Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-18
NO.. 27

ferior specimen of the same date, $I5;
and the same price was paid for a spec
linen of 1S41. A rare old silver dollar
of 1858 brought respectively $28 and
$26.
Women are rigidly excluded from ST..
Malo. place fifty miles from New Or
leans, inhabited by about half hundred
Malays. They have lived there forty
years, having originally deserted from
French ships when little more than boys.
They are described as low, ignorant and
| ferocious, with mixed Chinese an Japan
ese features. They live by fishing, and
gambling among themselves is about
their only diversion.
The name of fcolscap, as applied to pa
per, is said to have originated in this way:
During the protectorate, Cromwell had
all government paper stamped with
liberty cap. After the restoration Charles
IL. one day asked for some paper in
order to write a letter. When it was
brought he noticed the stamp and asked
what it meant. On being told he said:
''Take it away; none of your FOOLS cap
for me-"
THE statistics of the United|States prove
that hay is among the foremost crops
raised in this country, if not the very
first. AT the present time there are es-
timated to be In the United States 40,-
100000 sheep, 40,090,096 cattle, and
100000 horses. In two-thirds of the
country these animals require to be fed
from three to five months, and they will
to of
which at So per ton, represents the enor-
nous sum of $3.50, ,090, ,009. Is it not hay,
therefore, king?
John Swinton and the New York Graph
ic are wrangling over the word "splen-
diferous," the latter calling it abominable
and maintaining that, if used at all, it
should be spelled "splenderiferous.
The former says the word is "pleasing,
picturesque, proper satisfactory, aud
venerable" and quotes John Bole, to
whom Queen Elizabeth gave a prebend
of Canterbury, in support of his side of
the argument. Bole makes John the
Baptist say:"O time most joyful, day
most splendiferousl,,
Belfast claims Mrs. Langtry of its
| own, who has all the points of beauty
Oscar Wilde accords to that lady. She is
worker in Carter's Mills there and
comes from Black Rock, near Cork So
surprising is her beauty that thousands
| daily await her departure from the mill ,,
thus compelling the managers to allow
her to leave half an bour before the other
workers The other day she went into q,
store in Belfast to buy pair of boots, and:
so enormous crowd gathered that the
police had to be brought out in force to
disperse them.
| Silver Spring, in Florida, is remark
able natural curiosity. Il covers about
an acre, is from twenty to sixty feet
deep, and so transparent that nickel
thrown into water can be followed In its
course till it reaches the bottom at a
depth of fifty feet. The water bubbles
up from bed of white sand, and is
strongly mineral When the sun is
overhead, all the colors of the rainbow
are reflected upon the water. Huge fish
are seen swimming around, dressed in
all the prismatic colors. The spring is
! drained by the Silver Run into the Ock-
! lawahua river,
We import more lemons than oranges.
: In 1882 the figures were: Lemons 349.
448, 42O, and oranges, pa ,273, 290. Oh
( oranges 33 per cent. and of lemons z0
per cent. spoil on the way here Even
after the deduction of the last fruit, the
balance is immense, something like 27s,
: 100000 lemons and 163, 100000 oranges.
The figures indicate the consumption of
of
, through the year; but though that seems
large, it is only one orange or lemon to
each fifty persons. We, also, in 1882,
took in 2,555, 900 pine apples, and 919, $40
punches of bananas from the West Indies
and 100000 from Aspinwall, or j., $50, 900
: punches. Cocoanuts are imported to the
extent of 1904, 900 year.
The President is absolutely not paying
the smallest attention to anybody at all.
IF he is in love with anybody it is with
Fred Phillips, his private Secretary, who
is certainly dear little thing Every
body likes him. He is a soft-spoken,
, mild-mannered youth, full of tact and as
truthful as circumstances will allow. He
tells man right up and down whether
he can see the President or not, and does
not make promise to the ear to break il
to the hope. When the President asked
this truthful yeung man which had he
rather do or so a-fshing, he promptly
replied that he would go a-fshing. So
the President patted him kindly on the
head and told him to go and pack up his
things; he should go a-6shing and have
line, a pole, bob and a sinker all to
himself-N6w York Worzd.
The New York Sun remarks, with
truth, that there is a great deal of hum
bug in the common talk about men being
overworked ave know" it says, "a
good deal about work-honest, square,
steady, effective work; but about over
work we have great deal of doubt. Gen
orally speaking, when a man is said to be
overworked, the truth is that he has been
guilty of some excess which breaks down
his strength. There may be cases in
which there is an excess of work, but of
these cases there are very few indeed.
The excess is in eating, in drinking, in
neglect OF exercise" or of sleep, it should
have added. The Boston Herald adds:
'It is trite saving. but.a true one, that