Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-18
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

million in 1900.
Tennessee has great natural re-
sources, including ten thousand square
miles of timber as yet untouched.
There are now nearly seven million
children in the United States who do
not know their letters. = Chicago
Herald.
Josh Billings says he has discov-
cred that there is one thing that can
be said OF dyspepsia-it makes man
forget all his other sorrows.
An advertisement can not reach
the general public SO surely and efec-
tually in any other was as through the
columns of a newspaper that is widely
read and trusted. .-Erchange
"A new rose, possessed of manifold
attractions, perfect in form and color,
unequaled in fragrance, hardy in habit,
and a perpetual bloomer, has been
named by its originator The American
Beauty"
The town of WeStboro, Mass, did
not have a fire during the year 1884.
The fire department was called out
once to put out a fire in a freight-car
en- route through the town, VIII ,ch was
stopped for the purpose
"A juror at Cumberland, Md, the
other day hung his coat over one of
the heaters in the courtroom. When
he put it on after adjournment he dis
covered that some apples he had in his
pockets were roasted. d.-B0ltjn1ore Sun.
An earthquake shock travels about
twenty-five miles miI:ute through
hard substances, but soft substances,
such as sand and gravel, or clay, retard
It's rate OF progress, and, of course, in
water it gets on much slower STILL
Chicago Times.
"A Georgia negro, named Gabe
Walker, tired of sowing his bachelor
wild oats, married the other day at the
age of ninety-five. "Gabe's" father
lived to be one hundred and ten and
was in fair way to live forever when
a wagon ran over him.
In China, according to the COrnhiU
Magazine, they value eggs according
to their age. All eggs are put in
pickle. After several years they be-
come black throughout The egg of
wealth and luxury in the fiowery king
dom is forty or fifty years old.
Perhaps no association has done
so much toward enlightening the pub
lie mind in reference to the condition
of the prisons in the United States and
the necessity for some general improve
ment in their management, as the
National Prison Association.-Ch Chicago
Inter Ocean.
In Brooklyn recently an old man
was arrested for begging, but at the
hearing it was explained by the daugh-
ter that he was possessed of a religious
mania and gave what he realized from
begging to some needy institution or
dropped it into the poor box at church.
Brooklyn Eagle.
On Cape Cod and in many districts
along the New England coast it is
firmly believed that sick man can not
die until the ebb tide begins to run.
Watchers by beds of sickness anxious
ly note the change of the tides, and if
the patient lives until the food begins
to set in again he will live until the
next ebb.-Boston Transcript.
1t seems that japanese prison man.
agement is rather ahead of ours. A
large variety of trades are taught in
the prisons, such as tailoring, cooking,
type-setting, printing, book-binding ng,
shoemaking, porcelain and painting.
The prisoners have an allowance of
three cents a day and fifty cents q
week put to their credit and paid to
them on their discharge. - Boston
Herald.
Those learned editors who are
writing about "dynamiteurs' and ''dy-
namitards'' ought to be taught chat an
English word is better for their readers
than foreign one, and that "dyna-
miters" is good enough to describe the
new class of cewardly criminals. Why
Irishmen operating in England should
be described by French words in Amer
lean papers can not be explained
Philadelphia Bulletin.
An exchange says that under the
laws of Pennsylvania bakers can not,
by law, collect a bill for the sale of
bread; that all bread shall be sold by
the pound; that bread scales shall be
kept on the counter or in some con-
spicuous place in all bakeries; that un-
less the bread be weighed the sale is
illegal and the seller liable to fine of
ten dollars and costs for each offense,
and that half of this SUM shall go to
the informer.
One night Admiral, then Commo-
dore, De Horsey, returning from a
dinner party in Jamaica, was chal-
lenged by sentry and asked for the
counter-sign. He could not give it
and rather pompously said: .Stand
aside, fellow, and let me pass. am
Captain De Horsey." To which the
sentry replied: ''Captin De HorseyP
Captin De Donkey. Go in de box"
The sentry would not be placated, and
into the box the officer went, to remain
until the relief guard liberated him.
Two bright citizens Of Co7ington.
Tenn, who were impecunious but
thrifty, bet two hundred thousand dol
lars on the last election, and deposited
two large bundles in the safe of the
local bank to pay the wager. On the
strength of this they bought LARGE
stocks OF goods, one of them married
wealthy widow and the other was