Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
FISH.BAIT.

will not be published hereafter Tor Want
of an appropriation
SINCE the opening of the Brooklyn
bridge, fourteen months ago, 14.525,OOO
persons have crossed it.
CoUNTERFEITERs have been working
off spurious Scent pieces upon country
storekeepers in Pennsylvania.
f. MARION CRAWFORD comes to
America to find wife in Miss Bessie
Burden, of Troy, N. Y.
The latest importation in towels
shows row of large polka dots (even
larger than half dollar instead of a
border.
GRAssHoPPERs have consumed every
ear of corn, blade of wheat, or stalk of
sugar cane in Haltizapam, state of
Morelia.
A BROKER at Macon, Ga, advertises
for bills of sale for negroes, offering in
pay dollar for dollar In confederate
money and bonds.
A Boston female baseball reporter
put it this way: cat this point the del
egate from Boone County got tired of
keeping second warm, and vigorously
limbed it for third"
THE Mexican government is making
an exact plaster cast of the celebrated
Aztec calendar containing the zodiacal
signs, built into the interior walls of the
cathedral in the City of Mexico, to be
sent to the New Orleans exposition.
IT is reported that the Grand Duke
Louis of Hesse will abdicate in favor of
his son Ernest, under advice of the EN-
peror of Germany. His morganatic
marriage with Nine. Kalomine and sub
sequent divorce compromised his posi-
ton.
A LITTLE 4-year-old Shoshone, near
Winnemucca, New, evinces wonderful
aptitude for moulding images out OF
mud and clay. The papoose recently
moulded out of mud deer and horse,
which were almost perfect in contour
and form.
GEN. SHERIDAN was recently asked
who we're with him in his famous ride.
He said: "Sandy Forsythe and Col.
O'Keefe, of my staff. Forsythe is down
in New Mexico now, lieutenant colonel
of Fourth Cavalry. O'Keefe was killed
at the battle of Five Forks"
The Philadelphia Ledger remarks
that if people would give half as much
attention to their diet as they do to
schemes for recovering their health
after it has been impaired, they would
run very little risk of needing the adj
vice of doctor or change of air.
A MONTGOMERY County Pa. miller
cut three sheaves of wheat during the
late harvest, thrashed and cleaned the
grain, which was at once ground into
-four, then baked into cakes and eaten
by the harvest hands within ten min
utes from the time the grain was stand
ing in the field.
AT San Francisco several maquereaux
fearful of being arrested for having no
visible means of support, recently
dubbed together and fitted up cafe on
California Street at an expense of nearly
$4,000. The police commissioners be-
ing Informed of their object refused to
grant them license.
BLASTING paper is recent Austrian
invention. It is described as being
unsized or ordinary blotting paper,
coated with mixture of prussiate of
potash, of charcoal saltpeter, potassium
chlorate and wheat starch. On its be-
ing dried it is cut into strips, which
are rolled into cartridges.
REDWOOD forests in California are
yearly diminishing, as this wood is in
creasingly used in building on the
Pacific coast. The superstructure of
most of the dwellings In San Francis
co is of redwood, and the Friscans
cherish the belief that it does not burn
as readily as other light material.
The Marquis of Lorne, it seems, is
now trying to arrange it so that Ameri-
can cattle can be taken to England and
fattened there. AS it is now they must
be killed at once lest they should
spread disease among the domestic cat
tie. The Marquis knows there is no
good reason to fear any such evil.
SIR CHARLES DoMvnLE, vino died re-
Gently in England, was regarded gen.
Grafton ago as one of the richest of
Irish landlords. His entertainments
are said to have been on Monte Cristo
scale of magnifcence, and the splendors
of his living while in Office at Dublin
made something of a sensation.
The case against the woman who was
arrested by the police at Omaha re-
Gently for wearing a ''Mother Hubbard"
dress in public has been dismissed.
Difference to public opinion causing the
chief of police not to prosecute" Since
the arrest the wearing of Mother Hub
bards" has become popular there.
LEvERETT, Mass, boasts the heaviest
girl of her age that can be produced
in that part of the state. Leila Marvel,
aged II, and daughter of Calvin Marvel,
a"Cave Hill" farmer, tips the scale at
$50 pounds, is in excellent health, and
especially meet of foot, distancing many
of her own age who are of slim build.
IT is understood that an important
change in the uniform of enlisted men
in the United States army is con-
templated by the war department.. The
new uniforms are said to be attractive