Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-01
WINNOWINGS,


factory IN the United States.
Much of the gossamer rubber cloth
ing in market is made by convict labor.
A SACRAMENTO grower has refused
$63, 900 for sixty tons of hops.
BARNUM's circus has closed its season
and returned home, and it is said that
the profits are over 100000.
A COMPANY has been organized in Sy-
racuse. with a capital of $40, ZOO, for the
manufacture OF alcohol from wood.
PEOPLE about to bull a house cost
ing 81, 500, 900 may care to learn that
the material will bring $50, 900 when the
house is torn down.
A CITIZEN near Vienna, Ca, owns a
mule that Mr., Joe Heard rode out OF the
confederate service in 1866. The mule
cost Mr.. Heard one quart of peach
brandy. The animal is lively and active
and looks well.
A PISTOL manufacturer of Springfield,
Mass, has daily income of So, 900 FROM
his business and investments, and.
though he began life a poor man, ex-
poets to leave each of his four children
millionaire.
JAMES HENSON, drunken carpenter
at Chattanooga, Tenn, attempted, with
the assistance of a friend, Jim Tracy. to
saw his wlfe's head off with a hand-saw.
The woman was dangerously wounded
before her screams brought assistance.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR's visit to Boston
recalls the visit of President Tyler nearly
forty years ago, when, by exposure at
the various open-air festivities, so MANY
took cold that it was called the epidemic
of the "Tyler grip"
Do you subscribe to all the articles
OF the Athanasian creed 2" was asked an
old lady. "No, dont I can't afford
1t. There's collection next week for
the Convention Fund, and I can't do any
more, was her reply.
LORD CHELMSFORD was walking down
st. James Street, when stranger ac-
costed him, saying, "Mr. Birch, I
believe % eff you believe that, sir,
you'll believe anything, the ex-chan-
cellor replied as he passed on. -London
Society.
A MAN living at Simmons Gap, Va.
is living with his ninth wife. The
patriarch is eighty years old, has fifty
three children, and at recent reunion
over 800 of his descendants were present.
1t is claimed that he does not know all
of his children, and makes no effort to
keep up with his grandchildren.
BEANS raised this season near Roches-
ter, N. z, are affected by what is
known in New England as the bean
disease. The crop was gathered, stored
away In bags, and gave evidence after
ward of having cheated" On examina-
ton, however, this apparent condition
was traceable to original heat, and the
beans were found to be alive with
vermin.
A BUNDLE of ancient Virginia records
captured by a soldier while " looting"
during the war, was among articles on
exhibition at the recent industrial expo
sition at Denver, Col. The papers were
court records of the county of War
wick, Va, for the year 1862, and the pa
pers, though written two hundred and
twenty years ago, were as iegible as
though they were written yesterday.
In piece of woods near Charlton,
Saratoga County, n. Y, there has been
discovered a hidden place where it is be-
lieved robbers have been secreted. A
large barn door had been erected and
covered with brush SO as to make snug
refuge during inclement weather. It is
believed that the masked burglars who
took 5000, 900 from Supervisor Gilchrist
occupied this den.
A LITTLE girl at Auburn, n. Y, had
swallowed needle. and surgeon, being
called, first placed cork between the
child's jaws to keep the mouth open
while probing for the obstruction, but
the little one bit his fingers, and he was
obliged to take spool. Then the for
ceps we're used with success. The needle
lay directly across the throat. It's re-
moval gave instant relief, and the little
sufferer is doing nicely.
The bell-punches on the Metropolitan
in Boston, will soon be re-
placed by an alarm passenger register,
which has been in operation In some
other cities for a little time past.
Dials, the hands on which are moved by
rods running through the car, show re-
spectively the number of passengers
carried for the day and for the current
trip.
A DISPATCH from Poughkeepsie, n.
Y, says that :" a steam canalboat push
ing another canalboat came In collision
with the ironciad Nantucket off West
Point. The canalboat sunk with 1,4OO
bushels of grain" Let the efHete mon
arches of Europe shudder when they
read this and reflect that there are more
than eight ironclads in our navy.-Ch5-
cGgo Tribune.
GENERAL TERRY is convinced from his.
success in working the northern Chey-
enne Indians on their farms until they
are self-supporting, that this is the cor
rect way Of disposing of the Indian ques-
ton. On these farms the men are man
Iy, the women chaste, and all are
anxious that the children shall be edu-
Gated like the whites. He insists that
COWS will do more than soldiers in civil
zing the red men.
The shrewd farmer wanted to keep
people from fishing in his trout pond,
out he didn't care to go to the expense
If hiring man to watch it. So he gave