Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

The report of the South African
Postmaster General for the year 1884
shows that the weight of diamonds
which passed throug the postoffice
during that year was 1,811 pounds, eight
OUNCES.
1t is said that no man ever made an
impromptu speech with which he was
entirely satisfied. The best way to
make an impromptu speech, and not
feel bad about it afterward, is to get
somebody to do it for YOU Chicago
Ledger.
Some idea of the immigration to
Texas from the older Southern States
since the war. says the Laredo Times,
may be had from the notices of reunions
of Alabama brigades. Georgia regi-
ments. Virginia "Black Horse" etc., in
various portions of Texas.
licenses of rock crystal taken from
the ruins of Nineveh," said member
at the meeting of the microscopes, in
Cleveland, the other day, suggests
that microscopes may have been used
in those days" No one knows, indeed,
who did invent the magnifying glass.
Some of the soil in Manitoba, ana
iyzed, showed that the only element Of
fertility threatening to become deficient
was lime. The proportion of nitrogen
was greater than in the best English
pasture soils, and potash and phos-
phoric acid were abundant Magnesia
was in large quantity, which is impor-
tant in the raising of wheat. - Chicago
Herald. 5a r a
Why is it that the traveller will get
in a common Austrian or Bavarian
gasthaus a better emp of morning
coffee" than he will find in the best
hotels of New York or Boston? Is it
that the 'congregated plan" will not
apply to coffee making is, you
can not make coffee by the gallon for
hundreds? Whatever be the reason
this is the one great defect of the
American hotel.-N. Y. Times.
For some days past band of gyp-
sizes have been encamped near Portland,
and several of them have paid us brief
visits. They say they have wandered
all over the United States, the head of
the family having come here some
twelve years ago. A dark-browed
leader of the band is fortune teller.
She says she met Queen Victoria in the
Highlands of Scotland and told her for
tune. She was asked if they regarded
it as high honor, and replied, mo,
my people were great when her people
were unknown, and then she only gave
me shilling.-LeWiston me. Journal.
"A boy was flying his kite on the
commons near Cedar Avenue, east of
the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad,
Saturday morning. Some one was
driving herd of cows, and the cow in
the lead got entangled in the kite string
Away she went and in the right direc-
ton to catch the wind. The kite scared
aloft about fifteen feet above the cow,
and the whole herd took after her. The
boy did not want to lose his kite, and
he with some men joined in pursuit
The scene was ludicrous in the extreme
to observers. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1t is common mistake to regard
the term negro as synonymous with
Africa. The word negro does not de-
note a nation, but an ideal type consti-
tuted by the assemblage of certain
physical characteristics exemplified in
the natives of certain portions of Africa
and their descendants in America and
the West Indies. AS rule the preva-
lent color in Africa is that of the Arab.
the Indian and the Australian. The
true negro districts are the Senegal, the
Gambia, the Niger and the interme-
date rivers of the coast. parts of Su-
dania, SEMINAR, Kardofan arI Darfur.
philadelphia Press.
The area of Chatham, on Cape Cod,
which is quite popular as summer re-
sort, grows smaller every year, the on
slaught of the ocean, when storms pre-
vail, breaking away the bluff and wash
ing the sandy cliff into the ocean.
Where the main street of the village
was twenty years ago. the surf of the
Atlantic rolls. Several cottages of
fishermen and villagers, situated near
the bluff, have been undermined in
years past. and several buildings have
recently been abandoned as unsafe
The original fishing hamlet is rapidly
going out to sea, and the old village
will be entirely obliterated before long.
Boston Budget.