Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-03-14
ASSORTED FRAGMENTS.

Maine, and badly disfgureda person ten
feet away.
A FLORIDA man recently sent to the
bank of Columbus, Ga, So, 900 in gold.
most of which he had before the war.
A Troy woman who been south saws
that the wash basins of North Carolina
are pot, kettle, stew-pan, saucepan,
baker and coffee-pot in hundreds of fam
lies.
COMMANDER CHEYNE, who is In Mon
treal, says he has not abandoned his pro-
posed balloon expedition to the North
pole. Lieut.. Schwatka has offered to
join him.
THERE is a creek several miles from
Waynesboro Ga, which is SO highly
lmpregnated with lime that it will take
the hair off horses legs in passing
through it.
AN Illinois doctor senta bottle labelled
Calmel-pizen to a patient. The
county medical society has cited him to
appear and show cause why he should
not be expelled.
The Warner observatory in Rochester,
n. Y, Is completed. It is built of Lock
port white sand stone, and cost, includ-
ing instruments, 800, 900, all of which is
paid by Mr.. Warner.
The Goldsboro On. G. Messenger says
that j. 81. Caldwell left at that office
twenty SIX potatoes which measured one
bushel. He made 367 bushels of pota-
toes to one acre of ground.
ONE United States senator spells "or-
dnance %" ordinance" and g laboratory"
labratory." Another speaks of the
beau " of ship and third talks of
"gun walls :" Instead of gunwales,"
New YORK pension agent who sent
out SO, $50 blanks to ex-soldiers had them
all returned filled up but twenty-eight.
1t is the easiest thing in the world to
convince an old soldier that he is en-
titled to a pension.
VERMONT produces more marble than
any other state In the Union. Last
year the amount aggregated 100000
cubic feet. Nearly 81. 900, 900 were paid
for the labor required to quarry the
stone and take it to market.
A New BEDFORD whaler went into
port at Brunswick, Ga, the other day,
with two whales, one about eighty feet
long, and the other, its offspring, only
six weeks Of age, measuring thirty feet
long. The large one was estimated
worth So, 500, and the small one less than
81, 900.
ISAAC WARREN, who died recently at
Rose, Wayne County, n. Y, was ter
Tible sufferer from rheumatism, and lay
sixteen years unable to move a Joint.
His jaws were fixed, and food was given
him through an opening made by the
loss of his teeth.
The News tells of cruel landlord in
Fall River, Mass, who broke the win
dOWs IN one Of his tenements the other
night and took off the doors, SO as to
freeze out poor woman who owed a
months rent and was too sick even to be
carried to the hospital.
NEAR Gratz, KY. recently, a 7-year-
old son of Dan Criswell, while playing
with some other children, hid in a straw
stack, and the others, while undertaking
to smoke him out, accidentally fred the
stack, and the child was burned to death
before he could get out.
A HUNDRED and fourteen barrels of
beer flowed into Brandywine Creek
recently. Shich & Tice, brewers of Lee
banon, Pa, did not wish to pay the tax
on the beer to remove it to their new
quarters, so, in the presence of the
revenue collector, the bungs were
knocked out.
AN old Vineyard Haven pilot, Captain
Leander Daggett, ffty-three years ago
brought to that place the first rubber
overshoes ever seen there. He was in
Para and was presented with about a
dozen pairs by the American consul.
These shoes were of the pure gum
formed on clay moulds.
JOHN STUMP, of Preston County, West
Virginia, recently died at the age of IS.
About fourteen years ago, while ply
stefan was probing for roach which had
crawled into the ear of the deceased, a
piece of steel was broken off the point of
the instrument and lodged in his ear.
the effect of which finally resulted in
death.
DR.. HAMMOND ascribes pneumonia to
the living in oYerheated rooms in winter.
Changes too sudden from tropical to
frigid atmospheres. DIR. LOOMS adds
" drinking" as a predisposing cause.
DIR. Leaning says that people should as
preventative keep themselves in as
"good condition as possible, and not
overwork themselves.
The loose money found in the straw
of the street cars is generally a per-
quisite of the drivers, and the feelings
of one of them toward a richly dressed
lady in New York car the other day
may be imagined when he saw her pick
up a gold dollar while searching for her
dropped nickel, insisting on his chang
ing it, paying her fare and then pursu-
ing her search for the nickel.
A MONSTER octopus is at present OF
exhibition at San Francisco. This octo-
pus, or devil-fsh, has body about two
feet IN length and is eight inches across
It's widest part. It has eight tentacles,
four on each side, the longest being
eight and a half feet in length In color
the monster is light pink or. flesh color.
1t is one of the largest specimens ever
seen on the Pacific coast.
THE panther has had it's day in Yer
mont, and now it is the mouse's turn.
According to local paper farmer in
Barnard slowed away under straw three
or.e tho ooroocSoc Of kx0