Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-02
FISH-BAIT.

nounces it fraud.
MERIDIAN, Miss, has offered $4,000
as an inducement to have the capital of
the state moved there.
The first tenement-bouse in twenty
two years is shortly to be built in North
Truro, Cape Cod, Mass.
FIGHTING between male and female
toughs is the prevailing attraction in
Auburn, n. Y, theaters.
A VEIN of sapphire corundum is re-
ported to have been found on barren
farm at Live Mountain, Pa.
A LADY residing near Cedar Mill, Ore,
has recently cut about ten cords of wood
while her husband was sick.
MAYoR-elect Fulton, of Pittsburg,
Pa, has filed 400 applications for APP
pointment to the police force.
AN Iowa man drank three quarts Of
cider In three minutes. The record
does not say what became of him.
A BOSTON gas manufacturer asserts
that the demand for gas has increased in
that city since the introduction of cleo
trio lights.
Mr.. Ell. ". zACHRY, of Heard Coun-
| ty, Ga, has an egg which is in circum-
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long way eight inches.
THE ears of iack-rabbits are growing
into such demand for trimming winter
dresses, that the pests are likely to be-
come thing Of profit.
A LADY go years old, residing in
Rochester, n. Y, skated from that city
to Brockport, twenty miles, in an hour
and twenty-five minutes.
A MAN in Navarro County, Tex, sued
another for one cent for wagon stand
ard. The lawyers fees and costs of suit
are said to have been $50.
MALTA is mentioned as the place of
the Pope's future residence, in case the
property of the Propaganda in Rome
should be sold, as contemplated.
HUNDREDS of boxes of orange bios
SONS are now sent north from Jackson
vile, Fla, to do duty as wreaths on the
heads of hundreds of fair brides.
AN opOssum farm is one of the enter
prising plans for making money In the
vicinity of Savannah. Fine fat, STALL
fed opessums sell for 40 cents each.
JUSTICE HABBAUGH, of Cumberland,
Md, has decided against the legality of
attachments issued in West Virginia
against parties residing in Maryland.
In New York city recently, M. N.
Ford, of that city, beat the highest rec
ord for hop, step, and jump, making
Twenty-Five feet and one-half inches.
A TEMPERANCE cyclone has struck the
people of Plainfeld, n. J., during the
past few weeks, and over 1900 have
agreed not to touch intoxicating liquors.
THE Harpers will shortly publish a
novel by George Alfred Townsend. It's
title will be ''The Entailed Hat" It is
story of Maryland and Virginia life,
into which much Of historical nature
is woven.
Tenn, are now operated by the Electric
Time Company, which gives its noon
signal by single tap on the fre-alarm
to be entirely satisfactory.
The legislative investigation into the
management of the Kentucky asylums,
has not yet ended. The evidence so far
adduced goes to show that while there
have been abuses, they are by no means
SO fragrant as at first reported.
AN English judge lately refused the
| expenses of three tradesmen who prose
| cuted men for stealing goods from their
shop doors, on the ground that exposing
their goods in the way mentioned they
held out temptation to steal.
The state of New Jersey is by law to
have an Arbor day on and after April
hereafter, and Gov. Abbott has requested
the farmers to inform him what day in
the month will, In their opinion, be the
most favorable for the purpose.
CAPT. EATON, of Essex, n. Y, having
noticed that for several summers bees
have been passing in and out of knot
hole in his attic, took off the shingles
few days ago, and found large swarm
of bees and 100 pounds Of honey.
THAT ''virture is its own reward" is
the experience of q Presbyterian hos
pital of Philadelphia, which ia now made
the recipient of private gift of So 600
for refusing the 50, 500 offered as the
proceeds Of a so-called charity ball.
Four 9-year-old boys were recently
brought into a New Haven court for
hooking and teasing policeman The
judge sentenced them to be confined In
the woman's department of the station
house until O'Clock in the afternoon.
ONE of the weather prophets" up In
New Hampshire frankly says that he sits
down and thinks and then predicts
what happens to come into his mind
Some other weather-wise people are not
as candid, but possibly not more scien-
tifc.
THE verdict of the coroner's jury on
the body of the Indian lynched at Sumas
Prairie, British Columbia, was that he
came to his death by hanging, at the
hands of party of seventy disguised
men, believed to be from the American
side.
A NEW feature in our export trade was
found last week III shipment OF fancy
pigeons for the Sultan. They numbered
$50, and included the very best varieties,
and were Gagged in a safe and comforta-
BILE manner for voyage of nearly 5000
miles.
The United States treasury has the
biggest spittoOn on record. til q great
oblong wooden box as big as bed,
filled with sawdust. It lies in the base
rOn0f ar tho foot &c 10 RO,1r HlOhtC OF