Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-07
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- A BosToNEsE family has trained cat
to eat baked beans. --~ g o'''
The oyster-seIling season hoe s+or,,o5
at Jacksonville, Fla, ''oPp0o
ROBINS with mushrooms 10 tho 1o4ou.
dish in Florida hotels. A"'o''
HALIBUT fishing is becoming very nom
ular at San Diego, Cal. POP
A FATAL epidemic of measles av;s+S ~
the Jail at Atlanta, Ga.
POKER has become the rage in tba
ladies' clubs in New York.
The Philadelphia pcst-ofice hos
moved into the new building.
FISHERMEN lies now form the etanle
OF conversation in every rural circle
CALDWELL, Idaho, town of nearly 100
inhabitants, has four doctors and one
undertaken.
A COMPLAINING Chicapoan. in his srit
for divorce, declares that his wife has
made everything hot for him in his mar
RED life except the tea and coffee.
THOMAS K. BEEcHFR, of Elmira. n.
l., oeclared, In q recent sermon. that he
was not sure 1t was wrong to hire igro-
rant and frivolous men to vote right.
NEW spring bonnets are certainly very
beautiful, but it would interest horticui-
trlr1sts to know where the flowers grow
that are represented on some of them,
A RESIDENT of Las Vegas, N. NJ.
went to tell q tenderfoot about the
beautiful climate" there, when he
got to coughing and died in two minutes,
WHEN it comes to military pomp and
red tape the governor of Maryland heads
the procession. He has one major gen.
eral and two brigadier generals on his
staff.
ACCORDING to the Constitution, sssoci-
ty" IN Atlanta, Ca, is giving evidence
that it demands greater Intelligence and
higher education to meet its require
ments.
Two young women in New Orleans
earned $48 a month by keeping books.
and on this have bought and are paying
Tor coy little home for themselves and
their mother.
WASHINGTON County, Miss, pro-
duces more cotton than any other coun-
ty IN America; it yields $4,000 bales.
Yazoo County is second. with IS. 600
to so, 900 bales.
ALL the Mormon diapers are bolster
ing up the "Book of Mormon" by pub
fishing afidavits as to its truth, and to
to prove that it was not invented by
Deacon Spaulding.
SEVERAL members of Trinity Church
at South Norwalk, Conn.,, are reported
to have withdrawn because E. A. Wood
ward, of Tweed ring notoriety, has been
elected vestryman.
A RECENT traveller along the line of
the Panama Canal predicts that Of the
$4,000 Workmen now engaged there
fully two-thirds will be dead before the
the canal is completed.
THERE are but fourteen American ex-
hibitors at the Calcutta Worlds Fair,
and six of these are manufacturers of
patent medicines and three manufact-
urers OF sewing machines.
A QUANTITY of ore from the Ellenville
On. - gold mine sent to a New York
assayer, the other day, assayed at the
rate of 1868 ton. The mine is said to
be rich in both gold and silver.
THERE are twelve manufactures of
artificial teeth in the United States
which make 10000. 600 of these useful
articles per annum. They are made of
feldspar. kaolin, and rock crystal.
JOB KING, one of the leading Indians
on the Cattaraugus reservation, New
York, is now in the Buffalo jail, having
been arrested on a charge of bribing
voters at the election held year ago.
THERE are $500 Edison lights in ten
cotton-mills in Fall River, and SO popu-
lar are they that the hands in one mill
have struck against all work by gasGght
In mill where they refused to put in
electricity.
TIE Francklyn cottage at Elberon has
one room entirely lined with cork. It is
arranged in fiat, narrow pieces about
one foot in length, which are made to
fit In each other. It has the effect Of
light colored wood.
The Parisians have system of card
kilograms. The cards are dropped in
boxes and shot through air tubes to
different parts of the city. Fifty words
or more can be written on a card that
costs cents to convey.
The rage for armor continues, and
clocks now come in the steel breast
plates and shields ready to be placed on
a Large frame of plush, shield-shape,
visors, spiked balls, battle-axes and
other warlike surroundings.
CoNGREssMAN Murphy, of Iowa, says:
''Every man who comes to Congress
has only two ideas. The first is that
without him the government could not
exist for day; and the second how
shall I best secure a reelection"
BARNUM is withdrawing one of his
common elephants to be used In the
parade at Philadelphia, and branded:
"A White Fraud. An exact copy of the
other whitewashed elephant now being
imposed upon the public as a genuine
one. A better job by better artists"
WILD dogs are terrcrizing the coun-
try about Cedarville, Kas. They are
more ferocious and more difficult to kill
than wolves. They have recently killed
two large steers, nearly destroyed three
docks of sheep, and eaten two litters of
pigs.