Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-06-21
WINNOWINGS.


A TALLAHASSEE, Fla, man has an old
almanac printed in 1862.
The railroads of PENNSYLVANIA killed
1OO people last year and crippled 1,6OO
others.
HE New York Sun thinks it hollow
mockery to swear the average witness to
tell the truth.
HOWARD, Ga, has curious pig. It's
forefeet are Like a turtles, and it has five
toes on each foot.
A MONUMENT of Indiana gray lime
stone, in the form of an antique Grecian
altar, has been placed upon Bayard Tay-
lor's grave.
A COMPANY has been organized in
North Carolina to bottle juniper water.
famous as a gentle tonic. The water is
abundant near Albemarle.
MR.. BoCHMAN, a brewer, has present
ed to the Italian colony of New York,
the house and grounds on Staten Island
occupied by Garibaldi as candle fac
tory.
A HAND-oRGAN grinder says that peo-
pie who have pianos in the house ex-
press the most satisfaction with his
music. Some one might discover point
here.
HE Sc Yellow Jacket mine in Nevada
is over $500 feet deep. But there must
be deeper mines If some on the market
can hold all the money which has been
chucked into them.
HE treasurer of a county in New
Mexico can't pay an order for So because
he has no funds, and yet has ordered two
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nothingness on hand.
The coast of New Jersey is wearing
away at the rate of five feet per year,
and it is only question of time when
the wickedness of that state Will be dis
trlbuted throughout the west
THEs tunnel at Montreal now under
contract will be 16, 900 feet in length and
be laid with double track. The center
will be about rs feet below the level of
the bank on either side. The cost is es-
tmated at 81, 100000.
W. n. PHILLIPS, of Mecklenburg
County, North Carolina, recently picked
up on his farm q nugget OF gold weigh
ing Lightweight and three-fourths
pennyweights. His farm is twelve
miles east of Charlotte.
The contract for the casting of the
bronze statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee for
the city Of New Orleans has been closed,
and the work will be completed in about
SIX months. The monument will be
dedicated on next New Years Day.
AN electric light wire, buried beneath
an asphaltum pavement at San Francis
co, somehow lost its insulating envelope
recently, and the result was that the
electric fluid found its way into the as
phalt, which was soon III lively sizzle
and fune.
In yard On the southwest corner of T
and Sixth Streets, Sacramento, is lily.
the flower OF which is foot and half
IN length, and of deep purple color
almost black-while the pistil is coal
black. The flower attracts much atten-
ton. 1t appears to be floral accident.
LUCY SHELTER has sued street rail-
way company in Louisville, KY, for
Sc, 900. A wagon in which she was rid
ing was demolished by a car which came
, in contact with it, and she was thrown
violently to the ground and dislocated
her arm and shoulder and received other
painful injuries.
ADoLPH SUTRo, who gave the name to
the famous Sutro Tunnel, is interested
now III scheme to establish large sum-
mer resort on the seashore near San
Francisco. He has transformed sand
hills into woodland already, and expects
to make the landscape attractive in spite
of its barren soil.
TRAVELLERS to Boston via. the New
York and New England road may see in
the cOmpanys yard monster whale 81
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paratory to exhibition throughout the
country. In the stomach have been
placed so barrels of sawdust, 20 barrels
Of plaster and 3, 200 pounds of arsenic.
New YORK CRY has paid $13, 1000, 900
for park, about that amount for sus-
pension bridge it does not need. s12,-
10000 for the "new" court house, and
a single one of Tweed's steals cost
Sc, 900, 900, but the city has never been
able to get the money ahead, in which to
house the real estate records, on which
So, 00O,0 900 titles hang into fire.
proof building.
ONE of the oldest, if not the Oldest.
deed in America is in the possession of
Major Leland of New York. It ante
dates the landing of the Pilgrims ITO
years, and was written eighteen years
after the discovery of the new world by
Columbus. It is deed of Fishers Is
land, near the mouth of Long Island
Sound, by certain Indian chiefs to John
Cabot, the celebrated navigator, and
bears his signature.
RECENTLY as a merchant from Viii
mington was coming up the harbor a
young seal about two feet long followed
the boat and set up piteous cry for
help. The little fellow had got lost from
its mother and was lonesome and hun
cry. The boat was stopped and the ur-
chin climbed in and nestled down under
the legs of the gentlemen, who took him
to Washington and fed him with milk,
OF which he is very fond. He is very
tame and is the pet of the town.
A CONGRESSMAN recently gave this SEN
sible advice to an office seeker who had
good job In private life. ''I am sur
prlsed that man In your situation
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