Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-01
FISH BAIT.


for 80 cents thousand. They once
cost cents piece.
The Cinnamon living in the vicinity
of Walla Walla, W. T., are going into
the business of raising sweet potatoes.
A PAPER balloon was picked up in
Pittsburg with an inscription stating
that it was sent up in New York, 444
miles away.
TRADEsMEy in Madagascar who give
short weig Hlust pay fine of five
oxen and $5, or go to prison and work
in chains for year.
The Salvation Army claims that it's
colsrs are flying in nineteen countries,
and that it prints eighteen journals in
six different languages.
In the town of Windsor, Canada, just
opposite Detroit, good whisky can be
bought for III cents gallon, and yet
the people are not happy.
A NUMBER of wealthy German colo
NAL firms have formed syndicate to es-
tablish another line of steamers to run
from Germany to New York.
A WHOLESALE slaughter of game is
said to be in progress in Yellowstone
Park, the superintendent being either
unable or too Indifferent to prevent it.
The sunfower day has come again.
Kentucky has one sunfower with 105
flowers on it, but it is distanced by
Georgia with a stalk having 118 flowers
on it.
IT cost an American fine of $25 to
rush through the streets of Vienna cry
ing, "fre." There was fire, to be sure,
but they didn't want any fuss made
about it.
A LEWISTON, Me-, gunsmith has in
vented machine for removing dents
from gun-barrels, business that has
heretofore been monopolized by one or
two New York firms.
The advices from the sugar crop in
Louisiana are not encouraging. In
some parts of the state there has been q
drouth of unprecedented duration, and
small yield is feared
MOBILE, Ala, has thirty churches of
all sects. One of the finest churches in
the south is the Catholic cathedral. It
is yet unfinished, though work has been
going on for forty years.
THERE is talk of the Columbian re-
public making abroad loan of 5,000,-
600, mortgaging it's share of the canal
earnings and the lots of land which it
has reserved upon its banks.
A TANNER of Berkeley County,
West Verginia, is now engaged in tan
ming hogs skin which he says, when
tanned, will be two inches thick. 1t
requires two years to accomplish the
task.
The high prices paid in Fulton
market for swapping and mud turtles
has induced many farmers in Rockland
and Orange Counties to go into the
raising of these animals as legitimate
trade.
A REMARKABLE collection of mineral
springs exist in North Georgia. They
are known as the Catoosa springs, and
consist Of ffty-two springs, all different
in character, within the space of two
acre plat.
A BRIDGEPORT Conn., man has in
vented roller for roller-skates, made
of rawhide moulded under hydraulic
pressure. It is said to be more durable
and less noisy than the wooden rollers
now in use.
In Philadelphia there is sect of re-
ligious believers who worship woman
under the belief that she is daughter
of God" The woman died not long
ago and her heirs are now disputing as
to her possessions.
OF the three branches of engineering
mechanical pays the best. The average
civil engineer makes $4,000 per annum,
the mining $4,000, and the mechanical
So, 800 This includes bridge and loco
motive construction.
FINGER bowls made of bone are
among the curiosities from Mexico now
on exhibition. They are clear, trans
lucent, amber-hued, most durable and
yet exquisite, denoting certain refined
taste among the natives.
AN eccentric gentleman in London
framed bank post bill for 100000 and
exhibited it for five years in one of his
sitting-rooms. The fifth year he died,
when the picture was at once taken
down and cashed by his heirs.
THE earliest section of California in
the matter of horticultural products lies
within the two counties of Yolo and
Solano. Oranges are ripe in these two
COUNT IS a month earlier than those in
the southern part of the state
By recent decision of New York
court passengers on street-cars are re-
CURED to hand the fare to the con-
ductors. The defendant in the case
threw the money on the seat and point
ed it out to the conductor. The con
ductor objected to this, and mad the
man arrested, and he was fined $40.
A CAT at Meridian, Miss, had litter
or six kittens and refused to pay them
any attention except to look at them
occasionally and then walk off again.
This excited the atten ton of the owner,
and, upon examination, he found that
five of the kittens we're grown together
by means of igaments running from
one to the other.
A QUEER species of water beetle,
caught in creek near Napa, CAL, is on
exhibition in that town. It is nearly
two and one-half inches in length, and
possesses four long and muscular legs,
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