to the author,
said "When do you intend to write
comic Bible ?"
A MAN supposed to be deranged passed
down the rapid current of the Des Moines
river astride of log, during freshet,
keeping an upright position by means of
an oar. He shouted to the spectators
that he was bound for New Orleans, and
hadn't time to stop.
In Leadville they have temperance
pledge which binds the signer to neither
treat nor be treated during the space of
one year. Border law requires that a
man shall drink when asked, but the pro-
duction of the pledge is held to relieve
man from the obligation.
LORENZO A. PICKLES, of Newfane, N.
Y, is 70 years old, six feet five inches in
height, and "looks Like man of 4O"-
all of which he attributes to a diet of
salt. He eats two tablespoonful of salt
every day, and prefers salt to sugar in
his tea.
The Niagara Oil company, of Buffalo,
N. Y, has leased 10000 acres of land in
Washington county, Pa, for the purpose
OF sinking oil wells. They expect to
strike oil at the depth of from ], 200 to
l 800 feet, but if not successful at that
depth, will go 5000 feet.
PROBABLY the most remarkable digest
i've apparatus in North Carolina is that
possessed by John Eaus, planter in
Henry county, who goes regularly to.a
cool brook, after breakfast and dinner.
and swallows handful of gravel
habit in which he has INDUCED for years.
while enjoying robust health.
A MAN named Hawthorne recently took
a drove of seventy-fve hogs by steamer
to the cascades from Portland, Ore On
the way he proceeded to sew up the eyes
OF ali the swine, in order that, after land
ing, they might not stray in the forest
and get lost. He had served some of
them in that cruel way, when, by threats
of the vessels officers, he was compelled
to desist.
SINGULAR exhibition of animal instinct
occurred during recent wolf hunt near
Winchester, Kansas. After long chase
the dogs caught wolf and while they
we're worrying with it another wolf came
up and decoyed them from their prey.
The first wolf then took to his legs again
and, with his deliverer trotting leis1rely
along and worrying his tired pursuers,
made good his escape, as also did his
companion.
VIM. HALL, residing near Brandon,
who was found dead in his barn, is now
said to have suicided, and that the report
first stating his death resulted from
fit is unfounded He was found hanging
in his barn on Thursday morning last.
A rope was tied to beam in the upper
part of the barn, and after tying the other
end around his neck heevidentlv irnned