Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
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HALF million people live in the 22,-
600 tenement houses of New York.
THE Tooth anniversary of Washington
Irvipg's birthday occurs on April 3D..
THE ice factory at Pascagoula, Miss,
ships about four thousand pounds of
cred snappers" weekly.
BUTTER from the fancy farms of Penn
sylvauia and New Jersey now sells in
New York for so cents a pound.
GIVE haven't any army to speak Of, )"
says the Florida Times, "but we can
beat the world on apension list.
WASHINGTON gossips hint at a con-
gresham who gave his wife 81, 600 not
to pass the winter IN Washington.
OREGON retail liquor dealers charge
thirty cents a drink, and can afford to
pay the $3.50 license fee demanded.
BUFFALO hunters have had a good
season In Montana They are selling
buffalo hides by the wagon-load in Miles
City.
A CoAsTrNG party in Albany, n. Y,
the other day, ran into COW, striking
it with such force that it died almost in
statantly.
A MARYLAND medical journal has re-
lated a case of fatal tetanus, or lockiaw,
following vaccination in a strong man
of forty years.
The French are too easily excited.
Uncle Sam would simply jug that chap
for vagrancy and keep right on as if
nothing had happened.
WHITE shad are being taken from
traps on the Etowah River, IN Georgia.
This river was stocked eight years ago
and again two years ago.
SIXTEEN years ago a Syracuse girl in
trusted a lamb to q farmer. A few days
ago she was awarded Judgment of $3.50
for the increase of the lamb.
DURING the last year, of the letters
and parcels opened at the dead letter
Office, 1889 contained money, and a.
575 drafts, checks, and notes.
SOME rascaIs the other night visited
very valuable carp pond, few miles
north Of Mount Gilead, O., and COM
pletely drained it by cutting the banks.
Ma. GEORGE W. CHILDs has spring
water brought to his Philadelphia home
every day from his country seat at
Wayne, Pa; also fresh milk and cream.
A STATUE of Chief Justice Chase, nine
feet high, is incomplete because an en-
terprising colored man of Washington
stole the bronze head that belongs to it.
a BROOKLYN grocer put 6, $50 beans in
a glass jar, and the guessing ranged all
the way from $50 to $4,000. It is one
thing to know beans and another thing
to estimate numbers.
s MAN always looks through his pock-
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his wife to have a button sewed on, and
even then he is filed with a nameless
fear until the job is completed.
An undertaken in Toronto Canada,
has nailed a horseshoe over the door OF
his shop, and some of the people are de-
sirous of knowing whether he means it
for ornament or ''for luck" in his bust
ness.
A FEMALE physician in a New York
town is charged with commencing a
post-mortem examination before the
patient was dead. She is entitled to the
medal as the most Inquisitive woman on
record.
AN Iowa grocer who refused to trust
woman for pound of logwood was near
~ killed by a blow from an ax-helve.
When a woman wants to dye an old
shawl she is prepared to surmount all
obstacles.
AN inexhaustible quarry of blue mar
bic has been discovered near The Dallas,
In Polk County. Oregon. It is suscep-
tlbIe Of receiving a high polish, and
| when dried is so hard that it readily
| cuts glass.
CAROLINE ISLAND, a little rock in the
Pacific, will have larger population OF
astronomers next April than Kerguelen
had in 1854, because it is the only spot
from which the total eclipse Of the sun
can be seen.
SINCE the Milwaukee fire patents for
nineteen new ife-saving inventions for
use at hotel fires have been applied for
at Washington. Most of them are
novel, many ingenious, and a few, pos
sibly, will prove useful.
AT Fairburn, La, a workman named
| Brown fell from the scaffold around a
church steepIe, distance of 100 feet,
breaking his neck and driving fragments
of stone, upon which he struck, through
his skull into his throat. He died leav-
ing widow and six small children.
The bitter cold of a recent night
froze to death a fine setter dog, which
was next morning standing between the
rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad,
near East Penn Junction. Whether the
dog was overcome just at that point and
there died In and there died In a stand
ing position is not known. He was on a
track, but it proved his last hunt
HIRAM B. LEWIS, of CRANKY, n. Y.
recently underwent an operation for an
obstruction of the throat, during which
a silver tube was introduced into the
wind pipe. Mr.. Lewis gained in health
and became accustomed to breathing
through the tube. On Friday an irrita-
ton caused him to remove the tube,
when the passage Immediately closed,
and death resulted in few moments.
A LITTLE girl In Long Island the
other day, like the young woman IN the