Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-04
MINNOWENGS.

negotiating for forty thousand acres of
land In Arkansas.
Mr.. JOHN L. DYsART. of Gainesville,
Ga, has fallen heir to an estate In Ire
lend valued at several million dollars.
WoRMwOoD, carroway, and verbenas
all grow wild in the southern states and
do considerable damage to cultivated
crops.
FORTY miles west of Wickenburg, Ar
lzona, is a group of copper mines for
which 81, 100000 is alleged to have been
refused.
The confederate flag pole at the
county seat of E9rly County, Ca, still
stands where it was planted over twenty
one years ago.
The Natal Twin Association, of Nash
vile, Tenn, pays So, 900 to each mem
Der producing q certificate of the pater-
nifty OF pair of twin babies.
NEAR Goldsboro. n. c., a wild man.
who for long time has been terror to
the people, was captured, and proved to
be crazy and an entirely nude negro.
IT has been estimated that the North
American continent is being reduced in
height ut the rate of foot In every
$500 years by the erosive action Of
water.
AE English "public analyst" says
that all cheeses should be washed before
using, as a custom prevails among
manufacturers of brushing them over
with a solution of arsenic to keep the
flies away.
EXPERIMENTS in planting pine seeds
have resulted in securing good groves of
trees III places where transplanted trees
failed TO grow. Pines are being intro
duced on many WORKOUT farms in the
eastern states in this manner.
"BAKER SAM" wood-hauler of Eu-
reka, New, had put away, buried in a
stall, the sum of $4,000 in 500 gold
pieces, and when he went to gaze upon
his treasure two weeks ago he found to
his utter dismay that all was gone.
JOHN SNYDER, of Fritztown, Berks
County, Pa, is 80 years old and now
dangerously i'll. At one time he was in
sured on the graveyard plan to the
amount OF $3.50, 900, but he survived all
the companies that had risks on him.
A DECK-LoAD of jackasses arrived in
New York recently, the importation of
Abel Leonard, of Mount Leonard, Mo-,
who is to take them west for breeding
purposes. They were collected with care
IN Spain, and they stood the voyage
well.
The ten thousand young poets who
have just paid return postage on their
own manuscript will curl their lips in
sad, bitter scorn, over the blindness of
publishers when they read that Tenny-
son received $40, 900 for his poem "To
Virgil"
The name "Tarheels F" was first given
to North Carolina troops by General J.
A. Early, at Williamsburg. 1t was on
the occasion of the famous charge made
by the Fifth Regiment under Colonel
D. K. McRae, which he says equaled if
not eclipsed that of the Old Guard of
France at Waterloo.
The Blue-Grass Region in Kentucky
is proud of a sunhOwer weighing four
pounds, and fOrty-two inches In circum-
ference; but Marietta, Ca, steps to the
front with one which measures four feet
one-half inch in circumference; and
SandeIsyille, GA. has one which weighs
eight and half pounds.
tilleries in Buckingham County, Vir-
ginia, and they engage three hands at
each mill. They consume each per day
two thousand pounds of roots and make
sixty gallons Of oil, worth from ST. so to
So per gallon-S270 to $500 per dav, and
for the year from $54, 900 to $50, 000
r. BRECKNRfDGE, of Rosenberg,
Ore, has been seriously i'll, caused by
opening the vault of deceased person.
He was in such position that the gases
from the coffin struck him in the face.
Shortly after he was taken with fever
that for time bafied the skill of at
tending physicians, but he was at last
accounts likely to recover.
THE largest chestnut tree IN Lancas-
ter County, Pennsylvania, stands within
a few hundred yards of the Mannheim
borough line, on the public road leading
to Sporting Hill. Its circumference is
twenty-three feet six inches, one foot
above the ground. The tree was meas
ured fortyfve years ago, when its cir
conference was twenty-one feet four
inches.
A CINC1NNATIAN has written a pamph-
of 1886" between the United States and
Great Britain. The result of the war is
4he defeat of the United States. The
object of the pamphleteer is to arouse
attention to the fact that the national de-
lenses have been neglected and the army
and navy permitted to become in
efficient
AT Wilmington, n. c., party of
gentlemen discovered large white crane
on the edge of small pond evidently
trying to fly, but could not. They'went
to investigate the matter, and ascertained
that one of the birds feet was held by
large swapping terrapin. The crane was
lifted out of the water, but the ter
rapin kept his hold. Both we're cap
tured alive.
MAURICE WELSH, of Norwich, Conn.,,
earns his living by manual labor, and is
so willing to do so that he voluntarily
gave up his pension of 81 a month. He
wrote to the pension agent that his