Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-13
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lawyers.
THE Boston bicyclers are to build a
100000 clubhouse.
SAN JOSE, CAL, has one saloon for
every twenty-five voters.
THERE'S a bright red spot on Jupl-
ter. Probably the fall election is 60
ing on there.-Alta California.
A sNow-wHITE owl twenty inches
high was killed recently near Albany,
Ore.
The Minnesotians residing in Santa
Cruz, CAL, have organized state as
ISOLATION.
FROM three to seven deer are daily
brought into Nogalese, CAL, by Papa
60 Indians.
THE Chinese are said to take Sic,
100000 year out of California and
send it home.
ssRATTnEsNAKE" is the suggestive
name of a settlement near Yuma, Ari-
IONA Territory.
THE city of Topic, the capital of a
new territory In Mexico, has 5000
inhabitants and not a newspaper.
NEW ENGLAND brook trout grow
larger in the rivers and lakes of Ne
vada than in those of New England.
A GOLD nugget worth 1918 was
picked up on the main street of Au-
burn, CAL, after a heavy raln-storm.
A MoNGoLIAN musician In Nevada
City saws off "Sweet By-and-By" on
q Chinese fiddle without missing o.
note.
1T is estimated that there are now
in Arizona $50, 900 head of cattle, or
an increase since last year of over 25
per cent.
ToBoGGANING is finding favor in the
East, especially in Boston, where a
club of 200 members has recently been
organized.
Two elk were recently killed near
Heppner, Ore, one Of which dressed
seven hundred pounds and the other
five hundred.
A WOMAN made the first orange box
in California and has built up an in
dustry in box-making that amounts
to $4,000 boxes a year.
In the National House Of Repre-
sentatives there are AZ Johns. 27
Jameses, 40 Williams, 21 Charleses,
IT Thomases and 10 Georges.
A SPARKLING story is now going the
rounds relating to an ultra-fashiona-
BILE female of New York who has had
her teeth filled with diamonds.
IT is commonly asserted that rabid
dogs will not face water, yet one has
been known to swim across the Mersey
and bite other dogs alter doing so.
THE supply of sea turtles has been
rapidly decreasing during recent years,
and several Eastern dealers now have
schemes in hand for their protected
cultivation.
THE great revival in Los Angeles at
tracts people from all over Southern
California, and even the unconverted
acknowledge that it is q good thing
for the city.
THE constitution of the Yale navy
has been so changed that the under
graduates will have q controlling voice
in the management of the crew instead
of the alumni.
A RUNAWAY team near Kingston, N.
Y, was chased two miles the other
day by an express train down the
track and escaped unhurt. The wag-
on was demolished.
AT che suggestion of Gov. Alger
the lock-step system of walking has
been abandoned in the Michigan Peni-
tertiary and the marching in ranks or
squads substituted.
WHEN a genuine African lion can be
killed by an elephant, and q ferocious
American lion by horse, it seems
that that once lordly animal is no
longer the king of beasts.
MIsTLEToE boughs for kissing pur-
poses are now sent to New York from
Florida, post paid, at q cost of 10
cents each, being thus much cheaper
than the imported article.
THE common daisy is perhaps the
most Invisible plant in the garden.
Each separate branchlet may be re-
moved, with it's modicum of root, and
every bit will form plant.
A LAWSUIT in New York which cost
over $500 was all about safety pin
thenurse had lost. hewas discharged
and refused pay for full time, but the
court has decided in her favor.
THE cattlemen of Montana have
formed protective organization, Of
which the motto is, 'FYou had better
mind whose range you are on and
whose cattle you are branding"
ONE hundred and sixty-four of the
members of the present national house
have had collegiate or academic educa-
ton, and eighty put themselves down
as having been trained at thecommon
schools.
HARRY Brown, a colored man 95
years old, still living at Texas, N. Y,
was once the slave of Gov. Dewitt
Clinton, and obtained his freedom I'M
der the state manumission act, July
4, 1927.
THE London Lancet says that per-
son should drink from three to five
pints of water in twenty-four hours.
People who drink water in great guam
titles are said by the Lancet to be the
healthiest.
Mrs. gibson, of Newberg, N. Y,
did not like dog kept by her new
husband, and gave him week to de-
eide which he wonld keep. Mr. ellison
voted for the dog and his bride went