Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-25
PICKED UP.

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WOMEN are sections in the English
church. Berlin. 1t is said to break
their hearts to have anybody leave be-
! fore the collection is taken up.
IT is estimated by government OF
fcials that therailroad companies car
nv 81, 100000 year OF govern
ment funds. and losses are inconsider-
able.
CAPT. HANNA brought up from San
Pedro, CAL, on his last TRIP a potato
weighing about seventeen pounds, and
measuring thirty-three and three
eighths inches around the largest part.
MULTrrUDEs of Cinnamon are now on
their way home to celebrate their New
Year holidays, and If they are not
careful about their certificates they
will have some difficulty about getting
back.
THE Lancet states that a German
observer has found that COWS MIXED
three times day give much more milk
than when MIXED twice only, and that
the proportion of fat is the same In
both cases.
NEBRASKA will insist, says the
Omaha Bee, that her two northern
posts of Niobrara and Robinson
which guard the great Sioux reserve
from the south, shall be maintained
and enlarged.
A FLOATING bar-room now plies up
and down the Savannah Rlvec, 10
Georgia, supplying such OF the thirsty
as care to Journey to the craft In small
boats, which the proprietors will send
ashore for them.
SINCE the raising of ostriches was
begun in California, the Cape Town
government has placed an export duty
of $500 on each ostrich taken out Of
the country. Fear of American com
petition is the cause.
IT is necessary, says the Red Bluff
|. (Cal.) Sentinel, to send a man on foot
! ahead of railroad trains near Delta
in order to remove distractions put
on the track by trampS for the pur
pose of train wrecking.
PHILADELPHIA contains more dwell
ing-houses owned by their occupants
than any other city in the country
beating New York by more than 20,
900. Philadelphia is growing at the
rate of 5000 houses year.
WHILE the rocky shoals of Hell Gate
are being torn to pieces, the Sandy
| Hook Channel to New York is said tic
be slowly filling up. Even at high tide
the huge foreign steamships frequently
touch the bar as they come and go.
AT present the most profitable kinG
of literary work, says George Parsons
Lathrop, is that of play-writing, anC
the reason why dramatic authors are
so highly recompensed is because the
ability to construct a successful play
is extremely rare.
The Morning Star, thepaper printed
by the Indian children at the Carlisle
school, announces that "three car
loads of tinware and stovepipe, made
by our apprentice boys, were shipped
to different Indian agencies In the
West during the month of October
THE captain of the British ship Pen
gordon, at San Francisco from Sydney
reports that when about /, 100 miles
out land bird, known as a cross
bill, flew aboard and landed on the
hand of one OF the crew The captain
brought the bird to port with him, and
it is quite tame.
AT the recent opening of a new ad
dition to the London Temperance
Hospital-an establishment started tt
test the question ss to the value o
alcohol III the treatment Of disease
it was announced that In only thre
out of upward Of 3 ,OOOcases last yea
had alcohol been used.
A PHILADELPHIA barber has beer
clipping the hair and trimming tn
boards of about fifty wax dummie
that have been bought for the museum
annex of the Temple Theater. Th
hair and boards were not in Chestnut
Street style when the dummies wer
delivered at the museum.
ONE of the recent bronze statue
found at Rome shows an athlete jus
after an effort. The combatant i
still breathing hard, his veins al
swollen, his muscles not yet at rest
and the dints of blows are seen her
and there on his naked skin. 1t i
said to be q marvellous piece of real
ism.
IN q small crack in piece OF casln
lust under the center delivery window
the postmaster of Gainesville, Fla
has Just discovered twelve or fifteel
letters and postal cards, which wer
from time to time put there by peopl
who thought the crack served as q re
ceiving box. Some of the postal card
were put there in 1888.
THE painted rock of Santa BarDar;