Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-29
PICKED UP.

a LANE hd5 Op0Icu a. WOODEN S0OG
factory in New Richmond, MINI.
A PATRIOT at Rochester, N. Y, voted
| sixteen times before his trickery was
| discovered.
THERE are some 800 Americans
studying art III the various studios
and schools of Paris.
IT cost 100000 to harvest the i'm.
mense cranberry crop around Cape
Cod, Mass, this season.
THE strength OF ap insurance COM
pany does not depend upon the lunch
1t gives when officers are elected-New
Orleans Picayune.
A BLAIR, Neb., banker invested
1928, 700 and q house and lot in whisky
which heconsumed in eighteen months.
| His bank is closed now.
On tombstone in q Massachusetts,
cemetery is written the following some.
what terse epitaph: "Died of thin
| shoes, January, 1882"
| The public has paid for Appleton's
american Cyclopedia in It's various
editions. including annual supple
ments, nearly SIS, 100000.
IN the State Department OF the
United States government many Ct
the female clerks use pens and pencils
decorated with ribbon bows.
NEW JERSEY negroes own $4,000
| 600 worth of real estate. In Balti-
more, Md, 10 colored men own $780,
600 worth Of business property.
| LAST year the fruit and farm prod
uce shipments at st. Joseph and
III
600; this year they reach 81 100000.
ZACH T. BEST, of Alden, Ark, rugged
up cistern for his wife to fall into
and drown, and the next day he fell
in himself. Neighbours pulled him out.
In Philadelphia lives man who
weighs not more than nine pounds and
measures only sixteen inches in height.
He is % years old. The museums are
after him.
GEORGE DINwooDY and Sam Bryant
were playing poker at Topeka. Din
woody grabbed the stakes and ran.
Bryant pulled O. revolver, and George
is now in the hospital.
In Cedartown, Ca, has been organ
lied an association for the purpose of
holding a perpetual county exhibition
of native resources, by which the
town may be advertised.
| THE ST. Adams Messenger gays that
III. 81. Hurlbut, of Grand Isle, the
other day brought down four wild
geese st one shot the aggregate weight
of the victims being 45 pounds.
The mill-owners along the Penob-
scot River, Maine, have signed an
agreement to hereafter provide other
means of disposing of their sawdust
besides dumping it into the river.
THREE men in Flagstaff, A. t., toiled
all one night to get a barrel supposed
to contain whisky out OF a cellar and
away to their camp. When they
tapped it they found that it contained
kerosene Oil.
In Marshall, Tenn, one day recently,
q mountaineer mailed letter bearing
g. confederate postage-stamp; another
a revenue stamp taken from g. match
box. Both were sent to the dead
letter Office to be embalmed.
YEE HING was recently buried in q,
Plttsburg, Pa, cemetery as q Chris
tian. He was probably the first Celes-
tial in America whose funeral rites.
were unaccompanied by the peculiar
formalities of q strictly Chinese burial.
ONE of the institutions of Connecti-
cut this fall is the cider beat, who, pre-
tending to be out buying cider, samples
the farmers apple juice, and gets in
vited to dinner Or take tea, says he'll
call again, and goes on his dishonest
way.
A New YORK sharper, who only had
desk-room himself in an Office, ''rent-
ed" the rest of the place to an English
man for $500 year. The money was
paid In advance and the sharper Is
now some distance in advance Of the
officers.
THIS country is exporting plum pud-
ding to England for Christmas time.
We have been sending beef there for
many years. By and by, perhaps, we
will send mistietoe and ale. Then
where will British glory be?-Bazti-
more American.
A Largo and elegant stove, sur
mounted with g. statue Of shakespeare,
has just been placed in the superior
courtroom. 1t has been suggested
that statue of Burns would have
been more appropriate.-Augusta
(Ga.) Chronicle.
A. d. PENBRooKs, A. S. Bennett and
Jim Smith stole twenty mules Il Tex
as, and agreed to divide the proceeds.
Penbrooks and Bennett sold the ami
mails and ran away with the money.
Smith pursued them, and has Just got
them in jail at Dallas.
WILLIAM ALvA De Lone ran g. saw
ings bank at Long Greek, Neb., ticking
deposits of g. nickel and upward. At
the end of a month he vanished, and
his gorgeous safe, which looked as
though it weighed ten tons, was found
to be of wood, painted.
TEN THOUSAND families in New York
are said to make way with their vege-
table refuse by burning it in the kl5ch-
en- range. An effort is being made to
extend the practice, and if it is sue
cesssul New York will probably be the
cleanest city in the world.
III. D. CARLISLE, chief clerk in the
city engine Office at Kansas City, was