Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16
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tower of Notre Dame.
THREE of the original seven men APP
pointed to guard President Garfield s
grave have gone crazy.
SIX of the clergymen who made q re-
cent bicycle tour of Canada Travelled a
hundred miles In day.
WHILE Virginia farmer was watch
ing his melon patch the other night
some one stole his wife away.
IT is estimated that there are 5000
newspapers in the world, which will
give one to every $4,000 inhabitants.
DETERMINATIONS are more safely and
far more agreeably subdued by the
application of warm water than OF
cold.
PEAT boys cover about one-seventh
of the surface of Ireland. Some OF
these boys are supposed to represent
10000 years growth.
IT is estimated that two tons Of
gold, worth 81 100000, are lost every
year from the wear and tear of COM
merce and personal use.
THIS is the tenth successive bad sea-
son for the vineyards of the Dion dis
trict. Plenty of wine is made, but of
a bad quality, and only of small
value for home consumption.
No one can possibly sink if the head
is thrust entirely under water, and in
this position a novice can swim as
easily as walk, and get to shorereadiiy
by lifting the head at intervals for
breath.
SMALL fy-wheels, cast hollow and
loaded with lead, is q foreign no.
ton that promises to become popular
in this country. They afford the same
centrifugal power as the large wheel,
cost less and take up less room.
The French militia having shown
themselves in thirteen days of camp
training, are by competent critics pro
nOunced more like hastily raised
bands than an army, so poor were
their discipline and so lacking were
they in skill
SIR HENRY BEssEIER has announced
that by the use of a very pure charcoal
pig iron and it's treatment by q special
method a Bessemer steel is produced,
which, on analysis, is found equal in
purity to the highest brands of steel
made from bistered bars.
WHEN | Learn, says Proctor, that
the Challenger expedition dredged up
shark teeth five inches long by four
wide, which would indicate that the
sharks to which these teeth belonged
were a hundred feet long, / feel no
doubt that sharks of these dimensions
are still in existence.
The bellies of Saratoga have a sub
stitute for kissing, and it consists in
rubbing cheeks. The maidens meet
The nose of one is slid back about to
the ear of the other, and the conjunc-
tive cheeks, held hard, are slowly
rubbed together until they part at the
corners OF the mouths.
The wOrthlessness of the murdered
man was the only plea made by a
Wyoming lawyer in defense of his
client, who had deliberately shot a
bully for merely annoying him. The
judge pronounced it unsound in law,
but the jury let it Justify in their
minds a verdict of acquittal.
ANGLE-WORMs, fish, ETC., are often
caught up into the clouds by revolving
storms, and then dropped again many
miles from the place where they were
taken up. Small fish have often been
found in puddles of water in village
streets, to the astonishment of people
who were unacquainted with the phe-
nomenOn.
The Russian Department of Com
nlerce and Manufacture has awarded
q patent to the inventor of q means Of
impregnating wood with a certain
chemical, that, when dried, the matches
from this prepared wood can be used
several times over, thus effecting a
saving Of, it is claimed, at least seven
ty-fve per cent.
THE island of Britain was known to
the ancients several centuries before
the Christian era, and was visited by
the Phenician and Carthaginian trad
ers, who obtained from the natives
several commodities, such as skins,
lead and tin. Tin was used with cop
per in forming bronze, an article in ex-
tensive use among the ancient orien-
tai nations.
BETWEEN 1870 and 1880 the white
population of the United States in
creased from SO, 592,245 to 43,4O2,-
go, or 29. 2Oper cent. and the colored
population from 1886, 3S7 to $780,
1913, or 1857 per cent. Yet the col
ored people gained nothing from i'm
migration, while something like 3, OOO,-
600 were added to the white popula-
ton from that source.
ELECTRICITY has been brought to the
aid of the sportsman by the use of a
small lamp for the front sight of a
rife, to render it visible in the dusk
or when from any cause whatever
there is insufficient light. The minute
electric lamp is fixed near the muzzle
Of the gun and shielded by a metallic
screen. The current is supplied by a
small battery in the stock.
THE fact that tea does not bear
rough handling is urged against the
project CT transporting it overland
from the Pacific ports to the Atlantic
seaboard 1t is said that the Earring
and jolting Of the railway cars breaks
and crumbles the brittle leaves so that
what may be gained In time over all
water transportation is lost on the
merchantable quality Of the tea on it's
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