Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-29
CHIPS.

MASSACHUSETTS, New York. and Da-
kota will each take census this wear
IT is stated that the weight of one
ostrich egg is equal to twenty EIGHT
hens eggs.
The oldest inhabitant' says this
is the earliest season ever known in
California.
AN attempt will be made this sum-
mer to grow peanuts extensively. on
Long Island.
| The Mormon church has more mis-
s1onarles than the American board of
foreign missions.
The Georgia Gazette, the oldest
newspaper in the state, was founded
IN Savannah in 1853.
len million base-balls will be
knocked to shreds by the batsmen of
America this year.
| Los ANGELES, CAL, finds a market
for oranges in New Orleans. This is
sending ''coals to Newcastle"
SWANS have been known to live to
the age OF 3OOyears, and Cuvier thinks
probable that whales sometimes live
1000 years.
DURING the past year one thousand
new buildings were erected in Roches-
ter, n. Y, at an estimated cost of over
$1,5OO,OOO.
A MONTHLY allowance of 81. so for
the support Of a cat was a recent item
on the payroll of the Lexington, KY,
IRE department.
FRANK FRANCE, of Wickliffe, KY, as
a possible warning to spring poets,
advertises himself in his own paper as
editor and undertaken"
Rock specimens containing perfect
fossilized shellfsh are found in a lime
stone ledge at an altitude of $500
teet, six miles west of Tucson, Arizona.
SAN FRANCISCO manufactured last
year 259, 1000 kegs Of nails. In addi-
ton to these, eastern makers supplied
100000 kegs to the Pacific coast
trade
The Montpelier Medical thinks that
whether Or not smoking is an exciting
cause Of cancer, the use of tobacco Of
ten preserves people from contagious
disorders.
In Tucson, Arizona, quite an excite
ment was created on one of the streets
by a fine mountain lion, who ran up
the street and finally took refuge IN
der house.
The practice of persons kineing the
Bible when being sworn in rors
and witnesses has been abe d by
Judge Samuel Lumpkin, of tt North
ern circuit in Georgia.
A SPANISH coin, dated 1771 and
bearing the profile bust of Charles III.
| of Spain, was found about two feet
beneath the surface of the ground in
San Jose, CAL, recently.
| CURIO parlOrs is the latest name for
/ dime museums in the West, where at
tempts at refinement of language often
seem to be in inverse proportion to
| popular taste and culture.
The word measles originally signi
fed leprosy, although in modern times
used for a far different disorder It's
derivation isfrom the old French word
meseau, or mesel, leper.
CRYOLITE, a mineral which is of
great value in the potash manufact-
ure, has been discovered in the Vel
lowstone Park. Heretofore it has
been obtained only in Greenland.
| Pics feet are becoming very popular
| in New York for lunch People are
beginning to find that they are twice
as nutritious as pies can or tarts, don't
cost any more, and be eaten in the
same time.
AN Italian counterfeiter, who gave
the name of Smith, has been arrested
for passing bogus dollars in Austin,
New, made of tin and anthony, with
not a quarter of a cents worth OF sill
yer in EACH
A PRAYER-BOOK was offered for a.
drink to a Lowell, Mass, saloon-keep-
er, recently, by a man who stated that
he was out Of money and hadn't any
thing else he could pawn The offer
was refused.
The Colosseum at Rome had a seat
ing capacity of over $1,000. The
capacity in the United States is Madi-
son Square garden. 1t has accommo-
dations for s, 443 persons.
A LIST of bad tenants is posted in
the offices of real estate agents in Chi
cago. There are no newspaper men on
the list, it is needless to add. They
live in the same old mysterious way
Lowell Citizen.
THE fashionable New York poodle
must be as tenderly shielded from the
dust as his devoted slave and owner,
and he, therefore, now wears a tissue
veil swathed around his head when
taken on Fifth Avenue for an airing.
THE somewhat remarkable state
ment is made that the city Of New
York, covering only $4,000 acres, sup
plies to 215 per cent. of the population
of the country 10 per cent. of all water
used for domestic purposes through
out the land.
A New ENGLAND preacher says that
the Chinese students who have re-
turned to this country after a two
years absence in China have great diff
fculty in remembering the English
language, which they were supposed to
have learned so well.
THE Arabs OF Sahara are very SUI
perstltlous as to the color of their
horses. ''The black, " says a writer,
"brings good fortune, but fears rocky
ground. ME chestnut Is the most ac