Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
WINNOWINGS.

near Dunreath, Iowa, the other day.
TAXATION for education provides less
than 81 for each pupil of the public
schools of Georgia.
A PECULIAR feature of the Vanderbilt
suicide is noted in the exclusion of the
unfortunate man from the family tomb.
TEXAS used to feed her pecans to the
hogs. Now she sells the crop for
So, 100000.
A New YORK policeman, recently ac-
cused of snoring on his beat, got off by
the explanation that he was only trying
confidence game on some thieves he
suspected to be in the vicinity.
ONE of the American missionaries to
Japan has shipped home and sold to
spectators in the last two years over
ST., 900 worth of idols. 1t pays to save
the souls of the heather.
A GOAT disturbed worship in a ST..
Louis church by trotting up the main
aisle, mounting the platform steps and
trying to eat the green fringe of the pull
pit drapery.
CITIZENS of Portland, Me-, have started
fund for the relief of Professor f.
Nichols Crouch, the author of "Kath-
leen Mavourneen and "Dermot
ashore, "who is destitute in his old age.
GEN. SANFORD has growing on his
place in Orange County, Florida, the
camphor and cinnamon tree, bergamot
oranges and lemons, India crab grass,
the Australian olive wood, golden apples,
and the Brazilian palm.
A WESTERN man feared he was going
to have the smallpox, and, believing
whisky to be a preventive, he drank
nearly three quarts of it, He escaped
the smallpox, and is not likely to drink
any more whisky in this world.
A CITIZEN of White Plains, Ca, has a
curiosity In the shape of cat. The
head and half the body is that of a cat,
while the remainder is rabbit. 1t eats
peas like rabbit and meat and bread
like cat.
A YOUNG clergyman of Richmond, Va.
accepted an invitation to marry former
sweetheart of his own to more success
full wooer. The ordeal proved too severe
for him, and he faltered and swooned In
the midst of the ceremony, which there
fore had TO be deferred several hours.
A COUPLE of sets of fve-pronged deer
horns were found on Tiger Greek,
Plumas County, California, few days
ago, SO firmly locked together that it
was impossible to separate them. AS the
skeletons were attached to the horns, it
is evident that the deer were engaged in
a desperate fight at the time of their
death.
The mother of Jesse James at first in
tended that her infamous sons body
should be buried directly before the
front door of her house, in order that
she might keep constant watch of the
grave. For some reason this plan was
changed and the grave was dug in cor
ner of the yard about seventy feet from
the house.
A REMARKABLE incident in speculation
is the fact that boxed meats, the product
of the hog, which were sent from New
York to Antwerp during the winter
months, have returned to our shores,
owing to the price here being higher than
there, which shows the extent to which
gambling in products is being carried In
this country.
Orange County, Va, has lost eighty
post-mortem examination made and dis
covered that death was occasioned by
wire left in the straw, he having used
one of the self-binding reapers with the
wire tie. In many cases the wire had
corroded and penetrated the NAV.
A HUGE wild cat was shot on Little
River, in McDufie County, Ca, last
week, by Willie Routenberg, lad about
Is years old. The animal measured
four feet from nose to tip of tail, and
weighed twenty-five pounds. The tusks
were seven-eighths of an inch long above
the gums, and the claws were three
quarters of an inch in length.
WHAT is known as s'cheek +" is, If re-
ma1kable, charming. provided you are
not the victim of it. And this country
can show some amazing examples of it.
The story is told of an American visiting
Montreal, who gave waiter silver
trade dollar as a fee. Said the waiter,
"Sir, did you intend to give me dol
lar % 81 did," "Well, sir, this coin
is at discount. I can only take it for
80 cents. Eight cents more, please"
JUMBO weighs six and half tons. He
is twelve feet high, with trunk that
reaches seven feet, and ears that spread
fifteen feet from tip to tip. His daily al
lowance of food during the voyage was a
hundred pounds of hay, two bushels of
oats, one bushel Of biscuit, ten or fifteen
large loaves of bread, two or three
quarts of onions, five buckets of water,
and apples, oranges, figs, nuts, cakes,
candies and dainties of that sort in un-
limited quantities.
The story is told of popular Massa-
chusetts preacher that he recently built
house and drew the plans himself.
His carpenter told him the portico as
planned would be too low to allow a car
riage to drive up to the front door. He
said he knew better, and the carpenter
went ahead to accord with his plan.
His first visit to his new house was made