Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-17
PICKED UP.


A ToBoGGAN slide has been opened
at Glen Summit, Pa, 2,OOOfeet above
the level of the sea.
ACCORDING to the Enterprise (col-
ored,) not black face is to be seen IN
the New York state capitol.
IN18eO the coal mines of this coun-
try produced 100000 tons. In
18S4-5 the output was 85,OOO,OOO.
A HUNTER in the Moosiac Mountains,
Pennsylvania, killed a coon the other
day which weighed thirty-slx pounds.
THE Worcester (Del.) Shield says
that nearly four thousand ducks were
killed on Chincoteague Island during
the recent freeze.
A WOMAN has joined the ranks of the
professional caterers in New York, and
intimates her ability to beat the men
at their own game.
The Mojave Indians at The Needles
play ''shinny" with as much zest as
any schoolboy. The game is an an
Gent one with them.
IN Lyon County, Nevada, they claim
to have found fish covered with hair
instead of scales. There is something
suggestive in the name of that county.
p. T. BARNUM's show property at
Bridgeport, Conn.,, which is on the list
at 500, 900, has finally been exempted
from taxation by the Board of Relief.
The Louisiana sugar crop last year
was larger by 15 per cent. than the av-
erage for previous years, and was cul-
tivated and manufactured at a. greatly
decreased outlay.
MASSACHUSETTS no longer controls
the shoe trade. Last year the state
produced only $8O,OOO,O0O worth of
shoes, against over 100000
made in the West.
A NORTH CAROLINA Justice has sued
a young benedict for 81, 900 damages
because he had to stand out in the
cold to tie the marriage knot, and con-
tracted pneumonia.
The Australian papers point with
pride to the fact that the population
In that country doubles itself every
twenty years, while that OF the United
States only doubles itself every twenty
six years.
THE Vassar Alumn@ are disposed to
grumble at the sectarian government
of the college. They complain that it
is Baptist and they find nothing IN the
founders to warrant that denomlna-
tional bias.
CINCINNATI had the first paid Fire
Department in the world, and its first
paid engineer, Finley Latta, died Sat-
urday night with a record of 80 years
and 10 months service to his credit.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Chinese at Carson have served
notices on four leading business men
of Carson, New, that they will cease
to trade with men who take active
part in the anti Chinese movement
San Francisco Bulletin.
THE maidens of Hicksville, l.. l.,
have organized an s'Anti-bachelor"
Society, and propose to ask the Legis-
lature to levy a tax on all bachelors
in New York state who do not signify
an intention TO marry before next
Easter.
THE largest dog in the country is
said to be q St. Bernard owned at
Glen Cove, l.. I. He measures seven
feet eleven inches from the end Of his
nose to the tip of his tail, stands
twenty-five inches high, and weighs
1872 pounds.
OSCAR j. GRAHAM, a tramp who fell
from Nickel-plate train on which he
was stealing q ride and had his feet cut
off, sued the railroad company for
$4,000 damages and secured YER
dict for $4,000. He is not satisfied
and will appeal.
GENEVA is thinking of getting up an
International Exhibition in 1886, one
of the chief features of which is to be
a complete exhibit of the chemical and
pharmaceutical Industries. A COM
mittee has been appointed consisting
mainly of German apothecarles estab-
ished in Switzerland.
In the late great snowstorm in Lon
don telegraph wires were krocked
down till they strewed the streets as If
thoroughfares were covered with cob
webs. The postal telegraph service
escaped with next to no damage, from
the simple fact that full 80 per cent. of
its wires are laid underground.
ANOTHER legend has been shattered.
Genoa for centuries has been celebrated
as the birthplace OF Christopher Column
bus. But now a rival has been found.
Corsica claims Columbus end, to put
the matter beyond doubt, the inhabit-
ants of the little town of Calri are 60
ing to celebrate his fourth centenary.
ALADY at Santa Rosa, CAL, applied
to the city authorities lately for per
mission to shoot rats with rifle
around her premises, which are inside
the city limits On being asked if she
could take the life of q rat at fifty
PAGES, she answered that she could
not, but her sister could blow a. hum
ming birds head off at thirty PAGES.
THE United States supreme court
has g. Bible which has been in con-
slant use since 1903. It was printed
at Oxford in 1899. On the fy-leaf is
written Omitted States Supreme Court.
1905" And every justice of the court
and every attorney who has been ad-
mitted to practice before the bar since
that date has been sworn upon that
Bible.
A PHOTOGRAPH of the American