Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-04
CHIPS.


is estimated at 80,0OO,OO0,
SAVANNAH last year received $4,000
from its tax on drummers.
UNDER British rule there live about
2S5,000,000 human beings.
COUNTY. city and town debts in Con-
necticut aggregate 81, 635 200.
YOUNG swe1ls in New York anxious to
have white skins have themselves bled
or use cosmetics.
A BOX of mortar from the walls of a
Catholic chapel in Ireland is effecting
(they say) many miraculous cures at
Wheeling, W. Va.
CALIFORNIA has no asylum for the
blind, but the state legislature, at it's
coming session, will consider the prof.
ect of building one.
ROBERT BROWNING, the English poet,
is remarked at the age of 70. Lord
Sherbrooke, ex-chancellor of the ex-
chequer, contemplates a matrimonial
alliance with his amanuensis.
THINGS were made rather lively in
the San Francisco post-office a week or
so ago by the escape of number of
bees from package which was received
in the mail.
TENNESSEE stands next to the head
which suggests to the people the neces-
sity of improving it's present defective
school system.
The substitution of glass flooring for
boards continues to increase in Paris,
this being especially the case in those
business structures in which the cellars
are used as Offices.
RENTS in New York and Brooklyn
will certainly, it is said, come down in
April. Overbuilding and dull trade
will be the principal arguments by rent
ers in favor of the reduction.
Mrs. MATTE BowLIN, full-blooded
Beatrice, Neb., is turning white, the
flesh pealing off in patches. Her hands
and arms are almost perfectly white.
A BOUNTY of 81 per head for each
wolf destroyed in Northwest Canada is
now being paid by ranchmen in that
section, who have suffered considerable
loss lately by the ravages of these ami
mails.
"JUsT year ago." said New Hamp-
shire man, my brother dropped dead
on this spot of apoplexy. Tom was
-" But at this point he went to join
his brother, dropping dead of the same
ailment.
In the last six years the native popula-
ton of Hawaii has diminished four
thousand, and the government is
engaged in frantic effort to save itself
from extinction by the importation of
foreign races.
A CATTLE-RAIsER of Churchill County,
New, began business twenty years ago
with Durham COW, for which he paid
$500. He has sold descendants from
her for $4,000 and has $4,000 worth of
the same stock left.
A LEMON tree, at Maryville, CAL, has
on it buds just forming, buds partly
formed, buds ready to burst with bloom,
and full-blown blossoms. Then comes
a series of lemons, in regular graduation,
from the tiniest up to mammoth in
size.
A LOUISVILLE man has just been I'M
lucky enough to serve on a jury with
eleven obstinate men, but he brought
them around. They all wanted the
culprit hanged, but the one stood out
until twenty years imprisonment was
agreed to.
IN 100000 years the mean annual
temperature of the earth will have de-
creased 80 degrees, aud eventually the
terrestrial hemisphere will be frozen up,
according to the latest astronomical
computations. It makes one shiver to
think of it.
AMERICAN apples go abroad in great
quantities this season, mostly to En-
gland. They sell on street stands in
London at from s to IL cents apiece.
None go to Russia or Italy yet, but it is
expected that they will soon find their
way to both countries.
A MEXICAN millionaire and wife, resi-
dents of Carmen, in Mexico, recently
celebrated their golden wedding by a
banquet and notable gifts to the poor.
Five hundred thousand dollars in one
lump was given to the sufferers In the
district overrun by locusts.
A GIRL in Knoxville, Tenu., was
struck in the face by her father. The
blow was light, but it was the first she
had ever received from him, and, worse
still, her sweetheart was present She
fell i'll that same day, sank steadily
during a year, and is now dead.
THE London Truth says: "Mme.
Patti telegraphed from America, last
week, ordering that tradesman at
Swansea should send three wagon-loads
of blankets and flannel to Crag-y-Nos,
for distribution among the poor in the
neighborhood of her country residence"
The wine product of California is in
creasing faster than the consumption,
and though wine, unlike other products,
does not deteriorate, but improves with
age, says the Alta California, the dis
proportion can not continue a great
many years without exciting serious
fears.
ALL practical teachers and account
ants know how much time is wasted in
the needless repetition of figures in add
ing. Impressed with this fact, Mr..
Jesse D. Sprague, an accountant, has
urittan q usafuI little pamphlet suppest-