Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28
PICKED UP.

he OUSSIdu government grants
subsidies amounting to $767,765 to
various steamship companies
JOSEPH OLDEN, Of Princeton, n. J.,
has a pound-pear tree that is 21O
years old and yet bearing fruit.
AT q concert among Scottish bag
pipers in Chicago the other day seven
women tainted and three horses ran
away.
The Princess Metternich has been
on shooting expedition with her hus-
band in Bohemia, and proved herself
capital shot.
A CINCINNATI husband who threat
ened to cut his wife's heart out and
carry it around on shingle got off
with a fine of SIS.
HAMILTON COLLEGE has in its muse
UNI series of ivory figures delineating
the stage Of the opium eaters descent
through emaciation and degradation
to death.
LICORICE can be successfully grown
IN California and most of the Southern
states, yet we imported last year near
ly forty million pounds of it, worth
100000.
A LADY who said she had come four
hundred miles to see the president,
shook hands with one of the door
keepers, thinking it was Grover, and
left happy.
The Georgia Legislature has recon
sidered the resolution voting $500 for
a portrait of her Revolutionary govern
or, John Milledge, and decided not to
purchase the portrait.
ONE of the sailors of the Genesta's
crew declared that he wasn't "agoin'
on the bloomin' craft" and forfeited
the pay due him rather than risk his
life on the return voyage.
THE museum DIST. Petersburg has
bank note probably the Oldest in ex-
istence. 1t is of the Imperial Bank of
China, issued by the Chinese govern
ment, and dates from the year 1899
before Christ.
1t is proposed to utilize the motive
power of the Montmoren Falls, near
Quebec, to operate a railroad to the
miraculous shrine of ST. Anne, which
yearly attracts $4,000 Or 100000
visitors.
PITTsBURG tailors are waging war
upon the dudes of that city who fail
to pay their bills. They propose to
publish the names Of their delinquents
in the amusement programmes at the
theaters.
DISEASE germs exposed to tempera
ture of 100 degrees below zero for one
hundred hours were found to be still
alive and healthy and ready for the
summer campaign.
FRANCE lost IL, 900 men in the Ton
quin campaign, and her losses in
money, including the cost of building
forts, hospitals, and frontier defenses,
were S215, 100000.
A GREAT many coins-English shil-
lings, sixpences, coppers, and one Can
adam piece-were found in Jumbo's
stomach by the gentlemen having
charge Of his remains.
"HWNTWs" is the name applied to
the inhabitants of the South of Wales
by the men of the North. The North
men have a strong dislike tor a.
"Hwntw," and can hardly understand
his dialect.
CHARLES R. CHANDLER, of Concord,
n. H., has rounded out his first hun
dred years and enters the second with
remarkable powers of vitality. His
mental faculties are unimpaired, and
he pleads guilty to feeling as young as
he did quarter of a century ago.
Miss BELLE FRANKLIN, Dakota
school teacher, saved a. neighbours
wheat stacks and house from the
prairie fires by Harvesting the horses
to the pillow and turning several fur
rows, which created substantial fire
brake
The library of the University of Ala
bama has been presented with a large
and valuable collection of rare books.
Many Of these volumes we're purchased
and owned by John w. Walker, the
first United States senator from Ala
bama.
THE new parliamentary block in
Ottawa, Can, is being constructed of
stone from Newcastle, N. B., which is
being transported to the former place
at the rate Of eight carloads daily.
One thousand carloads will be required
to complete the building.
NINdNIO MORAN, who has been spend
ing the summer at East Hampton, L.
l., has just completed another etching,
the subject of which is taken from the
kitchen yard surrounding the famous
old "John Howard Payne" house, the
birthplace of the autho4 of "Home,
Sweet Home"
THE wife of a police sergeant of New
Orleans made an attack upon young
women of whom she was Jealous, and
was thereupon arrested by her hus-
band and locked up in jail. He re-
leased her after three or tour hours,
and was dismissed from the force in
consequence.
In Schohlarie County, n. Y, there are
two women twins, ga years of age.
Both are described as we'll preserved.
active and in full possession of their
mental faculties. Each was the moth
er OF seven children, the eldest of each
family being alive, one at the age of
65, the other SO years.
BENsoN's watch, the size OF a six
pence, creates a sensation at the Lon
don Inventories" There is another,
the size OF a shilling, which shows the
time, the year, the month, the day of
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