Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-26
FISH-BAIT.


lated by numerous parties who place
wire screens in the fields for the purpose
OF catching cartridges.
len years ago the first cable car road
was put IN operation in San Francisco.
NOW i've street car companies are using
the cable instead of horses.
THE eastern Connecticut mill owners
report that if times were brisk az usual
at this season the want of water would
be serious embarrassment.
The Bridgeport Conn skatino-rink
has S'colored peoples evening" - when
black man is just as good as a white
one, II he pays as much money.
NEAR Menardville, Tex, on the San
Saba River, are the ruins of the old
Spanish fort of San Saba, aud Just above
the ruins is the old Spanish dam across
the river, 1t is nearly as good as ever,
and is still utilized to run a grist-rnill at
! Menardville.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. girls don't like
10 nave their names printed when they
earn pocket money by teaching il the
public schools, and the board have
amended their rules so that temporary
teachers can be hired without getting
buelf nAm0S IN the papers,
1T Is stated that between East and
West Pearl Rivers, on the borders of
Louisiana and Mississir pi, is territory
called Honey Island, with 800 habi-
tants, located in numerous small towns,
who claim that they are on neutral
ground and belong to no state, though
they belong, in point of fact, to Louis
lana.
SAMUEL CLAY, of Cairo, n. Y, was
aged sixty-f years. He fell in love
with widow Thurman, who declined his
proffered hand because his hair was
gray. He resOrted to process of dye
ing and proposed again. But the lady
took o younger man, and Samuel drank
the balance of his hair dye and prepared
for a celestial state.
a NUMBER of young F1nIanders have
lately been sentenced in st. Petersburg
for small thefts. Inquiry has shown
that these shrewd people have deliber-
ately wandered to the capital because
they could get there a milder punish
ment for stealing than IN Finland, and
still, by such sentence be declared
disqualified for serving in the army.
AFTER prolonged exercise with fig
ures, 1t is announced that the total
amount Of fire insurance written in this
country In 1882 was $40, 741, 900, 900,
that the average premium rate was SO
cents, and that the ratio Of loss to this
was so, and the important thing about
1t Is the fact that the premium rate was
8 cents above that of 1881, while the loss
ratio was sO1 per cent. lower.
A THOROUGHBRED fanatic of Baltimore,
Nd, whose desire it Is to serve the
Lord, makes very feeble attempt in
that line by standing on the depot plat
forms and distributing leaves of the New
Testament 20 passers-by. He says he
is going to Washington and place a
Bible on the desk of every congressman,
as he thinks they need more light on the
subject of religion than anyone else.
A STORY is told of a Wequetequock
Conn man being taken to q Stoning-
ton doctor in an OK cart, having been
handled without gloves by a brother.
While the doctor WAS dressing the
wounds, the nan asked: "Doctor, if I
die from the effects of this beating will
they hang my brother?" ''I am afraid
they will" was the doctors reply.
"Then let me die!' said the Wequete-
quicker.
EMMA ABBOTT said the other day to
Detroit Times reporter that she had
among her costumes one elegant dress
OF hand embroidered brown velvet and
cancels hair, which she could neither
get into nor get out of without help.
Z" My maid, she said, assists me, and
buttons the two rows of buttons with
shoe hook. Then I feel as if I were a
trussed mummy. I must say, though,
it fits divinely."
A STRANGE attachment exists between
a dog and a cow in Chattanooga, Tenn.
| The dog will follow her the entire day.
IF the cow lies down the dog will lie
| by her side and remain there till she
/ gets up. He does not allow other cattle
! to come near her. In the evening he
| will accompany her home and guard her
! during the night. The next morning
he is ready to go out with her again.
| The COW receives his caresses and atten-
tions in the kindest possible manner,
and so far as can be observed the affec-
| ton seems to be mutual.
| The old Conkey tavern located in
Prescott, Hampshire County, Mass, and
| celebrated as the rendezvous of Daniel
| Shays and those with whom he sympa-
| thized and melted to rebellion in 1887,
has been burned. It was built in 1853
and was noted hostelry during many
| years of the last century. 1t has long
been deserted, but has lately been
brought to public notice by photographs
and descriptions which have been
printed Of it, SO that it became an OBJ
| 1ective point with summer visitors scour-
ing the country for some new local SEN
sation.
The sole income of Leonard W. Jer-
ONE, who was once a leader of Wall
Street, is said to be from the rent of the
University Club House in Madison
Square. There was time when a mill
lion or so was of little account to Jer-
| ONE. He was an extensive operator in
stocks and was noted for his GOODNESS. a
New York correspondent states as one
of the evidences of Jerome's self control
that during one of the days when Pacific
Mail stock was dropping fearfully fast
he saunterod into DelmODjcO's serene