Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

which form tire panhandle OF the
state are making an effort to be sep
arated from the state and attached
to Pennsylvania.
A TOWER 1890 feet high has been
proposed for Paris. An engineer has
calculated that a tower thrice that
height might be built and yet not
crush it's own foundations.
HAPPY JAMES" advertises a ''hal-
lelujah barber shop" in Portland.
He remarks: "My shop is neat and
my towels are clean, my shears are
sharp and my razors are keen
RAvENNA, Ohio, comes to the front
with q one-legged roller skating probes
sor whose skatorial feats upon his one
limb are described as simply wonder
full while his exhibition of extraordi-
nary strength of arms and body is no
less SO.
For several days John Martin, liv-
ing near Valdosta, New, noticed that
a deer came up with the cattle every
evening, but it would invariably
scamper at the sight of any person.
Finally, Mr.. Martin slipped on it and
killed it.
THE state department at Washing
ton will not permit the examination
Of the evidence in regard to French
spoliation claims in their department,
but say that at an early day it will
be placed in the archives of the court
of claims.
In some OF the rural churches In
Holland it is customary to smoke
during service. A foreigner, who re-
Gently preached to a Dutch cSngrega-
ton, had among the audience the pas
tor of the church, who smoked his
pipe like the rest.
A FARMER in Jackson Township,
Pennsylvania, dreamed that he was
rolling logs, and as one was about to
crush him he sprang out OF the way,
fell over the rocking-chalr, and struck
against the sharp edge of the bureau,
breaking three ribs.
A CURRENT story relates to a family
of father, mother and nine children
who are now in New England on their
way round the world. The parents
are now on their eighth circuit of the
globe, having been travelling continu-
ously for thirteen years.
A WOMAN has been employed as
draughtsman IN the United States
survey of Montana The United
States State Surveyor Of Colorado
has employed women for some time,
and says they are exact and tidy.
He pays them 81 a working day.
ACCORDING to musical directory
recently issued in London, there are
4,5OO persons and firms who earn
their living by the trade or profession
of music, and $500 more through
the country outside of London. This
exceeds school-teachers, governesses,
artisans and clerks.
THE 18th of October next will be the
bi-centenary OF the revocation of the
edict of Nantes, and the descendants
of Huguenot refugees in Prussia, HOl-
land and Switzerland contemplate
holding celebrations, not SO much OF
the revocation as of the hospitality
offered abroad to it's victims.
AN entry in Washington's diary,
dated February, 1858, shows the
great number of visitors he enter
tanned at that time. Would any
person believe" he says. chat with
101 COWS actually reported at late
enumeration Of my cattle | should
In the United States there are IT,
600 dentists, who use q ton of gold
and five tons of other metals and
make 100000 artificial teeth annu
ally Only one American IN eighty is
found to have perfect teeth, and one
third of the population make more or
less use Of the artificial product.
THE United States is said now to be
the third largest silk manufacturing
country in the world, and this despite
all that has been said and written to
discourage the raising of silk in this
country. The value of our annual
silk product is now placed at $685.,
600, 900 About 10000 pounds OF
cocoons were raised In 1888.
AT Huntingdon, Ore, the other day
gang of eight men raided the China
House, securing about $4,000 from
the inmates, who were forced with
halters around their necks to give up
their money. Gamblers and thieves
OF the worst character are said to
hold the people of the town at their
mercy, there being no law officers
there.
SOME of the japanese almost wor-
ship cats. A feline funeral In great
style is reported by a correspondent.
The coffin of the defunct pussy was
covered with a white silk pail, and a
body OF chanting priests followed the
cortege to the grave. In due course Of
time a monument was erected, on
which were inscribed the many virtues
of the cat.
The degree of accUracv in scientific
measurements IS rarely appreciated
by the unscientifc. In the Sloane
physical laboratory at Yale College
the cathetometer, for vertical meas
urements, made by Grunow, of New
York, which is the finest in the world,
will measure to one two-hundred- and
ffty-thousandth of an inch.
SOME people are born exceedingly
lucky, as is shown in the case of a