Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-10-24
FISH BAIT.

LORD LoRNE has shipped two buff
faloes from the western plains to his
place in Scotland.
Mrs. JULIA GARDNER TYLER, widow
of ex-President Tyler, and Mrs. Sarah
Childress Polk, widow of ex-President
Polk, draw their pensions of S., 600 each
at the agency in Knoxville, Tenn.
DIVORCES lawfully and promptly
obtained" advertises lawyer IN one of
the Utah papers. How Brigham Young
announc 9ment.
Mr.. A. MEHRING in lopg and inter-
esting paper has shown that the paleo-
logical evidence goes to prove that the
horse existed in Europe as far back as
the tertiary period, and that the modern
horse is not of exclusively Asiatic origin.
ELIZA BAGGs, a native of Scriven
County, Georgia, went to Florida at 6
years of age, married at ID, and her first
child was born when she was only IA.
She is now 81 and has eighteen children
Twins twice., fifteen of whom are living.
A NEST of gray squirrels was found in
a tree five miles east of Fulton, n. Y,
by Orville Johnson. He took the SPUR
rels home and gave them to the care of
cat having kittens. The cat adopted
them, quite to the exclusion of her own
kind.
The 9Th of November has been pro-
nounced by the Mohammedan prophets
as the last day of the world, AID proc
Iamations have been issued from Mecca
and circulat> d throughout Mohammedan
countries warming the faithf1 to prepare
for the end.
A BOX on the side of tree at Central
View, IN Capay Valley, Yolo County,
New, serves as a postofice of nearly
twenty neighboring families. The pro-
prietor of the stage line is paid small
salary by them for delivering and taking
away their mail matter.
mPAPER is now made in Sweden from
e bleached and blanched remains of
osses that lived centuries ago, and are
now found in enormous quantities. The
paper is turned out in all degrees of ex-
cellence from tissue to sheets three
fourths of an inch thick.
In one of the provinces of Montevideo
the population, says DR.. T. W. n.
Greene, practically speaking, subsist
entirely upon meat. He lived there for
years, and, Notwithstanding the nature
of the food of the people, found not a
case of ecurvy among them.
IT would be better for Joaquin Mil
Ier's peace of mind as well as for the
shape of his head, that he and John l..
Sullivan never meet. Any man who says
that "Boston Common is disgraceful
place" will find it profitable to escheW
Of 4ho H17h
AN almost incredible story comes from
Boston. ''Have hack ?" cried hack
man to q new arrival at railroad sta
ton. eyes, if it rains, was the care
less answer. b" Wal, no, it don't rain, y
said the hackman, disappointingly turn
ing away, "it only drizzles.
The Dutch at one time thought of
pumping out the Zuyder Zee, and
asked Mr.. Bookwalter, of Ohio, for an
estimate for turbine wheels to be worked
by the tide. They wanted one hundred
| turbines, which would have cost So, 900
each. The work may yet be done.
A FEW days ago beggar was arrested
in Paris for using insulting language TO
those persons who refused to give MIN
aims, and on being searched at the po-
| lice station ne was fOunu TO Dc the pos
SCISSOR of upwards of $4,000 in bank
notes and securities of different sorts.
ACCORDING to the Boston Globe, the
Hub can only show up something. over
one hundred millionaires. The list OF
millionaires published in the World re-
Gently contained the names OF 49, res
idents of this city, which shows that we
haven't yet given over all our money to
Mr.. John L. Sullivan.
The number of years that student
has to spend at medical institution be.
fore obtaining degree is: In Sweden,
10; Norway, s; Denmark, Z; Belgium,
Holland, Italy and Switzerland, 6; Bus
STA, Portugal, Austria and Hungary, 5
France, England and Canada, 4; United
States, or 2; Spain, 2,
THIS is said to be the worst year FOL