Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-22
FISH BAIT.

HELENA, Id. l., Is 10 10 1AuhInauOo
by electric lights.
LONDON police are only allowed to
carry revolvers at night.
BLEAoHED veal is the latest iniquity
in the New York market.
NEVADA is agitating the project of q
constitutional convention.
LIVING in flats is becoming more and
more popular in New York.
MOUNTAIN sheep afford fine sport to
hunters near Ketchum, Idaho.
A GEORGETOWN, KY, duck has three
legs and feet all fully developed.
MAJ. SHERRY is the name of promi
nent prohibitionist in Portland, Me.
INHudson, N. Y, there is whole
sale stealing of milkpails off door-steps.
SOME of the oldest inhabitants of
Newport say. the town is going down
hill.
The new game of Photographic
whist has carried fashionable circles by
storm.
SEAL-HUNrERs on Puget Sound are
getting in readiness for the coming
season.
gia state prison is estimated at fourteen
hundred.
The lawn-tennis epidemic threatens
to break out into q national convention
next year.
In Canada the warmest opponents of
annexation to the United States are
Americans.
Two hundred cars are now in use
transporting fresh fruit from California
to the East.
PHOENIX, Ariz., contains among her
inhabitants family who are half white
and half Chinese.
THERE is more money invested In
firearms in Alabama than in hogs, sheep,
and farm implements.
HIRAM GRUBLER, miser at Ringers
town, Pa, has become insane over the
loss, by theft, of So, 500.
A MAN has just died In New Hamp-
shire who has been postmaster of his
town twenty-seven years.
The Evening News, Philadelphia, has
blossomed out as morning paper, and
prints three editions daily.
THERE are 100000 widows in India
under 10 years of age who, under the
law, can never marry again.
A DELAWARE amateur astronomer has
found that the newly discovered wolf
comet has a divided nucleus.
The owners of five millions of vines
in Los Angeles County, California, are
building their own wineries.
The latest night,shirts for gentle
men are trimmed with percale, figured
either with bees or roosters.
EATING in hurry. John Mulhall, of
PORT Chester, n. Y, was choked to death
by large chunk of beefsteak.
A New YORK lady purchased $4,000
worth of bric-a-bric In Japanese estab-
lshment in that city IN one day.
A LAWYER in Pennington, n. j., has
been cast in damages of $3 So AS for neg
lecting the interests of client.
CAPT. WORTH, of Strasburg, Pa, car
ries the sword his grandfather bore at
the battle of North Point, in 1914.
A PHILADELPHIA dentist says that in
mechanical dentistry women can find a
profitable and suitable employment.
The Amalgamated Society of Car
penters and Joiners was organized in
June, 1880, and now numbers 22,837.
The Chinese wash-houses in Santa
Barbara, CAL, have formed an organiza-
ton and put up the price OF washing.
ABOUT 100 Christian Chinese women
have been married to Christian Chinese
in the mission chapel at San Francisco.
ABOUT 10000 Jewish immigrants
land at our ports yearly, and they have
been coming at that rate for ten years
The salmon market is so depressed
6hat the Oregon newspapers are urging
the packers TO reduce the OUTPUT next
year.
LoAFERs Indigenous TO California,
who hang round cigar stores, are called
s'Kearney Street statues" in local par
lance.
THE Youngest guest this summer at
the Summit House on Mount Washing
ton was a 2-months-old baby from
Boston.
The Boston Pilot claims that nowhere
in the world is the Roman Catholic
church more fourishing than in New
England.
The Crescent Steel Works at Pitts
burg, can turn out in an emergency an
ingot OF steel weighing 1920 pounds
at one heat
The Gilroy, (Cal) Record says
William Wall picked from one tree
twenty-four boxes of pears which sold
at $1.25 a box"
RALPH MILLER, of Santa Cruz. CAL.
has museum of false hair washed off
the heads of ladies who enjoy bathing
at that popular resort.
NEW YORK sells annually about 1OO.-
100000 pounds of butter, of which the
Commissioner of Agriculture claims
over one-half is bogus.
ONE of the features of the American
exhibition in London will be an illus