Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28
THIS AND THAT.

SOME Workmen digging near Augusta,
Ga, found well OF salt water.
A MAINE manufacturer of that deli
cacy shipped ton and half of chewing
gum in one day this week.
IT is announced that at the present
time there is not debt on any Presby-
terrain Church in Nebraska.
AN Athens, Ca, dog hunts hens
nests and carries four eggs in his mouth
at time without breaking thena.
AT Americas, Ga, an oak tree 100
years old has just been dug up to make
room for improvements IN building.
WILD ducks are so thick on the water
courses In Brevard County, Fla, that
they have to be showed aside while pass
ing.
ABOUT this time Washington boarding
ing house keepers slyly nail the trunks
of their impecunious guests to the
| floor.
A CALIFORNIA man says he cured him
self of dyspepsia by living upon fruit
and coarse meal of oats and barley un-
cooked.
The thermometer at Butte, NJ. T., re-
corded s1xty-one degrees below zero on
Saturday week, The quicksilver in the
quartz mills froze solid.
THERE are three hundred and thirty
one stands of colors, carried by Illinois
soldiers in the late war, deposited in the
! adjutant-generals Office of that state.
A LISBON, n. Y, COW attempted to
| chew two cuds at once and was choked
to death. A COW is not the only animal
that occasionally bites off all that it can
masticate.
IT is estimated that in the two Caro-
linas, Georgia and Louisiana, total
population of about 100000 people,
white and colored, are dependent upon
! the cultivation of rice.
THOMAS RASMUSSEN, living near Sid
ney, Neb., became insane and attempted
to kill his wife. The family dog inter
| fered, and the woman escaped. Ras-
mussen wandered out on the prairie and
froze to death.
A PACKAGE of $500 in currency has
been received by the treasurer of the
town Of Midway, Mass, without any
explanation save that it belonged to f,
the town of Midway" Who the sender
can be is mystery.
A THEATRICAL manager in New York
has begun very effective war upon the
deadhead system. He compels all those
receiving it's benefits to sit in certain
place reserved for them and in full view
OF the paying audience.
A SCHOONER brought into Santa Bar
bara, Cal, the other day six young ele-
plants from the islands. Thirty years
ago these animals were quite numerous
on the California coast, but for long
time none have been seen.
BISMARCK excludes American pork
from Germany, but the universal Yankee
is enough for him. He ships American
pork to England, repacks it, and then it
enters Bismarck's country as English
pork, and the people like it.
A MICHIGAN family recently disinterred
the body of their son to take off band
age which tied the feet of the corpse.
Michiganders believe that Gabriel Will
begin with their state, taking IN the rest
of the world some hours later.
A SUIT against a New Jersey hotel
keeper for extortion brought out the fact
that his receipts were 81, 900 week, of
which 50, 500 were clear proft-that is,
a person paying 81 day for board gives
the landlord So 80 for his own pocket.
THERE are about 10000 working men
in Boston whose average pay is four dol
lars a week, and whose board costs them
an average of three dollars and fifty cents
week. This leaves them twenty-six
dollars year for clothing and inciden-
tails.
ONE of the cupolas of the Jaeger Iron
Works on Van Rensselaer, Island, Albany,
N. Y, got chilled last week and clogged
up, stopping the blast. It took three
nights and two days to chisel the iron
out, and cost the company $500 besides
the delay.
THREE years hence men will be vot-
ing who were not born when Abraham
Lincoln died, yet there are men in the
United States senate on this bis 74th
birthday, about as old as he would have
been If the assassin had spared him.
Boston Herald.
A VALUABLE saddle horse owned In
Bowling Green, KY, was dying of some
mysterious malady, when the horse
leech discovered corn-cob stuck in the
animals throat, where it must have been
for two weeks. This being removed the
horse has recovered.
AMONG the trees which grow In Alas
ka is one called the yellow cedar, which
has a fragrance somewhat like that of
sandal wood, and nearly as marked. Ii
is grainless wood of straw color, and
the Russians built many ships of it, for
which purpose it is admirably adapted.
PoRCEnAINs that command the high
est prices in Europe are old Oriental
specimens of solid colors, viz: Tor
quoise blue, lemon yellow, roseadon and
] pea-green. A vase of the latter color,
} II inches high, with Ormulu mountings,
sold at the late sale of the Duke of Ham
ilton for 81 900.
This must be the bronze age. John
G. Whittier recently received from
Chicago lady 200 engraved visiting cards
with request to write his illustrious
name on each of them, as the writer was
to give reception to her friends and
! desired to present them with some me-
! ! mento of the event.
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