Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
PICKED UP,

ton, S. O., the colore6 people have
$124, 936.35 on deposit. The largest
deposition has $4,000 to his credit.
HIRAM SOUTHWARK, of Fairfax. VT.
has O. curiosity in a chicken with
Twelve toes, and he has asquash which
measures six feet in circumference.
THE remains of house that experts
say ls fifteen centuries old have been
unearthed in Rome. They are in a,
comparatively good state of preserva-
ENGLISH milliners have discovered g.
way OF making bonnets of tissue
paper. They cost about as much
as If they were covered with bank
notes.
THE Lowell Courier claims to have
evolved a new palindrome, that is, a,
sentence that reads the same back
ward as forward. 1t is, ''No, it is op-
position"
In cleaning out the public we'll in
Minonk, H., an old hat, grab hook,
bottle of whisky, several barrels of
dirt, and eighteen old we'll buckets
were found.
A BUFFALO man who was in the
habit of jotting down his every action
III his diary now finds his wife suing
for divorce aud the diary the evidence
against him.
The largest apartment house in the
world is soon to be built in Chicago.
1T will be 318x213 feet, seven stories
high, and will cost between 500, 900
and 100000.
The rose, thistle and shamrock in
terwoven form the chief feature of the
interior decoration of the new carriage
in which Queen Victoria will take her
drives about Deerside this autumn.
THE greatest balloon In the world
has been constructed in San Francisco.
1t will hold 10000 cubic feet of gas
and was made to traverse the Ameri-
can continent from ocean to ocean.
j. M. MEANS, OF Liberty, Mo-, has a.
4O-year old clock that is perfect ba-
rOmeter. Just before rain the bell,
usually OF clear and distinct tone,
tells the hours in tone so dull as to
be hardly audible.
A GENTLEMAN of this city of unques-
toned veracity yesterday told re-
porter OF the strange feat accomplished
by a horse in jumping over high gate.
The horse was in the shafts of buggy
and took that vehicle right over the
gate with him.-Raleigh News.
Ex-JUDGE FORD writes from the
Louisiana penitenti&ry declaring that
his alleged confession of the murder of
Murphy was a lie, invented to help his
brother escape the gallows, and that
he is the innocent victim Of the huge
conspiracy. He appeals for charity
and Justice, and points with pride"
to his record on the bench.
LADY at the seaside went to see
some lodgings. Thinking the large,
old Oaken bedstead in one of the
rooms looked very uncomfortable and
shaky, she observed the same to the
landlady, when the latter returned,
very Indignantly 'Lor, ma'am, it is
q beautiful bed I gave 91O for it
forty years ago! Audit has never been
touched sincep'
A MAMMOTH well is being dug on
Breaker Island, near Albany, N. Y. It
is over twenty feet in diameter and
will be sunk below the bed of the river
a distance of several hundred feet, so
that the water will be of the purest
quality that can be secured. About
four million gallons will be consumed
on the island every day when the blast
furnaces are In operation.
The young woman referred to in a.
recent article on Liszt in the Century
is said to be Miss Harkness-Senk
read backward-of Boston. who has
during thirteen years in Europe &C.
complished so much with the violin
that she is called 'the violin fairy"
List took such an interest in her that
he accompanied her on the piano,
which was supposed to be a tremend-
Gus honor.
The dome of the new observatory
at Nice is larger than the dome of the
Pantheon. 1t floats in q circular
trough filled with liquid, and, although
very weighty, can easily be turned by
one man. The remarkable purity of
the atmosphere will doubtless aid in
astronomical research, and it is hoped
that important discoveries will be
made by means of the powerful tele-
scope recently completed.
HENRY DONNELLY, of New Haven,
beard cries for help coming from Mill
River, ran quite q distance at full
speed, reached the water In time to.
see q small boy sink for the third
time, plunged in, breathless as he was,
without removing even his shoes,
failed to get the boy at the first at
tempt, dived again, and Just managed
to bear the apparently lifeless body
ashore, when his strength gave out.
Donnelly was dragged out fainting,
the bOy WAS resuscitated, and so was
his mother, who had in the meantime
arrived and tainted.
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