Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-06-14
WINNOWINGS,

for the reaper.
A METEOR fell to within few feet of
the earth at Lynchburg, when it turned
red and burst.
A LIE will gallop through every street
in the city before truth will saddle his
horse.
A CHICKEN SNAKE eight feet long was
recently killedin saloon at Tallahassee,
Florida.
AN army of blackbirds recently devas-
tated twenty acres Of corn in one after
noon in Georgia.
BAXTER SPRINGS, Kau., revels in a
petroleum vein, found forty-one feet
below the surface. An offer of $40, 900
has been made for the fifteen oily acres.
A STRANGE fish, very short, five feet
four inches III circumference, and wholly
unknown to naturalists, has just been
captured at Wilmington, N. G.
RATS are so numerous in st. Johns
County, Fla, that it is feared they will
totally destroy the watermelon crop, on
which they are feeding.
ONE Georgia farmer has "a, 900 sweet
potato plants set out In three and a half
acres of ground, and says the product
will beat that of twenty acres of the best
cotton in value.
a. GEORGIA man was given a eve and
her two lambs as a wedding present
tWenty-three years ago, and he now
owns a flock Of over 1000 from the
present.
The citizens of Pembroke, n. H..
have placed granite shaft on the spot
where the monster LIE Page outraged
and beheaded Josie Langmaid on her
way to school seven years ago.
HE law prohibiting the digging of
oysters during the months of June, July
and August is to be strictly enforced in
New Jersey this season. The penalty
for infringing the law is 500 or three
months imprisonment, or both, in the
discretion of the court.
ALFRED WRIGHT, of Alameda, CAL,
has been singularly i'll for two years
past, and was firmly convinced that
some living creature was in his stom-
ach. A few days ago, after rigorous
treatment, he was relieved of brown
snake three or four feet long.
The four states, Virginia, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina and Georgia, have
IA, 600, 1000 horse power, four times that
of all the steam engines in the world,
The Yadkin River has alone a force suf-
fcent to turn 100000, and Cape Fear
River 125, 900 horse power.
CoHoEs, N. Y, has had to pay
woman Sd, 600 for leaving dirt heap in
the street to upset her carriage and break
her nose. The city held that she had
no legal right to ride out on Sunday
and be upset, but the court decided that
she had.
In reply to question from Postmas-
ter Hunt of Rochester, Treasurer Gill
fllan has written that the United States
coins, affected by natural abrasion only
and not mutilated in any way, must be
received by government officers at their
face value.
"WE may deplore the sacrifice of life
involved in the continuation of Arctic
explorations, thinks the New York
Mail and Express, "and urge that there
will be no adequate compensation in the
discovery of the Pole for the life and
property it will cost; but the words will
be useless. Men like Danenhower will
not be content until the 400 miles be-
tween Markham's latitude and the
Pole have been traversed. Not how to
prevent, but how to best equip, Polar
expeditions should therefore be our
purpose.
A FORTNIGHT ago D'Oyley Carte said.
'Patience has been played under my
management 3O4 times in London, about
205 times in the English provinces with
two companies, 156 times In New York,
and so times in other cities of the United
States. Thus about 755 authorized per
formances have been given, which af-
forded enjoyment and living to many
hundreds of persons. I have not my
books at hand; but / am not over esti-
mating when I say that over 700, 900 per-
sons have paid to witness the perform
ances, and that 5000, 900 have been re-
cei7ed for admission money"
A FEW evenings since, when Mrs.
Koehler, who has stall In the market at
Fifth and Bainbridge Streets, Philadel-
phia, whipped up her horse to start for
home, she was surprised considerably
when the animal, instead of drawing the
wagon as usual, emerged from the shafts
almost dragging the woman from the
vehicle. Mrs. Koehler relinquisbed the
reins to save herself and sprang out to
catch the horse. AS she did so a sneak
thief, who had removed the traces from
the shafts beforehand in order to release
the horse and get Mrs. Koehler out of
the road, climbed in the back part of the
wagon and stole $500, which Mrs. Koch
Ter had placed under the seat.
The largest steam whistle ON record
is claimed to have been turned out at the
machine works at Bridgeport, Conn.
The whistle, which is made entirely of
brass, was constructed for a firm in Can
ada, to be placed on saw-mill boiler, at
cost of $500. It is feet inches in
length, weighs 400 pounds and requires
a 4-inch steam pipe from 15O-horse
power boiler with $50 pounds pressure
of steam to blow it. It is estimated that
on clear day the sound can reach about
so miles.
DURING the races at Scranton the
mare Nellie broke into a
dead run while scoring for one of the
heats. Just then her bride bit broke in
twain and she dashed ahead at a wild