Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-12
CHIPS.

The total registration in New York
City this year was 240,95O, as against
217 1923 in 1880.
AN underground stream flows be-
meath the city of Birmingham, Ala. 1t
is to be used for d sewer.
A MAN at White Lake, n. Y, was rem
dered blind and helpless by being stung
by hornet at the base of his brain.
THREE engineers who have reckoned
the quantity of water pouring over
Niagara Falls every minute differ only
two quarts in the highest and lowest
estimates.
YOU'VE ladies at the west give combi
nation silk quilts to church fairs and
then Weld it to the most popular of
their number, the one who has obtained
the most votes.
CATTLE in quarantine from the older
Canadian provinces, while in transit to
the Northwest, have been released by
the department of agriculture after one
months duration.
The state fish commissioners of
PENNSYLVANIA have agreed upon plan
for the establishment at Erie of fish
hatchery, for the propagation of white
fish for Lake Erie.
A CLERK in enc of the hardware stores
of Ithaca, n. Y, fell asleep the other
day, and then fell through glass show
case against which he was leaning, COM
pletely demolishing it.
THERE are two good signs of the
times in New York society. A multi
plicity of weddings and an increase i'll
those who work for charity are the
tokens of good season.
THE city of st. Johns, Newfoundland,
has got livery stable, the first in it's
history, with four horses and three
single wagons, and the people are great
~ elevated over the novelty.
ANTWERP is the sleepiest of all the
sleepy cities in Europe. But few shops
are lighted at night. The people seem
to go to bed at sunset and sleep late
next morning and let the grass grow
under their feet all day.
THERE is great excitement in Buff
falo and Fort Erie over the squabble of
two rival ferry companies, one of which
holds license from the American side,
the other from the Canadian.
THE chief of the Quodopah Indians,
Louis Dross, saw for the first time the
cars and railway track at Yuma, CAL,
but while resting on the track fell
asleep and was killed by passing train.
The title "your honor" applied to
American judges, has been adopted in
England by royal proclamation as the
title of address applicable to country
Judges, who hitherto were neither lord
ships nor worships.
The mining fever has again broken
out in Georgia in consequence of the
reported richness of the silver mines
lately discovered on Fort Mountain in
Munoy County. Considerable gold has
been found in the ore.
ooh, darn these girlsi" was the first
audible words Miss Ellen Ellsworth, of
Rochester, Pa, had uttered for twelve
years. She runs millinery store, and
her employees now expect to hear from
her with much frequency.
The Nashville American boasts that
that city "now has greater number and
a more cultivated list of amateur
musicians than any other Southern city
more, perhaps, than any other city of It's
size in any part of the country.
A PTrTsBURG, Pa, lady who lost her
voice almost entirely year ago, became
suddenly frightened the other day, ut
tered an exclamation of fright and was
delighted to find her voice restored.
This is not claimed as faith cure.
A YOUNG lady in South Georgia in
serts the following advertisement in
local paper !: Wanted, by young lady
not 80, husband, be he bachelor, wild
over, or dude. I am good-looking,
weigh 10 pounds, can cook, wash, and
iron"
The rector of London parish has
not been seen within the limits of his
parish within seven years. He receives
a salary of nearly $4,000 year, while
his duties are very acceptably performed
by curate, to whom the rector pays
500 year.
A PROMINENT citizen of Whitfield
County, Ga, has had his grave dug and
cemented and enclosed with an iron
railing. Although in the evening of
life the gentleman is still hale and
hearty, and likely to prolong his exist
ence for years to come.
By most careful series of levels, run
by the United States coast survey from
Sandy Hook and the mouth of tbs
Mississippi River to ST. Louis, it haze
been demonstrated that the Atlantic
ocean at the aforementioned point is
forty inches lower than the Gulf of
Mexico.
THE Georgia papers are blowing up
the county officials because inquiries
from real estate agents North and West,
who want to exchange valuable business
interests or lands in their section for
Georgia pine lands, or who desire to
purchase pine land outright, are not
answered.
THE kazoo has lately been introduced
into California. It is not new drink
or novel dish. It is noise producer,
described as cross between a bagpipe