Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12
FISH-BAIT.

CUBA was discovered by Columbus
October %, 1892.
ROBINS were recently seen in the
neighborhood of Newport, Vt.
BIAoKBIRDs have already appeared in
some sections of Pennsylvania.
JAY GOULD's ATLANTA is still waiting
for him in the Bay Of Charlestown.
The bay leaf was formerly supposed
TO protect the wearer from thunder.
Forty thousand orange trees were re-
Gently sold at Jacksonville, Fla, for
$25, 600.
The New jersey Legislature has
abolished the contract system in pris-
ons.
HE formula, ''I deliver this as nv
act and deed" occurs in charter Of
933.
The word noddy was applied to
speak.
TT is estimated that I,OOO,O 900 wild
ducks have been killed In the parish of
Richmond, La, this season.
CEDAR KEY, Fla, has a population
of 900 and but four deaths occurred
there during twelve months.
TEE name of Oberon, as king of the
fairies, first appears ID the old French
romance, GuOn de Bordeaux.
BITS OF the rope which hanged Kid
Wade are selling like hot cakes at
Aineswortb, Neb., as souvenirs.
The skins Of beasts, and afterwards
tanned leather, formed the cuirass of
the Britains until the Anglo-Saxon
era.
LAST week gentleman in Boston
correctly guessed the number of beans
IN a bag. An effort is being made to
induce him to lecture.
A GEORGIA lady has entered suit
against her husband for divorce on the
ground that he would not let her know
the combination of his safe.
ALPHoNsE PAQUETTE and wife, of
Westfeld, Mass, took their two-months-
old baby sleigh riding, and the child
was smothered by excessive wrapping.
TIE Saturday Evening Herald notes
the startling fact that "there are more
saloons than lamp-posts in Chicago"
and expresses the opinion that "the
devil has pretty fair chance IN
Chicago"
81 SAY, Mr.. Painter, can you do job
for me- today" Certainly, certainly;
what is it?'' 'Iwant sign painted"
Gan right what kind Of a sign" ga
sign of rain Exit, lodging paint
pot.
The Niagara Suspension Bridge is
1850 feet long. The lately finished sug
pension bridge between New York and
:c oO,,o 4T,oy, "a
or $3.50 feet from end to end. At Kief,
in Russia. there is a suspension bridge
over the Dufeper 2, 562 feet long.
EIaHTY-THREE percent Of the popu-
lation Of the United States is composed
of white natives and the immigrants
from Germany and Great Britain, leav.
ing four per cent. from other countries
and thirteen per cent for those Of Afri-
can descent.
THE company having the contract to
build a canal across Cape God have ex-
pended so much towards its construction
that they will hardly retire from their
work, and as they have four years more
in which to finish their labors it is ex-
pected that they will finish the canal In
the required time.
THE latest device of several Boston
swindlers is to write letter to different
persons saying that new pilot boat
has been launched, bearing the name Of
writer will be pleased to act as agent, If
desired, in purchasing presentation
set of colors costing about $500.
TEE latest development of fashion in
France concerns the announcements of
births invariably sent out by French
parents. For boy they are pale blue,
for a girl delicate pink; IN the left hand
corner is the fathers coat of arms or
and underneath the sign of
the zodiac which was paramount when
the babe first saw light.
Frau MATERNA, the German prina
donna, writes to friend regarding her
projected visit to iris country: Can I
but draw the attention of the young
women Of America to the nobility and
worth of our German art-to the males
tic method which made men and women
thrill with its passions at Baireuth-my
object in revisiting your shores will be
fulfilled.
A PRISONER brought up for the second
time in an Albany, n. z, court on a
charge Of drunkenness was asked why he
did not keep the pledge which he had
signed OF his release from his first ex-
perience. ''F'aith, it was no pledge at
all, was the reply, ''for 1 took it with
my left hand on the bible!' The Judge
obliged Patrick to place both hands on
the bible, and then administered an oath
to him to abstain from drink for one
year.
SAN FRANCISCO Cinnamon have fitted
up gymnasium. Most of the appara-
tus is American, but there is a contriv-
ance of Chinese origin. a heavy up
right post has a handle like a pump.
The lever is movable, so that an
attached weight can be made hard or
easy to lift by it. This is for develop
ing the muscles of the fore arm and
wrist. The handle is not grasped, but
the wrist is placed on is, with the arm
nearly vertical.
In the recently published London
postofice directory the family of Smiths
absorbs fifteen closely printed columns,