Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26
CHIPS.


shoes off.
The most successful evangelist in The
West is boy aged IL. He is q wonder
of fuency.
AN old maid of 81 years and wild
over of So were married at Hillsboro.
Ore, lately.
AN underground stream flows beneath
the city of Birnaing CHAM, Ala. It is to be
used for sewer.
ACCORDING to the Carson Appeal, the
Washoes and Piutes are about to engage
in bloody combat.
The Hartford plumbers have many
calls every day to houses where the wa
ter pipes are clogged with eeis.
The city debt of New York mas been
reduced 1862, 446 during the past nine
months. It is now $88, 682,579.
The figures at the war office show
about twenty-four thousand rank and
file actually in active service in the
Mexican army.
IT is whispered that some of Boston's
society people have made known q
change OF fortune this year by their will
ingness TIC take boarders.
1T costs each of the leading political
organizations of New York from $12,-
600 to $4,000 to get what is called the
general tickets printed.
HUMAN bones found in an Ohio quar-
ry are supposed to have belonged to a
young girl who was missed from her
home about twenty years ago.
A PITTsBURG newspaper announces
hot &1ox e
been resumed in that city, and that
large orders have been placed.
NINE. TUssAUD's gallery has already
appropriated the Tichborne claimant in
efigy, and his figure is an advertised
attraction of the famous rooms.
A VALLEJO, Cal, man had his fifth
rib and breast bone taken out by San
Francisco surgeon and feels much light
er for the loss of SO much skeleton.
CHIEF JUSTICE MERCER BEAsLY has
just decided that rattle is an illegal
proceeding in New Jersey, and does
not give valid title to the article won.
The hot-water cure has become
craze. A New York druggist claims
that he has five thousand disciples now
swallowing tumblerfuls before breakfast.
The grounds of the New Orleans ex-
position will be lighted from five towers,
with one hundred standard arcs, and
FIVE 36,000-candle power electric lamps.
The voyage from San Francisco to
Yokohama is the most expensive por-
ton of a trip around the world. It
costs $3.50, there being no competition.
HE students of the female college at
Greenville, S. c., wear characteristic
uniforms. Their winter dress in which
they have just appeared, is of blue
black cashmere.
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.
T. e. SNYDER, of New York, thinks
he has perfected a system by which
d dynamite can be used in shells and not
explode until the shell strikes. It is
thought this would revolutionize naval
warfare.
The New Orleans exposition opens
December 6. The main building is COM
pleted. In the machinery department.
sixty-six boilers are in position. A system
of water-works supplies 100000 gallons
of water daily.
IT is well to remember in this lyme
neal season of the year that wedding
cake cannot be sent through the mail.
In one week fifteen hundred boxes of
the toothsome substance was sent from
Philadelphia to the dead-letter office.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children in Philadelphia, has
discovered one girl of Is who is wife
and mother of two children, and an
other wife less than twelve years of
age.
THE latest statistics on the compare
tive longevity of the sexes show that
under 10 years there are more boys than
girls, but over Is years of age there are
more women than men, and from the
ages of 80 to 100 the proportion is about
three to two in favor of the women.
HATS in the fifteenth century were so
fantastic that the hats represented on
one of the battle pieces of the Louvre
came out from the background like SO
many great and marvellous Chinese I'm
terms dancing through dark streets at
the head of procession.
A FRESH Chinese servant at Sacra-
mento was duly instructed in skimming
the cream off the milk, and did it well,
but no cream appeared for the morning
coffee, Upon investigation it was found
that he carefully skinned off the cream
and threw it in the slop bucket.
The willow tree at Mount Vernon,
which overshadows the tomb of Wash
ington, was originally clipping from
a tree which overshadows the tomb of
at st. Helena It was
brought to this country by an enthusi-
astic admirer of both Bonaparte and the
father of his country.
A ooLoRED woman at Philadelphia
who supported herself and daughter by
making ginger cakes and bread had re-
duced economy of living to such a
science that she made cents worth of
meat day sufficient Once she bought
0 cents worth, and the butcher asked,
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