Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-19
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given by the late General Custer and in
dorsed by him.
ELIJAH Dixon, very old man, re-
siding at Block Island, tried to drown
his dog in a pond, but fell into the
water himself and was drowned instead.
A DENVER woman suggests that tags
should be sewed on the clothes of little
children, so that they may easily be iden-
titled if lost.
JOHN OWENS. of johnson County,
Ind, killed hog few days ago, which
weighed 900 pounds gross. This hog
measured nine feet long and SIX feet
around the body.
A PASTURE in Texas is described as
containing 10000 acres, and requiring to
enclose it sixteen miles of fence, which
is all built OF rock four and half feet
thick.
THERE is in Texarkana peach tree on
which the majority of the fruit grows In
pairs, triplets, and quartets. The tree
is small and prolific, and the develop
ment Of single peaches is the exception,
not the rule.
In the stomach of small shark lately
caught in Lake Merritt, Oakland, Cal,
were found two packets of letters, the
handwriting of which was illegible, an
empty sherry bottle and stout paper
box,
CAPT. J. W. WORKMAN, of Evansville,
Ind. has been able to secure after a
long search, the marriage records of Ab-
raham Lincoln's father and mother, and
all doubts raised 10y Ward Lemon and
other biographers are finally set at rest.
WASHINGTON is often credited with in
PRODUCING republican simplicity at the
"court of the capital, but he was
never simple enough to shake hands
with every man of the crowd that filled
his receptions. He simply stood on a
platform and bowed to people who
bowed to him.
A LADY in New York was made sick
found that many lemon-squeezers are
zinc plated, and the acid of the lemon
produced citrate of zinc, which is poison
GUS. Wooden or china-squeezers aresafe.
The Prince of Wales has an American
correspondent in the person of man
living in Prescott, Arizona. The man,
who is now in poor circumstances, was
playmate of the prince when both were
boys.
DURING a storm a few weeks ago, at
Hampstead, Tex, the lightning struck
negro cabin in which several darkies we're
sitting up with q corpse. The atGen-
dants ran out aud when they returned
the cofin-lid was off, and there was
hole in the face of the corpse as if made
by the lightning.
A troo OF Griffin Go
in very curious manner the other day,
emitting what seemed to be puffs Of
smoke at short intervals from all por-
tons of the tree. The smoke, or what
it was, was light and thick like cigar
smoke, and scarcely visible to the casual
observer. It was phenomenon that no.
body could account for.
A NEWSPAPER carrier in Portland, Me-,
has a useful dog. The carriers route
contains many residences with high
flights of stairs, and the dog takes the
papers from his master, carries them up
the steps, pushes upon the storm-door
with his nose, deposits the papers, and
comes bounding down, wagging his tail
and barking for more.
Rev. DIR. MAGoUN, of Philadelphia,
told his New York brethren the other
day that he started in life as bricklayer
and that when he laid down the trowel
and took up the clerical pen, he secured
the first brick he had ever laid, converted
it into an inkstand, and had used it ever
since. An example of how sometimes
great minds magnify little things. Chi
cQgO Journal.
AS pistol-producing town, Norwich,
Conn, leads all places of it's size in this
country. There are five manufactures
of weapons there. One turns out IA 900
pistols month. Their combined pro-
duction must be over 1000 pistols daily
on the average. Yet these establishments
cannot keep up with orders. The pistol
makers themselves wonder what becomes
of all these instruments of death.
AMONG Longfellow's classmates at
30 wdoin, in 1926 were John G. Abbott,
the popular historian; Jonathan Cilley,
the Maine congressman, who fell IN
duel with Representative VIM. J.
Graves, of the Louisville district; j. ".
Bradley, the eminent lawyer and politi-
clan; George B. Cheever, the anti-slavery
advocate; Nathaniel Hawthorne, and
athers who achieved eminence.
The Mississippi is sullenly receding
from it's recently acquired territory, and
the plough is following closely the re-
tired waters; and although there is still
and will continue to be for some time,
great need of help over large territory,
one, Mark Tapley, writes to st. Louis
paper a letter, in which he claims that
the lessons and the alluvia left ~ the
food, will, if properly utilized, more
than counterbalance the losses by the
overflow.
EGGs are an article of cheap and nutri-
tious food which we do not find on the
farmers table in the quantity which
economy demands. It is probably be-
cause they do not understand how valua-
BILE eggs are for food. One pound of
fresh eggs is worth as much for food as
nearly two pounds of beef. They are
easily digested if not damaged in cook
ing, and may be eaten with impunity by
children or invalids.
Mrs. MARGARET LYNCH, the widow of
Millionaire Lynch, of San Francisco,
ordered an $4,000 monument for the
grave of her husband. The contract,