Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-09-14
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SING-S1Ne sing song of 81, 900 profit
per month.
TIE Nantucket Railroad has flag
woman. She does notcare for switches.
New YORK CRY, in the season, con-
sumes 100000 oysters per day.
A MORMON temple is being erected in
San Francisco.
AMAsTODoN tooth, weighing 81 pounds,
has been found in the Kentucky River,
near Marion.
A GOOSE 40 and donkey over SO years
OF age are priced relics of Stewart Coun-
ty, Georgia.
IT is necessary to dig down eleven feet
to find a good, solid foundation in
Charleston, S. G.
This year there have been many re-
ports of death which resulted from the
administration of morphine for quinlne.
The Wilmington IN. o. Star claims
that the forest acreage of that state is
greater than that of three or four of the
northwestern states combined.
A VERY mean Philadelphia manu-
facturer deducts from his workmen's
pay the time lost In going to and return
ing from the water-cooler. The employees
call it a dry dock.
The Boston Investigators way Of say
ing Gle died" is as follows: :" He
passed the boundary which limits our
knowledge of the duration of individual
consciousness"
1T is reported that Mrs. Mayo and
Reed, two Boston visitors at the Hygeia
Hotel, have given Gen. Anderson a
check for $4,000 for the benefit of the
normal school at Hampton, Va.
A LADY in Bridgewater, Mass, thirty
years ago stamped her initials and pri-
vate mark on small coin, and passed it
out. In change, not long since, she was
SURPRISED after such lapse of time to
receive the identical piece of money.
JOHN EvERHART, of Waynesville, Ohio,
found in the Miami River, recently, a
pearl, which is said to be perfect in form
and color and to weigh twenty-seven
grains. 1t is the largest ever found in the
Miami.
DUDLEY DUGGER, of Columbus, Ga,
fired his pistol off at Robert Lawson.
the breast of Dudley's little grand
daughter, killing her instantly. Then
Dudley fell to the ground and tore his
hair in wild grief.
DIR. QUINN, one of Califo1nia's mil
ionaires, keeps twenty ships busy trans
porting his wheat to England. He
owns IS, 900 acres of rich grain land,
Is, 900 of which were in wheat this sea-
son. One continuous furrow is seven
teen miles in length.
CHARLES O'CoNoR's house and fire.
proof library, two distinct buildings,
which he is erecting at Nantucket, will
cost about $35, 900. They are on a cliff
on the north shore of the island. He
intends, it is said, to leave them to some
Roman Catholic institution as sani-
tarlum.
An experienced stableman says that
the best livery horse is one not too
heavy, that will steadily travel five or six
miles an hour without urging. A free
traveller" cannot stand livery work; and
if he goes from eight to ten miles an
hour will be in very poor condition and
will soon be used up.
Two muscular men of Kildare, Ark.
agreed to settle their quarrel with sin
gle blow of the fist, to be struck by the
winner of tossed coin, and unresisting-
ly received by the winner anywhere
above the belt. The man whom chance
condemned to take the blow stood up
bravely, and though he sought to avoid
some of its force by offering no resist
ance, it feIled him heavily, breaking his
nose and leaving him insensible for sew
eral hours.
A VERY cheap filter can be manufac-
tured from large hower-pot. Fill the
hole at the bottom of the pot with a
sponge, then cover with two inches of
pulverized charcoal, two inches of clean
sand. and FIJI the pot with pot with peb-
bles, washed clean. Let the water run
for an hour or two, and afterward it viii
be ft for service. This filter has one
advantage over raany which are manu-
featured. The purifying contents can
be changed at option of the user. There
is no patent on this filter.-Boston Jour-
ndl
HERE is a scene at fire in the Chi
nese quarter of San Francisco: Two up
per stories in width about fifty by one
hundred feet were partitioned off III cell
like rooms, and from these poured some
five hundred Chinese men and women in
the most scanty attire and crying out for
assistance. Not a moment was given
single soul to gather his goods, but all
hurried out pell-mell. The whole in
terror, with it's numberless wooden par
titions and not a single fire wall, was a
seething furnace before a single stream
was turned on. The whole building
burned
As Eddie McCafrey, aged Is, was
driving wagon load of four hop pickers,
including one woman, from Glen to
Tribes Hill recently, the entire party,
horse, wagon, and all. were tipped into
the canal. The boy was the only one
who could swim, but nothing daunted
at the helplessness Of his friends, he res
cued all four of them one after another.
The woman, who weighs two hundred
hundred pounds, was sinking for the
third time when the boy, who weighs
eighty pounds, seized her by the hair
and towed her ashore. At this point the