Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-30
WINNOWINGS.

AN WIlISI YOU IulSG Sd1
"scient," not " scientist"
HAY cut fourteen years ago has been
kept good in an Iowa barn.
ONE New York firm handled $50, 900
bushels of peanuts last year.
A PETRFED grounding was recently
found III Faulkner County, Ark
a RUBBER coat forms part of the uni
form of the Michigan militiaman.
FAYETTE COUNTY, Tenn, boasts that
it has raised cabbage weighing eighty
pounds.
A CITIZEN of Selma, Ala, has fallen
heir to 93, 900, 900 by the death of rel
ative in England.
HE records of war prove that volley
OF 500 bullets fired at fifty men won't
hit over three at the outside.
NORTH CAROLINA has such big crop
OF apples that it Is dangerous for tramp
to sleep under one of the fruit trees.
EATONToN, Ga. must be the healthiest
place in the land. Not a death has oc-
CURED in the town in twelve months.
A TUPELo, Miss, man has constructed
miniature distillery, no larger than
coffee pot and complete in all it's details.
IT is said that soup plenty good
enough for church festival can be made
from watermelon seeds and afforded for
ten cents dish.
A CENTIPEDE fell into the pot in which
a party of five campers were cooking
their dinner near Fort Worth, Texas,
and the men we're all poisoned.
The Hartford Times unkindly remarks
that hunting in Newport is like
chasing an Attorney COW round barn
yard and calling it buffalo hunt"
A PRETTY girl of eighteen, neat in
dress and polite in manner is a boot
black IL Galveston. She has chair at
street corner and makes from So to Sc
day.
The Montgomery, (Ala.) Advertiser
has seen a cucumber weighing thirty five
pounds. It is two feet long and over a
foot in diameter and was grown In the
county.
A TREE in Madagascar, called the
travellers tree, yields copious supply
of fresh water from its leaves Ii it
would only yield whisky it might be very
popular.
A MAN at Lynn, Mass, has just p aid
for pane of glass which he broke when
boy, thirty-two years ago. He had
become tired of waiting for glass to
cheaper.
A MAN was arrested and fined for
kneeling and praying aloud in the streets
of Wichita, Kan, and the Times say s
he could have stood up and sworn wit b
impunity.
EAsToN, Penn, has Bowling in a
judge named Schuyler, who has sent a
man to prison for six years for stealing a
silver watch and pair of gloves, three
years for each article
The muster roll of the Thirty-fifth
Georgia regiment, picked up on the bat
tlefeld of Williamsburg in May, 1852,
by an aid de-camp to Gen. Joe Hooker,
is in the possession of Gen. Phil Cook,
of Georgia.
A $50. 900 chapel of granite and in the
English Gothic style is being built at
the entrance of Cedar Hill Cemetery,
Hartford. twill be called the Northam
Memorial Chapel, in memory of the late
Col. G. FL. Northam.
In the Catskills alone there are more
than 900 hostelries of one kind and an
other, and there must be 10000 resorts,
including farmhouses, to which people
living In and around New York have re-
course in the warm months.
NEAR Hartwell, Ga, man who mys-
teriously disappeared from that place
several weeks ago was found in a hole
which he had burrowed in the ground
and in which he had lived eighteen days
subsisting on four ears of corn.
Nrw hoe
highway robber With a big basket in
one hand and revolver in the other,
he compelled half dozen lads the other
blackberries they had picked the long,
hot day.
OLD Cape Cod is not fashionable, but
it is proud of its historical associations
Here the Mayhower made her first har-
Dor; here the first child was born; here
the first death occurred and here thefret
compact of government was drawn up
and signed.
FISHERMEN in Peuobscot Bay say that
the mackerel fishing has been a total
failure there this season, and in spite of
denials, they reiterate the story that the
menhaden steamers seine for mackerei
along the coast of Maine and threaten
their extinction.
The skeleton of Mrs. Hannah Russell
Briggs, who left her home at North Ad-
ANS, Mass, while crazy and wandered
away on the 18th of March last, was
found by Tina Goodell, berry picker,
near Greylock Mountain, the other day.
Her skeleton was recognized by the
clothes.
MANY years ago fortune-teller
prophesied that young girl at Fresh
kill, L. l., would die when she was 80
years old. Last week, punctual to the
day, she died. Just before sunrise. her
mother and sister say, they say shadow
meinto the room through window, and
hover over the bed where Mrs. Newman
lay dying. 1t remained only few Sec
Onds, after which she was found to be
dead.
THE Mennonite communities in Kan
sas are prospering About $4,000 Of
| these RnSSIanc own poorlu % 000 aoroC