Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-08-29
FISH-BAIT.


The courthouse at Green Grove
Spring. Fla, is used as a school house.
A CITIZEN of Columbis, Tenn, aged
II wears, has been married fifty years;
his father died at 70, his mother died at
"a, his grandfather died at SO.
THERE is said to be living in Fairfield
County, South Carolina, colored wo-
man who is 119 years old, and can see
to sew and make neat patchqullt.
DIAMOND mine shares have fallen
very seriously in value IN South Africa,
because the biggest mine has caved III
so that it will take three years to dig il
out.
A LADY stopping at Yates, Orleans
County, n. Y, who was in the Carlyon
disaster, has such a dread of railroads
that she has made an offer of 81 900 to
anyone who will take her home in car
riage, the distance to her home being
LOCO miles.
STONES which have long been numer-
Gus on the soil of South Carolina are
now being manufactured and used for
fertilizing purposes. The deposits of
these stones which were long considered
worthless, are now said to be more valu-
able than the guano beds of Peru.
A HORRIBLE scene was recently enact
ed by two dogs in the room of a sick
woman at Marsh Hope, Kent County,
Del. The two dogs fought savagely,
and rolled around under the bed, which
go shocked the nervous system of the
sick woman that she shrieked and fell
over dead.
AN old lady IN Dahlonega, Ga, writes
that she has in her possession some of
the manuscript of John Howard Payne,
and that he boarded with her in that
town in 1916, and mined for gold. This
manuscript is few poetical verses writ
ten in memory of the death of her
daughter.
Mr.. ANDREW CARNEGIE, of New York,
has just been made happy by the orr
ginal MS. of ''The Light of Asia, pre-
scented to him by its distinguished au-
thor, Edward Arnold, who at the same
time expressed his delight and astonish-
ment at the reception his poem had met
with IN America.
LAWYER BARNEY has accepted a re-
tainer from New Bedford total absti-
hence society, and has promised to close
every illegal groggery in the city with
IN six months. He begins by causing
the arrest of an active member of his
own church for renting building to an
unlicensed dealer.
4 NORWICH, Conn.,, business man s
dog, who thought that everything tossed
was intended for him, chewed up a box
of diamonds the other day. The dog
was quarantined, and after passing one
sleepless night the owner was rejoiced
to learn that all the diamonds called for
were safe and unipiured.
To PROTECT the body from mosquitoes
during the night, take a sponge bath OF
| salt and water, or vinegar and water,
and do not dry the skin entirely. Bet
ter than this, inasmuch as it benefits
| the skin, is to wash IN lemon water.
The acid is distasteful to the mosquito,
and he wanders off to sweeter fields.
The bath is always cooling, and of great
benefit.
The brontosaurus is one of the ami
mails now extinct which once inhabited
America. It is probable that we have
no occasion to be sorry that he is ex-
| tinct. He was about fifty feet long,
and must have looked like a snake
mounted on four legs set under the mid
| die third of the body. He had q small
head and large tail, and weighed about
| twenty tons.
The number of Israelites in Polish
town creates the wealth of the place.
The more Jews, the more it considers it.
| self opulent. In each there is sure to
| be at least one who deals in everything,
from sheepskin cloak to a stemwinder,
who buys provisions, keeps a public
house, and knows by heart the history
and lineage of all the families of the
country round.
Coz. GEORGE PERKINS, of Norwich, is
SO years old. Is now treasurer of the
| Norwich and Worcester Railroad. Reads
without glasses. Six feet high. Looks
like wei preserved sixty flyer. Face
rudy and almost unWrinkIed. Runs
after the omnibus. Reported that nc
''bus" horses in Norwich can outrun
him. Yves paymaster in the war OF
1872 and a witness IN the Beecher trial
after the war. Are there any more like
him?
CATERPILLARs are doing considerable
damage in the vicinity Of Centerville,
Fla On the plantation of Mr.. T. J.
Roberts they have stripped the cotton OF
leaves, and are eating up the young
bolls and barking the stalks. The
worms have also attacked the cotton
fields of q number of others in large
numbers. The cotton pest has appeared
at a number of places III Leon County
and the farmers are apprehensive Of
great damage to the crop.
A LADY at one of the Long Branch
hotels has already exhibited forty diff
ferent costumes, and has two maids en-
ployed making new gowns for her, which
she puts on as fast as completed. She
has also during the season read one
paper-covered novel and half column
IN newspaper, besides writing three
letters without getting more than three
fifths of the words spelled wrong
P]tiIadel11hiG Nea08.
A SUPERINTENDENT of thread manu-
factory in Massachusetts, explained to {
visitor the good things done bv the com