Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-21
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TOLEDO reJoices over the discovery
OF natural gas.
GARROTING is one of the lost arts
that is coming into favor in New
York -''"
CALIFORNIA has two separate Pres.
byterlan Churches of Chinese and one
OF japanese.
The first oil well in America was
discovered on Renick's Creek, Cumber-
land County, Kentucky.
ONE county in Kansas, Sedgewick,
is expected to produce 100000
bushels of corn this year.
IHE Arabs are q wise people,. They
believeit is q moral crime to allow the
east wind to blow on the back of your
neck.
The Marion Record has a subscrib-
er in Wichita County SO miles from a.
post~ofice.-Atchison (Kas.) Cham
pIOD.
The colored people of Vicksburg
have determined to erect a $4,000
monument to commemorate emanci-
patton.
NEAR Canon City. Oregon, the other
day, lightning melted an umbrella car
RED by a gentleman without iniuring
the latter in the least.
WE will allow 80 cents apiece for
grown hens to parties whose paper has
been stopped and are still owing US for
it.-Blakely (Ga.) News.
I'HE Turkish soldiers are armed with
what is probably the finest military
rifle In the world-the Peabody-Mar-
t1nl-Henri and manufactured in this
country.
A TEXAS paper described a. recently
discovered meteor as "about the size
of a water can," and the next week the
editor received 400 letters asking how
large q water can was.
BISCUIT were eaten in a Mcpherson,
(Kas.) hotel recently, made from -four
ground from wheat which was stand
Ing IN the field ninety minutes previous
to the call to supper.
COTTON can easily be grown in the
San Joaquin Valley of California; but
hitherto there as been no market
available. Now a large mill is ready
to weave the product.
A FISHERMAN is credited with start
ing the report that lone of the eagles
in the New York Zoo picks up a log
of wood weighing ninety-six pounds
and flies around with it."
SOUTHERN fruit dealers have been
visiting Texas this year, with view
to bring the fruits of Vera Cruz and
other provinces into competition with
those of California and the South.
CONTINENTAL ladies sit in their bal
comics and gardens for hours at work
without SO much as a parasol. The
habit is a preventive and a palliative
Of neuralgia, besides being a stimulant
and colorative to the hair.
THE deaths in Europe from small
pox are said to be 10000 annually.
The mortality is almost wholly con-
fined to civilians, as, owing to con-
slant vaccination and revaccination,
the armies are almost wholly free from
the disease.
The deepest gold mine in the world
IS the Eureka, in California, which is
down 1900 feet, or 500 feet below the
level Of the sea. The deepest silver
mine is the Mexican, on the Comstock,
which is down $500 feet.
SAVANNAH is clipper over an excel
lent oyster crop. Already 5OOgallons
O. day of Montgomeries, Thunderbolts,
Sideways, White Bluffs, Isle of Hopes
and Daufuskies are shipped, and TIE
dealers have hopes ofgobbling Western
trade.
THERE are IS divorce cases on the
Grayson County TEX district court
docket. Population considered, says
the Galveston News, this probably
beats the record of any other county
in the United States.
WILLIAM GORDON, a. son of Robert
Gordon, Of the London branch of the
great New York banking firm of Drexel,
Morgan & Co., is playing subordinate
parts IN an English provincial theatre
cal company. He has for many years
had passion for the stage, and, final
~, has pluckily begun at the bottom
Of the ladder.
A CAT in town spends most of his
time basking in the sun in the parlor
OF a house on the Pacific corporation.
When any of the family look in and
say "Crip, you are not in the sum-" he
wakes up and lazily changes his posi-
ton into the sun, and goes to sleep
again Lawrence (Mass.) american.
EDWARD RICHARDSON of Mississippi,
the largest cotton planter in the
annual cro7 rpassing
that of the Khedive of towns
in the MissiA .4,lpi Valley
that in ante-bellum days were valued
at nearly $4,000, OOO-among them
the famous Wade Hampton planta-
ton.
IT is an interesting fact that the
Maine hens earn more money than the
Maine sheep, and there is no doubt
that the Maine chicken is more popu-
ar on the dinner table than the
Maine mutton. But the two are bet
Ter than either one Or the other al
though it is probable that the hen
pays better than the iamb.-Lewiston
,Me.) Journal.
In Ogden, Utah, a curfew law has
oeen adopted. The bells are sounded
Ut 8 or 8 o'clock P. NJ, according to
he season, and after that hour bows
or girls under 16 years of age abroad,
lnless accompanied by parent. a
or friend, or provided With a
permit, are liable to arrest for INSIDE
nnanOr similar Iox,, =, :.