Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-27
FISH-BAIT.

Twelve mul1On CLOCKS were manutact-
ured last year.
NORTH CAROLINA now claims the dia-
mond-feld of America.
THE fifty ladies employed in the San
Francisco mint receive each 81. IS q day.
A. S. MARTIN, of Orange, Vt, has
lost goose that was said to be 100 years
old.
FLORIDA alligator hunters earn, when
successful, from 81, 500 to So, 900 sea-
son.
The consumption Of tea in Great
Britain is about six pounds to one pound
of coffee.
THE Buffalo, N. Y, breakwater is
1891 feet long, and is to be made 5000
feet longer.
PERE HYACINTHE says it was crime
for France to sell Louisiana to the
United States.
GENERAL TANNATT, Mayor of Walla
Walla, Oregon, has a dog that eats
pins voraciously.
FIVE hundred railroads have adopted
the new time, and only thirteen still
hold fast to the old.
INDIANA has 3,737 church edifces,
valued at $12,555, 900. She pays her
ministers 1,037, 1877.
AN Abilene, Tex, paper is said to be
the only one in the state that openly ad-
vocates the herd law.
SEVERAL small blacksnakes were re-
Gently killed in one of the principal
streets of Concord, n. H.
GERMANY has 454 theaters and nearly
10, 900 actors, including SO Mullers, 70
Schmidts, and 55 Meyers.
The Maryland legislature, according
to recent poll, are IN favor of Bayard
and Arthur for the presidency.
A COLONY of retired army officers some
where in North Carolina is the latest
scheme of Brig. Gen. r. G. Dunn.
BEAVER skins bring from 81 to $3.50
at Americus, AID trappers are numerous
throughout Southwestern Georgia.
THE remains of Mrs. Judson Apple
gate, of Delphi. Ind, were recently
cremated at the Washington crematory.
Mrs. JAMES STEVENSON, died recently
at Scranton, Pa, while in q dentists
chair having several teeth pulled.
A WHOEVER of Canton, Tex, who has
nineteen children, is about to wed an
Alabama widow with twenty-one chill
dren.
A CoLoRED mans will was recently
admitted to probate in Hawkins7ille,
Ca, being the first of its kind in the
state.
Miss CARRIE Wilcox, a maiden of
Bradford, Pa, recently renounced her
religion in order to wed her Hebrew
lover.
The mayor of Houston, Tex, has
served in that capacity for the last four
years without pay or any sort of recon-
pense.
The most successful farmer of Walton
County, Pa, is Arasums @. Wright, so
years of age, who has been blind since
his infancy.
FIFTY TWO organized churches, with a
population of $4,000. are situated in
Atlanta, Ga. Sixteen denominations are
represented.
THE old cemetery at New London,
Conn.,, is to be made into park, in
memory of the soldiers and sailors of
the late war.
TIoGA county, Pennsylvania, collect
ed $941. % dog tax last year, and paid
out 50, 113. Al damages for sheep killed
by the CANNES.
The United States Review says the
total litigation of life insurance claims
reaches only about one per cent, of the
amount insured.
CHEF Justice Comegys, of Delaware,
has decided that the law for the arrest
of professional thieves on suspicion is
unconstitutional,
A MILITARY medical school is to be es-
tablished in the Chateau Pharo, recently
decided by the ex-Empress Eugene to the
town of Marseilles.
A BLIND dog in Cedar Rapids is regu-
larly fed by another canine who forages
for it with tender solicitude like that of
a bird for its young.
SEvEN-EIGHTHs of the females who
land at Castle Garden, New York, are
said to be young lassies in search of
their recreant lovers.
A WOMAN in Itawamba county, Miss
issippi, has become a raving maniac
over the teachings of Mormon minis
ter.
TREE-P1ANTING in the neighborhood
of Los angeles. it is thought, has
secured to that section of California i'm
munity from drought.
IT is stated on competent French
authority that Irish women have the
most beautiful hands in the world. The
next prettiest come from Poland.
An elaborate work on lace AMI en-
broidery is in process of compilation by
Lady Marian Afford, who is regarded as
about the best amateur artist IN Eng
land.
A MAN in Nebraska City is actively
promoting starvation by giving away
-four to the poor. He distributes it in
sacks to every purchaser of 100 drinks
at his bar.
AN Illinois philanthropist has made
the discovery that less butter is re-
qLired Oh bread when il is eaten butter
side down. he publishes it for the
benefit of the poor.
FEET DAVIS, a destitute individual of
Suffolk County, New York, lived with
his sisters corpse for over week be-
fore the authorities were aware of his
l.