Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-15
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CoRK-wooD has been found in great
abundance in Jasper County, Texas.
SURAH petticoats, lined with plush, are
handsome balmorals.
PRINTING presses in Rocky Mountain
towns are usual y run by water power.
THOUSANDS of bushels of beans have
been imported this year from Germany.
A DENVER gentleman is the proud
possessor of a fine mountain lions skin,
which measures eight feet six inches in
length.
JAMES FOSTER, colored, of Tennessee,
received $25 premium at the Atlanta
exposition for the best and largest dis
play of Irish potatoes.
IT is stated by DIR. Billings Gu. S. Al
that 100, 900 people die annually in the
United States from preventabie diseases
and avoidable accidents.
CELLULoID is how being used in the
manufacture of artificial eyes. The ma
terial is lighter than glass, and it's nom
friable quality renders it far more trust
worthy in emergencies.
A WORKMAN was examining q hole
which he had just bored in factory
floor at New Britain, Conn.,, when his
eye was destroyed by red-hot iron
thrust through from the other side.
A CHILD was born in south Georgia a
| few days since with its entrails, heart.
liver and lungs on the outside of it's body,
no skull, hands and feet web-footed,
| eyes as large as an ox's ard one ear as
large as an elephants.
AFTER recent fire in Mobile, Ala,
| T3ah ~ L. L
in the pumps OF a steam fire engine. The
engine received its water from a'hydrant,
and the fish must have come six miles
through the pipes.
A QUACK physician at Pittsfeld, Mass,
takes his medicine for all diseases from
bottle labelled, "Water from the Tree
of Life" With this he makes the sign
of the cross on the patient. He has
numerous patients.
THEY finally began digging on that
long talked-of Cape God Canal down in
Massachusetts last year, but the pro-
| jectors found that it was going to cost a
million more than they had calculated,
and threw up the job.
A RURAL Pennsylvania "cure" for
whooping- cough reads: sect a piece
of bread baked by a lady who did not
change her name IN marrying, and eat
1t. Whence arises its peculiar curative
power nobody dares inquire.
TwENTY-THREE passengers on a Ger
man steamer, the other day, subscribed
e4 each for the mother of fat and noisy
baby that was born in the steerage, and
the celebration of the event included a
free distribution of beer all around.
THEY make nails to some purpose in
| Wheeling Pa. Seven of the nail mills
have an aggregate capital stock of 49,
260, 900, and these seven mills earned
and paid dividends during the past year
aggregating $4,000, or about % per
cent.
The Medical News says that if first
| class surgeon was called from New York
to Washington in case, his fee would
he stayed there, and argues that the
Presidents advisers should be paid on
larger scale.
ORADEL1, N. J., has weather
prophet in whose predictions the vii
layers have unbounded confidence. He
is farm hand, and every evening at
7:45 he climbs hill and proclaims the
coming weather by blowing whistle
according to an established code.
THREE hundred dollars, the hoard of
farmer near Milan, Ind, was placed in
the straw bed-tick for safe keeping, and
in due time was dumped with the straw
in the hog pen. Only little more than
two hundred was recovered in various
conditions of filth and mut1lation.
THERE is young man travelling around
in eastern Texas vaccinating the negroes
with beeswax. He charges a dollar a
vac, represents himself as being ap-
pointed by the United States govern
ment, and threatens that dire penalties
await those who refuse to be operated on.
In small grove which adioins the
Schoenberger residence, near Cincinnati,
an army of crows take shelter every
night. They assemble by thousands an
hour before dark, and all old man living
near the place says, to his personal
knowledge, the same grove has been
their dormitory for sixty years.
The Hudson River West Shore Rail
road will be noted for it's large bridges.
The Wilbur bridge will be 80 feet high,
across the Rondout Greek The bridges
at Saugerties and Catskill are not so
high, but are long, and at Coeymans there
will be one seventy feet high and 700 feet
long.
A CONNECTICUT pastor was given on
his fftieth birthday a pie containing
half hundred gold dollars; and since
this little episode it is quite study to
observe the very perceptible tremor that
agitates the physical frame of the aver
age Connecticut clergyman when asked
if he will be helped to pie.
The Tarboro On. Co. Southerner has
seen two and half yards of calico cap
tured during the war of 1919 frorH a
British vessel by Lieutenant or Midship-
man Dancy. It is in remarkable state
of preservation, and is far superior to
the calico manufactured nowadays. The
colors are perfectly brilliant.
A RICH copper mine has been redis-
covered in the vicinity of Tucson, Ari-
IONA, within few weeks. Nearly ff-
| teen wears ago IL was first found but the