Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-18
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Columbus (O.) Dispatch.

received gifts amounting to nearly
81, 100000
THERE were seven hundred less
deaths in Monterey, Mex, during 1884
than during 1888.
THERE IS q widow in Birmingham,
Ala, ID years old, and she attends
the public schools.
The thousands of finger rings worn
IN this country are estimated to be
worth SIS, 100000.
THE number of farmers in the Penn
sylvanla legislature is said to be de-
ereaslng from year to year.
THERE are forty-six stenographers
on the city payroll in New York, and
they draw $96,12O in salaries an
nually
The Yankton Press gathers from its
exchanges columns of reports of births
under the head of "Dakota's Winter
Harvest"
WASHINGTON, GA, claims to have
been the first town in America
to be named for the Gather OF his
Country"
PATENT medicines are estimated by
a leading English medical journal to
cause the death of 100000 persons
per year.
DIAMOND-BACK terrapins on one side
and red herring on the other represent
two extremes of the Lenten season
market.
WHILE filling a water-tank in a pas
senger-car, at Altoona, Pa, the other
day, workmen found in it trout eight
inches long.
THE time for the transmission of
cable messages has been reduced to
about one minute between New York
and London.
A FARMER near Belleville, H., has a
hen which laid an egg inches long, 81
inches in circumference, and which
weighed 80 ounces.
In the pyrometer heat is measured
by the expansion of metals, and the
instrument will measure heat accu-
rately up to z 1000 degrees.
A NORTH CAROLINA young ladies' IN
stitute sends specimens of stocking
darning and refooting old stockings to
the New Orleans exposition.
THE first railway in Cochin-China
was opened on December 21 last. 1t
ney taking about four hours
No San Francisco resident, says the
Newsletter of that city, ever thinks
of using the word Frisco" Only
strangers use that Authorization.
A TEMPERANCE society in Boston has
just resolved that the use of tobacco
for the qualification of the appetite is
"a sin against God and humanity"
LITTLE Rhode Island sports an army
OF seven hundred men, commanded by
five brigadier-generals, fifty-fve staff
officers, and seventy-seven inferior Of
fcers.
AsENTENCE containing every letter in
the alphabet, and a favorite with
writing teachers, is, "a quick brown
fox jumps over the lazy dog New
York Sun.
THERMOMETER tubes have to be sea-
soned. This requires a year or two.
When glass is new it changes, expands, |
contracts and warps almost as badly
as green wood.
THE Manchester Union points with
pride to New Hampshire woman who
hasn't broken a lamp or a lamp CHM
ney in thirty years. Perhaps she used
gas or candles.
THE four counties in West Virginia
which form the Panhandle of the
state" are making an effort to be sep
arated from that state and attached
to Pennsylvania.
THERE is scarcely farm in Bucks
County to-day, says the Doylestown
(Pal Intelligencer, that would sell for
more than the improvements III build |
ings and fences would cost.
The Alabama Legislature has passed |
an act requiring MIXTURE to |
be written or printed. Heretofore |
oral mortgages have been held valid |
-Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times.
Ii cost New Orleans so much money
to try her officials for criminal offenses
that the city cannot afford to squan-
der money on gaslights and school
teachers.-New Orleans Picayune.
THE Boston Music Hall has not |
yielded a fair dividend to the stock |
holders for some time, it is announced,
and In consequence they are consider
ing a proposition for it's conversion
into q theater.
A NORWICH domestic, injured recent
" by q bursting range, sues for 81 200
the plumber who fixed the frozen wa
ter pipes and told her the fire could be
started without danger.-Springfeld
(Mass.) Republican.
AN extensive firm of Connecticut bed
Quilt manufacturers have purchased
the entire village of Fitchville Conn,
consisting of two large stone mills.
twanty-seven tenement-houses, a
church, school-house, and public hall
CORK, when carbonized, produces
$3.50 per cent. pure charcoal, the
greatest per cent. of any known wood.
Willow, wheat-straw, and oak rank
next, in the order named, while maple
and poplar are 1915 and 31.12, or at
the very foot of the list.