Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-07-29
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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average in New Hampshire than in any
|other State in the Union.-N. Y. Her
|e6d.
"A veteran of the waves who is de-
voting his old age to the amelioration
sof the condition of seamen, saws that
I"Poor Jack" now receives worse treat
ment on the water, if not on the land,
than he did forty years ago.--Boston
journal.
An old and respected citizen of
lSouthold, L. l., fell from a load of
.cornstalks two months ago and broke
his hip and leg. Recently, while cross
J. ing the room, he fell, by the slipping
i of one of his crutches, and broke both
his arms. N. 7. Mail.
"A considerable number of shad
have been caught in the Alabama and
Ohio Rivers this season as result of
the shad-hatching operations of the
United States Fish Commission on the
Potomac, from which the young shad
were distributed Chicago Inter Ocean.
AT Smolensk, Russia, small vol
cano has developed itself, and the peas
ants have been trying to put it out by
1cording so the latest accounts the vol
cano will continue for some time to af-
ford excellent practice for the local fire
brigade.
The loss of cattle in Southwest
Florida the past winter is reported
greater than in any other previous
year. one stock raiser estimating his
] loss at two thousand head. Pneumo-
MIA, a Georgia paper says, seems to
have been the disease that played such
havoc. Chicago Times.
The practice of scalping is not a
monopoly of American aborigines. In
! his ''Recent Origin of Man" Southland
quotes from Heredotus to show that
the Scythians used to scalp their fallen
enemies. In the present time the wild
tribes of Northeastern Bengal use the
sscalping knife. Chicago Herald.
"A Pennsylvania jury recently got
! up and said that their time was too val
liable to allow them to sit quietly and
listen to the tritling impertinence and
sfoolish witticisms of members of the
] bar. Sarcasms on "the intelligent
i Jury" should be suspended for a few
weeks in honor of this one.-PhtJadeL-
p}ti0 Press.
Gum arabic is rapidly rising in
price. The average annual consump-
ton is nine million pounds; the amount
in market is only four million pounds,
and even if the war in the Soudan
should be over in few months no part
of the new crop could be received in
alexandria until next December
l Philadelphia Press
"A Kentuckian gives the following
glowing description of his trip abroad
Il landed in Liverpool at night, went
to bed, had good rest got up in the
morning, found the bar, called for an
American cocktail, got it, took one
taste, and-returned home in the next
steamer. This country is good enough
/ for me."-M Y. Sun.
The japanese language is called
''the Italian of fhe Orient" An Amer
lean in|Tokio has learned that the Japan
ese for '.Do me the honor of dining
with me to-day" is, ''Anata-wa wata-
kushito 90 yeshone hiru 1nashe wo tabe
nyee yukatay kudazaye ma sainka. -
What do our Italian fellow-citizens
4 think of oriental Italian?
At Harpswell, Me-, those engaged
in digging CLANS the past winter have
4 received seven dollars per barrel for
1 them. 1t takes eight or ten bushels
4 of the shell fish to fill barrel when
/ the shells are removed, that is, at full
moon. But according to the Bath IN
I dependent, it takes twelve bushels if
the CLAIMS are dug when the moon is
4 N its first quarter.
Mr.. j. M. Rodgers, of Sumpter
City, Ga, has two curiosities on his
] farm. One is horse which takes its
fodder to the water trough and vets it
I 5hat can outkick anybody's mule, and
when he is turned in the stockade and
fails to find corn in his feed trough to
4 kick at, he gets revenge by kicking the
trough.-B0stoaa Globe.
From a census that has just been
taken of the persons visiting public
houses in London between the hours OF
nine and twelve on a Saturday night, il
seems that two hundred houses were
thus visited by 4S,S05 men, 3O,7S4
women and 7,019 children-in all, by
II CO,OOO JCIoOLc' IL w do cllSO 1Ollu(l U1Idt
on a Monday morning 1850 women
entered twelve public houses in St.
Pancras between the hours of ten and
4 twelve.
The telegraph wire between Ma
con, Ga, and Chalen recently ceased
working, and a search was made for
the cause. The cable passed through
the cellars Of the excise office at Ma
con, and it was discovered that it lay
over rat hole and disturbed the ro-
q dent in its movements. The little ami
NAL had gnawed through the covering
Of the cable and bitten through the
copper threads, thus breaking the con-
J aection.-L3uGsUGJle Coetrler-Jour71aI.
About a year ago traveller in
Germany came across an officer en-
ployed in experimenting some details
of military railroad transport He
had been a captain during the Franco
German war, and had allowed his
! company to be surprised. After being
4 imprisoned for eighteen months he was
placed in the military railroad trans
port service, and told that he was
I never to receive promotion. Being