Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-20
WINMCWINGS.

HE explosion of bottle of ginger
pop caused an Augusta, Ga, lady to lose
the sight OF both eyes.
A RESIDENT Of TiLtOn, n. f.. is spend
ing $40, 900 or $50, 900 in the erection of
stone trlumphal arch as an ornament
to that village.
The Tecumseh (AIa) iron furnace
lately blew out, after continuing in blast
over seven years. This is said to be the
longest continuous blast ever made nv
any furnace in the United States.
A BUFFALO man who paid 81, 900 for
painting by Rubens reached home from
Paris to find the same thing owned by
Smith in the tea store on the next street.
Sometimes too much is paid for copies.
MORRISON HEADY, Kentucky blind
man, is fond of chess. He has chess
men with projecting points, SO that he
may distinguish by the touch between
the He is hard 70 beat.
NEAR Hurricane Springs, Tenn, is a
neighborhood of "long boards" There
| are ten or dozen men in the vicinity
with boards ranging from twenty-four to
| sixty three and half inches in length.
A New HAMPSHIRE woman spent two
hours cleaning a postage stamp which
had done duty once, pasted it on letter
and walked two miles to mail it, and
| then paid Uncle Sam 81 to call it mis-
take.
Mr.. SMART, who strangled to death a
patient In the insane asylum at Augusta,
Me-, recently, was the man who built the
tower on Central Park, Old Orchard.
He went insane soon after the compile
! ton of the tower.
| A FACTORY for the manufacture of i'm
itation sealskin is to be established at
Holyoke, Mass, by men from Bradford,
England. It is stated that 800, 900 will
be invested, and that 100 nen will be
employed in the business.
The work of removing the guano from
the famous bat cave in Uvalde Countyis
progressing. A tramway has been con-
structed for some distance in the cave,
over which the deposits are brought out
by means of steam instead Of the slow
process of horse power.
A vALIsE being carried from the cars
to the steamboat In New-Bedford,
Mass, suddenly burst into flames,
package of matches contained In it hav-
ing become ignited by the Earring. Some
VI LUO COutCubS WCI0 SdNSus DuG Gu6
valise was thrown overheard.
AS ships meet at sea, moment to-
gether, when words Of greeting must be
spoken, and then away into the deep, so
men meet in this world; and I think we
should cross no mans path without hail
ing him, and If he needs, give him sup
plies. Henry Ward Beecher.
A PEAL of five bells, given Yale Col
lege by Robins Battell and sister, will be
hung in Battell Chapel in few days.
The peal is founded on The major triad
of G.. and comes from Belgium. The
heaviest bell weighs ], ATS pounds, and
is nearly forty-one inches in diameter.
A NEW schoolhouse In Philadelphia,
has just received the name of 'f elisha
Kent Kane, I'm honor of the Arctic ex-
plorer. Other schoolhouses in Plliladel-
phia commemorate the names Of John
Hancock, George Wolf, Stanton, Binney,
General Mead, Abraham Lincoln, and
others.
In a recent murder trial at Las Vegas,
n. NJ, the defendants attorney was dis
gusted with a ruling OF the Judge, and
Indignantly rose and left the court room.
The Judge sent the sheriff after him,
anti WILL blS dGbCLuCN was OIOuSuL
back, told him that If be did not pro-
ceed with the case he would be sent to
jail for contempt. The case was con-
tinued.
AMONG some relics exhibited at the BIZ
centennial celebration of Bucks County,
Pa, last week, were the original bill of
sale of Eastern Pennsylvania, by the Six
Nations to William Penn; a powder
horn presented by the Uncas, the last
of the Delawares, to Black Hawk, in
1887; and a rejecting telescope that was
once the property of the ill-fated Blen-
nerhassett.
The village of Rockport, Monroe
County, n. Y, is probably the largest
market for beans from first hands in the
country. AS many as 120, 900 bushels
have been sold there III single season,
all the product of neighboring farms.
The price of beans at Rockport is gener-
ally 10 to 20 cents per bushel higher
than in the city of Rochester, some
seventeen miles distant.
A HAMBURG, Cal, fisherman caught a
fourteen-pound trout, inside of which
was a pellet of tin-foil. The pellet con-
tanned $40 greenback, dated Washing
ton, April 10, 1876, and as the object
was held in the bladder by growth of
skin over it, the fish must have swal-
lowed it several years ago. Who fixed
the money thus and threw it away, and
what for ?-Sa7a Francisco Chronicle.
EMORY THOMAS sent to Mary Brown,
at Jackson. Mich, silk for dress as
present. He wished to marry her, and
she was inclined to consent; but when
she learned that the silk was part of the
booty of a burglary, she became the
principal witness against the wooer, and
he was sent to prison for seven years.
But they have become reconclled, and a
few days ago the prison chaplain joined
them in wedlock.
CANARY seed is scarce-the supply in
the United States will barely last fifteen
months, and no more can be gathered for
year. Abroad, too, the supply is
scarce. England is shipping canary
seed to Spain-sending Goals to Newcas-
tle-and Spain and southern France are
calling upon SMYRNA ard the Levant.