Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-07-26
WINN .OWINGS.
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IHTI army worm does not come in I'M
der che retirement bill.
A YOUNG woman of Mansfield, Mo-,
wears her hair seven feet long.
LAST year 1897, 900 worth of chewing
gum was sold in the United States.
Two snow-white robins have been cap
tured in Pennsylvania.
VELVET ribbon comes III again as a
dress trimming.
ONE New York firm handled $685.
bushels of peanuts last year.
The population of Tombstone. A. T.,
is $500, twenty-four nationalities be-
Ing represented.
A WOMAN in Philadelphia was badly
burned by the explosion of a doughnUt
in frying pan.
The "ittle bugs" that you think are
on the under side of your fern leaves are
seeds; rub them off and raise some ferns.
GUITEAU was evidently sane, but the
people are not sure about some of the
doctors.
AS between the cheese press and the
printing press the former is the strong
est, but the latter is the most rapid
Down south, where chicken thieves are
prevalent, they say that "the darkey's
hour is before dawn. -PhiEodeIpR5a
Bulletin.
READING from the newspaper-Lost.
blue sapphire gentleman's scarf pin, F."
etc. Schoolma'am meditatively-"W What
jewel of man lie must be"
A FENIAN relic YVES produced in a New
York court, in the shape Of a S. note
issued in 1867 by "The Irish Republic.
A man paid an ice bill with it, and is
now in trouble.
AN Ohio physician dug seven graves
for like number of his patients, but
was sent to the insane asylum before he
could kill the intended victims.
WHEN get into place that I can
easily fill, [ always feel like showing
out of it into one that requires of me
more exertion. - General Garfield.
The manufacture of gold leaf and tin
foil in Boston amounts to about 100000
yearly. Less than sixty hands are en-
ployed in the business.
The city authorities of Omaha, Neb..
place barrels of ice-water at street cor
and base fellows often tip the barrels
over into the gutter.
One of the Malley lawyers described
the mouth of witness as stretching
across the wide DIES alation of his face,
the sepulcher of ruin and the fountain of
falsehood. No wonder they got off.
Talent like that would clear anybody.
A NUMBER of rare and curious fish fell
during q recent storm at Farmer City,
Tex. They are describedas having four
distinct legs protrudlng from their
bodies, the legs being furnished with
perfectly constructed toes.
LoRENTz RoTHENBACK IS the modern
Sampson, who labors in the iron works
at CedartowD, Tenn, and amuses him.
self and delights the natives by carrying
pair of 500-pound car wheels, attached
to the axle, around the yard with perfect
ease.
A NOVELTY in the shape of straw
berry bed is to be seen at Westfeld,
Mass. 1t is hogshead filed with loan
and stones, and from it's sides are grow
ing, from holes bored through the wood
into the loan, over one hundred thrifty
strawberry plants, bearing profusion of
large, luscious fruit.
ALONG the southern base of Schooley's
Mountain, New Jersey, is an internit-
tent spring whose water flows only when
the wind Is In certain quarter Ii
was visited by the Indians, among whom
it was celebrated for its medicinal pro-
perties.
HENRY CLARK, of Camden, n J., be-
hot
food, and during forty-one days is be-
lieved to have swallowed nothing else.
He seems to have suffered no physical
injury; though emaciated, but was made
incurably insane.
THE Cincinnati Inquirer thinks that
''if the revolutionary warriors had
known it would take $746, O7O for drinks
and cigars to celebrate the centennial of
the victory at Yorktown they would
probably have given up the fight early
in the contest and paid the tax on the
tea"
The grave of the late Malon Fisher, of
Williamsport, Penn, was profusely
decorated with flowers recently by
all the widows of that city, to whom Mr..
Fisher bequeathed $33, 900, the interest
of which sum is divided annually among
them, irrespective of race or religion, in
proportion to the number of children
each one has.
Prof. SUMNER says the whole philos-
ophy of wages was stated in few words
by workingman few years ago, and
no economist can improve what he said:
''',I know when two bosses are after one
man wages are high; when there are two
men running after the one boss wages
are low" that embraces the science,
theory and practice of the whole sub
ject.
THOMAS GARvEY, of saxton, Ulster
county, N. Y, set small child under
tree the other day, and while few
yards away heard a kissing noise. On
looking around he saw large black
snake, of the racer species, just ready to
Jump on the child. Bya quick move
ment he sprang upon the snake and
killed it. The snake measured fully
seven feet.
SrvppAr wars 400 the veteran Suro