Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-07-14
PICKED UP.

THERE are about 100000 worth
of private railway-cars In this coun-
try.
A BABY recently born in Weir, N. H.,
has the poetical name of Grover Cleve-
land Bean.
OVER 81 per cent. of last years fires
in Georgia are said to be the work OF
incendiaries.
A CHINAMAN at Vancouver, B. c.,
fattened OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES hog In
his laundry.
A CITIZEN of Allendale, S. c., has Just
begun cutting a new set OF teeth. He
is 81 years old.
A LARGE number ofIndian skeletons
have been dug up lately in the vicinity
of Talladega, Fla.
MANY of the medals of the Canadian
volunteers have been found in the
pawnshops of Montreal.
THERE is q young man about 20
years old in Athens, Ca, who says he
lives on 80 cents q week.
A CITIZEN of Bangor, Me-, carries a
cane which has been in the possession
of his family for lao years.
THE females in the West Virginia
penitentiary are paid twenty five cents
q day and the males fifty cents.
CHINESE carpenters in California
have abandoned their antique tools
and adopted American implements.
ARIZONA newspapers daily advise the
white citizens to organize and drive
out the Indians on the San Carlos res
ervation.
In New Jersey the mosquitoes are
so bad at night that TO girl gets
courted unless she nas a good mos
quito bar.
THE Lake City (Col) postmaster is
required to give bonds in $4,000,
while the whole village is valued at
only $1,000.
The Louisiana legislature meditates
taxing insurance companies ST, 900 a
year each, as a way of protecting the
home concerns.
''THE National Leasing and Pur-
chasing Company" is the odd name of
the new whisky pool which has it's
head at Chicago.
A SMALL party of ladies and gentle
men-artists and literary people-are
enjoying a trip on q canal boat on the |
Pennsylvania Canal.
The Lincoln (Neb.) State Journal
thinks it would be a mighty cold day
for a hound that should track an
Apache to retired spot.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA is excited over
a recent discovery of oil in that re-
gion. One well sunk in Ventura Coun-
ty gives 40 barrels per day.
FIFTEEN Virginia counties have vot-
ed under the local option law, and II
went for prohibition. The other
counties will vote in the fall.
WILLIAM MAGUIRE, g. slater, of Port
land, Me-, fell from g. scafold forty
feet high, struck on his hip on board
fence, and then walked home.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., has the greatest
number of saloons of any resort in the
United States. There are thirty with
in a few squares on one street.
A MILLIONAIRE at New Haven, Conn,
has purchased park of ifty-on acres
in that city. No one knows his inten-
tions as to the use he will put it to.
By a very careful test it has been
found that the strength of a. bush
mans forearms compares with that
of an Englishman Of the same weight
as 55 to IS.
A TALLAHASSEE, Fla, merchant who
began business over three years ago,
has not been absent from his store
single day, often having his midday
meal sent to him.
WORMS of somewhat uncommon
species, and which the sparrows do not
seem to relish, are destroying the elms
on private and public grounds in New
York City and vicinity.
BUFFALoEs in this country have be-
come so scarce that commission has
been sent out from the capital to Sc
cure a specimen before nimrods COM
plete their work of devastation.
CANADA has only one institution
where agricultural and related subjects
are made specialties of, namely, the
Ontario Agricultural College, near
Guelph. This has q farm of $50 acres.
GLASS plates have been substituted
for copper in the sheathing of an ltal-
ian ship, the advantage claimed being
exemption from oxidation and incrus-
tation. The glass was cut in plates to
fit the hull.
A MEDICAL journal tells of young
woman who contracted the habit of
chewing coffee. The habit grew until
she carried the coffee to bed with her,
and at last she consumed half a pound
per day.
SEVERAL children playing about
near Actopam, Mexico, found a shell
containing an image of the Virgin
Mary. The matter is deemed so mir
aculous that the superstitious Next
cans intend to erect a chapel on the
spot.
II. McCAUTs STEWART, a colored law
yer of New York City, bought ticket
for Albany by g. Peoples Line boat,
securing a stateroom at the same time.
When he boarded the boat the cap
tain refused to let him occupy room.