Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-21
FISH-BAIT.

ATHENS, Ga, will have a WALKING
match-none but clerks will enter.
a NEW fencing club with $50 mem
bers has been formed in New York.
For tropical fruit 81, 745, 357 was paid
at the port of New York during 1883.
NEWARK, N. j., makes $4,000. 900
worth of bricks annually; New York
makes $3.50, 900 worth.
WILLIE REYNOLDS, IL years of age,
was abducted from home at Atlanta, Ga.
He is heir to big fortune.
TWENTY dollars is the penalty
for every wild duck shot between May l
and December in New York.
The Cape God canal dredger is the
largest in the world. It takes out six
hundred cubic yards an hour.
The mayor of Athens, Ca, will have
the confederate monument cleaned and
an iron railing put around it.
A MAN living near Wynne station,
Phillips County, Tex, was recently
stung to death by buffalo gnats.
A New YORK saloon keeps two big
Muscovy ducks half drunk most of the
time for the amusement OF patrons.
STRIKING New York piano-makers are
mad because union carpenters and cab
inet-makers are taking their places.
Rev. DIR. HoRsTMAN, of Philadelphia,
to cure hay fever, has had a portion of
the nasal bones removed.
PARADISE park is new improvement
IN Five Points. N. 7. A band will play
there regularly each week hereafter to
reform the peiohhorhood
HE petty merchants of Mexico are
raking out old and valueless stamps of
old issues and use them on their goods.
Several have been arrested for this.
A PATENT has been granted in Mexico
for a new process for manufacturing
mescal which will make that patent
liquor twice as strong as ordinary.
A SAVANNAH lady, to cure dyspepsia,
drank eleven gallons of tepid water at an
Atlantic water-cure. She went into con-
vulsions, and her death is likely.
ISAAC BANKsroN, the white ex-sheriff
of Desha County, Ark, who several
rled negro woman, has been indicted.
At Montreal Judge Mathies, in the
case of Lamb VS.. the Export Lumber
Company, upheld the provincial gov
ernment's right to impose tax on the
business of companies. The act passed
two years ago.
A New YORK street-car driver stopped
twenty cars the other night, refusing to
go on without his lamps, which by
stable hands neglect were QUO of oil.
There is strong feeling in New York
against street.cars without lights at
night.
GIovANNA CELL, an italian at New
York city, married dark-eyed daugh-
ter of his native land and hanged him.
self before night, saying that he had in
tended for two years past to kill him
self, and thought this was a good time
to do it.
THERE is a curious old graveyard at
Fallsburg, Sullivan County, N. Y, and
ID 1t are nine gravestones standing in a
row. They mark graves of DR.. Bepia-
min Kyles' family, all of whom died be-
tween November % and December Is,
1861 of diphtheria.
THERE are about $50 girls and BOYS in
the San Francisco school of cigar MAX
ers. They are divided into five classes,
and receive lecture concerning the
Der of the board of directors. The girls
are taught by lady teachers.
Two Norwich, Conn.,, boys about IL
years old have been arrested for collect
ing money as agents for the Salvation
Army. Each boy had box with slit
in it like ballot-box, and they gathered
in good mary pennies. They pro-
posed to buy pistol with the money.
A MAN named Jones, at Thornton,
Tex, under the impression that he was
gong to die, made confession of one
burglary and an attempt at another, i'm
pllcatlng young Freeman. His illness
was not fatal, and Jones and his accom-
plice were arrested and lodged in Jail.
A NORWICH. Conn.,, woman dreamed
that her daughter was dying the other
night, arose and went to her bed. She
found the girl bleeding terribly where
she had tooth pulled during the day,
and very weak. The doctor says that if
she had been left an hour longer she
would have died.
A CHINAMAN recently took an Indian
squaw as wife at Hawthorne, New. and
the tribe to which she belonged have de-
clared that they will either have the
0dU0" O1 UAO pagan SCdl Ps 4u0 O0lSS-
tial has barricaded his house and hired a
body-guard, and is waiting a good op-
portunlty TO leave with his bride.
FIFTEEN designs have been submitted
for the proposed Garfield monument in
Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, but no
award has been made as yet. The COM
mittee in charge of the work limited
their estimates to $4,000. It is said,
however, that none of the designs SUBJ
mitted could be carried out for that
price.
The Plumas (Nev.) County National
tells of a young men who got caught in
a heavy snow storm recently. He i'm
provised snowshoes out of two milk-nans
found in deserted cabin, and fastened
them to his feet with wire taken from an
Did broom. He then completad his
Journey, seven miles, without material
5rouble.
In Brooklyn, recently, the health au-
horities visited two establishments en-
gagged in polishing and dressing coffee
Deans, and secured samples. Ii is stated
'hoS the analytical chemist found large
ldantltles OF lead in the samples. Those
L