Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-06
CHIPS.

The aristocratic sport in Australia
is kangaroo hunting.
In Montana quails are exempt from
the sportsman's gun for six years.
'"THE private theatrical craze" is
troubling some Of the New York Cit
les dreadfully.
In an English cavalry regiment of
500 sabers there are usually but $50
horses ready for duty.
IT is considered somewhat strange
that no Irishmen have been DISCHARGED
from the English army.
THE bite of Chinaman or negro is
far more serious to a Caucasian than
a wound inflicted by one of his own
race.
THE British Columbia militia are
drilling twice a week in anticipation
that their services may be required
by the mother country.
SIR ERASMUS WILSON states that, all
exaggeratlOns or contradictions to the
contrary, the human hair can turn
white IN a very few hours.
VACCINATION with the microbe of
leprosy is about to be undertaken in
Honolulu, where the disease is spread
ing to an alarming extent.
A RALEIGH, n. c., sportsman recent.
ly went out with lis cartridges and re-
turned with Ill robins and one rab-
bit, having missed only three shots.
IT is proposed to utilize the Yellow
stone Park for the preservation of the
bison, which is now very nearly ex-
tinct.
News from Auburn, the shoe city of
Maine, is to the effect that all the
shoe shops are busy and have all they
can do.
The wheat prospect in Kansas this
year is reported to be very poor, and
many farmers are already ploughing up
their wheat crops.
Ex-Gov. SPRAGUE, Of Rhode Island,
is now a business man in the City of
Mexico, while Mrs. Kate Chase is edu-
eating her children in Europe.
The fruit crop of Tennessee is said
to be more than usually promising
while further South, in Georgia
done serious damage.
A LATE device for checking the col
lections of street car conductors is q
photograph apparatus that at inter
walls photographs the interior of the
car and the passengers.
A SARCASTIC clergyman in a minis
ters' meeting predicted that a time
was coming when everybody who took
active part in a p~ayer-meeting could
demand pay for his services.
Hop vines, usually a waste product
in this country, are said to have
proved not only good stock for fine
paper, but the best substitute yet OBJ
tanned for rags IN paper-mllls.
NJ DE QUATREFAGEs stated recently
at a meeting of the Academic DIES
latiOn of cattle against pleuro-pheu-
monia and smallpox had been prac-
ticed for centuries.
A SCIENTIST claims to have made the
discovery that if a fiddle be played in
the midst of a flock of geese they will
Immediately begin marching about IL
circle. He was spectator when he
made the discovery
SOME of the English authorities ar,
discussing the plan of having all exc
cutions of criminals takeplace in New
gate, the great London prison, instead
of the provincial shire town in whicl
the crime was committed.
CATERPILLARS are eaten in Australii
and at the Cape at the risk of wolf
pains in the stomach, and even spiders
abhorred by every other race, ar
eaten by the Hottentots and New Gale
domains, with the same liability
Miss MARIE VAN ZANDT, who was So
shabbily treated by the Parisians late
ly, made her first appearance upo1
the stage at Greton, Mass, where sh
has many friends She took part in
flower cantata given by a lady VIII
has singing class there.
A WEALTHY and well-known MANI
facturer of Paterson, n J. was al
rested in New York City the othe
evening on charge Of drunkenness
He offered TO pay any amount of fin
or to give 100000 security, but he
was locked up for the night.
In tree felled recently in Wincheste,
County, n Y, were found several fly
ing squirrels that had made their nest
IN the center of the supply of honey
laid up by a swarm of wild bees. They
had devoured the honey, thereby
causing the bees to starve to death.
THE export of slaves from the MOI
antique coast from 1907 to 1847
amounted to 100000 souls In the
palmy days of the foreign slave trade
the bishop of the diocese, seated on a
marble throne, baptized and blessed
the gangs OF slaves as they passed,
shackled, to the shore for embarka-
ton.
FERRY never squandered his knowl-
edge in small talk, so that his public
speeches always took his most init
mate friends aback Gambetta once
said to him: s'You are the most secre-
tive OF chatterboxes, f" the truth being
that Ferry used commonplace ideas
IN private intercourse. just as some
men keep half-pence for beggars.
The English, French and German
mails bound for the east are now sent
VIA Brlndisi, but a line of railway is
building, In accordance with the terms
OF the Berlin Treaty, from Salonica on