Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-17
PICK ED UP.

vania OF the South.
THE Salvation Army Of England he's
an income of 100000.
MASSACHUSETTS sharp-shooters are to
set up gcanite shaft at Gettysburg.
A LONDON outitter has made a
"baIl-dress trunk" long. shallow, and
light.
ABOUT the largest crop in Florida is
the cabbage crop. 1t bids fair to be
immense.
STATES which have rooted Carrick
Castle for 800 years are found to be
perfectly sound.
A FAIRBURN (Ga.j woman, 70 years
old, has never eaten a mouthful or
meat of any kind.
AMONG the assets of Georgia pro-
vision house recently assigned were d
lot of third mortgage mule bonds.
Two moose have allowed themselves
to be slain near Mt. Kineo as an early
advertisement of Names summer re-
sorts.
SOME people in California are in fa-
vor of having washing and ironing
taught in the public schools as an an
tl-ChlnoSo movement.
KANSAS Cry is to have new water
reservoir with capacity of 6O,OOO,-
600 gallons. There is no reason why
Kansas City should not keep sober in
the future.
ORDINARY everyday English speech
employs only about twelve hundred
words, according to a stenographer
who has made careful examination
of the matter.
THE Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle
breaches this doctrine: Let the negro
be educated, and let him be encour-
aged to scatter himself over the whole
United States.
ASTRONOMERS promise that a bright
comet will be Wis BILE just before sun
rise during the latter part OF May. 1t
is the comet 1885," discovered lately
by Prof. Barnard.
IT is reassuring and instructive to
learn, on the authority OF the full
bench of the supreme court, that q
man cannot play game of poker with
out being present thereat.
BETWEEN New York and the Gulf Of
Mexico there are only four natural en-
frances to harbors where the depth at
mean low water is over 16 feet while
the largest ships draw from 26 to 28h
feet.
AMONG the negroes of Norfolk, Va,
there has been organized q society the
euphonious title OF which is THE
Union State Grand Tabernacle of the
Imperial Order of Galilean Fisher
men,"
A PENNSYLVANIA miner last week
sold his wife to neighbor for quart
of beer. AS the neighbor had already
secured the woman's consent to an
elopement, the price may be considered
extravagant.
If wax candles are placed in a re-
frigerator for 8 few hours before they
are needed it is said that they will
burn perfectly without the disagree
able features of "winding sheets" and
dripping wax.
THE destruction of 10000 unli
censed dogs is an indirect result of the
hydrophobia scare in London. They
were captured and taken to the
'Dogs' Home" and thence sent to
their long home.
In a mill at Milton, Pa, on the Sus-
ouehanna River, Sawyer Hasler saw q
fish in hollow, water-soaked log, just
as it was being pushed to the saw.
Eight large bass were found IN and
taken from the log.
ADMIRAL PORTER places his official
opinion on record that "any vessel
that cannot make 18 knots an hour
will in the future be next to worthless
as a ship of war;" Speed rather than
comfort is his motto.
In order to make possible the en-
forcement of the law prohibiting the
carrying of arms, the New Orl
Christian Advocate suggests statute
prohibiting the sale OF any pistol less
than three feet in length.
The society folks of Albion, Neb, re-
Gently held g. monster progressive
euchre party. the Opera House having
been hired for the occasion. Eighty
four persons and twenty-one packs of
cards were engaged at one time.
The name "Quaker" was first ap-
piled to a member of the Society of
Friends by Derbyshire, Eng, magis-
trate, because George Fox, the found
er of the sect, admonished him to
tremble Quake at the name OF the
Lord.
PROF. WARD, of Rochester, N. Y,
has succeeded in restoring Jumbo to a
llfe-like appearance, and he will again
be placed on exhibition. The model is
the largest piece Of work of the kind
ever attempted, and weighs over TO-
600 pounds.
AN old historic landmark of Quebec
is about to disappear. The old
French House in St. Louis Street
which was used by Gen. Montcalm as
his headquarters in 1859 is about to
be torn down to make room for d.
m odern building.
THE Southern Press Association
meets IN Augusta, Ca, on the first
Wednesday in April. The member
ship embraces the proprietors of the
n ailu pawSnaporG from VIRGINIA tO