Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-10
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DAIRY cattle of good sorts in the
Liverpool market are worth from S11O
to $125.
CAULIFLoWERs fifteen inches in di-
ameter are not uncommon in New
Orleans markets.
THERE are said to be $4,000 lawn
tennis players within a radius of ten
miles of New York.
THE hens of Kansas are said to pro-
duce five times as much as the or
chards of the same state.
ILLICIT whisky-shops which dot the
Inc between Northern Georgia and
Alabama are called ''blind tigers"
The committee, which has Just given
out the revision of the Old Testament,
held eighty-fve sessions of ten days
each, comprising, in all, 792daysof six
hours at q sitting.
IN the outlying districts of New Or
leans, which are lighted by oil street
lamps, some of the citizens are in the
habit OF "borrOwing" the lamps at
nlghtfall, returning them in the morn
ing.
The Prairie Farmer says nursery
men are in the habit of filling orders
LO1 WA1AOC . DLltOC WILL OIlC NtEl6-
ty, which is much inferior in value
There is a close resemblance between
the plants when young.
A BANK failure at Dunkirk, N. Y,
has developed the curious fact that
| about One-fourth OF the families
who have been living on public chart
! ty the past winter had money on de-
post in the bank.
Two seasons ago the lady managers
of Mount Vernon gave up providing a
| luncheon because the official dead
heads ate up all the profits. Now a
stand is established just outside the
grounds, with no free list.
CoNsUMPTIvE patients are advised
by pupil of Liebig in the Apotheke
! Verein to live in rooms where one or
two drachms of sulphur are melted in
a hot stove. The first ten DAYS brings
increased cough and irritation; then
these cease and the patient improves
rapidly.
DURING the first year of the Crimean
war the value Of exports Of farm prod
ucts Of this country increased from
$33, 800, 900 the previous year to $67,-
100000. The following year the
value was $40, 100000 and in 1856
we exported breadstuffs amounting
to SIT, $3.50, 455.
JOHN Brown former townsmen and
neighbors in the Adirondacks, where
he is buried, kept his birthday ami
versary for the first time this year, on
May 9. The exercises took place in
the Union Church at North Elba, and
consisted of music, addresses and the
reading Of letters.
THERE are laws on the Oregon stat
ute book respecting the keeping open
Of saloons on Sunday and the selling
of liquor to minors, says the Portland
Oregonian, which are practically dead
letters, but if the liquor men were to
use their opportunity rudeIy they
would soon rouse a public sentiment
which would put the now unenforced
laws into effect.
A TRAVELLING man who recently went
to the New Orleans Exposition under
took to do some business incidentally
while there, and was arrested for sell
ing goods by sample without a license,
exposing himself thus to fine of $50
After a delay of five hours he was
brought before a magistrate, when he
not only cleared himself, but made a
sale to the Judge.
THE number of people who have
crossed the Brooklyn bridge in the two
years since it was opened has been 26,-
900, 1925, and the number of vehicles
1887, 211. The total earnings
amount to $3.50, 474.46. In the first
year 6,179,3 persons crossed the
promenade, and 1854, lao were car
ried in the cars. Last year the num-
Der of foot passengers was 3, 1856, 1877,
and the car passengers numbered TO-
go, 784.
A MAN in Rondout, n. Y, has a
fountain and metal fish pond in his
front yard, and last winter obtained
a sea gull which he put this spring on
the fountain. 1t is now so tame that
even though it's wing, which was brok-
en- when captured is all right it will
not fly away. One day last week it's
owner put 10 little fish in the pond
and two days after they were missing,
and his gull did not make the usual
inquiries for supper.
A ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS filter has
been constructed by a German engi-
that certain of the bacilli supposed
to be the cause of zymotic diseases
cannot pass them. The construction
of the filter is based on the extreme
ineness of asbestos fbers, which are
precipitated upon very fine brass
wire sieve in such way as to form a
membrane. The number
of pores per square millimeter is given
at 2,5OO,OO0.
THE newest fad of the swell damsel
is to take snuff. Don't exclaim against
the parctice as vile before you know
that the shifting is performed in the
daintiest manner, and that the snuffis
not ground tobacco, but a powder
made of something white, and per-
fumed with any desired sort of scent.
The snuff-box seems likely to displace
the cut-glass bottles which we have
for year been Juggling around. 1t is
made OF silver, ornamented with gold,
and indefinitely increased in beauty