Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
WINNOWiNGS.

to population more telephones than any
city in the world.
The largest insurance upon the life of
any one person IN the United States is
held by one G. K. Anderson, of Titus
vile, Pa, and amounts to 1915, 900.
CANADA is to have double postal
card, so arranged as to afford the sender
the means of accompanying his commu-
nication with a blank reply card,
stamped, and only to be detached to be
ready for use. They viii cost two
j cents. o..
The first white child In the Yellow
stone Valley was Edison Whitney, whose
father moved into that country in 1877,
when the valley had only been populated
one year by frontiersmen. Now the boy
is attending graded school with $50
other children.
A NEVADA man, who has been very
deaf for years, was recently severely
| burned about the face and neck
and afterward found that he could
hear perfectly well He attributes his
cure to the shock, but it ig too violent
remedy to be generally accepted.
a FAMILY IN burning house in San
Francisco, was reused at night by the
| screaming of parrot. In the confusion
Polly was forgotten, and the fremen
who afterWard rushed into the smoke in
response to what seemed o wOman's
screams, found the bird dead in his
cage.
| A PoTTsvILLE cat caught sparrow.
The sparrow chirped an alarm call, and
in an instant large numbers of the
belEgerent little birds came to the res
cue. They swooped down on puss from
every side, and although she tried to give
battle she was overcome, and, dropping
her game, fed.
| LAWSON VALENTINE, owner of the
! famous Houghton farm, In the town of
| Cornwall, n. Y, has made an assign
ment. The farm has been largely de-
voted to experimental agriculture by
scientists, and it cost about S35, 900 a
year to run it, which was much more
than it returned.
Mrs. RINaENARY, Locust Gap, North
cumberland County, Pa, for time as
sisted her husband in drilling and blast.
ing III a coal mine, and seeing more
money in it, equipped herself with a
| horse and truck and now supplies con-
sumers with coal. She is besides q good
performer on the violin
A HORSE ran away with a wagon in
which sat little child, at La Sale,
! ILL.,, and people on the street were
greatly excited. A man dashed out
with long board, intending to stop the
horse by striking it across the head, but
the beast lodged it, and the child re-
ceived it's full force, and was knocked
out Of the vehicle, with an arm and its
nose broken.
DR.. A. P. W1LLUTo thinks he has OBJ
served as evil results of coffee drinking
govt, congestion of the liver, Indigestion,
nervous debility and irritability, mental
| depression, etc. His attention was first
| directed to coffee as cause of such af-
| fections by observing disappearance of
them in southern women whose supply
of coffee was for long time cut off dur
ing the war.
A YOUNG son of Judge Williams, of
Tuscaloosa, Ala, went hunting on
Christmas. An accidental discharge of
his gun tore one of his arms to pieces
and set fire to his shirt; but the plucky
boy, who is only Is years old, took off
his coat, extinguished the fire, picked
up his gun, walked more than a mile to
his home, and submitted without a
murmur to an amputatlon.
SAMUEL TARBox, of Greene County,
Pa, while tracking bear IN the forests
of Michigan about dusk one evening,
discovered the animal, as he thought, in
thicket in advance of him. Raising
his rife, he brought down the object,
which, to his dismay, proved to be an
other hunter tracking the same bear.
He was so Mortified that he lost his rea-
son, and was sent to an insane asylum.
A WILD duck, with brood of seven
half grown young, was seen in a stream
near Sacramento. Suddenly one of the
little disappeared under the surface.
Then another and another went down,
but none came back. There was a
great futtering and quacking, and a
man on shore, going near, saw large
catfish seize young duck and drag 1t
under.
A WOMAN at Kingston, New Mexico,
has excited the admiration of the town
by her achievements. She has just
completed log cabin, doing all the
work herself, except putting up the last
logs. She cut the logs, hauled them,
and made the shingles for the roof. The
other day she rode into town horseback,
CARVING III IEuub d u6OI Sic Ildu hIlI0Cs
| She has husband, who takes care of
the children.
A CALIFORNIA man, coming home in
the night recently, stumbled over some
thing furry in the hall. With rare
presence of mind he did not give the
alarm, but crept round the animal which
he judged to be bear, got his shotgun
and fired both barrels into the beast
That awoke his wife and gave her
Mysteries, and when he got light and
took account of results, he found he had
shot his bearskin coat all to pieces.
Mr.. BELL, of Greenwich, Connecticut,
had seen the "headless rooster" on ex-
hibition at the State Fair, and when he
opened his hen-house the other morning
he thought he had new variety of the
bird. For there were a dozen or more
of his fowls heads looking at or cooked
at him quite naturally from the roost,
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