Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-06
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the British navy.
A PARIS lady recently gave ball to
ner female friends, and asked each to
bring a living animal. All except three
| brought their husbands,
A TATE COUNTY, Miss. man. whose
time evidently hung heavy on his hands
| counted the number of grains to tho
| bushel, and found of corn ~. 100. wheat
832, 600, peas 109,92O, and cotton-seed
164, 166. ''
A PHILADELPHIA man buys for half
cent pound tons of old rubber over
shoes, rubber over-coats, belts. car
springs and hose, and makes them into
| toys for the children and chewing gum
for the girls.
A SPECIES of lizard called the hell
bender is now considered delicacy by
New York epicures. It is about ten
inches in length, of dirty mud color,
and provided with four legs and tail,
The flesh is said to be delicious.
LOVERS Of so-called "nlood oranges"
will be interested to hear that the sup
ply of their favorite fruit having fallen
short, certain dealers now prick the
y
Ject the, latter to a bath of colored
liquid.
Two hundred and twenty-five dozen
eggs were shipped from Cape Breton to
Boston IN fresh cut grass a few DAYS
ago, and the grass "hea' ed" and cooked
the eggs, and they were all condemned
by the inspector of provisions upon
arrival.
Mrs. RICHARD AVERY, in a very at
tractive advertisement in the Islington
(EnglanO Gazette, announces good
Accommodations in her farmhouse at
Hughenden for a family or for gentle
men in healthy spot near Lord Bea-
constield's tomb"
The Law Committee of the Swedish
Parliament proposes to extend the
rights of married women to hold real
estate and other property in their own
name. The Parliament has resolved
that women, like men, shall be consid-
cred of age when 81 years old.
MEXICO has several industrial schools
established by the government for
bringing up the youth of both sexes
and all classes, without expense, to skill
IN employments which will make them
useful in the community and add to
the resources of their country.
A New YORK dealer in garden seeds
has in his store box of caulifower
seeds weighing only ffty-four pounds,
which he says will net him So, 700. He
says he could not replace the seed, and
therefore keeps it in safe deposit COM
pany to guard against loss by fire.
CHARLES ANDREW, of Toland County,
Conn, delegate to the recent Demo
cratic national con entiop, is now con-
fined In straight jacket in a Toledo.
o., insane asylum. The excitement of
the week in Chicago unseated his mind.
and heis now dangerous lunatic.
AT Mount Mitchell. in Western North
Carolina, is mine containing a white
rock which is called deception, for
the reason that, crushed into powder.
it can Oe used for adulterating sugar
without detection. Three hundred bar
rels are shipped to New York weekly.
A SPOTTED seal, five feet six inches
long, which had been shot in the jaw,
came ashore at Santa Cruz, CAL, the
other day. The species is stranger to
Monterey bay, and this one must have
drlfted out of it's usual course, and was
shot by some one on board of vessel.
The fiber of silk is the longest con-
tinuous fiber known. An ordinary CO.
coon of a well-fed silk-worm, will often
reel 1000 yards, and reliable accounts
are given by Count DandoIo of CO.
coon yielding 1926 yards, or fiber
nearly three quarters of a mile in
length.
A NOTICEABLE effect of the cholera
in Europe is the rise in this country
of the price Of drugs used in the pre-
vention and treatment of the disease.
The demand has been largely stimu-
lated, and American manufacturing
druggists are reaping some advantage
therefrom.
WHILE several young men of Wheel
ing, W. Va, were recently having pho
tographs taken in tragic attitudes one
of them took O. position as if shooting
another. BY some accident the pistol
was discharged, the ball piercing Ed
ward Kltzm1ller through the head, kill
ing him instantly.
IHE ladies of Natchez are moving to
secure for the worlds exposition at
New Orleans a proper exhibition of the
taste ard genius of the women of Mis-
slsslppi, The movement, so well inau- .
gurated, viii doubtless be followed ND
by the ladies of every county, town,
and city in Mississippi.
On the 18th of February 223 slaves
were freed in Brazil, at cost of $37,-
800, by the emancipation fund. The
number of slaveo still on the lists
is 100000. This number is being
gradually diminished by public funds
and private benevolence, the latter free
ing nine to the formers one. 1ea
"PA," asked the small boy of the
family, "why do they have eowcatchers
on engines?" Because, my son." re-
piled pa, because the fact is, they
have to have. them in order to catch the
stock when they want to water it."
Thus doth the ignorant parent have re-
course to leyity, when the small boy
asketh hard auestion.-fB Boston Tran