Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-15
CHIPS.

Will De the novelty IN New England neAG
summer.
AT the Sitka Indian school there has
been row and most of the pupils left
In body.
ALMONDS and Strawberries in Napa
Valley CAL, show signs of early and
extensive yields.
NEW YORK bootblacks have reduced
the price of shine to 2 cents on Wash
ington Square.
In fifteen years Texas expects to
have more congressman than any other
state In the Union.
1T is estimated that the baseball
clubs of this country will cost the peo-
pie S16,OO0,OO0 this year.
THE royalty received by the inventor
of barbs on fence-wire is said to be $1O,-
900 month or 100000 year.
TURNIPs weighing from twenty-five
to thirty pounds are said to be very
numerous in Manatee County, Fla.
The convicts of Camp County, Tex
as have all been hired out to farmers,
and the jail doors are standing open.
THE Black Hills tin region is found
to be much larger than was supposed.
New locations are constantly opened.
A MANITOBA farmer who tills 49,
900 acres of land communicates with
his employees by the use of the tele-
phone.
STATISTICS show that ninety-five
children, under the age of IA years
committed suicide in the United States
last year.
In a New York iewelry store window
is exhibited a large knot, cut from a
tree, which is the exact counterpart of
a human ear.
INvALIDs are now fed on baked milk.
The milk is put in glass jar, covered
with paper OntOp, and baked ten hours
In the oven.
THE timber-work OF the domes of
the Church Of st. Mark, Venice, is
more than $40 years old. and is still
In good state.
Miss GERTIE GARDINER, Of Canaan
daigua, n. Y, has accepted a position
as governess of a young princess ofthe
royal family in Honolulu.
A COLONY consisting of 500 families,
the heads OF which are mostly Grand
Army men, is being formed in Cleve-
land, O., to settle in Dakota.
An observing traveller states that in
proportion to its size there are more
idle men in Eureka Cal, than in any
other place on the Pacific coast.
WHILE New York has been discussing
the scheme Ofmaking park at Maya
IA, Canada is planning to allow her
side to be even more disfigured.
WRITING will look like silver, it is
stated, if the ink is composed of mu-
cilage water intermixed with one ounce
of fine pewter and two ounces of mer-
curry.
AN interesting question is before the
New Hampshire courts in the form of
the inquiry whether woman may le-
gally marry her deceased husbands
father.
A COMPANY, at Liban, in Courland,
in the Baltic provinces of Russia, is
preparing to slaughter 10000 head of
cattle annually and ship fresh meat to
London.
THE University Of Cairo, Egypt, is
said to be 900 years older than Ok
ford, and has 10000 students who are
being educated as Mohammedan mis-
siOnarleS.
CALVIN BRIGHT, who diedin Spartan
burg County, South Carolina, the
other day, was alunatic, and has been
confined by his familyin a small cabin
since 1858.
GERMAN inventive talent is improv-
ing, one Saxon genius making forty
inventions during the past three years,
seven-tenths of which have proved
practicable.
HOTELS on the Continent of Europe
compel the estate of such persons as
chance to die in them to pay for the
refurnishing of the apartment in which
the person died.
NATURALLY the most ignorant peo-
pie are those who claim to know every
thing. They remain ignorant because
no one can tell them anything, New
Orleans Picayune.
ALL the trout streams in Ulster
County, New York, have been brought
under control of a few sportsmen's
clubs, and the citizens and hOtelkeep-
ers propose to test their rights in the
courts.
sDERAILED by a Sun Kink," is the
picturesque heading which an enter
prising newspaper uses for an account
III Col1S DClllS Cl1IONI1 On UIl0 UIdCh Dy
the expansion of the rails from the
suns heat.
IN Weston, w. Va, the United
States court adjourned lately on &C
count of the poverty and distress of
the people. But the grand jury found
487 indictments for the illicit sale OF
liquor all the same.
THE Brooklyn bridge earns an ay-
erage of SAT, 900 a month, or $751;
more than expenses, but electricity as
motive power and rapid transit in
Brooklyn may increase its receipts to
100000 a month, at least half of it
net profit.
"BEFoRE / left Vienna they told me
that the Americans were a nation of
liars; that would find them all brag