Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11
FISH-BAIT,

| COnneaubVllIe, "a, weighs only fifteen
pounds and is 70 inches high.
! The Massachusetts legislative session
this year is the longest on record. The
session of 1874 ran 175 days, but the
present session has exceeded that.
A BOY, while plowiEg in field in
Paulding County, Georgia, turned up
several particles of gold. It has raised
great expectations in that vicinity.
The Auburn, IN. Y state asylum for
insane criminals now has the largest
number of inmates since it's erection
155. 1t has room for only five more.
WHEN Mrs. Mcclellan, of Miflin-
town, Pa, opened the oven door of her
kitchen stove, few days ago, she found
roasted black snake four feet in
length.
The Garrett Davis property at Par
is, KY, has been sold for $1,000. The
place contains twenty-five acres and a
beautiful residence, built by the late
senator.
A COMPANY organized in Washington,
d. c., has purchased {, 1000 acres of land
in Polk County, Florida, and will raise
oranges, lines, lemons, and other tropi-
cal fruit.
A MAN has been fined 5000 at MARI
boro, S. O., for selling Jamaica ginger
as medicine, the jury's verdict being
that it should be classed as an intoxicat-
ing drink
STREET CARS are running between
Billings, Montana, and Coulson, with re-
turn tickets for % cents. which will in
clude two glasses Of beer al the brewery
in Coulson.
AFTER shooting at it eight or nine
times, Mr.. W. FL. Richardson finally
killed, with a ninth shot, few days ago,
q milk-White deer in the forest near
Bigbee, Ala.
A YOUNG San Francisco hoodlum, who
recently seduced 16-year- old girl and
placed her in house of prostitution, has
been sentenced to one year in the peni-
tertiary for abduction.
THE icebergs which during the past
four months have drifted about in the
neighborhOod of the Banks of NeWfound-
land, and which have proved very dan
gerous obstacles to vessels passing that
way, are fast disappearing.
LYDIA SCovLLE, the young woman
who killed her infant near West Vienna,
Oneida County, n. Y, has made state
ment in which she says that a young
man named James Hall advised her to
wrap cloth tightly around the face Of
the CHILD, and, if that did not kill 1t,
choke it with card. She followed the
counsel and left the babe in the woods.
Hall, who has been arrested, has recent
ly dissipated fortune Of $4,000 which
IofA I,1zc
NEAR the famous Kanawha Falls,
West Virginia, an immense cliff over
hangs the river. For some years past
this cliff has had a tenant, who dug a
hole under its huge wings and lives there
all alone. He is very old darky, and
he has the den divided off into apart
nents, one for sleeping, another for
dining-room and one for kitchen. He
does his own cooking and lives by fish
ing and hunting small game. He seems
perfectly satisfied, and can mostalways
be found under the rocks of this cave.
ABOUT six months ago a man named
John Washburn, residing near Swan
colts mills, in Lewis County, New
York, was afflicted with a swelling on
his nose, which continued to grow until
it was as large as a ball, covering his en-
tire face and disfguring it beyond recog-
milton. The man died last week. Sew
eral physicians were consulted, most of
whom were unable to determine what
the difficulty or disease was. One or
two, however, pronounced it a cancer
Of some description, but all were unable
to give any relief to the unfortunate
man.
The Moniteur in 1915, then the organ
of Louis XVIII, thus from day to day
recorded the progress of the first Napo-
leon from Elba to Paris: ''The anthro-
pophagist has escaped" "The Corsi-
can ogre has landed" "The tiger is
coming" ''Ihe monster has slept at
Grenoble. "The tyrant has arrived at
Lyons" ''The usurper has been seen
in the environs of Paris" 'sBonaparte
advances toward, but will never enter,
the capital. Napoleon will be under
our ramparts tomorrow" ''His impe-
rial ma esty entered the 1uilIeries the
Dist of March, in the midst of his faith
full subjects. '-London Society.
HE native mushroom is to be pro-
tected. The commissioner of customs
appealed to the secretary of the treasury
a few weeks ago for Instructions con
corning the proper classification of
So mushroom spawn" It appears that
someone had undertaken to import
what the department describes as the
sporales or terminating principle of the
edible mushroom, mixed with manure
and pressed into forms suitable for
transportation and future use in plant
ing" Assistant Secretary French has
decided that these "sporales must
pay duty of 20 per cent. ad valorem.
The native mushroom wherever it may
be-in the caves and cellars of the Guilt
vator, or in the fields where it serves
only to fertilize the soil from which it
springs-may now take courage, rejoice
and be thankful for the sheltering care
of a protective tariff.
EVER since the terrible catastrophe of
1926, when the Inflated Wiley family
were buried beneath the down-rushing
surface of their mountain home, the re-
port of landslide in the White Noun
tains has a peculiar significance to the
New England ear. The slip, however.