Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-31
PICKED UP.

AT Lowell, Mass, q fund for a Cough
monument has been started.
QUEEN VICTORIA has commissioned
Prof. Won Angel to paint her a por-
trait Of Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria.
PORTLAND, Ore, has a number OF
Chinese lepers on her poor farm. They
are kept in an Enclosure of a couple oil
acres, surrounded by an eight-foot
fence.
ELIJAH PATE, of Dooley, a sprigntly
and very well preserved Georgian OF II
years, has Just married Miss Ba1ly, q
sprightly and blooming Georg an of g
years.
A SILVER dollar, bright and unfair
tines of a large black bass which was
recently caught in g. mountain stream
in Idaho.
| CALIFORNIA orange groves are said
to be worth $1,000 per acre. There
are seventy-fve trees to the acre, and
each tree produces about ten boxes of
| the fruit.
A NORTHAMPTON, Pa, farmer is still
working g. horse 38 years old, and has
two others that are 20 and % and
the Oldest one will do as much work
as the youngest.
THERE is only one linen mill now in
operation in the United States, and it
is making only the coarsest kinds of
crash toweling. 1t has been losing
money for years.
RAILROAD men along the line of the
Erie report that large hocks of wild
geese are now flying northward. This
means either warmer weather North
or colder weather South.
A PROFESSOR in natural history an
nounces that he possesses g. kitten
which is especially fond of peanuts.
The cat cracks and eats the peanuts
as if they were usual cat diet.
A PARAGRAPH is going the rounds of
the press to the effect that Donald
McClellen, who claims to have been q
companion of the famous Rob Roy, is
living at Detroit, at the age of 1O2.
In Virginia the legislature has
passed local-option law for the
whole state. A strongly supported
amendment exempting cities of five
thousand inhabitants was defeated.
ROBERT MORRIS, a Georgia murderer,
when sentenced to be hanged by the
Judge laughed and said to the sheriff:
"Send me plenty to eat, so that / will
be heavy enough to break my neck
when fall
IT has been ascertained that the
great Jumbo was still child, the
bones being still cartilaginous in
parts, and the public will never know
how he might have looked had he at
tanned his growth.
AN eminent gourmet says that the
broad and statesmanlike way to broil
beefsteak is to keep it over the Goals
! just long enough to count forty-four,
turning it four times. This is a new
application of 4-11-44.
JERSEYS continue in favor and are
varied in design as dress bodices.
Some are covered with beads in va
riety of patterns; others have vests,
collars and cuffs Of velvet, plush or
surah.
A BURMESE sword of honor, which
belonged to one of King Theebaw's
ministers, has arrived at Edinburg
from India. The hilt is q piece o.
ivory, beautifully carved, and the
scabbard is of pure silver and is artis-
tically chased.
SHIP anchors are carefully tested be-
fore admitted to use in English vessels.
Two of the three tests for ductibility,
contraction Of area, elongation, and
bending must be satisfactory, or the
anchor will be rejected.
WHITE lilacs in bloom are among
the greatest attractions at a New
York agricultural show. Dwarfed by
potting, they were made little trees
not more than two feet high, perfect
in shape, and snowy with bloom.
"YoU are a regular dude" rudely
observed the young man to an ex-
pensively-dressed stranger in the thea
ter lobby the other night. ''Wrong,
my FRIEND" replied the stranger po-
litely, 81 make dudes. em tailor"
HAIR three-quarters the length Of
the women and of wonderful thickness
is common in Mexico. It is often worn
loose, but more frequently in two long
plaits. Wig-makers find no employ
ment there. The men wear long,
heavy bangs.
A MAN in Marietta, Ca, filled keg
IN his barn about half full of water
and put in enough cotton seed to cover
the surface of the water and then
sprinkled meal on top of the cotton
seed. Next morning he emptied out
| 100 drowned rats.
A METHODIST preacher in the Bat
tineau district (Dakota) has a circuit
of $50 miles, and has been making his
points most of the time on foot, but
friends have recently presented him
with a horse and vehicle. His salary
has not been large.
SAMUEL DAVIDSON, of Corydon, Ind,
failed to supply his family with enough
food to keep them warm. A lot of his
neighbors seized him, and the other
evening hitched him to a sled, and
forced him to haul wood all night.
When he Jagged he was well whipped
with timber switches.
A 68-PoUNDER twenty years ago was