Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-17
INTERESTING SCRAPS.

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A SOLDIER who lost his toe in the war
Solomon f. Beals, IF Brocton. Mass.
has been pushing his claim for sixteen
years, and now gets pension of $40
NOXUBEE COUNTY, Miss, claims as its
greatest living curiosity pig with wei
developed horns. The horns are similar
to those of COW, though not SO large.
A MAN found $500 i'll bonds and
"a, 900 In currency buried in Phiiadel-
phIa cellar. He was detective. and haC
already captured the burglars who liveC
there.
IHE Nebraska man who drove his wife
out on cold night, causing her to freeze
her feet so badly that they had to bt
amputated, was tarred and feathered By
bis neighbOrs.
+ SOME of the haIibut fishermen com
ing into Gloucester are now making u1
their profits for the year. A very lucky
vessel will sometimes give to each of her
crew something like 5000.
NEBRASKA men are not at all consist.
ent. One of them took a dose of Paris
green to end his life because he had LOST
$50, and then turned around and offered
a doctor 81, 900 to save his life.
MIDDLEBURY, Pa, has the champion
abSent-minded man. After milking his
COW he gave the COW the pail of milk,
took up the milking stool and carefully
set 1t down upon the pantry shelf.
AN Irishman III Cullacan, Mexico. at
tempted to commit suicide by firing a
pistol into his mouth. The ball re-
NAMED near the brain, and the mans
life has been saved, although he will be
a lunatic.
THREE men of Reading, Pa, have
been fined $50 each and costs for iniur-
ing the ice by skating on Union canal.
y. M. Keller had leased the canal, in
tending to harvest the ice and had
erected warning to trespassers.
The men employed in one department
of the Elgin Gil. watch factory did not
strike on the arrival of young woman
as the first employe Of her sex among
them, but received her with speeches of
welcome and the gift Of toilet set.
A MAN desired to bury his amputated
leg IN Dubuque cemetery but the SUI
perintendent refused to allow it on the
ground that a burial permit was neces-
Sary for every lnterment and such
document could only be procured for all
entire body.
PARTY Of young men dined sumptu-
Ously at a restaurant and each one in
sisted on paying the bill. To decide the
matter it was proposed to blindfold the
waiter, and the first one he caught
should pay the bill. He hasn't caught
any of them yet.
A FRENCHMAN and his family living
on a scOw anchored near the dug dock
at Tonawanda, n. Y, narrowly escaped
drowning one night last week. The
scow sunk, carrying with it all the eff
fects of the family, barely giving them
time to reach the dock.
GERMANTOWN, Pa, has a person who
can eat pound of soap, a half pound of
candles, and drink pint of lard oil at
single meal. His name is VIM. Manuel,
and at one time he filed regular en-
gagement at saloon giving exhibitions
of his ostrich-like appetite.
The inscription ''Ysnat" on a Jar in
a Philadelphia Indian doctors shop,
puzzled reporter until he discovered
that it was FTansy spelled backward.
With this clue he read the names of
other mysterious medicines with clear
er understanding than before.
A LATE party of northern excursion
lists passing through Georgia en- route
for Florida, complain that at Jessup
they were charged twenty-five cents each
for the privilege of standing twenty-five
minutes each before a fire at a second
class hotel while waiting for the train.
1882 will be remembered as witness
- hi ,.oi1,,ooI i1oacro
structed within any single year Of the
country's history. The number re-
ported was, 10, 821 miles and the COM
plete returns for December will prob
ably bring total up to about 1900
miles.
HENRY B. CAREER, one of the victims
of the famous CARRIER poisoning case at
NorristOwn, Pa, which still remains
mystery, has been placed in the Phila-
delphia hospital, HOPELESS paralytic.
After the wholesale poisoning his life
was saved, but he was left physical
wreck.
The Creighton family took rooms in
Montreal boarding house for a definite
term, and refused to give them up be-
fore it's expiration, though they quar-
relied with the landlady. She resorted
the expedient of burning Cayenne pep
per where the fumes would go UP through
the hot air pipe into the Creighton
apartments. Her right to do this is to
be tested in court.
A CALIFORNIA man has acquired a
fortune in a singular way. He had
lot of mining stock of a nominal value,
and pledged it as collateral for loan.
Then the stock rose very high. The
person to whom it was pledged sold it.
Subsequently it fell again, and he
bought it back, making 1926, 900 by the
transaction. The true owner of the
stock found out about the transaction,
and sued for the 1895, 600 as belonging
to him. The supreme court gives it to
him, too.
TIE ice men of Maine, with twelve
inches of solid ice on the Kennebec, and
the prospect of harvest OF 800 600
tons from that river alone, are very I'M
happy, for the reason that there is like