Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-08-12
CHIPS.

Lake City.
IRELAND manufactures more linen
than any other country on the globe,
and wears less.
The Philadelphia Press has started
"dime subscription" to raise a mon
ument to Grant in Fairmount Park.
TWELVE young ladies from Mount
Holyoke Seminary have just returned
from a ramble of 100 miles through
Western Massachusetts.
The suppression of the rebellion in
the Northwest has cost the Canadian
Government 100000, besides a
number of valuable lives.
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, who discovered
California in 1877, called the country
New Albion. The word California first
appears in the writings of Nunez, one
OF the followers Of Cortez.
The New York Tribune says that
$500 stores and shops in that city
are now closed on Saturday after
moons, and that as a result at least
$4,000 persons enjoy weekly half
holiday.
WOMEN dentists are gaining ground
in Germany. They are practicing in
many of the great cities-in Hamburg,
Strasbourg, Cologne, Weisbaden and
Frankfort-on-the-Main. They are
very popular with the children.
The hot weather can carry to the
reflective the comfort that it is ripen-
ing the biggest corn crop the country
has ever had, and a big corn crop is
the chief hope to-day that exports will
be large, food cheap, and times better
next winter, when, by heway, 1T will be
cooler.-Phi7adelphia Tress.
EvARRICE MANCEAU, of L'Avenir,
Province of Quebec, has son only 6
years ofage, and he weighs LOG pounds,
stands 4 feet in height, measures
around the waist 81 inches, around
the arm II inches, and around the
calf of the leg Ii inches, and is smart
and active.-MOntreaI Gazette.
IT is to be hoped that there will be
no blood shed between the Gentiles
and Mormons. The death OF a Gen
tile does not amount to much, but
when a Mormon is killed from seven
to seventeen widows lose the light of
their life and the provider of their gro
ceries.-LOuisVil7e COurier-JournaL
ENGAGED man to saw one cord
of wood for which | was to pay him
So in cash, but as he wanted to take
his pay in wood agreed to that, al
lowing him to take from the cord of
wood payment for saving the remain
der. How much wood did [ have
left? Wood ST per cord.-Boston Rec
ord.
PuTsBURG is among heseveral cities
which have ''the finest law library in
the country" Not long ago Cincin-
natl had. but the musty lore went up
in smoke when the mob burned the
finest court house and spared the
finest jail and lot of Gagged criminals in
the country.-Cfncinnati Commercial
Gazette.
AFTER giving an exposition of the
chemical composition and alimentary
value of the different portions of the
grain Of wheat, NJ. Anne Girard con
cludes that it is advisable to reject, in
so far as it is mechanically possible,
the outer layers of the grain, and re-
serve for human food the farinaceous
portion only.
AFTER all, American political invec-
dian article ''Yellow dog" "skunk,"
"fshwife," Judas "vile traitor, /"
yankee emissary," "craven coward"
and goddess atheist" are few of the
ordinary epithets which respectable
members of Parliament in that coun-
try have to bear UP under every day.
WE can show the Mexican editors
one thing here they don't have down
in the tropics, that is genuine, real
warm weather. The Mexicans have
quaint snakes, gay birds, orchids, vol
canoes, and an assortment OF levers,
but they seldom see the thermometer
mark weather in three figures. Wash
ington Star.
IT is curious, but nevertheless true.
says the City of Mexico Two Republics,
that q horse is employed drawing
bread delivery wagon in this city
which is over 40 years old. On his
shoulder is the brand ''U. S." He was
a cavalry horse in the army under
Gen. Scott, and is risky yet, though a
veteran. In spite of his long residence
in Mexico, he has never taken out nat
uralization papers.
THE late Col. Fred. Burnaby prided
himself on his descent from Edward l.,
and when reminded that that monarch
was ryrant would say: "No doubt.
But l would sooner be descended from
those who dared Cypress the people
than to belong to the people who are
cowardly enough to submit to oppres-
sior"
THE practice of retiring to scyclone
PITS during storm has led to a
schism in aGeorgia church A MAORI
ty of the brethren considered such a
means OF safety an evidence of distrust
in God. The minority replied that
they trusted in God as much as any
body, but when they saw an able
bodied cyclone coming they were going
to get out of the way. All efforts to
bridge over the schism have failed.
THE Bank Of Devil Lake, D. T., has
adopted a peculiar vignette The base
is sheaf of wheat, on which rests
silver dollar, over the back of which
Satan is climbing, holding in one hand
the scales of justice and in the other