Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
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| VAohINdION 10 W udV0 d panorama
OF Manassas.
THERE has been no rain in Arizona.
| since December.
The campaign of Tonquin cost the
French 500, 100000.
The Georgia Legislature has passed
bill prohibiting the traffic in intoxi-
eating liquors.
VISITORS from all parts of the South
and West are focking to the rocky
shores of Maine.
4 GEORGIA man has hen 20 years
old caring for large brood of little
chickens of her own Matching.
The monthly pay-rolls of eight min
ing companies in the vicinity of Butte,
Montana Territory, aggregate $780,
900.
| THREE tramps were found locked in
a frelght-car at Pendleton, Ore. They
had Travelled eight hundred miles and
were suffering from thirst and hunger.
BASE ball is now played in Siberia,
the game having been introduced by
the military authorities as arecreative
reward for military convicts off duty.
MEIGGs' wharf, the old landmark,
or, more correctly, water-mark, of
San Francisco pioneer days, is thing
OF the past. 1t has dropped out of
sight.
| A MOUNTAIN lion, measuring nine
feet three inches in length, and resem-
bling the African species, was killed
near Phoenix, Arizona Territory, re-
Gently.
The experiment OF planting tobacco
has been tried at Reno, New, and has
proved successful, while it is thought
that the climate is we'll fitted for cur
ing the leaf.
"OUR children cry for bread was
the motto displayed at recent So
cialist picnic in Chicago, at which 800
kegs OF beer were consumed.-Lancas-
teri PENN Inquirer.
| A FRENCH artist pictures Satan as a.
| young woman with g. yellow wig,
penciled eyebrows, and a dress tied
back until her knee-joints can be seen
to work as she walks.
'NEARER, My God, to Thee" with
cannon accompaniment, fired on Sun
day by detachment of Massachugetts
volunteer militia, is one OF the novel
ties of Nantasket beach.
THERE are seven pottery manufac-
tories in California-namely, at Lin
coin, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose,
Michigan Bar Sacramento County,
Elsinore (San Diego County, and San
Francisco.
A SENSIBLE judge was that at Oak
land, CAL, who has just declined to
give naturalization paper to a Cana
dian, because the applicant knew so
little as to believe that king ruled
the United States.
SOME estimate may be formed of the
profit of chemists from tho fact that
in London price-list sulphate of quiz
nine is quoted at 3 shillings 2 pence
per ounce, while it is retailed at the
rate of "a shillings per ounce.
The month of July, 1885, the Lon
don Echo says, will be memorable as
one Of the dryest on record. The OBJ
servers at Kew registered scarcely
half an inch of rain, the usual quaint
ty being two and half inches.
Miss KATE TWIss, of New Haven,
was drowned in three feet of water
while bathing at Branford Point
Beach, ct. She stumbled and, losing
all presence of mind, allowed herself to
sink. The body lay in one foot of
water when found.
THE payment of male teacher in
the public schools higher wages than
female teacher Of equal ability is paid
for equal services Is now pronounced ga
relic of barbarism." If this is conced-
ed, the question of capacity and what
constitutes equal service will remain
to be Standardization Traveller.
A WEALTHY widower of Greene Valley,
Sonomo County, between 70 and so
years OF age, recently offered a neigh
Dor $500 if he would find him a wife,
The bargain was concluded, a young
lady was brought out from the East
and was married to the aged wild
over, and all hands seem satisfied.
A FLYING bonfire on the highway ex-
cited the wonder of people at Water
| loo, n. Y, a few nights ago. Two tons
of hay overloaded a. wagon so that
two pieces of iron were brought in
contact. Fire followed the friction,
and sparks flew into the hay, where
upon the horses took fright and set off
on the run.
The improbable feature in the story
that there is strip of land lying be-
tween the official boundaries of Utah
and Idaho which is not claimed by
and does not belong to either terri
tory lies in the statement that the
discovery was made and disclosed by
a railway company. A railway COM
pany stumbling on such find of land
as this would quietly gobble it up and
say nothing.-Washington Star.
THERE is g. good deal Of talk about
negro superstitions, but the fact is
that the negroes are no more super
stitious than the whites, after all allow
ances are made. There are numbers
of fairly well educated people in this
country to-day who shudder when
they hear a dog bowling or the qua
vering cry OF a screech owl. Supersti-
ton in some form or other is a part of
the natural and inevitable equipment
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