Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-09-17
FISH-BAIT.

WATER is 25 cents per barrel and milk
80 cents per gallon in Lordsburg, New
Mexico.
THERE are at present 695 potteries in
the United States. half of which are in
New Jersey.
APENsIoNER aged 80 years was recent
~ married to an 18-year-old girl, at
Cleveland, 0.
THERE are nine establishments in the
United States which turn out 1850
watches day.
A GENTLEMAN at Pautucket, r. l., has
instituted suit for $4,000 damages
for being arrested as another man.
The cable-grip cars are to be intro
duced into Pittsburg by the street-car
companies next spring.
NEVADA CRY, New, has to imprison
Chinese laundrymen to enforce the
payment of their license.
IT is predicted that the volume of
telegraph business will be doubled
within the next five years.
BEAN, Oiler, and Triplett are the
names of greenback candidates in
Solano County, California.
TWELVE petrifed CLAIMS we're found,
recently, at depth Of $50 feet while
boring for oil at Pu1iss1ma, Cal.
AN Ithaca, n. Y, drug clerk in MAX
ing out an order for bill OF goods
wrote: Il box cast steel soap"
The island of Jamaica has contrib
uted $4,000 for the purpose of sending
an exhibit to the worlds exposition.
The Chautauqua Literary Society, of
New York, has enrolled over 10000
names since its organization in 1878.
A HEAD STONE in an old Foxboro,
Mass, cemetery bears the inscription:
John Spard, born 1701 died 1910"
A YOUNG Piute, dressed in a suit
made from an American flag, caused a
sensation in Bodie, Cal, the other day.
The governors of Montana and Wy
oming are to take measures to prevent
depredations in the Yellowstone Park.
The wool clip Of this year is esti-
mated at 300,0OO,OO0 pounds, and is
worth $85,000,000.
TwENTY-NINE bear and four cougar
scalps have been brought into Olympia,
Washington Territory, this season for
bounty.
A PHILADELPHIA gentleman has thir-
teen rooms in a Catskill hotel for his
party of fifteen, for which he pays 81, $50
per week.
SALOONS in the Occur d. Alene coun-
try are not paying very handsomely.
The receipts of the best saloons are less
than SIS day.
SAN FRANCISCO has a girls union, the
object of which is to furnish board and
lodging to the working-gir at the low
est possible expense.
The fashionable girl of the period now
says father" in the good oid-fashioned
way "Papa" and mamma" are de-
nominated as vulgar.
FASHIONABLE ladies come to the
beaches with their arms loaded, in one
arm dog, in the other an umbrella
and smelling bottle.
SIXTEEN and fifteen were recently
united in marriage with the full knowl-
edge and consent of the parents, in
Sumner County, W. Va.
BUTCHERS in Vera Cruz, under a new
law, are compelled to produce cerebral
conclusions. or division of the spinal
cord, in the killing of beeves.
RECENT tests have shown that by
means of tubular wells Central Park,
New York, can be supplied with one
million gallons of water daily.
IT has been ascertained that Frontenac
Island, in Cayuga Lake, N. Y, was
moved several feet from it's former posi-
ton by ice pressure last winter.
o. l.
the oyster-beds of Princes Bay, N. Y.
Large schools of drumfish root up in 6
single night and devour whole acres of
oysters.
ABRAM PENICK, the most famous
shorthorr breeder in the United States,
died at Winchester, KY, recently, aged
83. He leaves an estate valued at
100000.
In the old days it was plain Calls
head soup, but now it is mock-turtle.
Veal serves as a disguise for a great
deal of gastronomic humbug and decep-
ton nowadays.
THE reddish caught in the lakes in
the Sawtooth range in Idaho are said to
be very delicious, and in every way bet
ter than the Columbia River salmon,
which they closely resemble.
IT is said that bishop near Soldier
Summit, Utah, who has large number
of sheep, has employed score of girls
to assist in divesting the focks of their
wool.
STATISTICS show that murderers SEN
fenced to prison for life, live to an age
beyond the average of those who have
to work for living amid the exposures
of the outside world.
CRYoLITE, mineral which is of great
value in the potash manufacture, has
been discovered in the Yellowstone
park. Heretofore it has only been OBJ
tanned in Greenland.
The anomalies of mining camp life
are wonderful to Eastern eyes. In
Eureka, New. there is a curfew law, re-
curing all minors to be at home by s
o'clock. Boys who went home at or
before the law went into effect now stay
out punctiliously until s.