Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

UP TO date the S2ulJ Ote. mat1o va
nal and improvements have cost W, OOO :
coo.
SIX thousand negro slaves were hber-
ated last year in single province III
Brazil.
Nor one warehouse has been built IN
Alexandria, Va, since the English bonn
bardment.
Two Reading, Pa, women are en-
ployed on the streets doing the ordina-
ry work of men.
LARGE numbers of wild pigeons are
daily slaughtered in the rice fields OF
South Carolina.
WHEN the spar buoys in New York
harbor were lifted recently garbage was
found five feet deep around them.
In Mexico matches are made double
ended. After using one end the remain
ing portion is laid away for another
time.
Mr.. j. @. WILLIAMS, of Laurens Coup-
ty. S. c., has a clock which has been
running sixty years and still keeps good
time.
NEARLY 40,OOO,000 pounds of maple
sugar were produced In this country
last year. Pennsylvania supplied z, $685.
010 pounds.
House servants in Mexico receive from
SO to SO. so per month and board them
selves. They do not quarter with the
family they serve.
ATHENS, Tex, has ffty-fve young
men and only eight young ladies. Some
of the Eastern cities should form wom-
ans emigration society and send out
supply of superfluous young ladies.
The herring catch for the winter is
reckoned at eighteen million fish. Port
land, Me-, shipped fifty cargoes to Bos-
ton, and Gloucester, Mass, and East
port shipped sixteen thousand barrels.
A CRANK who represented himself to
be the slayer of President Lincoln, and
who said he was then on his way to see
President Arthur to receive 81, 900, 900
due him, was recently arrested at the
White House.
The latest use devised for paper is the
making of carpets. A Connecticut man
is reported to have taken out patents for
processes by which beautiful and sub
stantial carpets can be made of paper at
very low prices.
AN infuriated bull at Laredo, Tex, re-
Gently made an attack upon the unfin-
ished wall of brick building which was
eighteen feet high and thirty feet long.
He succeeded in knocking the whole of
it 20 the ground.
LAST summer over fifty thousand peo-
pie crossed the Atlantic to Europe.
This year, however, it is not expected
that more than forty thousand will go
abroad, because of the near approach of
the presidential election.
WHEN the Washington monument is
completed great American eagle is to
be perched in dignifed security five hun
dred feet IN the air and on chimney
weighing more than seventy five thou
sand tons, and costing $800,0 00.
AN Athens, Ga, lawyer who was late
ly employed in q case to defend mar
rows gauge railroad in order to secure
his fee took the road as retainer, while
the company agreed to issue bonds to
pay the amount when the case ended.
THE mail punch for Promised Land,
Long Island, was lost overheard two
7ears ago. as the mail-boat was convey
ng it from Springs, and was found upon
he shore the other day. A hole was
7orn in it and the mail had washed out.
THE squatters are once more doing
,usiness on the ocean beach and near
1e terminus of the Park and Ocean rail-
BAD, San Francisco. The refreshment
ooths are small, compact and clean,
Id the owners have a respectable ap-
earance.
THE album of the Bank of England,
| which specimens of counterfeits are
reserved. has three notes which passed
trough the Chicago fire. Though they
re burnt TO a crisp, black ash, the pa
er Is scarcely broken, and the engrav-
lg is as clear as new.
SEVEN thousand people shouted 'syes"
hen, II closing the session of the Nor
son conference, John Taylor put to
ste the question: "Shall we uphold the
octrines of our church, including polyg-
my, stand by it, and DEFY the powers
the nation?"
A BEAN grows III Mexico known as the
evils bean, or jumping seed. 1t is a
mall, triangular body, and will jump
.everal inches off the ground or hand.
When opened it is found to contain a
ively beetle that has been Matched in
side the seed, and is trying to jump out.
AT San Antonio lives an old Mexican
woman named Candelaria, who is now
stated to be the only living survivor Of
the Alamo. She has scar on her
cheek, said to have been made by a
Mexican saber while she was carrying
water to Col. Crockett and men during
the Alamo fight.
A YEAR ago Mary Jane Baldwin, of a
Long Island, n. Y, village, allowed a
young man to fall in love with her, who
shot himself soon after on her refusal to
marry him. She then took oath never
to marry ''during the days of her life. y
Last week she was married at midnight,
thus keeping her VOW after fashion.
AN elderly Englishman was in the
habit of buying quicksilver and aqua
FORTS in separate packages and mixing
them into sort of ointment for rheuma-
tism. On one occasion, however, they
were put into the same bottle by the
druggist. They exploded in the pur-
@ Taurpiper him ca %Lo% I, n