Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-21
CLIPPED FRAGMENTS,


800, 100000.
The poll tax is paid most frequently
at the hairdressers.
GENERAL GORDON, of Georgia has
ust bought los, $50 acres of Mississipni
delta land.
HE imports of raw sugars at San
Francisco last year were over 100, OOO.-
600 pounds.
A CAREFUL observer says the striped
snake eats large numbers of earth or
angle worms.
IHIRTY-POUND watermelons and six
teen-lnch radishes are now being gath.
cred in Florida.
BUTTERMILK is said to have healing
qualities. 1t IS certainly softening and
soothing to the flesh.
Ex-Governor WARMoTH has pur-
chased in Maine the machinery for q
beet root factory on his Louisiana plan
tation.
ERECTION of buildings at night BIZ
means of the electric light is becoming
quite a common thing all over the
country.
THE New Orleans street car COM
PohACO COI1COb hOOuD IO9OOO lhEOS udy.
The population is a little less than
225, 900.
The German word zwiebach re-
fers to twice-baked biscuit which is
agreeable to the taste and very digesti-
BILE.
a NORTHERN company has purchased
the iron Gre bed near Rome, Ca, pay
ing $4,000 for it. Another blast fur
mace is to be erected.
SOME of the smaller streams in Kan
sas a1e frozen to the bottom. The prob
lem to get sufficient water for stock is
becoming serious one.
Sly different histories of the war give
six different versions of the battle of
Gettysburg, and no two agree on losses
or the number of prisoners captured.
1t is estimated that with redwood
lumber at $18 per ZOO feet, the forests
OF Humboldt County, California, would
pay the national debt of the United
States.
CHARLES DARwIN's son has presented
Harvard College an etching of his
fathers study, with an exact representa-
ton Of the room as it was on the day of
his death.
HENRY IRVING, the actor, declares
that improvidence and intemperance are
the two great curses of people in his
profession. It is remarkable how much
actors are like the rest of the worI d.
THERE are millions Of white geese
upon the Suisun marshes, California,
but as they are poor eating they are sell
dom shot at except by farmers, whom
they annoy.
CERTAIN persons claiming to be heirs
of the widow of President Willard Fill
more have petitioned the surrogate at
Buffalo to reopen the probate of the
will, on the ground that they were not
cited to appear when the will was
proved.
LIE Roy, n. Y, is said to have more
patent medicine enterprises than any
other town of its size In the state. It
has six fully organized companies, and
it is rumored that there are ten other
ambitious citizens, each of whom has
made valuable discovery.
WILLIAM LANG. who lives on the plains
east of Suisun, CAL, is making quite a
sum each season killing geese, by frying
out the fat and sending ii to San Fran
cisco, where he gets 80 cents pound
for it. tits stated that he intends get
cannon with which to kill the geese
this winter.
Mrs. George Nye, of Lebanon, Conn,
made pies on the Both of January, 1888,
from a squash raised in the summer of
1881 It was of the crook-neck variety,
shell very hard. The seeds were plump
and fresh. No especial pains had been
taken to preserve the squash, which had
been kept in closet near thefre.
A MAN living near Lake Louise, in
Manitoba, picked up an armful of sticks,
one day last week, and carrying them
home, threw them under the stove. In
a few minutes two of the sticks COM
menced crawling away, having developed
into good-sized moccasin snakes with the
heat
A YOUNG man In Logan county, Ken
lucky, named Sam Caldwell, was kicked
in the face by wild horse some time
since and died from the effects of the
injury last week. The scar on his fore
head where the horses hoof struck was
not as large as nickel, and he was con-
scious up to the time of bis death.
The Pacific roads will charge Knights
Templars and their female relatives go
ing to the conclave $75 each from the
Missouri River to San Francisco and re-
turn by one route, or 500 each for the
round trip going one way and returning
the other. Members of the grand COM
mandery travelling alone will be taken
for $50 by one line, with $75 if accom-
panied by ladies.
A CORRESPONDENT from Montreal says:
''Anyone could tell a Canadian from a
visitor at glance. Every Canadian who
does not wear heavy fur cap has on a
knit worsted arrangement like a giant
stocking run to point. Six out of ten
Canadians wear long fur coats, reaching
from their ears to their heels. The most
common article of apparel is cloth and
rubber overshoe, trimmed with gaudy
embroidery"
OXFORD MILLS can boast of the best
married man in eastern Ontario. His
name is Robert Murphy. Six months
after he buried his first wife he married
his second. His second wife was dead