Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-29
WINNOWINGS,

PORTLAND, Oregon, is to have new
rolling mill with So, 900, 900 capital
The San Francisco voters ticket at
the late election contained 80 names.
THERE will be more than twenty ma
tives of Ireland in the next congress.
AN OGDENsBURG girl ate sixteen aver
age-sized apples in twenty minutes on q
wager.
MORE destruction. A Montana firm
has contracted to deliver 1000 pairs of
buffalo horns.
A MISSISSIPPI man has "mad-stone, 5"
for which, it is said, he has received a
cash offer of 81, 800.
FOURTEEN people have died in New
York since July 1st of the disease known
as " blowing out-the-gas.
TwENTY-NINE cowboys, who lately
visited Topeka, Kan, represented over
400, 900 cattle worth $10,OOO,OOO
A RICH and eccentric Californian has
paid seventeen different John Smiths in
the state $500 each to change their
names.
A WOMAN in Portland, Oregon, is SUI
ing her divorced husband for S., 900
damages for alleged breach of promise
OF marriage.
A WE'LL was recently dug at McGregor,
Tex, and at a depth of twenty eight
feet water was struck, in which large
number of blue fish were found.
HAVING determined to spend half of
each year in New York city, ex- Governor
Stanford offers his San Francisco resi-
dence for sale; price, $1,000,000.
IT makes difference of at least $3.50
with an ocean steamer whether she has
good or bad weather on the trip. If
bad she saves that much in provisions.
The same kind of soapstone that is
used In powdered form by shoe dealers
TO facilitate the entry of a foot into a
tight boot, IS also used for coloring
green tea.
The London Lancet says that the
people who sneeze often are the health
lest. A sneeze sets the blood circula-
ting, and throws off cold which is try
ing to settle.
II single week nearly l, 900 carloads
Of freight accumulated at Bismarck,
Dakota, waiting for the completion of
the new bridge over the Missouri River
at JnaG pOlnJ.
FULTON COUNTY, Pennsylvania, has a
hog years old az large as an ordinary
COW, and which, if fattened, would weigh
about 1900 pounds. Its tusks are like
those of an elephant.
The Chicago fire department has made
a successful test of a telescope water
tower, which can be raised to height
of slxty-fve feet, and which will distrib-
ute water from four engines.
DURING the exhibition of circus at
GAINESVILLE, Ga, negro gave the ele-
plant piece of tobacco. This so en-
ragged the animal that he struck the
negro fatal blow with his trunk.
EZEKIEL PEABODY, of Marblehead,
Mass, when 81 years old put $500 in a
savings bank at per cent, and, never
having touched it, wants to know how
much he is worth now in his 95th year.
IF a guess might be hazarded in such
a mighty matter, it would not be far
from the truth to put the completed
value OF the buildings now or soon to be
going up in New York at $40, 900, 000.-
Telegram.
A CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, printer has
accomplished the feat of putting 2.452
legible words on postal card with q
lead pencil, reserving in the center of
the card circle the size of gold dollar,
in which he inscribed the Lords
prayer.
A PHILADELPHIA man who lost his left
thumb and forefnger in planning mill
has had very good substitutes for them
made of rubber. There is fortune in
his misfortune. All he need do TO get
rich is to hire himself out to tack down
carpets. n-s..
A DOCTOR at Lexington, S. c., per-
formed an operation of tracheotomy on
a COW last week. In trying to swallow
an apple it lodged In her windpipe,
which the doctor cut open and extracted
the impeachment. She is as good a COW
now as ever. s.
NEAR Columbus, KY, a relic of the
late war has just been unearthed. It is
a ten-foot 64-pound cannon which was
dug from sand-bar. The gun was no
doubt left where found by the confeder-
ates in 1868, when they evacuated the
town after the Belmont battle,
TWENTY SIX years ago when James
Buchanan was elected President, Mrs.
Egle, Of Harrisburg, put bottle of wine
aside in her cellar and said it should
not be opened until Pennsylvania had
elected democratic governor. On the
18th the bottle was opened and drank
with much enthusiasm.
AMERICA has single armorer, one of
the real old-fashioned kind, in little
shop at New York. His work is mostly
for actors who are above uSinp the Tin
article, and he also makes antique
armor,' for which people pay great
prices in curiosity shops-after it has
been judiciously rusted.
A FIERCE dog belonging to Mr., Wolff,
superintendent of the sardine factory at
Millbridge, Me-, kept chained because
he was terror to all the neighborhood,
broke loose the other day, and coming
across an unprotected child of about two
years of age, killed and partly devoured
1t before he was discovered.
SOME New Workers, of means and
leisure travaliDr in tho uoot hod q div