Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-13
WINMOWINGS.

HE New York Commercial Advertiser
sings rather prematurely; "Good-by,
sweet hot; good by"
KATHLEEN MAvoURNEEN " has been
through more than thirty editions in the
United States.
NINETY-THREE THOUSAND acres of
trees have been planted in Kansas with
in three years.
KEY WEST will pay next winter SIS a
cord for frewood, the nearest timber to
the island being seventy five miles away.
IT is calculated that the splendid grain
crops of the south will save that section
500, 100000 hitherto diverted north
ward.
A PETROLEUM well has been discovered
thirty yards below the surface of the
water in the middle of Lake Chapala,
Mexico.
THREE married sisters, each of whom
has twin children, held q reunion at AL
lentown, Pa, Friday. The SIX children
were present.
AT Rogersville, Tenn, little boy
jumped into a line-kiln, supposing the
fire to be out. It still burned, however,
and he was completely cooked.
THREE thousand savings bank deposi-
tors IN Connecticut have become I'M
known to the bank officers within twenty
years and have left money in the banks.
A SNAKE, killed near De Witt, n. Y,
last week, was found, on opening, to
contain a whole coopful of hens eggs,
besides whole china egg of the largest
size.
A MAN started goose ranch near Tay-
lor, Williamson County, Texas, about
year ago, with stock of four hundred
geese; their bones now bleach on the
prairie.
FISH have become SO numerous in the
water bitches through Salt Lake City
that steps have been taken to prevent
them coming through from the main
streams.
A CoLoRED baby in Lee County, Ga,
was found the other day with a large
rattlasnake coiled around it. On being
discovered the snake uncoiled itself, and
was Immediately killed.
The jealous husband of pretty wo-
man at Fayette, Texas, branding her
with an iron used for marking cattle,
making q star and cross, which she must
bear on each cheek for life.
GEoGRAPHER. New York, as you
suspect, is city in one corner of state
by the same name. The principal occu-
patton of one-half it's population is sell
ing beer to the other haf.-LOUeU Citi-
zen.
CAPITAL is sought to initiate cassava
culture on large scale In lower Florida.
hn 10 &c 4l,1
tropics, and is very rich IN glucose,
which is the object of its culture in this
instance.
AN old silver watch, once the property
of Aaron Burr, and an autograph of
Thomas Jefferson, were purchased in
Richmond, Va, recently, by ex- Govern
or Randolph for the New jersey His
torical Society.
The Philadelphia Lager Beer Brew
ers' Association have voted to pay 81 900
to any person who shall detect the pres
ence of poisonous or deleterious matter
in the beer brewed by any member of
the association.
MILFORD, Mass, has fat boy named
Eldric Chepdelaine, who is five feet
eleven inches, II years old. holds out
hundred pounds on lifting machine,
and weighs two hundred and eighty-fve
pounds.
A BRIGHT 15-year-old boy IN New York
so pleased bis widowed mother by the
proficiency he showed in his studies that
she presented him with sail boat On
the trial trip the boat was capsized and
the lad was drowned. Indulgent moth
ers will take warning.
ENGLISH naturalists have just discov-
cred that the English sparrow picks the
eyes out of the young of other birds.
The more one learns about the English
sparrow, the less good one can say of
him. We believes he eats onions and
sucks eows.--Bur15sagto H1a0keye.
AN immense planer has been con-
structed at Pittsburgh capable of plan
ing piece of iron or other metal ten
feet wide, ten feet high, twenty-fou feet
long, and SO arranged that four cutting
tools may operate On the work at one
time, two being on the crosshead and
one on each upright.
4 New YORK business house is trying
the experiment. of furnishing it's shop
girls cup of hot tea with their dry daily
LuACAOOA. II EdpOA VI U1IhG OAUJ cIleo-
gests that this bit of kindness results
from the fact that street car companies
found out several years ago that it would
pay to feed their horses well.
The Charlotte IN. o. Observer says:
ST Mr.. W. D. Sprague. Henry's, N. c.,
has discovered 8 vein of meerschaum. At
first he was in doubt what to do; good
authority had pronounced it kaolin, but
not satisfied, he sent specimens to New
york importer of meerschaum, who pro-
nounced it a genuine article.
MoULToN has contracted to sell Del
monico and Leland enough of the beach
at Canonchet to accommodate two grand
hotels, getting as much therefor he he
paid for the whole, thus reserving for
himself the splendid villa and two-thirds
of the beach. 1t was a pretty good
spec for the "mutual friend"
The operator at the Mobile Office of
the Mobile & Gulf Telegraph Company
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