Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-16
WINNOWlNGS.

YAK, Fla,
The biggest slate quarryin the United
States has just been developed at Little
Rock, Ark.
A FIRE started ON the hearth of a Hart
County, Ga, man forty years ago, has
never been allowed to die out.
A PHILADELPHIA man has invented
shirt with a sand-paper back. One rub
against rail fence cures the worst case.
-DetrUit Free Press.
AN AUSTIN (Tex. man three years ago
planted some seed of Malaga grapes. A
few days ago he cut bunch of grapes
from the vines that grew from the seed.
The bunch weighed nearly four pounds.
ANNA DICKINSON, it is said, made a
pat remark when somebody deprecated
her playing the mans part-of " Ham
let" Yes" said she; "but there are
not three men in the country who can
play it; and it is time the women tried"
LoUIsIANAs salt mine, which is in
Iberia parish, covers an area of 40 acres
and is solid deposit of remarkable
purity and excellence The rock is very
solid and is without assure or seams.
Over 1000 sacks is the present daily out
put.
The whole country in Albany County,
New York, within distance of fully a
mile each side of the West Shore Rail
road, is stripped of all kinds of weeds,
some of which the lower order of ami
mails will not eat, which the italian
laborers gather and boil for " greens"
A YOUNG man named Dan Kileneane,
in Sumter County, Ca, dreamed few
nights ago that he was having a good
| time swimming, and he jumped from his
bed headforemost through the window
out into the yard. He was so badly cut
by the broken glass that the physician
pronounced it serious, but not fatal.
The fve-cent sponges sold by ped
| dlers are said to be picked up in the
streets of New York after being used In
the hospitals, and then bleached and dis
infected with chloride Of lime. This is
by far the most disgusting and repre-
| hensible method of sponging living
out Of society that has yet come to light.
IT is expected that the four factories
of Montgomery, VT, will turn out four
hundred thousand butter tubs the pres
| ent season, of all sizes. A large pro
portion of ten, twenty, and thirty pound
tubs are called for than usual. The
material for hoops has become exhausted
in that region, and is now brought from
Michigan.
To grow pretty vine from the sweet
potato, put tuber in pure sand, or
sandy loan, In hanging basket, and
water occasionally. 1t will throw out
tendrils and beautiful leaves, and climb
freely over the arms of the basket, and
upward toward the top of the window,
Not one visitor in a hundred but will
suppose it to be some rare foreign plant.
A NOVELTY in the shape of a strawber-
ry bed is to be seen at Westfeld, Mass.
It is a hogshead filled with loan and
stones, and from its sides are growing,
from holes bored through the wood into
| the loan, over one hundred thrifty
strawberry plants. bearing profusion
of large luscious fruit.
LONDON balls, it is said, chiefly differ
from French and American ones by the
total suppression of the EEGerman," or
eotilon as it is called in France, British
prudery having declared that dance to
be improper. The more probable reason
| for its exclusion lies in the fact that Eng
lishmen, as rule, are exceedingly bad
dancers. Buffalo Commercial.
EVEN fish are much better when killed
as soon as caught, by striking the back
Of the head sharply with stick or stone.
Some of our fishermen now carry little
clubs or batons for that purpose. All
wounded birds and other creatures
should be killed as speedily as possible,
to prevent injury to the meat. These
facts are well established by scientific
authority.
A WORLD of wisdom is contained in
the following advice to bathers Imme-
diately after the first plunge every
| bather should take the most vigorous
| exercise for about two minutes. Leap
up and down in the water, Or run, until
the blood moves through your veins
with increased rapidity, and you will
feel warmth which will repay your ex-
| ertion with a delicious sense of comfort.
The last congress ranks among the
notably long ones. That of 1855
lasted till August II; that of 1847-48 till
August 10. The longest session was
that of l. 1880, which held till Septem-
Der 80. The session of 1852 lasted
till August 81; tnss+t of 1854 till August
7; that of 1866 till August IS, and
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of the same month and held Until the
30th.
A FEW days ago while lady, who re-
sides near Chattanooga, Tenn, but
across the Georgia line, was at work in
her garden, she discovered something
sparkling in the underground, and on
close examination discovered it was al
English sovereign. She continued her
Investigations and soon collected forty,
which were strewn promiscuously in
that locality. They are all dated be-
tween the years 1920 and 1927. Their
presence there is deep mystery.
ONE of the curious industries of the
country has its principal homes at New
Berne, n. @. This is the manufacture
of wooden platters, plates and trays.
The timber used for this purpose is sup
piled by the neighboring swamps. A
huge log is rounded by circular plane
and then put into machine, which,
with great accuracy and swiftness. cuts
off thin strins Of the wood VVl,oxo &c.