Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-05-03
WINNOWiNGS.

omnibus.
CONCERNING the strongest New Eng
land factories, an estimate is made that
they pay an average of per cent. on the
investment.
A RESIDENT of Biddeford, Me-, is re-
ported to have made the trip from that
place to Boston, something over 80 miles,
on his bicycle IS times.
'THIRTY years hence" says the Lon
don Spectator, English fortunes will
appear very paltry compared with
American"
THERE is a Winnebegoshish lake in
Minnesota. The name is doubtless q
corruption of the usual remarks of
Minnesotian on taking too sudden seat
upon the ice Of that wintry latitude.
IT was In the time of Cromwell, we
believe, that an illiterate soldier con-
triyed to spell the word So usage with
out single letter properly belonging to
it. He wrote it yowzitch, and when
told that the spelling was incorrect de-
clared that nobody could spell with a
quill pen from an Irish goose.
WHILE man was sitting in the crotch
of tree to saw off limb, at Saginaw,
Mich, the crotch split as the limb fell,
letting him down into the opening and
then closing on him. It took an hour
of chopping and prying to get him out
of the trap, and several of his ribs were
broken by the squeezing.
AN Omaha girl, intent on suicide,
tied one end of long rope TO her waist,
and the other to the bridge from which
she dropped into the river. Her idea
was to prevent her body from being lost;
but the rope served the more valuable
purpose Of saving her life, as man
hauled her up by it,
A FARMBE at Hicksville, n. J., traded
horse with jockey and gave $50 ''to
boot" The man took the tanners horse
and bad him clipped. The farmer was
not satisfied with the trade, and went to
the jockey and traded again, not know
ing his old horse, and gave $15 "to
boot" The farmer got his first horse
back and paid $45 for clipping.
THE following composition was pre-
pared by schoolboy, who knows moth
ing of Wall Street: "The peg is thing
to bang other things on, to keep them
from falling. TT cannot easily be broken
but can be pulled out at any time. If
anything is hanging on the peg when it
is pulled out that thing falls down. -
P5c0yune.
Bob JACKSON was missed from Winni-
peg, having been last seen going away
from bar-room drunk. After a week
he was found dead with his feet and an
kles imbedded in frozen earth and his
body leaning against a fence. He had
stepped into deep mud and too incapaei-
tated by rum to extrieate himself, had
stood there until a cold snap fastened
him.
A HUGE whale harpooned off Province
town recently, was towed into one of the
Boston docks recently. 1t weighs
81 tons, is 60 feet long, and So feet in
girth, and its jaws have spread of 25
feet. The monster is how undergoing
the embalming process, and VIII prob
ably swing round the circle IN the wake
of some travelling show during the sum-
mer.
NEAR Penfeld, Ga, live two ladies,
who, since the war, started to farming
with one old blind horse. Now they
own own good plantation well stocked,
all paid for, and have eighteen or twen-
ty bales Of cotton on hand They man
aged for themselves, one attending to
the farm, while the other managed the
household affairs.
The manufacture of canes and euriosi-
ties is one of our leading industries of
Jacksonville, Fla, furnishing employ
ment to greater number of persons than
any other branch Of business in the
city. Almost everything in the shape of
fish. flesh or fowl, animal, Mineral or
vegetable, is manufactured into articles
of iewelry for personal use or adornment.
The trade in alhgators is also large.
One concern has sold over 800 alliga-
tons this season and another over 500
within month.
GEN. G. B. CoMsToCK, corps of engi-
neers, in charge of the lake survey, says
that there have been. so far as appears
from his records, no appreeiable changes
In the mean level of Lake Erie and Lake
Ontario other than those to be expected
from the variations Id rainfall and
evaporatioa in different years and series
of years. He also says that the data of
the lake survey give, IN his judgment,
no evidence of underground discharge of
water from either Huron or Erie into
the lakes below them.
THESE is weekly newspaper in New
York, the Globe, owned and published
entirely by negroes. The sheet was
started few years ago by several col
ored men, who we've practical printers,
working during the week in another
Office, and in spare times writing and
setting up their own articles. Such per-
severance, of course, brought success,
and the paper is now prosperous and
ste adily increasing in circulation all over
the country and has considerable infu-
ence.
The most valuable result of fish cul-
ture is expected from the culture of the
German carp, the eggs and fry of which
have been distributed all over the coun-
try. The carp is SO EASILY raised and
thrives so we'll in ponds where other fish
would die that it is known in Europe as
the poor mans fish. Any pond will do
for it, and it does not require animal
food. There are three hundred places
| In New York. where carp are now grow