Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12
FISH-BAIT.

NIAGARA FALLS has gone into winter
quarters. The summer campaign was
Improbable.
In Norway it is no uncommon sight to
see a driver refresh his tired horse with
pail of cider.
FoRHPAUGH has had to pay 81 900 to q
woman who was run over by one of his
circus wagons.
STEPS are being taken In Canada to
prevent further assisted immigTationfrom
the old country.
EDITORS are a growing institution in
Tennessee. In Chattanooga the court
fined man $25 for knocking one Of
them down. The old price was rs cents.
A PETITION will be presented to con-
gress urging that national gallery for
the annual exhibitions OF ant productions
Of the country be established at Wash
ington.
AN Englishman, who was arrested in
San Francisco as a vagrant, would have
been sent up for thirty days if the law
yer had not notified the court that the
man had just inherited 81, 900, 600.
Mrs. FRED. FISK, of Canestota,
n. Y, has set of lace embroidered cur
tains, the work of her own hands, and
which have occupied her four years.
She has refused an offer of 81, 1000 for
them.
THERE are 1,971,365 bee-hives in
France, frem which have been taken
this autumn. 10, 897,284 pounds of
honey, and 1851, 598 pounds of wax, the
total value of the whole product amount
ing to 100000.
AT whatever hour person dies in
Mexico, it is customary to appoint the
funeral just twenty four hours later, and
as the mortality is greatest all over
the world at night, most of the funeral
ceremonies in Mexico are performed at
night, no woman being permitted to at
tend. The poor hire the collins in which
their dead are borne to the grave.
The girls of Hamburg, Germany,
speaking of a young man whom they
Like say, " He is a nice human being;"
the girls of Berlin, He is a fine man."
the beauties OF Dresden, "He is g good
little ANIMAL" the ladies of Vienna,
" He is dear fool;" the Boston lassies,
He is brick" and the girls of Cam
bridge, He is fit for the annex"
IN the first stages Of the manufacture
of wood pulp for paper, poplar was re-
garded as pre-eminently adapted for
the purpose and for a conside rable time
1t was thought that only that wood,
Eastwood, and few other kinds could
be ground into suitable pulp. Now,
however, machines are made which turn
out pulp with equal facility of all
kinds of wood.
HUMMELSHINE,, near Berlin, boasts of
the largest goose market probably in
the world. There arrive daily at that
station on an average forty cars with
geese and ducks. Every car contains
about l, 800, thus making about 400, 900
birds shipped every week, or an annual
total of 10000 The largest part of
these birds are reared and fattened IN
the surrounding provinces, and thence
despatched to all parts of Germany,
England, Belgium, France, Switzerland
and other European countries.
The Boston Herald tells of remark
able feat of memory accomplished by
DR.. Hedge in that city Saturday. He
uo1N6IOA W4tLOub AOLSSS duO I0D6dtSu
word for word with all the energy of
one engaged in extempore speaking. a
discourse which makes thirteen pages of
closely printed matter IN the December
Atlantic. .MacauTey might have done
this a week before his death, but he did
not pass his sixtieth year. DR.. Hedge
wrought this surprising feat when with
in a month of his seventy eighth birth
day, which falls on the 18th of next De-
cemb6r.
CONSEQUENCES invariably form one of
the newspaper topics of the London
"siIiy season." and Canon VenerabIes
makes public through the Times one
which be considers as wonderful as any
of which he has heard. Forty years ago
he was riding with a party of friends
from Palestine to Frascati, when he
dropped his eye glass. They we're
about giving up long search when one
of them remarked that the glass ought
to reveal its presence by its reflection of
the sunlight, and TO illustrate this he
threw a coin into the air. A sharp click
was heard and there lay the coin on the
eye glass.
For three-quarters of century it has
been the custom of family not far
from Warren, r. l., to send to the