Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-29

A TREE recently cut in Mexico, Mo-,
measured nine feet through, near the
ground, and was 10 feet high. The
first limb grew out at height of thirty
feet from the roots The tree was at
least 300 years cid. When it fell twelve
squirrels and one coon were killed.
The blacksmith shop of The Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway, at
Pittsburg, has been much troubled by
the unsettling of the brick FORCES by the
jar OF steam hammers. Necessity has,
however, proved the mother of inven-
ton. FORCES of asbestos paper have
proved decidedly successful method of
overcoming all difficulties.
ONE Of the tricks for the evasion of the
tariffs for foreign manufacturers to bring
their thread to this country SIN the
rough, as it were, and have it wound on
American spools. The manufacture of
spools is becoming an important in
dustry andis said to require about 4, 900
cords OF wood annually for domestic
thread-makers, besides large quantity
for export.
A New YORK doctor, aroused too early
by the Growing of his neighbors boosters,
went out, captured them, cut their vocal
cords, restored them to their roosts, and
went back to bed conscious that he
would not again be disturbed that or any
other morning. He now enjoys him
self watching his neighbours astonish-
ment at their successful limitations of the
growing motions without making a
sound.
The Toronto Globe says that one of
the questions put to the candidates at a
recent examination for the civil service
held in that city was: GA man left
800, 900 by his will, the sum to be divi-
ded between his two sons, one of whom
was to receive ST. 900 more than the
other" The question was "too hard"
for the applicants. Every one of them
answered that the one son was to receive
81, ZOO and the other So, 900.
A CARP experiment on small scale in
California is attracting attention.
Eleven of the fish were bought in San
Francisco and placed in a pond fifty by
one hundred feet. The purchase was
made a year ago last April, and now the
pond is swarming with carp from one
inch to seven inches long. The whole
neighborhood can be supplied with fish
before a great while. Useless pools can
thus be made q source of revenue in re-
gions where this hardy fish thrives.
SIXTEEN years ago, when Hester ely
mer was defeated as the democratic gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, Dr.. Jacob Fl.
Selects, of Pottstown, made VOW that
he would not chew any more tobacco
until the democrats succeeded in elect
ing their candidate. It was a good re-
solve and bravely has he kept it. The
day following election the good doctor
went to tobacco store and bought the
weed by the pound and had it cut up
into plugs. Since then he seems to be
trying to make up for lost time.
WHEN the cap-stone of the Saratoga
monument which commentaries the
surrender of Burgoyne had been laid in
its place November 3, Mr.. Henry Lang
try. under whose immediate direction
the work had been done, seated himself
upon it and unfurled flag. Mr.. Lang
try has proven himself to be workman
of remarkable skill and caution, and the
undertaking, begun in the spring of
1881, has been completed without sin
gle accident. Of the $4,000 appro-
priated by congress and by two state
legislatures there remains about SIS, 900,
with which the contractors, Booth
Brothers, Of New York City, agree to
complete the interior Of the monument
and partly grade the grounds.