Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-29
FISH-BAIT.

from still life, and the name of it is "A
Tramp at Work"
AS much as $4,000, 900 have been
shipped from the United States treasu-
ry in single day.
A RURAL obituary relates that ''the
deceased had accumulated little mon
ey and ten children"
AN alligator weighing thirty pounds
was recently captured in the Allegheny
River at Freeport, Pa.
THE tallest tree in California is 450
feet high, and the largest in circumfer-
ence measures 81 feet.
TT is estimated that when the Wash
ington monument is completed it's total
cost will be 81. 100000.
A MEDIUM of New York City has sue
ceeded, it is alleged, in obtaining wax
casts of spirit" hands.
THERE are more than $4,000 volumes
in the congressional library, besides
about 100000 pamphlets.
ct. MICHAEL's Church, in the Strand,
London, proposes to assist Pere Hya-
cinthe in his work in Paris.
A CURIOSITY at the American Insti-
tute fair in New York is bunch of
grapes weighing six pounds.
The Boston girl is now engaged in
preparing elongated expressions con-
corning the carmine sunsets.
The entire length of the capitol
building is Isl feet and inches, and
the greatest depth is 324 feet.
Gov. CROSBY, of Montana, says the
bo1 Il
destitute of bedding and clothes.
The debt of Spain with her seven
teen millions of people, is just about
the same as that of the United States.
The people of Wyoming Territory
are to vote upon the 4th of November
on the question of taxing church prop
erty.
The work of laying a new cable
across the straits from Port Townsend
to Victoria. B. c., has been COM
menced.
PARSONS and magistrates are warned
by blacksmith residing at Shandaken,
n. Y, against marrying his 14-year-old
daughter.
THE clearinghouse is practically a
thing of the past in New York City,
the apartment house and fiat having
supersededit.
OWING to the increased demand for
canned salmon, the sardine- packing
business of Maine has fallen off one
third this season.
Mrs. HID. HUNTINGTON, of Cincin-
natl, who died recently in Colorado, be-
queathed in her will 100000 TO the
Episcopal Church.
A WHITE fish of delicious flavor has
been found in the famous petroleum
lake of Chapala, state of Jalisco, Mex
leo. The fish are abundant and is
large.
The governor and secretary of state
of Maryland are required by the con-
stitution to reside at the capital, and
they have both registered there as
voters.
The mysterious realm of the Dismal
Swamp In Virginia is now inhabited by
two recently escaped tigers, who make
things lively for the poultry, swine and
people.
MIR. HENRY ADAMS, Washington
nan, has built new residence with the
kitchen where the front plrlor usually
S located. Not many men are as kind
% their cooks as Mr.. Adams is.
The mail on one route in Cape Bre-
on is carried by small girl, who takes
he bag on her shoulders. Some days
The fails to come to time, and then she
is found in tree picking gum.
A GENUINE wild hog was killed few
days ago in a canyon near Southport,
Goose County, Ore, after it had
whipped dog and attacked. man. 1t
had tusks over three inches long.
AT colored camp-meeting near
Marion, Ca, Erwin Godbold began to
pray on Saturday night and prayed un-
til 4 o'clock Sunday morning, when he
died. He prayed himself to death.
ONE of the largest orange trees in
Florida IF not the biggest) is in grove
near Tampa. The trunk is six feet three
inches in circumference and bears from
10000 to 10000 oranges every season.
RArsK1N fur and ratskin slippers are a
late London freak. Only the skin about
the Launches is used, the remainder
being too thin. Four rats are required
for slipper, and sixty for neck piece.
ONE of the latest names given to ar
ticles with the apparent object OF at
tracing attention to them is liquid
bread" a food supposed to base its sus-
tanning properties upon malt extract.
NIEvEs HERNANDEZ, with five hun
dred men, is infesting the district
around Galeana, New Leon, Mex. The
orders to the troops following the guer-
rilla chief are to take him, dead or
alive.
MISS EMMA LARSON and her younger
sister, who left their home in Wisoon-
sin in the spring of 1888 to ride on
horseback to San Francisco and return,
having reached Cheyenne on their way
homeward
GEORGIA papers are complaining be-
cause the contract for building the new
state capitol has been given to a non