Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-07-22
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| A GOOD base ball player in Rhode
Island gets bigger salary than the
governor of the state.
THE highest prize at the New Or
| leans Exposition for oranges was won
| by Massachusetts men.
THE owners of large farms in Oregon
| areselling off tracts, and declare them
selves in favor of small holdings as the
best policy.
PRUSSIA has now 1869, LA adher-
ents of the Evangelical Church, 8, $780,
| 239 Roman Catholics and 457,5
Jews.
THERE are between $4,000 and st.
600 Indians on reservations in Ari-
IONA. About $4,000 square miles or
II, 100000 acres of land are set apart
for them.
A NEWLy-ERECTED Irish hospital bore
the strange device, "ConvaIescent
Home for Incurables," which excited
so much mirth that it was soon
painted out again.
A COLoRED wash-lady, who died in
Brooklyn the other day, left a fortune
| of $4,000 accumulated in her bust
ness. She made no will, and, as there
are no heirs, the money will go to the
state.
THERE is family near Lincolnton,
| n. c., of six sons, the youngest of
whom is 27, and three daughters, the
youngest of whom is 80, and there has
never been a marriage In the present
generation.
ACCORDING to a Tennessee law,
man who is to be hung can invite
three friends to the execution. This
liberal spirit on the part of Tennessee
has benefited a large portion Of the
| community.
A SMART girl of North Auburn, Me-,
has walked six miles a day to and
from the schoolhouse where she has
successfully taught a twelve weeks
term of school. Shesays that she has
enjoyed every day of it.
PARIS GREEN is made of arsenic,
carbonate Of soda, blue vitriol, acetic
acid, chloride of barium, and some
times Whites sugar of lead. 1t is
double salt, known to chemists as
aceto-arsenite of copper.
A LAND and cattle company has
paid to the Atlantic & Pacific Rail-
road Company so cents an acre for
81, $4,000 acres of it's grant in Arizo.
ma, with the privilege of selecting the
land wherever they choose.
THE New Haven Young Woman's
Christian Association attracted people
to their rooms recently by exhibiting
seventy-fve different varieties of glox-
inias, tropical plants found in South
ern Mexico and South America.
THE Jews of Austria complain that
it is a great hardship that they should
be forbidden to work on Sundays,
since their religion obliges them to rest
on Saturday. The Jewish population
in Vienna alone amounts to 100000.
AFTER deducting expenses, the Bis
marck fund amounted to a sum which
admitted of $4,000 being paid for
Schonhausen, and the balance, a little
over 100000, being placed to the
premier's credit
A PENNSYLVANIA inventor has pat
ented step-ladder which is combined
with a folding table and drawer for
holding small articles. The ladder
opens automatically and is made
more firm than step-ladders usually
are.
A GENTLEMAN of Columbus, S. c.,
uOC1Io a. 1O1SO III a. CtI1O OUOh
opening the door discovered the in
terror to be all on fire, the work of a
rat that had taken to devouring some
matches that he found on one of the
shelves.
OF all the Lompoc tribe of Indians
Of whom fifty years ago there were
some four thousand in Santa Barbara
County, CAL, there is but one sur
vivor, and he is old and feeble, exist
ing upon charity in the city of Santa
Barbara.
A KINGSTON, Ca, man has a curios-
ity in the way Of a fowl. 1t is cross
between a turkey and guinea, and it is
between the size of q turkey and q
guinea, and it makes strange noise
more like a little dog barking thar
anything else.
A UNIQUE library will be formed in
the course of the Concord School OF
Philosophy. Lectures on Emerson
formed the opening volume, and the
philosophers propose to publish their
thoughts upon Goethe at the close of
this summers session.
MUCH Boston association furnishes
Southern genius. 1t is quite possible
for American genius to be recognized
without the Boston stamp upon it.
There are a great many clever and
capable people in this country who
have never been to Boston.-BIrning-
ham (ALa.) Age.
IT is singular, but a fact neverthe-
less, that almost any community will
wink at conduct on the part Of a band
of students which would be unani-
mously condemned and promptly
if INDUCED in by the employees
of shoe factory or a machine shop.
Manchester (N. H. Union.
The pigeon nuisance at the city hall
has given way to the English sparrow
nuisance. In fact, the sparrow
cleaned the pigeon out and took
possession. From present appear
ance the sparrows will soon over
run the city and drive I'll other birds
away.-Wilmington ~. CO.. Star.
A YOUNG Scotchman whose father
h q M 10 T.cYo 60