Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
PICKED UP.

cloth dresses with black braid is still
in favor.
A NEW two. cent post age stamp has
been designed to take the place of the
present head of Washington.
In Calvert County, Md, recently, g.
horse while hitched to hearse took
sick and died, and the people haven't
got through talking about it yet.
THE English government has pur-
chased large number Of Mexican sad
dies for use in the English cavalry SER
vice.
PINK-EYE has made it's appearance
among the street car horses in Buffalo,
N. Y, and it is feared that it will be-
come an epidemic.
PURSES for ladies are made OF choice
chamols skin, studded with gay In
dian feathers and peacock plumes, and
hang from the belt with silver chains.
FIFTEEN bears averaging in weight
300 pounds each were killed by one
farmer near Entreple, Can, during the
month Of November.
MRS. ELLEN MCCANN, OF Tacoma, w.
t., is well thought OF there because
she has recently given birth to g. baby
weighing twenty 1.-TWO pounds.
THE board of trade at Chattanooga,
Tenn, has decided to do everything in
it's power to encourage the building of
railroads in that neighborhood
AN arrow made of ivory was lately
extracted from the breast Of g. goose
shot near Colusa, Cal. The motives
think it was originally shot by an Es.
quimaux.
A NORTH EAST, Md, citizen has had
coffin made similar to the one in
requested his family to inter him in
it after his decease.
A LARGE insurance company Of Par
is has issued g. confidential circular 20
its agents warning them against in
surfing persons who are in the habit OF
dyeing their hair or boards.
A PENNSYLVANIA coal operator has
employed q competent surgeon to lee
ture to his miners on the method OF
procedure in the many emergencies
that arise from mine accidents.
A GooD.sIzED hog which jumped
overheard in Lake Erie when the
steamer was a mile of shore landed
n q little over an hour in pretty good
condition.
AN indianapolis contractor who re-
pairs mail bags made a mistake of
cents in footing bill, and Uncle Sam
Kept him out Of $3.50 for Elk months,
and put him to $3.50 costs as the re-
suit.
A PHYSICIAN having directed one OF
his patients 60 battle a wound in tep-
id water, the patient sent his little
girl to the drug store with g. note say
ing: "Pieaee sell bearer one-haN pint
of tepid water"
SOMEBODY stole two hens in Peoria,
H., and paper there closes yigor-
Gus article on the subject with the
words: "The guilty wretches have
not yet been caught, but startling de-
velopments are on the eve Of explod-
ing"
The engineer of an Alabama coal
mine got into q discussion about re-
ligion with his fireman, and the water
ran out of the boiler and an explosion
followed. While four or five men were
killed, neither of the two men was
hurt.
a LARGE and sound Missouri pump
kin, recently cut open, was found to
be filled with thrifty vines and leaves.
The seeds had sprouted and sent out
vines, though there were no signs of
decay, the meat being sound and
sweet.
A LARGE eagle attacked John Dona-
hover, q II year old boy, in Richmond,
Mimi. The boy had nothing to de-
fend himself with except the boots on
his feet, which he used to good pur-
pose in kicking the eagle until he had
killed it.
DAVID WRIGHT, q colored citizen OF
Columbia City, Fla, is the father OF
twenty-five children, most of whom
are living. His present wife is wor-
thy of her third husband, for she has
borne twenty-seven children, OF whom
nineteen live.
DR.. BERNAYs, of st. Louis, last
week successfully performed q gastrot-
omy upon a. tailor aged 40, for the
extraction of an ordinary silver plat
ed dinner knife 81 inches long, which
he had swallowed in imitatian OF the
juggler's feat.
ZUIG LEE, Fort Worth Chinaman,
who has been converted to Christian
ity, is trying to convert the Cinnamon
of Dallas, Tex, under the auspices of
the Young Mems Christian Association
of that place.
AN attempt is about to be made at
st. Augustine, Fla, to sink an artesian
well to a depth sufficient to obtain
water hot enough to heat buildings,
pure enough for all domestic pur-
poses, and with pressure enough to run
heavy machinery.
AT Harmony, ILL.,, swarm of bees
holds undisputed sway in one side OF
the Christian Church. The other day
citizens made an examination. and
discovered a mass of honey Is feet in
height, filling the wall from the foun-
dation to the roof.
IT is stated that if 100000 wo-
men should clasp hands they could
reach around the globe. Yes, but you
couldn't get them to do it, as some
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