Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-03-07
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as pad as dying.
A PINE tree was lately cut on the Abial
Merrill lot at Topsham, Me-, which sur
veyed 4, AGO feet.
ABOUT 1,500,O00 pounds of oleomar-
garine were shipped abroad from New
York city last year.
FREDERICK COUNTY, Va, has fine cloth
manufactures, turning out over 3OO, 600
yards of cloth per annum.
AMONG the contributions from Chicago
to the Cincinnati sufferers was found
four gross Of stove polish.
A YANKEE engineer offers to straight
en- up the leaning tower of Pisa for 5000, =
000 There's praoticability for you.
H. ". BEEcHER: Ct think it was in
Liverpool that was introduced as the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Stowe"
A PoTosI mo. lady recently opened
pincushion that has been in use for
twenty years. She took from it SAT
needles.
4 FREIGHTER of Deadwood has. trans
ported 1000 pounds of giant powder
from the Hills to Maiden, to be used for
blasting out the precious nuggets Of the
camp.
A GREATER part of the great city of
London only pays rs cents thousand
for gas. Some difference between that
and the price usually paid in the United
States
TIE person who brags about what
he would do In case of fire In a house
or theater is usually the first oneto COM
nit some absurd act when his courage
is tested.
TELEGRAPH poles IN Vermont are re-
CURED by law to be suitably painted. 1t
also is the direction of the statute that
straight poles shall be substituted for
crooked ones III use.
The late Charles Choate, of Woburn,
Massachusetts, bequeathed S75, 900 to
the Institute of Technology, $25, 900 for
s hospital for women and children, and
the income Of SO, 0G0 to needy women.
The demand for summer houses on
Long Island is so great that many of the
farmers families are fitting up their
barns and viii live IN them during the
season. Ordinary cottages will rent for
5000 to $500.
A BASKET of alleged oranges carried
by a passenger on the steamer Saratoga,
of Wards line, from Havana, was exam
ined by New York customs officers. 1t
contained $500 packages of cigarettes
and 4, 700 cigars.
A CoLoRED family of Pawtucket,
r. l., received pot of stew from Pro-
violence the other day, it is not known
from whom, and, having eaten it, all
were taken violently Ill. The soup had
been poisoned with tobacco.
A NEGRO workman on Pennsylvania
railroad died few days ago and was
buried IN the woods. His fellow work
men laid their picks and shovels over the
grave and refused TO work until the tools
had lain on the grave over night.
AT Simmons Gap, Georgia, there is a
man 80 years old, who is now living with
his ninth wife. Hehas fifty three children,
and at recent reunion OF his family
more than 800 of his descendants were
present.
A CANADIAN, said to own property val
ned at $50, 900, took his mother-in-law
to the poorhouse the other day, and
there are taxpayers IN his town half
inclined to laugh in spite of them
selves.
The glorious climate of Californy
has again asserted itself, this time in
the form of a tapeworn measuring 213
feet in length. of which San Francisco
man was relieved the other day, having
been for some time N danger of suffoca-
ton by the monster.
Miss LOUISE SLATER, aged 3 years,
and Master Willie, aged 5, came all
alone across the broad Atlantic as
Storage passengers on the steamer
Michigan. They enjoy the distinction
of being the very youngest children who
ever landed at Castle Garden unaccOm-
panied by their parents.
AMONG the possessions Of Hon.
Abram S. Hewitt Is dinner Britannia
service that once was used by General
Washington In camp. It was presented
by HIM to Mrs. Hopper, who kept the
Bergen County headquarters; descended
to her son and was by him sold to Mr..
Hewitt. There are some forty odd
pieces, all of it well preserved.
A BosToN philanthropist, riding In a
horse-car the other day, saw that poor
working woman next him was about to
pay her fare with six cents. He i'm
mediately offered her a fve-cent ticket.
saying that she might as well have the
profit as the railroad company" 1t Is
supposed that he put the one cent which
he gained In the missionary box.
THE champion sauerkraut eater is
Thomas Clute, of Mount Morris, n. I.
On February 9Th that individual ate SIX
quarts of sauerkraut within the space Oh
thirty-seven minutes, and washed it down
with a bottle of champagne. Having
survived this feat In excellent condition
he now offers to bet reasonable amount
that he can eat eight quarts of sauer.
kraut within al hour.
THE coIored people of Salisbury, n
Y, are much excited over the fact that
Hugh Leonard, colored, has thrown uI
live snake eighteen inches long. It il
said his discarded sweetheart gave hin
a cake to eat which is supposed to have
contained snake eggs. Leonard says
there are more snakes to come out. 1t Ii
scarcely necessary to explain that Sails
bury is not prohibition town.
AN English traveller, on the Amer
cans love for the greenback, says