Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-09-29
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ANOTHER doctor who has impaired
his reason by too much cocaine has
been admitted to Bellevue Hospital.
MEN employed in sinking well at
Colman, D. T., found live frog en-
bedded in the earth 2S5 feet below
the surface.
The consumption of powder
throughout the Black Hills for blast
ing purposes amounts to seventy-fve
car loads year.
A BROOKLYN man worth $15,OO0,-
600 has just died from the effects of an
atf1lctlOn similar to that visited upon
the historic Job.
The costs in cat killing case just
tried before the Chester County (Pa.)
courts amounted to $50, not includ-
ing the lawyers fees.
A CLOUD burst on the Chugwater in
Dakota made a torrent seventy feet
wide and fifteen feet deep, which car
ried everything before it.
The Smiths had a reunion at Pea
pack, at the headwaters Of the Raritan
River, on Wednesday last, and there
were 5000 Of them reported.
A SPAN of horses belonging to w. J.
Smith, OF Pomeroy, Ia., ran away
with buggy, and nine persons were
injured in trying to stop them.
A SNAKE killed near Columbus, Ia,
is said to have measured nineteen feet
three inches in length and thirty one
inches around the largest part of the
body.
FARMER TAFT, of Uxbridge, Mass,
has a pair of steers which he drives to
harness, and which have trotted, with
four in the carriage, four miles in half
an hour.
DREAMS of persons who have been
blind since the age of years never
contain imaginary visions. They
dream mainly of hearing things or feel
ing them.
THIS has been a poor season for in
sects, according to the New York State
entomologist, J. A. Lintner. He
says that not nearly as many are to
be found this year as last.
A RESIDENT of Montreal had the
peculiar experience of being twice
thrown out of his own window into
the street by drunken man who had
honored him with visit.
A CoULoNGE (Canada) correspond
ent alleges that a young marksman
OF that place at 500 yards struck
squarely the head of a pin stuck in the
center of common envelope.
CONFINED in the penitentiary at
Leavenworth, Kas., according to the
St. Louis Democrat, are forty-fve
prisoners awaiting the governors sig
nature to their death warrants.
EACH male member of q family living
in Irwin County, Ca, has a peculiar
deformity, each having to resort to
small blocks under their heels in order
to make locomotion practicable.
GERMAN photographers have sue
ceeded in photographing a projectile
in the course of it's flight, and some of
these photographs show the head of
condensed air which precedes every
shot.
THE small boat, Ocean, which left
Glasgow for this side with only two
men, was found capsized when twenty
five days out by an Italian bark. She
was righted and they continued their
voyage.
A SWARM of bees settled in George
Payne's chimney at Delana and filled
it with honey. Mr.. Payne procured g.
we'll augur and bored into the comb
from below. He procured barrelful
of honey.
THE present condition of the ship
ping trade at Glasgow is the worst on
record. Thirty-four steamers and
twenty-three sailing vessels are rotting
in their docks, having been idle some
two years.
A 2O-YEAR OLD setter dog belonging
to Alfred Bennesse, of Otis, Mass,
died of old age the other day. Hehad
crossed the Atlantic with his master
sixteen times and had travelled over
$4,000 miles.
IT was ever thus. AS soon as pol
itician opened his mouth and put his
foot in it and discovered what ridic-
ulous spectacle hehad made of himself
he says he was incorrectly reported by
the newspapers.-Washington Post.
A LETTER having two two-cent Con-
federate postage stamps thereon was
placed in the Richmond post-ofice last
Friday to he mailed. It was directed
to gentleman in Manchester, and
was only some twenty-one years be-
hind time. The stamps had on them
the head of jeff Davis.-Ba7hmore
American.
SOME Texas papers have names of
their own. For example, the Cyclone,
Gospel Flame, Seven Mansions, Cri-
terion, Dot, Red Man, Rustler, Maver-
lex, Trumpet, Rocket, Breeze, Simeon,
Jimplecute, Wide Awake, Black Waxy,
Ball, Mesquiter, Staked Plain, Pan
handle, Pinery, Sharpshooter, Free
Tongue, Balance Wheel, Success, Ad-
vocate of Holiness, Platonian Messen-
ger, Plow and Hammer, ETC. Still the
number Of familiar names adopted by
different papers is considerable.
About SO bear the name Of News
Galveston News.
A BUTCHER called at the house of q
minister in g. certain town in this
county once upon a. time. 1t being on
g. Monday morning, he was asked if