Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-03
WINNOWINGS.


The little state of Rhode Island has
210 miles of railroad.
ONE Alabama county has 5000 people,
no lawyer and one physician.
The summer complaint-It's awful
hot
The most gratifying bulletin would be
"The bullet out. "-Syracuse Courier.
TOBACCO was first carried from Virgin
Ia to England in 1888.
WHEN an arm of the sea encircles a
neck OF land, look out for fishing smacks.
Statesman.
In some parts of Georgia watermelons
are sold by the pound, half cent being
the average price.
IT costs 1926, 900 per year to replace
the broken china at the Manhattan Beach
Hotel, Coney Island.
ONE of the richest men in this coun-
try, when he began business, put out
this sign, "Cyrus W. Field, Rags"
ELEVEN thousand dogs have been
killed in the dog-pound of Baltimore in
the two years OF its existence.
The green root of an oak tree was dis
covered IS feet under the ground while
well was being dug in Houston Coun-
ty, Ga.
THE Pail Mall Gazette says thct of all
the tasks fashion requires at the hands of
her slaves, the giving of ball is the
most to be dreaded.
"THE highest effort of modern hos
pitality," says the London World, sis
to collect dozen well assorted guests
round a dinner table"
NEVADA state prison has a stone
quarry, and at the present time
number of convicts are working out
material there for the mint's new refinery
at Carson.
A SAN ANTONIO hen, shut up in pipe.
by accident, was discovered six weeks
after alive. During that time she had
not tasted food, but had eaten her own
eggs.
ScENE-Restauran Major: Ger
r-ah, waitah. wish two chops; the one
to be made ready befawh the othah. Do
you heah?" Waiter: eyes, sir. An
which chop will We have first ?"
A KANSAS doctors manuscript con-
tains such words as "smaul pox,"
"skarlit feaver" and "rumatis, and yet
he charges So for looking at a sick mans
tongue.
OVER 81, 800, 900 has been raised al
ready for the Wesleyan Methodist
thanksgiving fund, and public collec-
tons are being made at the principal
chapels throughout the circuits in Great
Britain.
THE Shoshone falls of the Snake River
are 200 feet high. A few days since
boat containing one white man and two
Cinnamon was caught in the rapids and
carried like an arrow over the cataract.
OF the boat, splinters OF wood were af-
terward found; but Of the men, nothing.
ONE who has investigated the subject
says that one in thirty may expect to
become insane ~ the older states of the
union. That insanity is more common
in the east than in the west, and is least
met with in the farming districts of the
new states.
TAYLOR Mandolin, on the border OF
Texas, has perhaps the largest pasture
in the world On one side there are
forty miles O. rock fence, and yet it will
require 200 miles of fencing to inclose it.
He intends to SOW for l 600 tons of oats.
He will feed 100000 head of cattle on his.
pasture.
A TURTLE seven feet long, four feet
wide and weighing about eight hundred
pounds was caught IN net In the ocean
recently, opposite the Surf Hotel, Fire
Island, by menhaden fishermen and
taken inside the bay and made fast to the
dock. Hundreds f1ocked to see it. The
oldest fisherman ON that coast had never
seen anything ikeit
"HAvE you any fresh eggs % eyes,
mum, plenty; them with the hen On
'em.'' With the hen on them ?"
"Yea, mum, we always put hen on our
fresh eggs to distinguish 'em. Beg par
don, mum; don't think you understand.
Hen the letter, not ZEN the bird. Hen
for noo-laid. mum. Take dozen, mum?
Thank you"
A STORY cones to us from Blooming
ton to the effect that freight engineer
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had
"falling out" with his sweetheart, who
lives at or near that place, and that the
damsel, in revenge, oiled the rails il
front of the SWANS train, which was
struggling up the seventeen-Enile grade.
It is said to have taken the locomotive
proper, the "helper," tons of sand
and much profanity to overcome the
girls stratagem.
ABOUT six miles above the Dalles,
Oregon, is large slough, which at this
season of the year is filed with water.
The salmon, in going up the Columbia to
spawn, take to the slough in prefence to
the swift channel of the river, and they
gather in such numbers that they seem
a solid mass. A firm of packers have es-
tablished house on the banks of the
slough, and employed only one Indian to
catch the fish in net, while twelve men
are required to dispose of them after they
are landed.
IT is simply envy which criticises ladies
for kissing one another. The double
barrelled sweetness is not lost, and
while, perhaps, it is not placed where it
will do the most good it is something
worth oovotipr and aImiriOp Even