Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-15
FISH-BAIT.


The snow-sheds on the Central Pa
cific are being repaired.
HARRY HILL is worth all the way from
100000 to 81 100000.
SANTA BARBARA exhibits an onion
weighing one pound and fourteen and
half ounces
AN Alabama farmer obtained eight
gallons OF molasses from one hundred
watermelons
UNCLE SAM will contribute $5,456, 1893
toward the support of the untutored
savage this year.
IT is proposed to introduce natural
gas into the houses at Pittsburg for
heating purposes.
A RELIGIOUS paper published at
Topeka, Kas., has the lurid and sound
ing title of Fire and Hammer.
SPAIN is the greatest producing
country in the world. America has the
second place for this product.
VIRGINIA's exhibition at New Orleans
is not promising, owing to scarcity of
funds and lack of public interest.
NEARLY $4,000 square miles of United
States territory are now opened by
foreign syndicates and capitalists.
The New York World celebrated it's
increase in circulation to over 100000
by firing salute in City Hall park.
GEORGE W. FISHER was arrested at
Reading, Pa, having 495 1-cent postage
stamps, which he offered for sale cheap.
The Niagara Falls are utilized by an
electric light company at Buffalo as
their water power, with great success.
GRAY boards are coming into fashion
at the summering resorts. It is said to
be occasioned by the prevailing frosts.
AN effort is to be made to extradite
DanfortE, the defaulting Washington
territory banker. He is in British Col
umbia.
WHITE and yellow perch are very
plentiful in the upper Choptank, in
Maryland. In two hours recently, $50
were caught.
IT is thought 100000 pounds of hops
will rot on The vines in Kings County,
Washington Territory, owing to the
scarcity of pickers.
The total area of the seas in the world
is 231, 915,9 05 square miles, while that
of all the continents and islands is only
"a, 1854 $50 square miles.
GEORGE DoLLINe, a miner of Scran-
ton, Pa, died from the effects of a bite
inflicted by one of the large rats which
were the pets of the miners.
The increase in the population of
Paris since 1875 has been 251, 122. The
total population is now 2,239,928. In
1876 the total was 1,988,806.
STUDENTS of Vanderbilt University,
at Nashville, held up one of their number
for fun, and he had them arrested for
highway robbery in earnest.
YAKUT girls smoke. There is but one
pipe for family. The members take
their turn, and the visitor has his
chance along with the others.
The steamship Naros cleared recently
at New Orleans for Antwerp with 150,-
900 bushels of bulk grain-the largest
cargo ever taken from that port.
ONE recent Sunday the police Of Phil
adelphia were sure there was not sa-
loon open IN the city. Before dark 233
men were arrested fer drunkenness.
The prodigious increase of fish in the
harbor OF Santa Barbara, CAL, this year
is unprecedented. Fine catches of
mackerel are being daily made from off
the wharf.
A PET bear broke his chain at Gaines
vile, Fla, and attacked number of
bathers in the water, SO seriously
squeezing one that he drowned before
he could be rescued.
AN advertisement in the Centreville
Md Observer reads as follows: The
public are hereby notified that Perry
Robinson, colored, has taken Ellen
Moore's husband away. Ellen Moore"
STEAMERS passing the site of the
solute it by giving three whistles, as a
reminder of the monuments signif-
canoe.
The largest hop yard in the world is
said to be situated at Snoqualmie,
Wyo. Indians are mostly employed
for hop-picking, who make this year
$3.50 per box, an advance of so cents
over that paid per box last year.
WATER is so incredibly scarce in
Texas that it is reported of two young
men in returning from San Antonio
with bottle of whisky that they were
glad to exchange it for an equal amount
of water.
Poor Carlotta, ex-Empress of Mexico,
spends only few thousands year in
her mad-house and the accumulated in
terest of her immense fortune has be-
come enormous. Her heirs will be her
brothers.
AN alright ifeboat was recently
sent safely through the Niagara whirl-
pool, but was totally wrecked before
reaching Queenstown, several miles be-
low the falls.
THERE has been remarkable increase
in the number of small farms at the
South since the war. In South Caro-
lima there are now five small farmers
where there was one twenty years ago,
and the number is steadily growing.
MISS PEARL TYLER, the daughter of
ex-President Tyler, is to be married at
Richmond shortly to William N. Ellis,
member of the Virginia House of dele