Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

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pose d license of $1,000 on skating
Kinks.
The old bones lying around loose
IN Nevada are being collected and
shipped to San Francisco to be used
in refining sugar
HOOD RIVER, Oregon. claims TO pro-
duce the most luscious peaches in the
West, and will have an abundant croD
Of them this year.
PATIENCE has a limit. A French
tailor recently committed suicide after
paying forty-six unsuccessful dunning
visits to a single creditor.
Toast and marmalade and a cup
of tea is the fashionable breakfast for
young society men, in New York, who
never retire before 3 A. M.
A BEET was grown in Suisun Valley,
Cal, that measured sixty-fve inches
around, ffty-fve inches long, and
weighed seventy-fve pounds.
The London Times is inclined to
make fun of the Americans who have
lavished so much praise and attention
on Mr.. Irving and Miss Terry.
CHILDREN grow taller, it is said, dur
ing an acute sickness, such as fever,
the growth Of the bones being stimu-
lated by the febrile condition.
A BROOKLYN woman has Just sued
her brother-in-laW for abducting her
husband and sending him abroad.
The husband was subject to epilepsy.
"GONE to oven" is the correct ex-
preston for the retirement OF the Rus
sian peasant at night, since he has no
bed. but sleeps on the top of the oven.
WHAT is said to be the largest dia-
mond in the world is about to be cut
in Amsterdam. TWAS recently found
in South Africa and weighs Ats carats.
A ROSE bush in Chico, CAL, is be
tween thirty and forty feet high, and
fifteen or twenty feet in diameter, and
the top is now mass of white
roses.
CINCINNATI stands fourth among the
publishing centers of the country, her
annual product of books and papers
amounting in value to more than S.
100000.
BETWEEN wolves and eagles the
farmers in the interior of West Vir-
ginia have been losing thousands of
dollars worth of sheep and other
small stock.
The territorial government of Da-
kota has offered reward Of $5, OOOfor
the discovery and development of
mine of anthracite coalin the territory,
and prospectors are busy.
IT is q singular fact that many Of the
most popular hymns were written by
persons who were not religious at all,
or whose claims to religion were based
on very slight foundations
The height of apartment houses in
New York is prepOsterOus. A house
178 feet high has actually been erected,
and one of Is stories, 1872 feet high,
with cupola 40 feet higher, has been
projected.
PHILADELPHIA consumed during the
year / ,273, Sol barrels of beer and ale.
This is a little over 500 glasses a year
for each man, woman and child, in
that city, or about two glasses day
all around.
CARSON, NEv., is excited over the
reckless scattering of strychnine by
some idiots or knaves for the purpose
of killing dogs. Several valuable ami
mails have already been killed through
the criminal practice.
1t is a fact, perhaps not generally
known even to the citizens of this
state, that Georgia is the largest state
east Of the Mississippi River. Every
body knows that it is the best.-Au-
gusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
The Medical Journal states that a
few handfuls Of common salt thrown
daily into closets, and an occasional
handful into wash basins, goes far to-
ward counteractingt the noxious effects
OF the omnipresent sewer gas.
f. THE United States consulate at No
gales, Sonora, Mexico, is without a
flag. This is probably the only case on
record where a branch Of the United
States consular department is not
by the national ensign.
THE seven bibles of mankind are:
The Bible, the Vedas of the Brahmins,
the Tripitalia OF the Buddhists, the
Zend Avesta of the Parsees or Per-
slams, the Chinese sacred books of
the Chinese sacred book of
and the Mohammedan Ko-
RAM
THE schools established for boys
and young men and young women, by
Evangelist Moody, at Mortified and
Gill, Mass, cost 100000, and two
more buildings will soon be completed
at a cost of 100000. The money
was obtained from rich friends of the
evangelist.
THE Prussian Diet has been asked
for grants for the extension and COM
pletion of the network of state rail
roads to the extent of 6O,7OO,OOO
marks Of this sum 49,484,OOO
marks are required for the construc-
ton of fourteen Lines of total length
of 365 miles and the balance is needed
for the completion of existing rail
roads.
THINGS one would rather have left
unsaid: He taking herinto dinner =
Yes, know both slightly, and con-
Tess + don't think much of him." She
Il know him little, too. He took
me into dinner a little while ago." He
-''Ah, that's just about all he's fit
TOR !"-PUnch.
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