Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-27
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A GoURD four feet six inches in length
is on exhibition in Atlanta, Ga.
SOMEBODY finds that pumpkin seeds
are very good bait for black bass.
A PETRlFIED rosebud is a curiosity
on exhibition at Valley Head, Ala.
The town of Jonesboro, Ca, is
lighted up at night with gasoline
lamps.
PREPARATIONS are being made to
erect a large guano factory at Jeffer-
son, Ga.
The Chinese of New York are think
ing of building g. Chinese theater in
Mott Street.
ABOUT SIG, 100000 in fares are tax
en- on the street railways of New York
City every year.
THE four northern counties of Idaho
are seeking to become part OF Wash
ington Territory.
The project of changing the street
nomenclature of Washington, D. c., is
again being revived.
A CoLoRED college is being erected at
ThoElasville, Ca, and will cost from
SIS, 900, to $4,000.
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Washington Territory, day or two
ago, the first in the history of that
city.
ROBERT SPEAR, g. farmer residing
near Columbia City, Ind, was recently
swindled out of $1,750 by three
sharpers.
The ambergris broughts home by g.
Provincetown whaler recently was
worth $4,000 more than all the oil
on board.
Two hens wandered into store in
New London, Conn.,, few days ago,
and laid couple Of eggs in q box un-
der counter.
A WEALTHY New York physician de-
clares it as his belief that ''the oyster
is the most healthful article of food
known to man."
| In taking down chimney of the old
ssHouse of Seven Cables" in Salem,
Mass, pine-tree shilling of the date
| 1852 was found.
MOSES IvERsoN, aged IS years, and
Aggie Rux; aged 80 years, both col.
ored, were married q few days ago in
Stewart County, Georgia.
A 1O-YEAR-oLD boy living at Belle
PLANE, Iowa, recently fell into the ar
tesian we'll, but was forced out by the
! flow Of the water.-Omaha Bee.
A PROJECT is Moot in Tampa, Fla,
to erect two hundred-room hotel in
the burned district. 1t will cost be-
tween 100000 and 100000.
THE Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion of Utica, n. Y, has purchased the
Blocker Street Baptist Church for
$50, 900, and will use it for hall.
The superintendent of public in
struction recently elected in Lawrence
County, Alabama, is said to be de-
faulter for several thousand dollars.
A COMPANY with g. capital of ST.
100000 has been formed in Baldwin
/ County, Alabama, for the purpose OF
manufacturing artificial stone pottery.
4 CINCINNATI, o., monkey is valued
at 50, 900. 1t is nearly as large as a
Newfoundland dog and has the
strength of gorilla and is well trained.
THE Baltimore, Md, police have
been ordered to wear their head-gear
firmly on their head, and under no
consideration to the side or back OF
the head.
THE grape-growers of Los Angeles,
CAL, are experimenting with the cold
storage process in shipping their fruits.
| So far the experiments have proved
successful.
THE Indiana Methodist Conference
has condemned the use OF tobacco as
uncleanly and unhealthful, and the
delegates promised to preach against
1T once year.
MEASUREMENTS have shown the thick
the 25Oth to the 6OOth part OF an
red hair the coarsest.
DURING the war kerosene oil sold in
Erie County, N. Y, at 81 .2Oper gallon;
white sugar, 80 cents per pound; ging-
ham, so cents per yard; bleached
sheeting, So cents per yard; calicoes,
SO cents.
| A CHINAMAN who once made San
Francisco, CAL, his home returned to
| China to embrace his wife once more,
but she hung him, or tried to. Now
she is to be cut into q Thousand pieces
for her pleasantly.
NINETY-sIx pounds of iron ore were
recently found attached 60 the end of
a. lightning rod removed from the
ground The soil was felrugincus, and
| it is supposed that electricity attracted
the ore to the rod.
MARY DUKE, of Canton, Ala, is the
youngest school-teacher in the state.
Sheis years old, and has madeup an
infants school, and her terms are 10
cents month for teaching the little
| fellows their letters.
A NEGRO in the Florida district was
recently bitten by shark, and de-
scribes the feeling as ''suthin' like
| TELLER gwine ter stick lot OF red-hot
spikes inter yer foot to make We own
up to whar dem chickens went to-"
CHARLES PORTER, a colored man,
supposed to be 95 years old, died at
the Oxford, Conn, town house recent
ly. He was commonly known as colo
mel, having been colonel of the old
colored regiment which, in place of the
guns, not then permitted TO be borne
carried painted sticks.
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