Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-25
WINNOWINGS.

TENNESSEE has ninety-four counties.
THERE'S forty-pound mud turtle In
| captivity at Americas, Georgia.
The United States spend "a, 900, 900 a
year upon education.
A GOOD steel trap caught four HIM
dred-pound bear on Ossipee Mountain,
New Hampshire, recently.
HUBERT FL. BANCROFT, the historian
of the Pacific coast, owns a reference
library Of 35, 900 volumes.
MANUFACTURED milk is being sold at
Ell Paso, Tex. The Ingredients and the
secret of manufacture are not known, but
inc article is calculated to deceive the
most expert.
AN English artist says that Arab
Pasha is ''a broad, thick-chested fellow,
built on the lobster pattern" Arab
will crawl when he reads this description
of mis- form.
| A YOUNG man in Western Illinois adj
vertised for wife; his sister answered
the 'tad, and now the young man thinks
there is no balm in advertisements,
while the old folks think it's pretty hard
to have two fools in the family .-BOst0n
| Post.
The ruins of Ophir, New, where 81
600, 900 were spent IN grist-mills and
reduction works, will now be utilized
for "a cheese factory. The grass of the
Washoe Valley is said to be good for
cheese -making, and already there are
$50 cows on the Ophir ranch.
THE value of the property of the
United States is estimated at $4,000
000,0 900 and yet you will find lots of men
who declare that the country owes them
a living. The country should pay its
debts Immediately. = Boston Tram
script.
NEAR Iberville, La, singular and
fatal accident occurred. Two boys,
Gabriel Hunter and Jacob Garner, were
gathering pecans, and the former threw
an iron ramrod up tree and it fell On
the latters head, passing through his
skull and brain down into his throat,
killing him instantly.
A VERDICT of So, 900 was rendered at
Syracuse, n. Y, few days since in
favor OF Florence Steggall VS.. Fred. s.
Platt for damages which she received in
1876 while attending school at Fayette-
vile. Plat threw a stick which acct
dentally hit Miss Steggall in the eye and
inflicted a permanent injury. The de-
PENDANT, aged about 81, lives in Oak ota
and did not appear.
The Western and Atlantic Railro ad
shipped from Atlanta, Ga, during the
season just past, eight hundred carloads
of watermelons or more than twice the
shipment of any previous season. The
cars averaged l ,250 melons each, or over
one million melons. They also brought
better prices and cost less freight than
ever before, netting the grower, it Is
claimed, 5000 car.
A FOUNTAIN in public square of San
Francisco needed painting. An artist
agreed to do it for nothing provided he
could take as much time as he pleased
for the job, and erect fence to proteot
him from idle curiosity while at work.
The contract was made on those terms.
But it seems the painter has sold the
surface of the fence to advertisers, and
nobody knows how long he will be paint
ing the fountain.
& SWALLOWS nest of remarkable 81 re
at Westerly, r. l., is attracting the at
tention of bird lovers. It is on the
farm of James Babcock, in the north en
part of the town of Westerly. A fine
grove of maple trees on swampy ground
is used by the birds. They are the COM
mon White-breasted barn swallow,
although martins are seen among them.
A careful observer estimates that 3, 000,-
900 swallows nightly flock to the grove.
A NOVEL question is agitating the resi-
dents OF Tucson, Arizona, as to whether
a female who went through the marriage
vows with man on his dying bed is
maid or widow. The technical PROPOSE
! zion is that the physician exclaimed, Just
as the minister was prononncing them
man and wife: s. My God, he's dead"
FROM being the dryest and one of the
unhealthiest towns In southwest Geor-
gia, Albany has become, perhaps, the
best-watered town in the state, and While
the country round about is as full of
sickness as ever, it has had very little,
indeed, of the customary sickness. All
this has been brought about simply by
boring two artesian wells.
The glass snake, or "jointer, is ana
tive of Florida. The reptiles are very
brittle, and break off short when hit.
When cut up into pieces of three or four
inches, each piece shows the greatest ac-
tivity for long time, although unlike
that of any other reptile. 1t is said that
the pieces will come together and the
snake resume its normal condition.
AARON Willis, alias Cinthy Curtis
(colored), a terribly deformed and help
less creature, died at the almshoHse IN
Staunton recently. He was 40 years of
age, was powerless to move himself,
dumb, and whilst seeming to oompre-
bend much that was said to him, was In
capable of making known bis slightest
want. His body and limbs were entirely
useiess. Just before his death he
created much astonishment by speaking
for the first time, when he uttered the
words: "Motherl oh, motherl OH
motherl'- Valley VjryinsGn