Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-09-03
FISH BAIT.

A LAURENCEvILLE, Pa, girl, aged Z
years, smokes cigars like an inveterate
topper.
AT the South peanuts are generally
eaten raw. Roasting is said to make
them more indigestibIe.
JOHN @. Emo, at Quebec, amuses
himself playing baseball. He will
never make homerun, however.
A GENTLEMAN at Pautucket, r. L, has
instituted suit for $4,000 damages
for being arrested as another man.
CAPT. GEORGE N. STONE, the original
owrer of Maud S. thinks that she can
trot mile gin 2 08, and may be less"
A New YORK Judge has been called up
to decide who owns two goslings, two
men having gone to law over the prop
erty.
THERE are sixty-fve more patients in
the insane asylum at Philadelphia than
the lunacy commissioners say the place
should contain.
The commissioners of public high
weys at Pittsburg have issued orders
that all iron bars on which signs hang
shall be taken down.
The main building of the New Or
leans exposition will be completed in
few days. Machinery hall has a total
length of nearly two miles.
SOME Philadelphia doctors are in the
midst of legal fight to decide whether
chair on wheels is surgical instru-
ment or piece of furniture.
PEANUT oil is said to be superior to
cotton-seed as substitute for olive oil.
King Cotton may some day recognize
dangerous rival in Citizen Peanut.
OF the 100 largest cities in the
United States, standard time has been
adopted by seventy-eight of them.
The three notable ones that continue
without it are Cincinnati, Cleveland
and Detroit.
THE green coloring on postal notes is
impregnated with arsenic, and postal
clerks are cautioned not to wet their
fingers with their lips in handling them,
sponges being provided. They are to
be discontinued.
ACCORDING to the Denver Repub-
ican there are 100000 cattle roaming
over the ranges Vi Colorado, with
valuation estimated at $40,00O,000.
The nominal value of sheep, horses,
mules and other live stock in the state
is $13,000,000.
JOHN W. WHEELER, secretary of the
California Viticultural Commission,
who has been travelling through the
state, reports that the grape crop will
be unusually large, and that from 49,,
100000 to 100000 gallons of wine
will be made this year.
A REGULATION is in force at the
Hague by which every one in whose
house an infectious disease exists is
bound to hang upon the front door
notice to that effect, and to state the
nature of the malady, so that any one
whose business takes him to the house
may risk tine danger or not as he thinks
fit.
BREWER VAssAR gave young Ameri-
can women the college which bears his
name; Brewer Bass of England refuses
a peerage, gave liberty to churches and
reading-rooms, and LEFT business worth
$12,OO0OOO yearly; Brewer Guinness.
whose porter has made him famous, was
no less famous for his benefactions.
The London Graphic says: "a coun-
tryman, named William Stiekers, flying
to London TO escape from rural justice,
was appalled, at reading on WALL Bill
Stickers Bewarep He went little
further, but reading again: Bill
Stickers will be punished by the utmost
rigor of law gave himself up for lost,
and surrendered"
BY the roadside near Clyde, N. Y, is
stone five feet long, two and half
feet wide, and sunk deep in the earth.
On its surface concavity or basin has
been cut out. It is said to have been
used by the Indians two hundred years
ago for pulverizing corn. A gentleman
of Clyde has stone pestle used in
pounding the kernels,
A GENTLEMAN of Southampton Coun-
ty, Va, las copy of pamphlet con-
tanning the confession of Nat Turner.
1t is entitled, "The Confession, Trial,
and Execution of Nat Turner, the Negro
Insurgent." It also contains list of
the persons murdered by Turner and
his followers in Southampton County
on the Dist and 22d of August, 1881,
with Introductory remarks by T. r.
Gray.
1HE IdrS0SG COUCH IaEm III A1aDa1na
is situated near Union Springs. One
field containing 200 acres will average
three-quarters of bale to the acre. It
is expected that the total crop will
make 900 bales 1892 regular laborers are
employed on the farm, 159 mules and
horses, ffty-two two-hOrse wagons,
twelve one-horse wagons. and one four
horse wagon. Plows and hoes are
bough by the hundred.
A VERY interesting curiosity is shown
in a show-window in Pittsburg. It is q
miniature working model of the largest
steam hammer in the world-the Cruzot
hammer in France, The model is
simply clock, and the great hammer,
which in one case weighs a hundred
tons, in the other is a pendulum that
moves noiselessly up and down. Not
single detail in the great hammer is
omitted In the smaller one.
In the Dublin geological gardens
fine ioness has eaten her own tail.