Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-16
FISH BAIT.

minutes a1torWarQ the D1Ge roSuiuou Al
de1irium and death.
A CALF in pasture near Williams,
New, was bitten and killed by rattle
snake the other day. After biting the
calf the snake coiled about its neck
where it was found and killed.
FROM New Orleans to the City OF
Mexico, via Ell Paso, it is 2, 423 miles;
from st Louis it is 2,573 miles; from
Washington it is 3, 408 miles, and from
San Francisco it is 2,499 miles.
A MICHIGANDER went to Dakota, got
sick of the new country, traded his
homestead for a dog, gun and $50
in money, killed the first, lost the sec
ond, and reached his old place with
fifty cents in his pocket.
A STRANGE fatality has attacked shad
in Lake Ontario, and they are dying by
the mvriads. Recent east winds have
washed sach numbers of decomposing
fish on the south shore that the stencil
is unbearable, and residents are leav-
ing.
The Lapos Observer says that the
letter carriers or the west coast of
Africa amuse themselves by opening and
reading the mails which they carry.
They say they do it not from any dis
honest motives, but simply to eniven
an otherwise tedious journey.
Miss MAUD @. MAJOR, a young woman
not yet put of her "teens," has started a
paper out in Norfolk, Oak. It does not
say word about the fashions, but is full
of the doings of the noble cowboy, and
gives the latest particulars about the
last shooting match with all it's glorious
results.
M. LOUIS MAICHE, the weIl-known
French engineer, says that the gravel
in the bottom of the River Seine is rich
in gold. But as the cost of extracting
it would be more than double the value
of the gold extracted it will proba-
bly, be allowed to remain where it is for
the present.
A. PERCY, in Jail in Havana, who
stole $248, 900 while cashier of the
Spanish National bank, has written to
a gentlemen in Philadelphia offering
him one-third of the money if he will
go to the place where it is secreted,
and give the thief the other two-thirds
of the swag.
A MULETEER recently fell into the
San Fernando River in Tamaulipas,
Mexico. his companions took him
out of the water half an hour after, and
supposing him to be dead, hung him
up by his heels to tree While they pre-
pared coffin. Before the coffin was
ready he was alive.
THE little state of Morelos is suf-
ferer by the grasshopper plague. The
pests have invaded the district Of
Jonacatepec, and have taken the di-
rection of Cuautla. They devour
everything in their line of march, and
unless checked, viii destroy the fertile
fields around Cuautla.
A PECULIAR reptile is the horned
rattlesnake now on exhibition in Los
Angeles, Cal. It is about fifteen inches
in length, and has two horns which
project from its head just above the
eyes. He has only five rattles and a
button, and was captured at Indio
Station, on the Colorado desert.
A LADY living at Berwick, Me-,
dreamed three nights In succession
that there was a roll of bills under a
certain pile of stones, and upon going
there and turning the stone that she
saw in her dreams she found the
money. Who put it there or why she
should have the dream is to her a
mystery.
The Black Butte and Moccassin
Roundup" Montana, has offered a
bounty of So per head for all bears
killed on their ranges. This, in adj
dition to the regular territorial bounty
of So, will make bear-killing quite a
profitable industry, as a good large
bear will be worth in the neighbor-
hood of $75.
ALL the New York life insurance
companies discriminate against the
negro on the ground that mortality is
greater among colored than among
white people. Massachusetts has
undertaken to forbid the discrimination
in that state, and it will not be long,
probably, before some demagogue tries
the same thing in New York.
SAMUEL Folsom, of Lowell, Me-, a
pensioner of the war of 1912, is dead
at the age of 10. His long life was
not due to temperate habits. He is
described as being a hard drinker, an
inveterate smoker, bad-tempered, and
disagreeable. Ii he had been good
natured and abstemious perhaps he
would have lived to be 200.
The three children of an insane
woman at Camden, n. J., were taken
with scarlet fever and diphtheria. She
kept the medicine from them. One
died, and when the authorities found
them the body of the dead child was
horribly decomposed, and the other
two children were at the point of death.
The mother fought desperately against
the officers.
In Walla Walla, w. T., a model city
of 1000 inhabitants, municipal ordi-
nance prohibits any boy or girl under
fourteen years of age from being out
alone after dark. Another regulation
is that child sent for physician
must be given a permit to do so. No
tobacconist can sell to children under
fourteen yeaas of age, and Sunday