Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-09
GLEANINGS.

DEACON JOHN GILBERT. who recently
died In Lyons, n. Z, made the coffin In
which ne was buried when he was IS
years old. He was 90 at the time of his
death.
SINCE the spring of 1860 Memphis
Tenn, has paved eight AID half miles
of streets and put down forty miles of
sewers and forty miles of subsol pipes.
The cost was $500, 900.
THERE are about thousand acres of
land on Matecombie Key, In Monroe
County, Florida, and it has recently
been purchased by three Key Westers,
who intend to convert it into one big CO.
coaRut grove.
THE largest belt ever made from a
single width of hide is said to have just
been made at Hartford, Conn.,, for New
York Touring mill. 1t is forty EIGHT
inches vide, seventy-six feet long, and
weighs one thousand pounds.
THERE is gold enough in Snake River
valley, Idaho, to pay the national debt,
if it could be saved. On hundreds of
thousands of acres it can be found with a
common gold pan. But the gold is so
light that it escapes all known processes.
Two ninety-foot lathes, said to be the
largest IN the world, have been made for
thir own use by the South Boston iron
works. Each lathe contains 600, 900
pounds of iron, and is intended for Dor
ing out cannon.
ABOUT one hundred miles above Phoe-
nix, Arizona, on Salt River, there is
high bluff, composed almost entirely of
salt. From this bluff several springs,
highly impregnated with saline matter,
flow into the stream. The river above
this point is pure and clear.
Four horses, supposed to have had
the CHAMBERS, were killed at Peters, San
Joaquin County. Cal, few days ago,
and their carcasses burned. A veterin-
airy surgeon investigated the matter
and pronounced the disease not the
CHAMBERS at all, but the epizootic.
A WOMAN has had the audacity IN Que
bee to set herself up In business as
dentist. She is denounced by part of
the press as pursuing an unwomanly vo-
cation, and the clergy of two churches
have on that ground instructed their
par1shoine~s not to patronize her.
A MAN Monterey, CAL, the other
day observed a squirrel cleaning out his
burrow, and, while watching, noticed
him drag out something resembling a
piece of money. Picking it up, it was
found to be a coin Of the time of Charles
Ill, king of Spain and Of the Indies,
and bore date of 1892
NEAR Kingston, n. c., a negro boy,
6 years old, shot his sister, aged 4 years.
dragged the body into a field, and hid it
IN the rows of cotton. He said the child
began to cry, and to hush it he snapped
gun at her, as he had been In the habit
of doing. The gun went off, and the
charge nearly blew eff the child's head.
The boys have started a new enter
prise III Blakely, Ga.-the trapping of
ants. They sink bottles down even with
the ground into which the ants fall but
can't get out. Successful trappers catch
about pint per day. The bottle con-
talns small amount of kerosene oil, and
when the ants are emptied out they are
cremated.
"HoLLYwooD, the home of John
Hoey, at Long Branch, Is one of the
handsomest country seats in the United
States. It owes its beauty to the con-
slant watchfulness of its owner, who
may be seen at any time, on the hottest
a
of forty or fifty workmen directing their
movements. E
GOLD, silver, lead, graphite, asbestos,
iron, copper, mica, marble like that of
Carrara, perfect water power, grand soil
for agriculture. Where else in the
world except Georgia can all this wealth
be found? Yet it is actually here, and
one little line of railroad in North
eastern Georgia runs through it ALL
atlanta Constitution.
THE old turtle of Charlemont, Mass,
that was marked by L.. L. Parker in
June, 1884, and several others since that
time, was found In his old quarters this
season apparently as rugged as ever.
The old fellow has been carried quar-
ter of mile away several times and
thrown into the Deerfeld River, but he
always returns to his old rendezvous. n
Tom HUGHES English colony at Rug
by, Tenn, seems to be picking up again.
New settlers, some Germans among
them, are being drawn there, and the
older ones are probably buckling down
to work more closely. The corner stone
of a 81, 700 public library building was
laid the other day in the presence of Mr..
Hughes venerable mother, for which
10, 600 volumes are assured.
WITHIN three miles of Esopus light
house, on the Hudson, where the Char
lotte Vanderbilt was run down recently
by steam-yacht, the Sunnyside sank in
1875, the Dean Richmond was sunk in
1869, the Nuhpa went to the bottom in
1866, the Berkshire was burned In 1864,
and the Clinton IN 1860. The Santa
Claus ran on a rock at the same place.
and the Greenwood's boiler exploded a
short distance away.
BUcKHeHAM County, Va, has a some
what curious industry. Within an area
of ten or fifteen miles there are some
forty distiIleries engaged in the manu-
facture of oil from sassafras root. Each
mill gives employment to three hands.
They use about 1900 pounds OF root a
day for each mill, and produce from one
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