Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09

channels hunt is of rare occurrence.
What are usually sold as channels skins
are sheep pelts.
In the Samaritan synagogue at
NahlOus Is an altar covered with a. veil
Of yellow silk, and within this altar is
kept q manuscript, written, it is
claimed, by Abishua, and son of
Phlneas, $500 years ago. 1t is seen
by the congregation, but once a year,
when elevated above the priests head
on the day of atonement.
In Southwest Virginia there are
thirteen counties where the roar of the
railway has never yet been heard, and
the people live their uncouth lives in
ignorance Of the events of the outside
world. Very little money circulates
among them, the products of the farm
being used as the medium of exchange
in most business transactions.
HORSE cars in Brazil are called
"bonds, from a peculiar circumstance,
which illustrates how words can be
popularized. When started by some
Americans the bonds of the company
were first offered on the market, and
horse cars, or mule cars, arrived they
appropriated the name of bonds.
AT the recent meeting of Dhilo-
sophical association in New York the
president, Mr.. Latimer, read paper
on the migration of Races" in which
he maintained that the Anglo-Saxons
are the remains of the lost tribes OF Is
rael, though he acknowledged the proof
Of the statement to be little difficult
OF comprehension to the ordinary
mind.
GIVING on the ground at the rear
door of our town marshal's store"
says the Cuthbert (Ga.) Appeal, sis
the petrified body of a human being
apparently. Those who have exam
ined it pronounce it's resemblance al
most perfect. It is rock brought to
town several years ago from a. quarry
near by, and since has been used as a
doorstep"
B. f. MYERS, of Montana Territory,
says to a Chicago interviewer: cit is
an exploded idea that people can go to
Montana, plough, drop the seed in any
where and reap a. harvest. 1t is hard
to pick up q good ranch there now.
There are thousands of acres of gov
eminent land there, but it is untilla-
ole. There is only little good land
left and that is along the STRAINS"
CAsTLEToN, VT, says the st. Adams
Messenger had five taverns with open
bars for the sale of new rum and the
like by the glass, two stores that sold
by the gallon, and two distilleries in
operation, in 1880, but since 1850
there has not been place in town
where intoxicatingli liquors were sold or
drank openly, and for six or eight
years no town agent has been appoint
ed to sell under the law.
A DRUMMER from Wayresborough
says that at the late fair in that town
about twenty thieves and sharpers
were arrested. The citizens took the
law into their own hands, and, after
stripping off all the clothes from the
gang, turned them loose to make their
way up North the best they could.
The fellows begged some old clothes
from negroes and organized themselves
into band of tramps.-A7bany (Ga.)
Medium.
The city council of Albany, Ca, says
the Columbus Enquirer, having as
sessed a. tax of one-tenth of one per
cent. upon the property of that city,
for the purpose of maintaining O. white
school, the colored population became
indignant because their property was
taxed to educate white children; where
upon the city council ascertained the
amount of tax which the colored peo-
pie would pay to be $50, and SGT aside
that amount to repair the colored
academy.
THOUGH at the time of DR.. Tanners
forty-two day fast old-school physi-
clans assumed not to be interested or
to believe it was fairly done, it evil
IDENTIFY did create an impression and
new views among them concerning the
physiology of fasting. DIR. Yandell, of
Louisville, acknowledges that since
that fast he has been much less dis
posed than before to force food upon
patients against their wishes, and he
states his own experiences with fast
ing when suffering from rheumatism
and typhoid fever as a sort of protest
against the prevailing tendency to
over-feed in fevers. The fashion of
starving fevers has been followed by
the reverse style of much-feeding, with
some danger that the new idea may
be carried too far-Dr. Foote's Health
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