Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-03
TO A SNOw-BIRD.
PICKED UP.

takes very superior woman to be an
old maid"
OVER 600 people were reported as
missing to the Philadelphia police DUR
ing the year 1885.
IT is stated that wherever the mes
quite wood will grow the olive will
flourish and bear well.
A MAN living near Butteville, Ore,
who is over so years Of age, is the
father of thirty-two children by three
wives.
BUFFALO, Wy, with a population of
800, supports 20 saloons and gam
bling dens innumerable. There is one
church.
OYsTERMEN on the north shore of
Long Island complain that starfish
are making great havoc among the
oyster beds.
DETROIT has 6O4 manufacturing es-
Establishments which employed 10000
workmen last year and turned out
$64, GIL 900 worth of products.
The Seattle Chronicle mentions the
establishment of factory at Friday
Harbor where fine oil is made from
the dog fish, which apounds in the
waters of the San Juan Islands.
AT Louisville civil service examina-
ton a typical mountain farmer ap-
peared with a jeans coat and cowhide
boots, into which the capacious ends
of his homemade trousers were
tucked.
Two hundred and two lions have
been killed in Algeria during the last
II years. One thousand two hundred
and fourteen panthers, 1, 1882 hyenas,
27,185 iackals have likewise been
gathered in.
A New DURHAM, N. H., man, who
was jailed for refusing to pay his taxes,
was released after being confined six
days, a friend paying the tax, $5.O3
with interest and costs OF court,
| amounting to $27.93.
AN organization is being formed in
Albuquerque to explore by excavation
| the site of an ancient city of vast di-
mansions and grandeur in New Mexico.
1t is the belief of the prospectors that
great wealth is hidden in the ruins.
THE executors of the late William
II. Vanderbilt have already paid over
the requests to the Domestic and For
eign Missionary Society of the
| LplScOUdt DAOO,OOO Ill cuLl'
The interest only is to be disbursed.
THE messages of the governor of
Texas reach the polyglot population
of the state in four different languages.
Thirty thousand copies are printed
in English, 10000 in German, and
5000 each in Spanish and Bohemian.
The grand jury of Whitman County,
W. T., found forty-two true bills
against persons for cattle and horse
stealing and then stopped work, say
ing that they believed the court had
enough business to last until another
session.
UNDER Kansas laws any town OF ESQ
inhabitants may become a city of the
third class; any one of from 1000 to
$4,000 may become a city of the Sec
ond class, and any city that contains
more than $4,000 inhabitants may
become city of the first class.
A MAINE supreme court judge told g.
Somerset Reporter man, recently, that
one of the greatest annoyan OF the
court is a certain lawyer who is always
asking for delays or other favors and
puts 80 much sweetness into his re-
quests that they cannot be refused.
1T seems incredible that Harvard,
with all it's boosted service and it's
long array of alumni, really furnishes
but one senator. Yale does some bet
ter, having three senator's to represent
her, while Princeton and Hamilton
have two each, and Bowdoin and Will
Jams one each.
The Medical World says that an
easy method of removing bits of for.
eign bodies from the eye is to place g.
grain of haxseed under the lower lid
and close the lids. The seed becomes
| quickly surrounded by a thick adher-
emit mucilage which entraps the for
eign body, and soon carries it out
from the angle OF the eye.
A MONTREAL man lately sued
druggist for damages for having been
| deprived of work for several weeks IN
consequence of taking poison sold
him by mistake. The error was
caused by the wholesaler, who had
labeled the package wrongly before
selling it to the druggist. The plaintiff
recovered 5000 damages.
AT dinner of fifty covers, given by
resident OF North Broad Street,
Philadelphia, the other night, at the
Bellevue Hotel in that city, the curtains
of the windows Of the banqueting hall
were removed, and curtains OF natural
flowers, costing over 800 each, were
hung in their place. The cost OF the
dinner was about 800.
THE Cape Ann Advertiser will be
sent one year as present TIC each Es-
sex County couple married during the
year beginning December /, 1885, and
ending December l, 1886, no matter
whether they are to reside in the coun-
ty or not. Couples will be eligible I'M
der this offer if either the bride or
groom be an Essex County person.
IT is proposed to erect new bourse
| in Paris. The one which at present
exists is commodious and excellently
situated. One of it's most peculiar
features is the daily gathering in the
square around it of men who rant by