Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-15
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER Is, 1882.
WlNNOWINGS.

1T costs New YORK C1Gy Almost 81 ,UUU,-
600 per year to run her churches. 1t
costs money to be good.
The largest grizzly bear ever killed in
Idaho was slain last week. 1t weighed
I 400 pounds, its claws were seven
inches long, and its skin was simply
immense.
4 COLUMBUS (Ga. boy who climbed
up on cage IN a circus to get better
view of the monkeys, had two of his
fingers bitten off by one of the vicious
little Darwini8ns.
SIMMONS GAP, Va, has patriarch of
so years, who is living with his ninth
wife, and is father of fifty three children.
At a recent reunion over 800 descendants
wished him long life.
SINCE a man at Raleigh, n. c., found
several thousand dollars under stump
there has been such grubbing and dig
ging for several miles around as would
have raised 5000 worth of cotton.
Or che eleven thousand grain-mills in
Holland, ten thousand are driven by
wind. The bulk of wheat meal is con-
sumed by tbe public without passing
through any undressing machine.
4 DEALER IN busts says that he sells
eight Dicke0ses to one Milton; that
busts of lIvirg persons, or persons re-
Gently alive, DO nor sell; that dealers all
Sc got badly LETT on Garfield busts.
FOURTEEN years ago John Otis, of
Erie, told his son john, a lad OF ten
years, to wait at a fence corner until ne
should be punished for slight offense.
The boy has never been seen since.
The sting of honey bee, when COM
pared with the point of fine needle
under q powerful magnifying glass, is
scarcely d,scernible. The point of the
needle seemed to be about an inch in
breadth.
a NEW pension law is needed. Under
the present law the grandson of a man
who intended to enlist but never got
around to it, owing TO the pressure of
private business, cannot make the pen
sion bureau cloth and feed him, and a
congressional act is needed 10 remedy
this oversight.
REV. ABIJAH GREEN, of New York
state, preached a sermon on "Fools, !"
and then blew out his gas at the hotel,
and went to bed to be suffocated. We
are glad to hear of man who practices
what he breaches.
JUDGE LooHRANE, of Georgia, sports
a walking stick which is surmounted by
q ducks head. The hill of the duck
holds $3.50 sapphire and the eyes are
diamonds, which cost ST, 100 each. So
says the Savannah News.
Mr.. THOMAS BEARER, a prosperous
business man OF Danville, Penn, has
given to Dickinson College, at Carlisle,
$4,000 in per cent. bonds to endow a
: chair IN the college In honor of his
father, the Rev. Peter Bearer.
A PENNSYLVANIA inventor has evolved
a new rat trap, IN one end of which is
mirror. This may do for the female
rats, but when male rat notices that
the bait looks double he will think he
has had enough and go home.
CARTRIDGES are dangerous playthings
for boys. One wss put on the track of
St. Louis street railway the other day,
and the result of its explosion was the
putting out of an eye of nurse-glrl
who was bending over a baby carriage.
DR.. PULnIAM, of Mt. Zion, had a
pumpkin vine on which there were
twelve pumpkins, the largest of which
weighed seventy pounds and the smallest
twenty five, the whole filing a two
horse wagon bed. -Breckinrid0e NeaUS.
WALNUT tree limbs, full of nuts in ex-
cellent condition, have been brought up
by the dredgers from the bottom of
Stonington. Conn, harbor. It is
thought the trees were blown into the
harbor during the great September gale
, Of 1874
TIE chestnut crop is being gathered
LII Massachusetts, These nuts bring
high prices in the market, and are a
source Of increasing wealth to those who
gather them. One very prominent pub
lie man OF the state has sold $500 worth
out of his woods thus far. s...fa
The county of Pickens, in Alabama,
is so overwhelmed with debt that it is
almost impossible even to give away
property there. A few days ago 365
acres of fine timber-land and mill in
good condition sold for $40, owing to
the financial straits of the county.
A LADY at Branchville, n. j., one day
fed common brook turtle that had ap-
preached her door, Thereafter the tur-
tle paid frequent visits. This season the
animal brought mate with it, and the
two make frequent excursions from the
brook to the house to obtain food
GENERAL SHERMAN, in a speech at
Fort Leavenworth, recently, told how
during his Atlanta campaign be had his
maps printed on muslin so as not TO
tear in the wind, but he added that
they soon became scarce because they
were SO handy for handkerchiefs.
INNOCENT LOOKING barrels of potatoes
sent from Nova Scotia to parties in Bos-
ton have been found to contain tubs of
butter and other table commodities nice
~ packed therein. Now all such mer-
chandise is sent to the appraisers Office,
where there is an accumulation.
An exhibition Of skill with the lariat
at Austin, Tex, few days ago, drew a
crowd OF 10000 persons. Ten cowboys
contested for silver trimmed saddle
worth $500, to be given to him who
roped, threw and tied down a steer in the
sahorest space of time. The winner ac-
ycomplished the feat in one minute and