Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-13
FISH BAIT.


WOMEN in Brooklyn have followed
those of Boston in adopting peculiar
whistle with which they intend to sig
nal street-cars to stop.
IT is asserted that all apple-tree at
San Diego, Cal, has been in full bloom,
as well as bearing fruit, throughout the
entire year just passed.
QUITE stir has been caused at Capt.
tol Island, at the mouth of the Kenne-
bee River, by the capture of whale
sixty-four feet in length.
ALL accounts agree that the fashion
able season in London has been very
dull, and among those who complain the
tradesnen are the loudest.
In the ninety-eight years of its ex-
istence the American Bible Society has
issued more than forty-three millions
volumes, including bibles, New Tesla
ments, and portions of the gospel.
SHoULDER-KNoTs of white satin rib
bon fastened by arose or delicate spray
of flowers take the place on evening
bodices of the floral epaulets so long
popular.
The police in Vienna have been in
structed to arrest Mormon missionaries
who are found endeavoring to make
converts. A warrant is out for the ap-
prehension of Paul Hammer, of Nevada.
A MACON woman was lately fined
$3.50 for striking her husband on the
head with bed slat in quarrel about
blackberry pie. The next day she stole
all his money, $40, and left for parts un
known.
CLERK WREDE, of the New York
board of emigration, has received let
ter from M. E. Lewis, of Fort Coeur'd
Alene, Idaho, asking if a wife could be
found for him among the immigrants
at Castle Garden.
A PATERSON silk manufacturer has
taken out a patent for a process by
which cotton and silk threads may be
twisted about light wires, to produce
the effect of an ostrich feather or plume,
for ladies' hats and other purposes.
The town of Lexington. England, is
said to be the exact center of that
country, and in the middle of the town
is an old oak, called, "the center OAK"
which was planted some fifty years ago,
after minute calculation as to it's prop
er position.
Two young girls have gone into bust
ness as dolls dressmakers at Holyoke,
Mass. A sign is hung out which reads,
DOLLS dresses made and sold here"
and a good many little girls are seen
emerging from the door with dolls il
their arms.
A PHILADELPHIA lady is so fond of the
sparrows that when she goes away for
the summer she arranges to have the
servants feed them in her absence. In
England, from which the sparrows
come, the farmers are so fond of them
that they pay sixpence dozen for
their heads.
BIOLOGISTS assert that if the con-
tinents and the bottom of the ocean
were graded down to a uniform level,
the whole world would be covered with
water mile deep. It is to be hoped
that this theory will be accepted with
out attempting any practical demonstra-
ton of it's truth.
The project set on foot some years
ago, of Tuning lumber and wool down
the Santa Anna canyon from the San
Bernardino mountain, California, has
lain dormant long time. Now, bow
ever, Eastern capital has taken hold of
the enterprise, and it promises to be
pushed to completion.
MICHAEL POTTER, of Willow Grove,
N. Y, recently celebrated his Tooth
birthday, there being 200 of his de-
scendants and ], 300 other persons pres
emit. The old man is as active as many
Bartholomew Coles, of Pillsgrove, who
is SO years old and in good health.
CLIMATE and directness, say the cat
tle-men of Montana, give the preference
to the Canadian route; and, if they can
secure the removal of the stringent reg
ulations regarding the inspection of
stock, Montreal expects to become the
shipping port of the East for the cattle
of the Western and Northwestern states.
The trustees of the Lick estate in San
Francisco have paid $4,000 to Edmund
Eel, of Parish for glass for the Lick
observatory on Mount Hamilton, but of
nineteen glasses produced all but two
have proved defective, and it is not GER
tain that these two will be any better.
The glass is to be thirty-six inches in
diameter.
A WOMAN was instantly killed and
her two daughters seriously injured by
near Springville, Ala, one
night recently. Seeing the storm ap-
preaching she, with her five little chill
dren, descended into cyclone pit un-
der the house. The lightning struck a
tree in the yard, the roots of which ran
into the pit, and the fluid followed the
roots with fatal results. The infant in
the arms of the mother at the time she
was struck to death was not Injured.
EZEKIEL EADs, an old man who died
in Green County, N. Y, recently was
born without ears. Moreover, he had
no apertures, where those necessary
organs should exist. He was able, how
ever, to gather sound through his
mouth, and could hear conversation
that was carried on in an ordinary tone.
His hair was black at birth, but was in
terspersed with oddly shaped grey spots,
some of them resembling diminutive
hands and ears. These singular mark
ings never changed, and his black hair