Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

the United States bear the name Of
| NeaUs.
"A pointer dog was recently sold in
New York for two thousand seven hun
dred dollars.-N Y Herald.
"A man in Crowley, Tex, claims to
have the biggest hog ever raised in
this country. It weighs nine hundred
| pounds.
In Boston, the Advertiser states,
there have been fifty people killed and
eighteen injured by horse railways
within a year.
"A silver shoe-buckle, supposed to
have once belonged to General Wash
ington, was recently found among
some rubbish at Mount Vernon.
"A buried city, presumably Roman,
has been discovered near Nantes.
| France. The theater had a seating
capacity for four thousand persons.
Prohibition bar-room is the term
| applied to place lately opened N
Athens, Ga, for dispensing hot tea,
coffee and chocolate at five cents a
glass.
"A Georgia man has kept bale of
cotton for twenty years, thinking that
each year would see the article at the
| price which he thinks it is WORTH
Louisville Courier-JournoZ.
Every one says better times are
| coming on. Well, that is one way to
hasten them. A good receipt for the
| making of hard times is for all hands
to moan and howl about the hard times.
-S0cr0nle11tO Union.
hoe Iooo,, oct;,1,o+ol f.oxo, -
single pound of steel costing about
fifty cents there can be manufactured
one hundred thousand watch screws
worth eleven dollars. Some of these
machine-made screws are so small that
an uneducated eye requires the aid of
magnifying glass to see what they
really are Chicago Journal
"A young girl who likes to be giddy
writes to the New York Journal: IF
that Bordentown, N. j., professor
thinks he is going to stop young ladies
from flirting by suspending them for a
month he is awfully mistaken. would
not give. a snap of my finger for a girl
who did,not enjoy q little flirting. She
will make a cast-iron. granite-souled
woman. / fIirt, and like it,
Years. ago Vacaville, in Solano
County, Cal, was known as cow
town. The name still retained signi-
ies as much. But it is curious fact,
says the San Francisco Bulletin, that
one may travel the length and breadth
of that valley and not see half dozen
COWS or any other horned stock. The
cow town has become fruit vale.
"A swimming teacher in New York
City intends to swim from New York
to Albany next spring, to decide
wager between several members of the
New York Athletic Club. The time
allowance is two weeks, the swimmer
entering the water only when favor
able tides are flowing. This means
eight hours labor per day.-N. Y. Mail.
Careful experiment has disclosed
the fact that a single square foot of leaf
surface in the case of soft, thin-leafed
plants will, during fair weather, exhale
aqueous vapor at the rate of one and
quarter ounces daily. At night the
rate is only about one-fifth as rapid as
during the day, and during rainy
weather there is absolutely no evapor-
atior.- Chicago Journal.
At recent fair given at Skowhe-
gan, Me-, by the w. G. T. o., there
were exhibited piece of lace and
pin ball made by the mother of Ralph
Waldo Emerson more than one hum
dred years ago, Turkish inlaid table
over two hundred and fifty years old,
and squirrel made of about ten thou
sand dollars worth of condemned
greenbacAs pressed.-Boston Post.
Miss Emma X. Young, of Monon-
holo hoo ~ nr
a brass plate cabinet of novel shape
of wood taken from gun carriage from
the flagship st. Lawrence, sunk in
Lake Erie in 1918 and raised in 1875
The box is a valued souvenir, and
handsome as well. 1t was presented
by friend at Erie Pittsburgh Post.
The craze for family crests has
broken out in Philadelphia, where the
authorities, tBurke's Peerage'' and the
rest, are being hunted up in order to
have crests perfectly accurate. The
crests, some of which are very elabor-
ate, are put on in colors, and the fines:
work has to be done by regular artists,
though much of it is done by skillful and
and trained girls. Even monograms
are again in style, and the decoration
incident to epistolary correspondence
is very elaborate indeed. Philadelphia
Press
New York hair dealers have issued
circular relating to the different
styles of hair dressing, in which they
say: ''The Puritan style of hair cut.
ting, close all over the head and shaped
in saucer bang on the forehead, which
was quite favorite with some foreign
ladies, has been eagerly adopted BY
it saves time. This style is not now
worn in Europe, and the sooner it is
discountenanced here the better for the
looks of our fair countrywomen. Front
coifferes are worn in pompadour style >
N. Y. Mail.
You can't destroy a false set OF
teeth in the retort of a crematory.
This I deem one victory of art over ma
ture. Our own teeth we can reduce to
ashes with the rest of the body, but
false teeth and gold plate hold their
own. Silver plates or any other sub.
stan % egsp1 dentists will :;