Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-08-26
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PORT is the best thing to quiet the
stomach of a seasick man. This may
not be news, but it is fact. -Harper's
Bazaar.
A SPECULATIVE American has bought
the French picture, ''The White
Slave" for $4,000, for exhibition
purposes.
A MAN who was caught in the over
flow near Humboldt lived two days in
tree on hickory leaves.-Parsons
(Kas.) Eclipse.
NEARLY a million copies Of the
penny edition of the revised New
Testament have been sold in England
in the last nine months.
A NEGRO went along Clayton Street
this morning hauling q nice buggy, to
the back of which was tied a mule
Athens (Ga.) Banner Waterman.
SOUDAN journalists are erecting a
memorial to their colleagues who fell
in the Soudan. OF the twenty-six en-
gagged on the field six lost their lives.
The colored people Of Quitman, Ca,
burned straw under their church to-
drive away the feas. They succeeded
in getting rid Of the feas, and the
church, too.
THERE are over two thousand soda
water fountains in New York City,
and one Of them dispenses from five
to six thousand glasses Of the bever-
age on a hot day.
A FARMER at Salisbury, Md, cut
his wheat this season with sheep
shears, threshed it in a cart body,
and his wife famed it in her apron.
The yield was three pecks.
A PROMINENT physician suggests to
occupants of summer houses that a
wood fire in the evening, when the
moisture in the air is excessive, pre-
vents many cases Of sickness.
THERE were 1,6O8 suicides in this
country last year. OF these ia were
from business troubles, PA from
family troubles, and 81 from disap-
pointments in love affairs.
A MAN named Anthony Roeder, who
resides on Locust Street, was this
morning fined $25 in the municipal
court for building board fence over
s feet high. The city ordinance al
lows but feet as the height of line
Observation-Disclosures
er.
THE alleged largest diamond in the
world was found recently in Africa, and
it is to be polished in Amsterdam,
where a special shop is being con-
structed for thepurpose. It is said to
weigh 465 carats, which is 1875 carats
more than the Shah OF Persia's Grand
Mogul."
AMONG the new tricks of head wait
ers this summer is that of giving new
guests seats at a table where the wait
er is instructed to do his work very
badly, in order that a fee may be ex-
torted for making a change
Register.
The terrors of the cyclone have ma
terially lessened to a certain Dakota
farmer since he arranged g. trap door
and system Of pulleys SO that when
he hears storm coming in the night
he can pull cord and his bed will
sink into the cellar.
WORCESTER, Mass, claims to pos
sess the champion mean man in the
person of a well-to-do resident, who
borrowed a print OF butter, and in due
course returned another pat with a
piece sliced off, explaining that in the
interim butter had riz.
THE new water works at Bismarck,
OAK, are estimated to cost 100000
and will not be completed this year
The water of the Missouri is to be
pumped into a reservoir LA feet
above the business part Of the city,
which will carry it to any building.
WHILE a Chicago girl was leaning
forward, looking at some living wild
animals, a bad man reached over and
cut off four feet of her hair. "In his
pockets were found several pictures
showing a man cutting the hair from
girls standing in different positions
PAPER baskets, for farm andfactory
use, are now manufactured. The rims
are protected by a wooden hoop on
each side, both nailed together, and
the large baskets 1.-TWO bushel size) are
by wooden ribs, and fur
nished with iron bottoms and han
dies.
Miss TILDMAN, a Staten Island
music teacher, makes her professional
rounds on a tricycle.. A patent con-
trivance attached to the rear of the
seat, with a strap fasteningthe handle
to her waist and neck, holds an UNI
brella over her head to protect her
from the sun.
THE slowest method, but best re-
suits obtained by pistol practice at a
target, are said to be planting the feet
apart, locking the arms in front of
the chest, raising the trigger of the re-
volver across the left elbow, and then,
looking leftward, raising the locked
of the arms till the sights
are on level with the left eye.
PuTsBURG builders have lust COM
pleted a steel stern-wheel steamboat
intended for navigating the Aguan
River in Honduras. The craft is 10
feet long and draws but eighteen inches
OF water. She will fill an important
place in developing what is believed to
be an exceedingly fertile region.
A NOTABLE housekeeper says that
dark stockings must always be thor
oughly washed in strong salt and
water and then dried. After they are
dry they are to be washed again in a