Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-03
PICKED UP.

THE Kentucky senate has passed @
bill prohibiting the sale of pistols and
bowIe-kniveS.
A RULE that works both ways:
When q fleet goes out on cruise and
the crews go out on the fleet.
A FAMILY in Maine we're lately re-
ported as moving their household
goods for the eighty first time.
VIOLIN playing girls are multiplying
in fashionable New York society and
have crowded out the banjo players.
THE Oldest Georgia wonder reported
is piece Of marble the veins of which
form a perfect outline of a woman's
figure.
EXTENSIVE peat beds have been dis
covered near the City of Mexico, and
the railroads are likely to secure
cheap fuel.
THE Church of England has nine
preaching stations along the line OF
the Panama Canal. There are a large
number Of Englishmen among the
workmen.
A New ORLEANS land dealer is
negotiating the sale of 100000 acres
of long leaf yellow pine timber land IN
Southern Mississippi, to London
company.
THE total output of the Vancouver
coal mines for the year 1884 amount
ed to 1874, O7O tons, showing decrease
in 1885 of &c, 1877 tons as compared
with 1884.
A YOUNG New York book-keeper,
who is now furnished with q home in
the Tombs at the instigation of his
wronged employers, smokes ten So
cent cigars every day.
A BUTLER, Penn, man sent 25 cents
to learn how to make $50 a week at
home working on a capital OF 81, and
received the following printed slip:
Fish for fools, as [ do"
ALL commissioned officers appoint
ed or elected in the Maine militia will
hereafter be required to pass an ex-
animation as to their fitness for hold
ing Office before being commissioned.
Ten thousand dollars a year is APP
propriated by the Virginia legislature,
in a bill lust passed. for the support OF
the Home of r. E. Lee Camp, COnfed-
crate Veterans, Richmond.
In the newly undiscovered Granite
Creek mines, In British Columbia. all
the necessaries of life are being sold at
extraordinary high prices. Coal oil,
for instance, is worth SIT q case, and
other things in proportion.
IN Waycross, Ga, q negro was ar
rested for stealing two pounds OF cod
fish Within thirty minutes after the
fish were stolen the negro was SEN
fenced In the county court to twelve
months on the chaJT-O9np
J. T. SUNDERLOW, who lives near
Keuka, Putnam County, Fla, while
ploughing unearthed a chest containing
Spanish money to the amount OF
So, $50. Some Of this money was
very old dating as far back as 1878.
IL early days there were no jaiIs in
Tulare County, California, and prison
ers were secured by claiming them TO
trees. Now it costs on an average
5000 for every prisoner sent to jail,
and return to the old chaining-out
plan Is suggested.
A WELL-KNOWN writer tells of seeing
thousands of small fish migrating
across land from one lagoon to anoth-
er, in topical America. He says they
moved as deliberately and as uncon-
cernedly as though they had been &C
customed to the overland route all
their lives.
One gets a striking idea OF the mag
nitude of this country from the state
ment Of Rev DR. Barro ws, that If the
entire population Of the globe. esti-
mated at / 400, 100000, were divided
into families OF five, the state Of Texas
alone could give each family hall an
acre IF land to live uDOn
A NORWICH man excavating for g
new cellar, found a small black walnut
coffin, which he opened. Within was
the body Of a black-and-tan terrier,
we'll preserved. Thedog wore ashroud.
of white satin trimmed with lace, and
around its neck was q handsome col
lar Of buff leather and gold.
JUDGING from the remark of the
PaWnee Press the prodigal son bust
ness is certainly played cut IN Nebras-
ka. 1t reports that a young son Or q
rich farmer, VINO ran away from home
and became q hog tender, was recently
eaten by his charges while asleep n q
strawstack.-O Herald.
TIE increase of foxes along the east
ern shore OF Maryland is said to &C
countfor thescarcity of diamond back
terrapin. The fox regards terrapin
eggs as q special delicacy, and during
the breeding season tracks the terra
pin IN the sand, scratches up the
freshly laid eggs and devours them.
THEY tell in Louisville OF a citizen Of
that town who went to New YORK re
Gently and lived st one Of the most ex-
pensive hotels there. He staid fouI
days and asked for his bill. FIFTY
one dollars" said the clerk. 'Guess
again" said the Kentuckian. "You
haven't sized my pile yet. I've nore
money than that"
MORE than IS per cent, Of the seed
cane Of this section OF Georgia, says
the Bai0brjdge (Ga.) Democrat, is
killed dead by the late hard weather,
and viii prove a total loss, unless
ground and made into vinegar. Vine
80, -, = T. tb,,e from frNat. bitten cane