Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
WINNOWlNGS.

HE orange trees at Los Angeles, Cal,
are loaded with fruit, and props are be-
ing placed under the branches.
OF slNty-one prisoners working out
tines III the chain gang on the streets of
Atlanta, twenty-seven are women.
FIVE thousand dead bodies are sent to
the New York morgue each year, and
1000 are the victims Of intemperance.
The Morristown Jerseyman saws that
large catamount feet in length was
recently killed in Montague township,
Sussex County, n, J.
A SNEAK thief lived six months in Chi
cago at the cost to the public library Of
thousands of dollars. He stole rare
books and sold them for a fraction of
their worth.
THE miners on the Comstock have
formed mutual insurance society. IF
a member is discharged the members of
the society pay him SO week until he
finds employment.
-FOUR THOUSAND tons of starch have
been made In ArOOstOOk County, Maine,
this season, which, at the usual estimate
of eight pounds of starch to the bushel,
shows where 1,000,0 900 bushels of pota-
toes have gone.
AN express train on the Lake Shore
Railroad struck a snow drift as it was
passing West Hamburg Station, near
Buffalo, n. Y, the Otner day, and threw
the snow aside with such force as to dash
III a window in station house, sash and
all.
A CARLISLE woman threw pair of
diamond earrings, valued at 81, 900, in
q fire at a Harrisburg boteI, by mistake,
the other morning. The jewels were
recovered subsequently at the expense
of burnt fingers and melted gold mount
ings.
In tearing down a house seventy-five
years old IN New York the other day,
several holes were found in the chimney
where it passed through the attic, and
a builder said that house had been in
danger every day in the seventy-five
years.
j. B. DUNNAGAN, of Berlin, Cal, has
o model method of soaring wild geese.
He saws black pine logs and lays them
around In the field with stick across
them. Once in while he goes out, lays
down, and shoots few geese, and they
imagine that every pine log is a man in
wait.
A DETROIT man has built furnace In
which refuse tinware, such as oyster
cans, fruit cans, etc., may be treated in
such manner that the solder is restor ed
to commerce, and the sheets of tin,
being rerolled, are available for binding
the edges of wooden trunks. Michigan
goats are in hard luck this year.
INFORMATION has reached this place
that a rooster belonging to farmer near
Thorougfare Gap has gone off to live
with a flock of wild turkeys. Every
morning at daybreak he crows, and the
farmer, who knows where his rooster is,
is thus enabled to go out and Kill wild
turkey every day. Warren V52,gjaj0m.
The last dog story comes from the
suite of the king of Greece. A splendid
dog fell overheard from a steamer. The
captain refused to stop for anything
short of o drowning man. You will
stop for me, of course" said the gentle
man, who leaped overheard. Of course
master and cog were saved. Cambridge
Tribune.
Mr.. ". W. SToRY's statue of Chief
Justice Marshall, to be placed in the
capital grounds at Washington, will be
of heroic size, representing the great
jurist seated and upon a pedestal richly
carved with scenes OF note in his career.
It will be cast in bronze at Rome or
Munich, and will be finished in about
four years.
A NEGRO boy in Jacksonville, Ind,
who has not been away from home for
six weeks, is down with the smallpox,
and the attending physician is accused
of expressing the belief that the disease
was communicated to him by mos
quito which had nipped a smallpox pa
tient in Louisville, KY, and afterward
bitten the boy.
WHEN Joshua Hill, Of Georgia, was in
the United States senate, he bought for
$1,000 an old field lying on the suburbs
of Washington, holding it as an invest
ment for his children. The British
minister built a fine residence In that
neighborhood, making it fashionable
district, and Mr.. Hills purchase IS now
worth about $500
OVER 1000 Christmas trees leave
Maine daily for the Boston market.
One of the headquarters of the supply
is at Warren, Me-, and there are other
firms in Maine who make il an immense
business. It is a great sacrifice of val
liable timber, but the public viii have
them, even at the cost Of tens of thou
sands of valuable growing trees.
A SEWING girl employed in a New
York shirt factory has found out now
why the wearing of hoop-skirts was pro-
hibited by the proprietors. She dis
obeyed it the other day, and had not
long been at work when she felt herself
seized by the shafting andwound around
by it, escaping with her life and two
broken legs. She will try and not be so
fashionable hereafter.
A FARMER of Gridley, Cal, hunts
geese with a COW. 1t is stated that he
has trained the animal to walk out to
where flock of geese have settled down
on the grain, browsing all the way
along, he walking alongside on the off
side from the geese, and when near
enough the cow lies down and he
shoots into the flock and captures thirty