Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-08
FISH BAIT.

A 114-PCUND squash is one OF the at
fractions of Walla, Walla, Washington
Territory.
A BRASS band has been organized
among the inmates of the Norristown,
Pa, insane asylum.
A ROLLER SKATING rink is being
erected at Birmingham. n. j., for edit
cation of the colored race.
GREAT damage has been done of late
to the timber in the mountains near
Crescent City, Idaho, by fire.
THEY are going to call expert testi
mony in San Francisco to determine
what a dude" is and settle a libel
case.
A CHINAMAN near Santa Cruz, Cal,
after receiving forty lashes for improp-
erproposals to ladies recently committed
suicide.
A LAD 13 years old has just arrived
at New York from trip across the con-
tinent, most of the way being travelled
on foot.
A YOUNG man of Randolph County,
Ark, was recently indicted by the
grand jury for hugging a girl against
her will
RATTLEsNAKEs are said to be numer-
Gus and active on Table Mountain,
New, where they were not known TO ex-
list before.
The race question is tearing up Hal
flax, Nova Scotia. Because a little
colored girl goes to school, the white
girls refuse to attend.
ONE negro in Floyd County, Ca. in
giving his tax recently, reported IS
worth of property and ten dogs. An
other gave in four dogs and So.
4 KANSAS man has removed the tomb
stones from the family burial lot to the
roof of his house, where they stand in a
row of seven along the ridgepole.
A NUMBER of deer have recently been
seen in the woods at West Islip, L. L,
and at night they have been making
depredations in farmers gardens.
AN enterprising young lady of Saline
County, Arkansas, who is afflicted with
the crazy-quilt disease, recently COM
pleted quilt containing $4,000 pieces.
The managers of Lulu Hurst have re-
ceived news by way of spirit medium
that her wonderful powers will be taken
from her when she is twenty years old.
EIGHT little girls in Port Chesetr, n.
Y, put the country at large to shame by
organizing fair for the benefit of the
Bartholdi statue fund which Melted
1909.
The Exlavigator is the queer name
of paper just started at Asheville, n.
G. The editor informs the public that
"exlavigator" means "to strike with a
brick"
The highest price ever paid for a
work of art was $4,000. which was
given in 1882 for picture of the Virgin
from the hand of the great Spanish
artist Murillo.
A LOUISVILLE bank cashier, who was
supposed to have embezzled $4,000
called for an examination of his books
and proved that the bank was 1915
ahead of him.
A CORRESPONDENT suggests that a
much-needed work is history of the
political parties of the United States.
Such history has already appeared in
various forms, however.
The little fly which caused SO much
damage to the apple crop of Western
Oregon last year has reappeared, but
promises TO be a little more lenient to-
ward the crop than usual.
OF all countries Germany is the one
where suicide is the most frequent; and
in Germany, again, Saxony takes the
lead, though the people are considered
remarkable for good spirits.
THEY pay bounty for dead grasshop-
pers in Mexico. At the Tabul Ticul
hacienda, one recent day, 08,5OO
pounds were brought in by hunters.
who received a reward of $175.
"SLUGGER" LEWIS, of Cleveland, o.,
is a woman, The first well authenticated
instance of female prize-fghter. She
desires an early opportunity to knock
out any woman living for ST. 900.
The sale of "butter" in New York ag-
gregates annually about 100000, 600
pounds, of (which, says the United States
commissioner of agriculture, between
10000, 900 and 60,000,000 pounds are
bogus.
A CHAIR is in use on Newport lawn
which registers the weight of anyone
sitting upon it, without the sitter's
knowledge. It is said that several Ia
dies have been sincerely vexed at this
stratagem.
A PARIS novelty is magnifying fan
Two sticks are bored and the holes
filed with small lenses of the finest
crystal. The wearer covers her eyes
with the fan and uses the sticks as an
opera glass.
Two fashionable young men of Water
bury, Conn, have been arrested for
playing poker. They will seek to as
certain in the courts whether an Ameri-
can citizen has any rights which must
be held sacred.
A YANKEE who was recently in Hall
fax, Nova Scotia, heard a great deal
about wonderful dish called rodney.
that was baked in jar. At last he
tried it, and found that he had tasted
it before. It was hash.
A NEW device for evading the Maine