Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
WINNOWINGS.

NINETY MILLION postage stamps,
worth 81, 500, 600, are sold annually.
A WHITE owl, the fourth ever cap
tured in this country, Is on its way to
New York.
PEARL hunters are numerous along
the Caney Fork River, Tennessee, just
at this time.
The wealthiest city in the United
States, in proportion to population, is
Portland, Oregon.
"a BUNIoN is spoken Of as a hobby
thing In low cut shoes. Orleans
Pic0gat1ae.
A$150 goat near San Francisco did
damage to farm that made his owner
subject to a verdict for $500.
A YOUNG Virginian has invented a ma
chine which turns out 80 cigarettes per
minute It is on exhibition at Lynch
burg.
A BOY of six and girl of two, at Bal
lardville, Neb., are mated for marriage
by their parents, who have signed an
agreement that the marriage shall occur
In 1897. -E
A FARMER IN Henry County, KY, has
eighty stalks of large white corn that
have 265 shoots on them. 1t is the
"Bessarabia corn, of Russia, and will
make at the rate of forty two barrels per
acre.
A NASHVILLE woman who had been
slandered by young man attacked the
youth in the street with butcher knife,
hacked away until he ran, and, says a
local paper, conducted herself like
perfect lady throughout the affair"
A BINGHAMToN, VT, man distributed
some CROUCH on rats F." In his yard,
where it was expected to be devoured by
some cats which were making havoc with
his chickens. He succeeded IN killing
one cat, eight rabbits, and all of his own
hens but one.
A MICHIGAN man who paid out $50 in
fees to the walters of q seaside hotel dur
ing the month he was there, came home
under cloud. At convention of wait
ers, held on the morning of his depart
ure. it was resolved that he was too
stingy to live the year out
SOME boys at Tucson, Texas, under
took to make statue, and their plan for
getting a mold was to covera playmate's
face thickly with mud. They tried it,
giving the subject no breathing holes.
that the doctors had great difficulty in
saving him.
In tearing down the porch of dwell
ing-house at Churchville, Hartford
County, Nd, recently, there was found a
patent for a tract of land granted by
Frederick. Lord Baltimore, to John
Paca, "of Baltimore County" in the
year 1852. Tie patent is worn and
L. al
signature Of Horatio Sharpe, governor
of the province Of Maryland, is plainly
seen.
A FLOWING oil well at Newhall, Cal. j.,
caught fire the other day, and column
of smoke and fame rose into the air to
the height of five hundred feet, and
everything near was soon enveloped III
flames. SO great was the heat that none
could approach until it had spent it's
fury, and the flow of gas and oil had
stopped for the time.
EVEN the Boston bakers use cotton
seed oil in their cooking. Doughnuts
fried IN it are said to be cooked In scot
ton butter" Frenchmen have for long
time resold the oil to us both as pure
olive oil and as packing for sardines.
An Atlanta authority defes any one to
tell the difference between a steak fried
III lard and one fried In cottonseed oil.
GEORGE BENNETT bought a dying
horse for SIS, and drove into MaysyilIe,
Va, at slashing pace. After telling
several persons that he had paid 5000
for the beast, which did not show its
condition to casual observers, he man.
aged to get it killed by locomotive.
Then he sued the company for 5000.
The scheme failed, and It's protector is
in jail.
LEADvnLE will produce A, 900 tons
of lead this year. Her output was %, 900
tons for the first six months. Utah's
output will be 5000 tons In advance of
last year, or $4,000 tons. Nevada will
show a falling off, while Missouri is on
the increase Arizona viii also be a
large producer for the last half OF this
year. The outlook for an advance In
price is not very brilliant at this time.
AT the funeral of Mrs. George @.
Leidy. III Philadelphia, recently, the
colin was horne by the six adult sons of
the dead E2nan. The youngest of the
sons is twenty three and the eldest thir-
ty-nine years old. Mrs. Leidy's age
was sixty years. The undertaken said
he had been In business forty-two years
and this was the first time In his expert
ence that he had witnessed or known of
such an occurrence.
A DWARF IL years old and hardly TWEEN
ty-fiYe inches IN height was sold In
France to Jean Lumeau by his father,
to be exhibited IN a booth. His pur
chaser conceived the idea of establishing
a miniature menagerie, with the dwarf
az a tanner. He caused a number of cats
to be painted so as to look like tigers,
and giving the dwarf whip, compelled
him by kicks and threats to goad the
cats into furious attack The poor lit
tie fellow was literally torn to pieces by
the Infatuated brutes.
A FEW days ago Col. c. A. Reed, of
Salem, Oregon, received letter adj
dressed to him by an old schoolmate
many years ago, who forgot to mail it.
1T was laid away In an old fashioned
clock, where it remained till about a
month ago, when, on oYerhauling the
o1ool- +bo letter was found T'hinlcin0 IL