Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-25
MKSCELEAEEOES.

IHE eighteen provinces of China con-
tain 100000, 900 people.
ENGLISH lovers of cats are introduc-
ing a new variety from Russia. They
are Of rich mouse color.
WHEN the thermometer is So degrees
below zero cats ears become very
brittle and are often broken off-Sci-
ence.
The foreign fruit trade of New York
Is about to organize an incorporated
exchange with a membership of two
hundred.
The new treasurer of Habersham
County, Georgia, has given his bond
for $16, 900. There is Just So so in
the treasury.
A MARRIAGE license has been issued
to a couple at Saratoga, Santa Cruz
County, Cal, whose joint ages aggre-
gate 1853 years.
THE farmers of Oregon will SOW a
larger acreage of wheat than they did
last year, and are now busy in all por-
tions of the state.
THERE are nearly eleven thousand
officers and subordinates in the de-
partments of the New York city and
county governments.
BEGINNING in April lightning ex-
press train is to run between London
and Paris, reducing the present time
several hours.
SEVERAL New York managers have
been notified to at once build brick
walls between the stage and auditori-
UNI of their theaters.
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negroes from the South to take the
place of Cinnamon on his ranch near
San Gabriel, Los Angeles County, Cal.
FATTY degeneration of the con-
science" is a new phrase used to ex-
press an aggravated form of moral
disease. The disease, however, is not
new.
A DOCTOR at Andersonville, Ca,
claims to have a watch that is 213
years old and clock over $50 years
old, both running and keeping good
time.
AMERICUs, Ca, boasts two blind ne
groes who make good living at saw
ing wood, and q third with one
leg, who supports himself at the same
business.
THERE are 4O7 Penobscot Indians
in Maine who receive annually about
$21 apiece, state aid. The Passama-
quoddies number $40, and receive
about $13 each.
A FRENCH magazine has an article
telling how George Washington shot
the apple off his sons head at COM
mand of the tyrant. The scene is To-
Gated near ST. Louis.
LESS than two hundred of the more
than six hundred places mentioned by
the Bible in Palestine, west of Jordan,
are said to remain unidentified by the
Palestine Exploration Fund staff.
THE public executioner of England
IS man named Berry, former as
sistant Of Marwood. He employs in
his CHASTITY Office rope of ITALIAN silk
a little over fve-eighths of an inch in
diameter.
A CHINESE reading-room, to be
known as the Chinese-American union,
has been opened at Philadelphia. It's
library is mostly made up of Bibles,
Testaments, and hymn books, IN both
languages.
THE records Of the Bureau of Vital
Statistics show that the number OF
deaths from pneumonia in New York
City averages from 5000 to 1000 an
nually. making about one-eighth of the
entire mortality.
A CLERK in a pawnbroker's Office in
Boston was fined $40 and costs few
days ago for selling rifles to two boys
who had fallen victims to cheap liter
allure, and wanted to go West and
shoot Indians
THERE are about seven distinct dia-
lects among the negroes-the Virginia
dialect, the Kentucky, the cornfeld,
the Congo, the Louisiana, the river
and the heightened mulatto.-Atlanta
(Ga.) Constitute
OVER 1000 wolves were destroyed
throughout France in 1883, and the
rewards amounted to 1O3, 100 francs.
In nine cases the wolves attacked per-
sons, and of the whole number de-
stroyed 495 were cubs.
A WAsHERWOMAN at Dayton, Ohio,
who was recently given some clothing
belonging to dead woman of her &C
quaintance, found $500 in currency
sewed in an under-garment, and re-
turned the money to the heirs.
BETsEY, an old colored cook, was
incoming around the kitchen one day,
when her mistress asked her if she was
i'll. "No, ma'am, not zactly," said
Betsey; "but de fac is, l don't feel
ambition 'nough to git outer my own
way. "-Harper's Bazaar.
ARIZONA contains within her borders
nearly, if not quite, $4,000 square
miles of coal formation, which is COM
puted to be almost one-haf of the
coal areas of the United States. The
beds vary in thickness from two
inches to twenty feet.
ONE of the New England legislatures
has under consideration a bill to
change the name of Frances Ellen Ha-
NOR to Ella Frances Hamor. There
was a committee hearing, and, all the
formalities having been observed,
probably solemn consent will be given
THE vicissitudes of life are very
marked in New York The most of tee