Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-13
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

wood, IL. i.
"A single oyster opened the other
day by Fair Haven Conn. man con-
tanned one hundred and sixty-three
pearls. Hartford Post.
They have rug at Cottage City,
N. j., made in the year 691, or 1, 1875
years ago. 1t is a pretty old relic, and
was obtained from the mosque of
Mecca.
"A citizen of Norwich has beauti-
full pet rattlesnake with sage green
head and finely marked body. He
handles her fearlessly, but rat she
struck the other day died in twelve
minutes.
Earthquakes, according to history
and Shakespeare, having preceded the
death of Kings. the superstitious have
an opportunity to look about and cal
culate the chances of life among the
worlds rulers.
Harry Wright, the veteran base
ball player, is said to have invented the
chestnut gong, and his firm in Phila-
delphia to have made twenty-five thou
sand dollars out of the little nuisance
in less than two months.
has never been surveyed; consequently
there are no charts to aid navigators,
no buoys to indicate dangerous rocks
or shoals, and but four lighthouses
along the entire north coast, some five
hundred miles in length.
The Polish women are noted for
their strength of mind and intellect.
There is Russian legend which says
that God once sent a bee laden with
brains for the Polish males, but the
Polish women captured the treasure
and left nothing for them.
One thousand Bulls held family
picnic at Goshen, N. Y, few days
ago to celebrate the one hundred and
eighth anniversary of the marriage of
their ancestors, William Bull and
Sarah Wells. The family now numbers
twenty thousand people.-AlbGny Jour-
nal.
"A Dakota farmer, grumbling at
the poor outlook for wheat in the early
summer, offered to give to his wife all
the wheat he would have over fifteen
hundred bushels. He threshed tri1e
over twenty-five hundred bushels, and
the wife is going to have new black
SILK UT0SS.
We hear often of Americans eating
with their knife, but Andrew Foun-
ine-Wilson-Montague, of Leicester
shire, with an income of thirty-seven
thousand pounds year, great Lon
don swell and great friend of Lord
Beaconsfeld, who has twice refused a
peerage. ears no collar.
Says the New Orleans Picdyal7ae: "a
man who throws banana skin on the
sidewalk should be made to eat it. f"
We agree unhesitatingly to the above,
notwithstanding we are left somewhat
in doubt whether our Southern con-
temporary means the skin or the side
walk. Perhaps it would be well to
make the offender eat both.-Boston
Post.
"A recent advertisement contains
the following: '1f the gentleman who
keeps the shoe store with the red head
will return the umbrella of ayoung lady
with whalebone ribs and an iron handle
to a slate-roofed grocer's shop he will
hear of something to his advantage as
the same is the gift of a deceased
mother now no more With the name
engraved on it. ;"
"A Brooklyn lady at Greenwood
Lake put her baby on bed to sleep,
and, fearing that it might roll off,
placed an open trunk half full of cloth
ing by the bedside that the child might
fall into. it if it fell from the bed. The
child did fall from the bed, and did fall
into the trunk, but when the mother
found it it was dead. 1t had tangled
its head in clothing and smothered.
"A citizen of Portland, who had
lived there forty years, and has kept
statistics, as far as practicable, of the
mortality of Oregon, has come to the
conclusion that the average longevity
is greater than that of any State in the
Union. He sscribes the fact to the
climate and simplicity in the mode of
living. During the year ending last
June nine Oregonians died, aged one
| hundred.
There was a break in an electric
light wire in St. Paul hotel the other
day. and Superintendent Brockway, in
(, order to expedite matters, went with
his workmen to repair it. ''You must
be careful, said looker-on, ''or we'll
| have Coroner inquest right here. !"
Brockway smiled, seized the dead end
of one wire with one hand and the
lamp wire with his nippers, and fell
dead. The full force of the current,
| which he supposed had not been turned
on, had passed through his body.
james Lyon, of Elmira, N. Y, de-
sired photograph of his fine st. Ber-
nard dog. When the dog saw the
camera pointed at him he suspected
that something was wrong, and bolted
out of the door. He was coaxed back
and posed again. Again he took
alarm, and, the door being shut,
jumped out of a window, fell on an
awning, broke through, fell on two
young men, smashed hat fiat and ter
ribly scared small colored bootblack.
The dog weighs one hundred and fifty
pounds.
"A few weeks ago two young per-
sons went rowing on White Bear Lake,
Mimi, and the young woman trailed
her hand in the water and thus lost a
ring. A week afterward the same