Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-20
FISH BAIT.


IN Open Lake, near Yazoo City, Miss,
there is white" alligator which is de-
scribed as having the color of a blue
catfish.
A PIECE of land near Dupont circle
in Washington is worth $50 per square
foot. All lots in the vicinity bring
from $3sto $15 per square foot.
AUGUST BECKEMAN told a Washing
ton judge he had signed verdict not
because he thought it right, but in Or
der to get away and GO home. He paid
800 fine for contempt of court.
AT the mineral exposition at Zacate-
cas-, Mex, is a piece of silver ore weigh
ing 43O pounds, taken from the San
Antonio mine, and valued at $4,000.
A CLAY County, Miss, farmer has
100 acres planted in peppermint and
the Natchez Democrat says he will go
into the manufacture of oil from the
plant on an extensive scale.
The broker firm of Stout & Co., of
New York, was compelled to suspend
because in a dispatch the word "quiet-
ly" was read "quickly," and run was
made.
Mr.. E. FL. BECKER, publisher of the
Hiles City ON. Z. Press, was lately
painfully prompted to publish notice
that lowing to the inebriated condition
of the force of printers connected with
the Office the paper would not be is
sued, but he confidently predicted
other arrangements for the future"
THE Indians are harvesting the grass
hoppers which have appeared in great
numbers at Lincoln, Roseville, and
vicinity, in California. They make a
grand drive, getting the ''ga1ne" into
pond of water, and then catch them in
baskets, dry them, shake the wings off,
and store them away for winter food.
J. l.. Rose has sold his estate, proba-
bly, the finest in California, for $4,000.
The plantation was called Sunny Slope,
near Pasadena, and it contains more
than 1000 acres of well-watered land.
The orange crop was sold on the trees
by Mr.. Rose this year for $4,000, and
the vintage last year from 1,000 acres
of vines was 1900 tons OF grapes.
WHILE a negro was ploughing near
La Grange, La, the other day, he
turned up humble bees nest. The
mules did not inger long, but took to
the woods. The plough took in the
root of a tree, holding the mules fas5
until the bees stung them to death.
The negro was so badly stung that he
raved like mailman for two days.
NICARAGUA contains, approximate
100000 inhabitants. The chief cities
are Managua, the capital OF. the repub-
lie; Leon, Granada, Chinandega, and
Rivas, containing respectively 10000,
100000, $4,000, and 5000 inhabitants.
The seaports are Corinto and San Juan
del Sur, on the Pacific, and Grey
town and Cape Gracias Dios on the
Atlantic.
The cost of sites for United States
buildings in various cities presents,
says the Boston Journal, some very in
teresting facts. For site on Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, $1,491 POI was
was paid; Boston, 81, 329,096, and
Chicago, 81, 259,386. The cost per foot
was: In Philadelphia, $17.53; in Bos-
ton, $27.96; in Chicago, $500; in Gin
cinnati, 1926, and in st. Louis, 1898.
JACOB WIsEMAN, of Piedmont, W.
Va, is little wiser man than he was
few days ago. He was sitting astride
whisky barrel the other day, and after
lighting his pipe threw the lighted
match into the bung-hole of the barrel.
As usual in such cases an explosion fol-
lowed, which knocked Mr.. Wiseman
insensible He will not be able to sit
astride whisky barrel again for several
weeks.
AT small French village named
Auberine, in the Department of Isere,
lives woman named Marie Durand,
whose age is said to be 1913 years.
What is claimed to be the certificate of
her baptism declares that she was born
on March Is, 1851. She belongs to the
peasant class and lives on public chart
ty. She has been widow for ninety
six years.
A New YORKER who has lately revis
tied Boston was SO agreeably aston
ished on finding that the city, so far
from being Sunday blue law, puri
tanical". place, had Sunday concerts
and free public admission to the art
museum, public library, Agassiz mu-
scum, and natural history rooms, that
he writes to the New York Evening
Post reciting these facts and asking, us
uot Boston progressive?.
A SEXTON of Montreal, Canada, who
wished to humiliate one OF the parishion-
ers and show him up to ridicule, passed
him by one recent Sunday while max
ing the collections without giving him
the opportunity of making the usual
contribution. The would-be Inundated
parishioner commenced suit against
the sexton for $199 damages. The other
day the jury brought in verdict
against the sexton for S..
The recent conversion to Catholicism
of Prince Henry of Hainau, who is iv-
ing in Paris, has been generally at
tributed to the family influences
brought to bear on him on his betrothal
to the daughter of Queen Isabella; but
the Prince, in a letter to a Hessian
newspaper, denies this, and says that,
like the Landgrave Frederick IL, his
return to the Church of st. Elizabeth is
the result of convictions based upon
long and profound study.
AN eel perfectly white was speared