Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

stoves IN use, and the average life of
stove is five years.
In Florida oil is thrown into ponds
and standing water to prevent mos
quitoes from Matching.
There are said to be more species
of birds nesting in Central Park, New
York, than on any area of its size in
the world.
New Bedford, Mass, carpenters
shingled one side of the roof of house
before they discovered they were work
ing on the wrong building
-Wilkesbarre, Pa, was named after
Wilkes and Barre, two members of Par
lament who took sides with the Colo
MES during the tax discussion previous
to the Revolutionary War.
Bohemia contains something more
than 100000 of inhabitants. But
there are nearly 100000 Bohemians ia
the United States, of whom there are
80, 900 Bohemians in Chicago, 2O,OOO in
Cleveland and 5000 in New York.
Fargo has all along supposed that
she had seventeen thousand popula-
ton, but a census taken by the police
fails to show quite ten thousand How
seven thousand people slipped out of
town inside of two days is what bothers
those who didn't go.
The strawberry crop of the Eastern
shore of Maryland is more profitable
than the oyster crop. This region
promises to become the great trucking
garden of the Atlantic coast, and there
is very little improbable land in it that
is not now under cultivation.
Queen Victoria detests smokers,
and keeps up in her palaces the stand
ing order, POSITIVELY no smoking
here" much to the annoyance of the
Prince of Wales, who, as the first dandy
of the land, not only smokes, but sets
all the fashions, though his reputation
as rake is exaggerated.
Watermelon seed pools are the
newest style of gambling. Each player
puts in quarter, or any other sum
agreed upon, and makes his guess, then
the melon is cut and the seeds are
counted, and the best guesser takes the
pool Something over six hundred
seems to be the average number.-N.
Y. Tribune.
John 4. Stevens was the founder
of American yachting. He founded
the New York Club, which originally
numbered only nine yachts. Now
there are one thousand eight hundred
vessels of the kind belonging to Ameri-
can owners. The oldest American
yacht is the Minnesota, which was
built in 1885.
Some INSCRIPTIONS people in San
Francisco are selling the water of
Owens Lake, in California, at one dollar
a pint, under the name of the "Water
of Life" The water of Owens Lake is
strong I've, and a goblet of it would
almost kill a man. But ignorant peo-
pie buy it, and drink small quantities
of it, under the impression that they
are taking a wonderful curative.
First Citizen-''Do you deal at
IS store?" Second Citizen-"O,
dear, no; | make it point never to 90
where | am not wanted" F. C.-"But
a storekeeper certainly wants you to
60 in and buy" S. C.--''Well, l think
if he wants me he'll invite me through
the advertising columns of a newspa-
per. No, [ never intrude where L am
not wanted. Mr.. - never adver-
tises. oil city Derrick.
English and American statesmen shows
the average for the English to be
seventy years and for the Americans
sixty-nine. OF our Senators fifty-nine
gave an average of sixty-one years;
one hundred and forty-six Representa-
tives averaged fifty-tive years, and the
average for both was ffty-eight The
one hundred and twenty-one members
of Parliament averaged sixty-eight
years at death.
Eagle feathers are highly priced
by the Indians, and their method of
capturing the bird is this: They repair
to the mountains and dig pit, which
is covered lightly with reeds and grass.
A piece of buffalo meat, done up in a
wolf skin, is laid on the pit The eagle
swoops down, alights upon the wolf
skin and begins to tear it. The Indian,
who is concealed in the pit, seizes the
bird by its legs and drags it into the
pit, where he brushes its breast with
his knees.
Says the master of the house to
the servant, as he prepares to lock
himself in his study and work: Il am
not in, If anyone calls. mind" A
quarter of an hour later he rings the
bell. No answer. He rings it again
Still no answer He opens the door
furiously and cries to the servant in
the ante chamber: 'Did you hear me
ring, you idiotP' Eyes sir. but as you
told me you weren't in. [ couldn't
think of taking a. BELLS word before
yours, sir. "-Manchester Courier.
my DEAR" said wife to her hus-
band, II know that [ am dreadful
cross with you at times, that am not
patient as [ should be, and / think the
same can be said of YOU" Eyes, GER
tainly," he frankly acknowledged, 81
am almost as bad as you are % ''What's
that?" IL say that l am just as
much to blame as you are" II Think
went on the lady, ''that we ought to
cultivate mutual liberation of each
others faults, and she bent over him
and fondly kissed him. ''You are not
looking well tonight, DEAR he said
stroking her hair. No." she replied,
my feet pain me dreadfully." That's
because you wear shoes two sizes too