Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19
CHIPS.

lOaferS to move on IN SIX languages
CARROTS, tarnips, and cabbages, are
the only vegetables that can be raised
in Green md.
A TEXAS man, 90 years of age, lately
died from the anguish caused by cut
ting third set of teeth.
WoRKMEN around the big dynamos
are warned not to touch them with both
hands, although one may be used with
IMMUNITY.
A YOUNG lady in Albany, n. Y, has
name which is the title of a book read
by her father and mother in the days of
their courtshlp.
A CINCINNATI fortune-teller claims to
make 5000 a week, but can one expect
her TO be more truthful in telling her
own fortunes than other peoples?
The territories of New Mexico and
Arizona are in danger of becoming
speedily overstocked with large droves
of young breeding stock from Texas.
A SHIPMENT of wire made recently
from q wireworks company at Gantin,
Pa. was in coils, weighing 100000
pounds, and measuring $4,000 miles.
GOLDEN aud white chrysanthemums
are in full bud, and soon the popular
Chinese flower will be seen at exhibit
tions and in jardinieres at my lady's
doorway.
AN Indian in the Cascade Mountains,
Cal, shot and wounded an elk the other
day, and before he could reload his gun
the elk charged and killed him with his
sharp teeth.
A PRIEST in San Francisco has in
vented q lamp that will burn perpetual
~, brightly at night and dimly in the
day time. The lamp is said to resemble
small engine.
The Virginia oyster cruiser Chesa-
peake has had her masts, machinery,
and smokestack put in at Norfolk, and
Gov. Cameron is contemplating salt-
water journey.
NEW MEXICO produces and sends
abroad more carpet woods than does any
other territory or any other state in the
union. It's clip this year went above
five million pounds.
The exports of British Columbia are
increasing at gratifying rate. For the
last year they exceeded any previous
terra by $1,000,000. Coal, furs, and
lumber are the principal articles.
The wild duck is said to be most de-
structive OF all enemies of the trout,
since it eagerly devours their spawn.
A flock Of wild ducks will destroy the
entire breeding prospects OF any trout
stream in short time.
4 FRENCHMAN, crazy with wine, crawl
ed under building in Santa Cruz, Cal.
He remained there two full days. When
he came out, all covered with dirt, he
gave $40 to a young lady, requesting
that her brother shoot him.
THIS is what New Yorker visiting
Boston wrote to a friend last week:
81 shiver with big o7ercoat on, while
We gentle Bostonese goeth along in his
cutaway coat, with perennial blue
smile on his thin but intellectual face"
ABOUT $3.50 watches are made in the
United States each day, and the annual
output of the world is 100000. The
average life of ticker" is five years.
A European hand-worker turns out 40
watches year, but the American ma
chine worker makes $50.
A LADY of Wood River, Idaho, while
preparing potatoes for dinner the other
day, found fakes of gold In the water.
The gold was assayed, the value being
10 cents. The settlement is now anx-
ious to know where these potatoes were
raised, but no one seems to know.
The college Of physicians of Phila-
delpbia has among its many interesting
and instructive curiosities the skeleton
of a man who was fully s feet in height.
He was Louisiana canalman, and after
his death the skeleton was surreptitious-
ly obtained and brought to that city.
A 10-YEAR-oLD boy in Putnam
County, Tenn, who can scarcely exist
in summer, except by having his BODY
kept moist almost constantly with cold
water, grows happy snd plump during
cool weather. He has only four teeth
two upper and two 1ower-and he was
born with these.
VIcroRIA's wedding gift to the
American belle, Miss Ida Theresa
Foote, of diamond bracelet and gold
breakfast service, is fairly extraordinary,
since the Queens usual present on
such occasions, even to daughters of
mobiles, is one of the camelis hair shawls
sent to her by the bale every year from
whoever may be viceroy of India.
A YOUNG German went up to police
man IN Birmingham, Eng, the other
day, and asked the way to the German
Consul. The officer proceeded to show
him the way, when he suddenly pulled
out a bottle of prussic acid, broke it
with his teeth and swallowed the con-
tents, dying Immediately. He had
received orders to rejoin his regiment
in Germany.
The tune "John Browns Body" is
an old Methodist camp-meeting tune.
and the words were adapted to it by
Boston glee club in 1861. It was first
published at Charleston, Mass. Capt.
James Greenlea, an organist of the
Harvard church, set the notes for mu-
and Massachusetts regiment made