Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-16
CURIOUS, USEFUL AND SCIENTIFIC.
A DOG CATCHER OF OYSTERS.


oyster setter dog that he can depend on
for 100 big oysters every day. The dog
wades around over the shallow
bed dragging his bushy tail on the
bottom. The long hairs tickle the cold
blooded bivalves so that they nab hold
and hang on until they are dragged
ashore. He was offered a nice figure to
send him to the New York bench show,
but it came just when the dog was 30
busy that he couldn't spare the time.
COOKING FISH.
The Japanese eat more fish than any
other people in the world. With them
meat eating is foreign innovation, con-
fined to the rich, or rather to those rich
people who prefer it to the national diet,
Clearly Mr.. Okoshi is not one of these.
He was enthusiastic about the excellence
of his native fish dinners. He told us
that the reason why fish is not more
eaten in England is not because of it's
price or because of the difficulty to
transport, but because we cook it SO
badly. "To boil it is simply to take
away the best part of it's flavor; with us
there are as many varieties of tish-cook-
ing as there are differentkinds of fish,"
CASE FOR FATALISTS.
Here is case for fatalists, psycholo-
gists and such like individuals. Two
Partisan workmen quarreled the other
day and one stabbed the other to death.
When the dead mans body was exam
med it was found to be very extensively
tattooed with many curious devices. The
most remarkable was a serpent depicted
on his chest, with its head appraised as
if to strike his heart. Under the SER
pent was inscribed the singular motto,
"Le 2oGsse ma trOn1pe, Le present me
t0otrn1ente, t'dUe1liT M epOGUGqlte. The
mark of the fatal stab is exactly under
the words Ie present me tOorn1e71te.
What the moral of this incident may be
I know not, but perhaps the Psychical
Society will be good enough to deduce
one. I may add that the tattooed por-
tions of skin were cut from the mans
body and sent for preservation to the
CHASTITY chamber of horrors at the Pre-
lecture of Police, where the relics of all
sorts of crimes are kept III sort of mu-
Truth.
A BUDDHIST TEMPLE IN PARIS.
According to M. Claretie, who is one
of the ablest writer's on the staff of the
Temps, Paris is shortly to possess a
Buddhist temple. There are In the
French capital considerable number of
Buddhists who have no place of public
worship. The want is, it seems, to be
supplied by the initiative and generos-
ity of a rich English lady. She has
bought plot of ground and the masons
are already at work. The erection of
this temple is fresh step in the path of
internationalism which renders Paris SO
interesting, and which now constitutes
one of its chief characterics. It appears,
however, that it is not the first time that
a Buddhist temple has been opened
here. During the last International Ex-
hibition when so many rich Hindus
came to France with numerous retinues,
an application was made to M. Bardoux,
then the minister of public worship, for
permission to open Buddhist
temple in the vicinity of the Champ de
Mars. The minister agreed to it with
out a moments hesitation, but it was
said that he had some difficulty in getting
Marshal MacMahon, then the president
of the republic, to sign the necessary
decree. The good Catholic soldier re-
garded Buddha simply in the light of an
idol and his worshipers as only ldolators,
and it was with great conjunction that
he yielded to the reasoning of his min
lister, who pointed out to him that the
guests of France could not be refused
permission to perform their religious
duties.-L0ndoaa Standard.
PATRIOTIC BIRD
In the rear of $50 Walnut Street hangs
a bird-cage. In the bird-cage little
canary bird hoped about yesterday
afternoon waving an American flag and
whistling yankee Doodle" An aston
ished customer Ieant in a condition
of habbergast against the lnnch-counter
and followed him with his eyes and
mouth dilated.
"The bird is worth $780," said one of
the store proprietors. ''It is six months
old, and was unsteady trained by q
German. The German played Yankee
Doodle on hand-organ every fifteen
minutes for four months, and at the end
of that time he was an accomplished
primo. Start the organ, George" he
added speaking to an aproned dispenser
of beverages. The young man turned
the handle of a musical box arrangement,
and it began whistling so like the canary
that neither the reporter nor the fabber
gasted customer could at first tell which
was which. ''The bird initiates it ex-
actly," was the explanation, "but she
had to be kept shut up, and was never
allowed to hear any other music for a
long enough time to make her tired of
the national anthem"
Occasionally the canary gets "stuck. "
She goes half way through the tune and
then shutters and founders. This is
supposed to be caused by the fumes OF
wine. ''The boss is getting an orches-
ira of them trained to play an opera"
said the fat boy who sweeps the Office,
as the reporter went out, 'Fbut don't
give it away in the paper. "-Phd1adel-
10hGG Press.
THE STORY MR.. SMITH voUCHEs FOR.
A tough story, but true one, comes
to us from Jones County. During the
visit of the cyclone which worked so
ro11oh destination Tn life and 10rODortV