Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-06
WATERFOWL, WIS.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1882.
WINNOWINGS.

A New YORK servant girl snatched
down 81, 600 oil painting and stamped
holes In 1t.
A New YORK society lady claims to
have made $125,00 by the recent rise
in oil.
THE valuation of property in Massa-
chusetts has increased $35, 900, 900 the
past year.
THE Umatilla Indians in Oregon have
16, 600 acres of land under cultivation,
and own two mills.
Ar a recent Vermont squirrel hunt by
two teams of eighteen men each the
winners counted $4,000, to the losers
SOLO.
No one knows the danger of railroad
travelling more than the tramp. At least
800 of them have been killed within q
year while stealing rides.
A MAN IN Tompkins County, n. L,
thought he had discovered the secret of
preserving eggs, but after 100000 had
spoiled on his hands he concluded that
he hadn't.
LIGHT silks Of pale sea green, delicate
pink, and lilac, are combined for even
ing wear with dark garnet, dark blue,
brown and royal purple velvets with adj
mjrable effect.
& WOMAN In Findlay, O., has sued for
divorce on the ground that her husband
has negro blood IN his veins, which she
claims she did not know when she mar
red him.
The season is now approaching when
wealthy philanthropIsts remember the
poor by spending a couple OF hundred
thousand dollars on a charity ball that
nets $500. NOrriSt0aCn Herald.
A NATURAL wonder in New Jersey is q
girl at the Vineland High School, who
Is making a steady gain In weight of half
a pound a day. Age, twelve years;
weight, at last advices, 100 pounds.
EVERY railroad engine can be provided
with hose and frepump to throw water
on burning cars, but the trouble is that
an engine on its back IN swamp has all
1t can take care of.-Detr0it Free Press.
4 GIRL OF Waukon, To-, being excess
sIvely fond of babies, borrowed one of
neighhor for the day. 1t fell into fire
and was burned to death. The girl was
not Immediately the cause of the acct
dent, and vet she was so grieved and
frightened by it that she died within an
hour
DR.. E. L. STURTEvANT, speaking Of
the fecundity of weeds, speaks of one
vigorous purselane plant which con-
tanned nine branches, the average branch
fifteen branchlets, the average branchlet
2l2 seed capsules, one average seed cap
sule seventy five seeds, thus making for
8n estimate 2 grand total of 2 LAG, 500
seeds.
THE wife Of Josiah Dodge, of Nor
walk, Conn, tried to hang herself re-
Gently, saying when rescued that life on
two potatoes day had grown unbeara-
bic. The woman is said to be sane.
She complains that her husband, whose
income is 81, 500 year, had starved her
SD that IL six months she lost forty
pounds.
MAYEB's building, near the postofice
IL Phoenix, Arizona, has been injured in
singular way. A gopher ran his tun-
mel INTO the ditch. The water running
through this under the house caused the
foundation to settle several inches, and
had not the cause been discovered the
house would shortly have tumbled into
the street.
"BEE ROCK" in Tehama County,
California, one of the highest buttes In
that section. has for the past fifteen
years been occupied by bees, who
formed a mammoth hive. 1t was blasted
out last week, and the dead bees filed
three large grain sacks, while comb of
honey two and half feet in thickness
was found III the hive.
YELLOWSTONE Journal: An heroic
deed Of the knights of olden times was
that noble act of two hunters, who
broken her leg eighty miles, and stop
ping but twice on the road to eat, until
she was brought to place where a sur
geon could attend her. She is now get
ting along nicely at the Commercial Ho-
tel IN this city.
A BAYsTACK in Modoc County, Cali
fornia, caught fire in d singular manner
recently. The hay was cut III the green,
and stacked, transform coming on a
day OF two afterward and thoroughly
drenching it, with the effect that smoke
began to issue from the center Of the
pile and sparks to escape from the top.
Itcontinued to smoke for upwards Of ten
days, when the flames broke out and con-
sumed It,
FULLY one-half of the cotton looms in
Philadelphia are idle. So far from re
ga1ding this as an unfavorable indi-
cation, the local papers attribute it to
the prosperity Of the city, which has
materially lessened the demandfo for cheap
cotton goods. Carpet manufacturers are
also passing through a season of dull
ness, which can not very well be re-
garded II as favorable light as in the
case of cotton spinners.
The first lot of tacks ever made III
California have been turned out by
works recently erected near Oakland.
The manufa :ture of this useful article
viii now continue at the rate of about a
ton day. Over $50 men are now at the
buildings, and 800 workmen will be en-
plOyed when the different manufactures
are IN fnll operation. Files and other
hardware will also be made. The iron
used Is mined IN the state